I always forget to post here lol but she is my wife actually!!
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Watched Last night in Soho and omg I love it so much?? Also Sandie is iconic af 😭‼️Here's a small art of her because she's the best💗
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i'm confused by the reviewers who watched last night in soho and say that it's part "nostalgia."
like, errbody is entitled to their own interpretation but i don't understand where that interpretation is coming from when the protagonist who idealizes the aesthetic of the 60s very quickly learns the dangers of that romanticism, of the horrors and ugliness beneath all the glamorous veneer.
alexandra chooses to DIE, declaring she won't go to prison bc she's been in a [metaphorical] prison all her life. the prime of her life was literally prison for her. she certainly isn't nostalgic abt that era, abt what happened to her, abt all those horrible things that left a MUCH bigger impact than some fancy dresses and flashy dance moves.
if anything, i'd argue the film in part represents the dangers of nostalgia and selective memory, rather than reflecting nostalgia for that time in any kind of sincerity.
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alexandra collins / sandie — last night in soho (2021)
❝ she died in that room a hundred times. ❞
Last Night in Soho (2021) documents the journey of a countryside girl with dreams of becoming a fashion designer in the big city, only to become jaded and retreat into a past world in the haunted room she rents where Sandie, an occupant like her back in the 60s, lived a fun life of trying to be a singer. However, this goes awry and she gets pimped out then presumably murdered, corresponding to the main character's growing distress with her own life. But the landlady is then revealed to be Sandie, and that those haunting the room are her murder victims who took advantage of her. Sandie pays for her sins by choosing to die in the burning house as a classic example of the tragic hero's demise.
The finale uses plenty of visual effects to express Sandie's past literally and metaphorically haunting her through visual elements, such as the zooms on the ghosts' faces and her constant shift from her present to her past self as symbolic of her inner distress over the tragedy of her identity. The shot of her sitting in the flames, seemingly at peace with her death, is a testament to how the tragedy is that the hero within her has already figuratively died prior whenever she was taken advantage of.
Sandie's story is a reality for many other tragic heroes innocuously pursuing their dreams, only to be tricked and taken advantage of, losing their moral fortitude in the process. Modern society has become more proactively in calling these out, but the fact that the tragedy of these talented heroes driven to empty desperation and a hellish fate of guilt remains clear and haunting.
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Alexandra Marzella by Petra Collins
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Episode 470: Nonsense about names
Part One. Roger/ Joshua
Much to her surprise, well-meaning governess Vicki Winters came unstuck in time in #365 and found herself in the year 1795. She spent the first few weeks of her sojourn in the past telling all the characters she met about the other roles that their actors played in the first 73 weeks of Dark Shadows, thereby puzzling them and irritating the audience. After a few months,…
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