#meme lai

[cinemacentral666]

The Element of Crime (1984)

Movie #1,142 • Ranking Lars von Trier #4

Let it be known that during this LVT filmography viewing I made the executive decision to only ever watch full director filmographies in chronological order. That had always been my preferred method, but I thought it would be best if, from time to time, I mixed up the order for [insert reasoning here]. This is the sixth or seventh Trier flick I've consumed (depending on how you want to count his two early shorter films and both the first two seasons of his Danish TV show) and it's essentially ground zero for the man's career. It's as weird and as bold of a debut feature that I've ever seen.

I feel like it's worth mentioning that I am now starting at the beginning and only going forward, because everything about this felt like a shock having digested some of his other work, most notably: his prime "Golden Heart Trilogy" of films (1996-2000) and his most recent work, 2018's The House That Jack Built. It felt like a different director and I say that in the most positive way. Some similarities arose, naturally. The sepia tones were visually similar to The Kingdom's (though more on this later). The conversational voice-over between main character Fisher and his Cairo hypnotist felt like a direct through-line to how the character of Virgil functions in Jack. And the general "frustrated search for something largely intangible that will ultimately disappoint if not fully horrify" evoked pretty much everything I've seen by the man in some way.

But structurally and compositionally, this felt like a whole new world. In fact, in many ways, it is a complete invention of Trier's. This "Europe" consists of fictional cities and towns where it's always night and everything is drenched in liquid. Despite a few grounding allusions, there is no specific state or country, just this cold, wet dystopia broadcast under yellowy sodium lights. The sets used and built for this are fantastic, each a kind of micro-labyrinth, a small mystery onto themselves cutting against the larger noir framework of the movie's plot: a man is on the hunt for a serial killer of small girls before he strikes again. Detective Fisher (Michael Elphick) navigates this spaces in a literal daze, as the entirety of the action is presented as the memory of a man, now an expatriate in Egypt, spilling his guts to a guy with a monkey on his shoulder. This is the first of two primates to get screen-time. The second, notably of the lower order, Fisher finds in a gutter, scared to death and confused, perhaps a stand in for the audience….

I believe that guy is a loris. To start your film with monkey and end it with a loris speaks to some theme of reverse evolution. The fascist nightmares we see are a product of no less. In fact, this – coupled with the elements of his earlier student work and up through his unfortunate "I'm a Nazi" comments – provide much of the framework for understanding Trier's motives on a larger scale. I do believe it goes beyond simple provocation and is worth explorin. I think he's trying to make sense of a world still drying out from the tsunami that was WWII. But I'll put a pin in it that for now before I get to watch the rest of his films.

The Element of Crime is not a movie made for easily digestible 'understanding' or textbook mystery reveals. Even when you get the gist/uncover the trick, he throws a mysterious postscript that shrouds things further. I'm still trying to make sense of these manic bald men…

LVT created a world here. His stellar framing, innovative shots, and glorious use of light all cut against the frantic, obtuse and occasionally obscene script in such a delightful way. Sure, maybe it's all an amalgamation of influence (certainly Andrei Tarkovsky and Lynch's Eraserhead among others) but it's still wholly more than the sum of its parts.

I took a weird route to get to this beginning. In a way, I'm glad I did, but I'm even more excited to keep going forward.

SCORE: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I’ll be counting down all of Lars Von Trier’s movies right here at @cinemacentral666 every Thursday through September 2023

#1984 #lars von trier director #crime #10 #🇩🇰 #michael elphick #esmond knight #meme lai #jerold wells

[artofalassa]

| Don't leave me All by myself in this world |

#zakkura #zack fair #cloud strife #ff7 #final fantasy vii #las!art #finally drew them again after the game was released #something bigger than just a meme #i so needed to #and kinda got to vent this way about how meh i am about zack's storyline in rebirth #so i went for my fave thing about the whole game #because i'm predictable #with forget me nots and the blood in cloud's hair. #i love their relationship (romantic or not) so much #my fave aspect of the game #my babies my sweethearts #i love them so much okay #i need to lay down now

[iliterallydecepticanteven]

i've been laughing at this tiktok for the past 10 minutes (source)

#like between the amazin practical work #and the laying on the floor while blasting caramelldansen meme #this is gonna be in my head for a while #toh #the owl house #emperor belos #i dont remember his human name

[astarionancuntnin]

as if he wasn't a clown himself

(more bg3)

#i can see him end his reverie super early and just go out #steal shit #come back to camp as if nothing happened #“when did we get all those suppies?” #“mh? oh they were just laying around figured they would do us more good than their previous owner” #“ASTARION.” #my posts #edit #bg3 memes #astarion bg3 #text post meme #astarion text post #wyll text post #text posts #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate astarion #astarion ancunin #wyll ravengard #bg3 wyll #bg3

[eff-plays]

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #shadowheart #bg3 tav #bg3 fanart #what's ur favorite part of this masterpiece ... me? i like the completely 3D copypaste job of the artifact #listen i couldn't be bothered #too many angles #oc: hiraeth #anyway yeah i'm doing a meme thing of hira meeting/recruiting all of the guys cuz i thought it'd be funny #shtarting with shart #ALSO THIS ISN'T FANART OF THEM KILLING HER #i just always found it funny how she just lays there on her back perfectly straight and weird #this felt more right ya know? #so they find her like this and just sorta take in the sight

[unhingedmess]

merlin & arthur, in camelot: we made it!

knight, left behind for the umpteenth time: do i mean nothing to you?

part 2

part 3

#yh i know knights are meant to lay their life down for their king #but just imagine your king #at the face of any danger #grabs his manservant by the scruff of his neck and makes a run for it #bbc merlin #merlin #arthur #package secured #memes that were divined to me in a dream (took undeserved nap before deadline)

[scarletgray]

they should invent eyesight that doesn't go bad from reading fanfiction on your phone 24/7

#at night laying down in the dark 200k words #don't fail me now eyes #fanfiction #ao3 memes #archive of our own #fanfiction.net #nalu fanfiction #iwaoi fanfiction #soukoku fanfiction #nalu #iwaoi #soukoku #skk #dazai x chuuya #natsu x lucy #kagehina #kagehina fanfiction #fanfic memes #fanfiction memes #ao3 #fairy tail #ao3 fanfic #ao3 feed #ao3 funny #ao3 fic #ao3 meme #fanfic meme #fanfiction meme #fyodor dostoevsky #bsd fanfic

[reactionimagesdaily]

#one time someone drew fanart of a fanfic I wrote and in that moment I transcended stimming. I think I just lay down on the floor for a while #reaction image #reaction meme #daily reaction images #image mood: [undefinable] #submission

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#anyone got an extra 2-3 grand laying around? #salem #sabrina the teenage witch #twitter #tweets #tweet #meme #memes #funny #lol

[smolboiremy]

Was doom scrolling through snap shorts and found this

They found me 😳

#I was caught off guard with this one #I was just laying on the couch listening to chill music kinda falling asleep and then #g/t meme #gt #gianttiny #giant #tiny #gt community #rembles #g/t shitpost

[carameldansan]

Y’know… I don’t think Laios is good at social cues… I don’t blame other characters if they think he’s secretly evil 😭

#delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi #caramelrambles #Senshi #spoilers #dungeon meshi spoilers #Marcille #Laios #chilchuck #dunmeshi #had a friend msg me on discord saying ohhh that’s the kid with austim #mind you I had zero idea of laios’ character beyond the first clip I uploaded of him going into detail about plants laying their seeds #in marcille’s skin #after watching this I immediately responded back and said yeah man Laios got the ism in autism #then my friend immediately sent me a meme amv edit of an audio with cupcake singing in the bg

[lord-squiggletits]

With all due respect IDW Megatron is the kind of dad that would go out to get cigarettes and then never see his kids again considering that's what he did to all of the Decepticons leaving on the Lost Light + he groomed Tarn into worshipping him as a mentor/authority figure and then basically stopped caring about him.

#squiggposting #a meme was posted in a discord chat and we discussed #i think all dad comparisons should be purely for memes and not lik #textually interpreting characters as being parentz #but still come on megs would be a horrible dad ksfjaidjsj #at the very least he's so full of personal issues that i would see him seriously struggling #idk idw megs can be like an AUTHORITY FIGURE or someone who lays down the rules #but he's like 0 percent nurturing or emotionally communicative #he has almost no ability to be vulnerable and is overall very cutting in the way he speaks #idk like i'm not gonna say YOUR HEADCANON IS WRONG if people like dadly megatron #but this is just one of those things i dont agree with the fandom memes and jokes

[zzoupz]

kity

#if I had a nickel every time I draw faith characters in a meme that come from chainsaw man id have two nickels #which isnt a lot but its weird that it happened twice #faith game #faith the unholy trinity #gary miller #john ward #anyways. lays face down #zoup art

[dragonwysper]

Kohga after falling down the hole in BOTW

#it took me an hour and a half to make this please laugh #nobody has a transparent png of the text just laying around so i had to edit that myself #as well as the transparent kohga because nobody has that either #i almost gave up halfway through #but i didn't !!! #so enjoy #master kohga #botw2 #totk #totk spoiler #totk kohga #totk meme #yiga #it's free real estate #medibang #yes i used fucking medibang mobile to make this

[the-dragon-girl-27]

At this point its tradition I make these for every direct it is my duty and my curse

Here's one for all 2 of my followers who played this game:

What about the planet Elma, what about it.

#xenoblade #xenoblade chronicles #xenoblade chronicles X #elma xenoblade #lin xenoblade #doodle #meme art #of all games this one has a cliffhanger sequel bait i think about this one the most #like theres things like ff7r or kh3 but like i know those will eventually get explained #xenoblade x i honestly doubt we will ever get answers #anyway if you still have your Wii U laying around you should get this because Nintendo will never port it

[radiantmists]

reading animorphs sequentially instead of in whatever random order you can get your hands on them is such a trip because you can see these kids getting progressively better at war and worse at being happy, you can see how traumatic events from one book echo into the next ones but never quite get dealt with because these kids have no real way to take care of their mental health, you can see their relationships deepening but simultaneously gaining friction and faultlines as they learn just how far they'd go for each other but also how far they'd go in general...

obviously this series was meant to be episodic in nature, and i actually think that might be the better way to first encounter it, but the arc of the series in publication order is extremely well-crafted

#though im having to take a break #i just read 16 and like. In the context of Jake's endgame it has me so fucked up #i mean it's a lot in itself especially since he doesnt really deal with any of what happened #but also like. him genuinely not knowing if he thinks fenestre killing hosts to get their yeerks is okay ot not? #its a bad turning point for him but also still so much better than where he ends up and im too sad #animorphs #tbh im very [miles studying beter meme] about this #its so good at establishing character and themes #and laying down plot hooks for later #in a format i really dont think about much #Semi-episodic book series arent really a thing anymore are they?