Just saw someone on Twitter complain about the lack of Japanese people in Oppenheimer, and what did you expect??? Did you want the final act to be the bomb dropping and see people burning alive???
The reason why we don't see a Japanese perspective is because one, including a Japanese perspective, just to see how bad the suffering was would be exploitation. Two, to see an accurate and sensitive take on how the japanese felt about Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan (as incredible as he is) isn't the right person to do this. And three, it's based on Oppenheimer's biography
Oppenheimer, the movie, literally shows you people (mostly the superiors, because by the middle/end of it you see Oppenheimer regretting his creation) doing something dubious and inhumane because they removed themselves away, both emotionally and physically, from the people they are hurting.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima only exist in those men's distant thoughts and imaginations. One guy literally asks to take a city off the bombing because that's where he had his honeymoon. It's disturbing and unsettling, as if those people were not real human beings. The lack of Japanese people drives the entire point home.
Also, Japanese cinema is right there. Barefoot Gen, Grave of the Fireflies, or Hiroshima (responsible for showing to many Americans the effects of the bombs for the first time) are just a few of the many, many decades of post-war Japanese movies we have
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“People don’t look down to where they should. They don’t look down, they don’t look past the rust. Not us though, eh? Eyes open, possibilities everywhere.”
- Clem Andor
ANDOR, S01xE12 | Rix Road
Cassian visits Clem’s funerary stone
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Ok time to scream frantically and post very blurry pictures
Luz & Camila immediately hug and Luz nuzzles into her arms
Edit: Vee wrote a note that says how happy she is Luz is home, which is so dang sweet. Sisters
When she hugs Luz again before bed, she says "I'm so glad you're home" and Luz awkwardly replies "Yeah, home..."
Luz comes out and officially explains Amity is her gf, Camila immediately embraces them both, Gus being the ultimate hypeman fills the room with rainbows & bi flags
Bonus Luz didn't look nervous at all coming out
Camila is wearing a rainbow flag heart in every scene after the coming out
Flapjack hates the old house where the portal was & the other palisman watch him confused why he's frantically pecking
Ghost is a very good cat that chases a opossum with the thrill of the hunt in their eyes
Gus, Willow, and Amity draw pics of their families (Gus is a very good artist too) and Hunter looks on sadly (rip getting a Dadrius moment) while Luz is focused on the portal plans
However Luz is later seen drawing Eda, King, Lilith, and Hooty, and her art has improved as has been a constant throughout the show
The kids go to a thrift store, Gus goes for style, Willow chooses a full blown roller derby outfit, Amity goes gothy witch aesthetic (it reminds me a lot of Vivian from PM:TTYD and if you know who I'm talking about I adore you), and Hunter finds a fucking cardinal onesie
Vee debuts her original look and Camila IMMEDIATELY rushes over to hug her
HUNTER MANIC HAIRCUT SCENE ft Caleb, Belos, Hunter having Victorian orphan hair, & Huntlow
Hunter has a Rocko from Rocko's Modern Life shirt
Emmeline doesn't help set the house on fire like the other good little palisman do
Gus uses the fire extinguisher like nunchucks, thankfully Vee knows how to use it
Amity comforts Luz afterwards
The kids made dinner!
It's poisonous!
Vee warns Camila & Luz not to try it but. Come on. Look at these faces!!
(Also can I just say I love that Hunter is snuggled against Amity? Canon that there's no hard feelings between them & they're actually bffs just like everyone else in the group is)
Outside in the rain again. Major Lumity moments, Vee & Gus make a hilarious dynamic, Gus tackled Hunter into the mud (rip the watermelon pj pants), Willow smiles on affectionately and takes a pic of them all after Camila gives her a camera
Lumity kiss??
No kiss :'(
Amity makes her a light glyph which they lift into the sky together, leading into the above pic where Luz was drawing the Owl Fam w the light glyph on the page. She crumples the page in frustration then
LUZ IS THE ONE GOING TO SCHOOL??? OK OK OK
It's Halloween y'all
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am i the only one who feels like alex(the world ender guy) was kind of a missed oportunity in vide noir? like, he was set up by johnnie to be a badass gang leader just for him to never even appear in the end, we just got a close up to his face scar
i feel like buck's encounter with the psychic would've been way more powerful if it was alex instead. its implied that johnnie and moonbeam had a relationship ig, but its barely even hinted at, and he never even mentions her. but with johnnie and alex, johnnie actually mentions him and speaks highly of his brother, and says alex will help buck if he sees the red cloth that belonged to johnnie
the fact that all that build up led to buck not even TALKING to alex kinda irks me. imagine how much better the payoff would be if alex had received the cloth instead of moonbeam? if we had seen his reaction to johnnie's death? if he would've helped buck like johnnie said he would? if we saw what johnnie implied alex would do to the guys who black brained his brother? idk man i think we were robbed
im new to the fanbase, so im gonna be very embarassed if this is a topic that already came up here LOLL but i still wanted to get it off my chest💀sry if this ask is messy, i suck at writing down my thoughts lmao
No I gotta agree on that. Like I LOVED seeing Moonbeam and getting know her as her and having all this new information about her (her being part of the World Enders is still wild to me and I love it) and it’s a good scene and all, but I’m still confused as to why they built up Alex so much, especially since this is the first time we’re hearing about him, and he never even got the chance to speak. If it were Dale I’d be a bit more understanding as we know him already (tho not by much cause I would have loved to see more of Dale). But it’s Alex, whose not only the leader of the World Enders but also Johnnie’s (and Dale’s) brother. I would’ve have loved to, you know, actually meet the guy. Especially with how much build up he got. And I GET IT Lord Huron’s lore is meant to be weird and vague and hard to pin down but like. Didn’t need to tease me like that come on
The only reason I could think of was maybe they needed to get Buck on his own again? Like having this the beginning of a war between the World Enders and Z’Oieasu shown or having Buck work with them consistently might have thrown off the tone. It is supposed to be Buck’s story and his own descent into madness. The whole album has this isolated vibe to me, like being alone in a city of people Hard to get that when there’s other people around, especially a group as lively as the world enders. Or maybe they just wanted to include Moonbeam back into the story again lol
GOD I would have loved to see Moonbeam’s scene with Buck done with Alex. I can only imagine how that scene would’ve played out and his reaction to Johnnie’s death. Contrasting Buck’s scene with Johnnie with Alex’s own personality, the possible dynamics, the anger and grief that could arise…..ough
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Nick Foster is living the high-octane life of a rockstar, touring the country with his band, slowly cracking under the pressure that fame brings. Lark Oak couldn’t give less of a shit about what his former friend is doing. He’s got his own goals, his own problems, his own demons to deal with. He just wants to move forward, without looking back.
He isn't that lucky.
Third chapter of Nark rockstar/bodyguard AU no one asked for <3
Part 3/8 - Dungeons and Daddies - Nark - Rated M - 9.6k words
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