dark and painful thought but lucas calling for erica in 4x09 while wailing makes me think of how when people are scared or panicked enough they start crying out for their parents and it's like. just. what a heart-wrenching detail. they went through all of this and lost. max knew the risk, accepted it, and faced it. she sacrificed herself for them and died. the walkman shattered. her bones snapped. she was scared at the end, crying in his arms, saying she didn't want to go. and it's like. he's literally only fifteen or so and holding a dying girl in his arms, calling out for his little sister to get help all after fighting for his literal life against someone much older and stronger than him that went so far as to point a loaded gun at him. i just. hello. for the love of god HELLO?!
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next gen (2018) is the best movie ever for a lot of reasons but the biggest, most integral one that i've never seen anybody actually address before, is that it is fundamentally a story about being a very young child who is suffering so much emotional pain and the experience of that pain not being taken seriously by anyone around you. mai's anger issues and crushing loneliness are absolutely integral to any reading of the story's themes, and not only is her pain a driving force, but it is validated by the narrative. the story doesn't mock her for having "daddy issues," she's not just a whiny or dramatic little girl; she is ABSOLUTELY justified in feeling lonely and hopelessly angry, and the movie goes out of its way to show you things from HER perspective. and at the end, the "lesson" she had to learn wasn't that she was WRONG about how she viewed her mother and her situation - in fact, her MOM is the one who has to learn that she was mistreating her daughter and hurting her.
the movie also takes so much care to honestly and realistically show how that loneliness can manifest in the most destructive of ways - mai is ALLOWED to be angry, she is allowed to be rude and abrasive and destructive, and while it is portrayed as a problem and something that needs to be addressed, the narrative never BLAMES her for it - because she is a child reacting in a real, emotional, raw, human way to her trauma and pain.
what i'm trying to say is i have never seen a film before that takes a child's feelings of misery as something so valid. the narrative NEVER condescends to her character, it never comes across as patronizing. and the movie isn't about having to forgive the people who hurt you, but instead it's about the importance of not letting that pain stop you from making NEW memories and better relationships. it's so real and RAW and full of love and ultimately, it is about how even one person looking at you and saying "i see your pain, and i'm not going anywhere" and meaning it can be enough to save you.
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Rewatched Dressrosa lately.
Completely forgot how depressing Law’s story is and how much I love Corazon.
Corazon is just so weird in all the best ways possible and I love him. Fuck Doffy for killing him. I want Corazon back.
And it really, really, REALY killed me when Corazon died. Because Law knew he was going to die. And he was screaming and sobbing his heart out, silently thanks to Corazon’s Devil Fruit Powers. And he knew the exact time Corazon took his last breath because his sobs could suddenly be heard and god darn it, that ripped my delicate little heart out.
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