Jessie
2024-01-08T22:32:02.000Z 2024-01-08T22:32:45.000Z
I got dragged out by a film buff friend of mine with the only summary of "this is your brand of weird" and you know what it absolutely was
Jessie
2024-01-08T22:33:17.000Z
it was a little pandering, but pandering specifically to me so it was less offensive
Jessie
2024-01-08T22:33:45.000Z
but it was also pandering without relying on assumptions of the male gaze
Jessie
2024-01-08T22:34:11.000Z
in a film with SO much sexuality and open masturbation, it never feels exploitative
Jessie
2024-01-08T22:35:12.000Z
it's a celebration of the body as self-love, and openly sticking a thumb in the eye of the idea of trying to shame people who are openly sexual beings
Jessie
2024-01-08T22:35:27.000Z
that's beautiful.
I still need to see that one
Jessie
2024-01-08T22:36:34.000Z
I also love the way the art direction played with the idea of futurism spliced into what would otherwise be a period piece, to bait questions from the audience instead of letting them rest on "well that's how things were back then"
Jessie
2024-01-08T22:36:53.000Z
is it a back then or is it a look ahead at our current trajectory?
Jessie
2024-01-08T22:37:10.000Z
SaroSaron: IT IS QUITE GOOD I think you'll like it a lot
.......this is such a different take than the one i heard from the only other person i know who's seen it lol i'm so curious now
Jessie
2024-01-08T22:38:05.000Z
oh! what was their take?
Jessie
2024-01-08T22:39:01.000Z
like I can see how people might want to take it to task for being so heavy-handed in the villains
Jessie
2024-01-08T22:44:46.000Z
and I do think there might be a reading of it as an anti-abortion statement, but I think you'd have to twist your neck pretty hard to get to that reading
Jessie
2024-01-08T22:45:35.000Z
it plays pretty loose with the language of faith vs science, but that all seems intentional also
Jessie
2024-01-08T22:46:03.000Z
I never got the sense that the people making the film didn't know exactly what they were doing in every shot
Jessie
2024-01-08T22:46:47.000Z
👀
i exactly said to my uncle who i saw it with that that there was a lot of sex but it never felt exploitative
Jessie
2024-01-08T23:05:41.000Z
I was just rambling out spoilers to Ana but yeah! like!
Jessie
2024-01-08T23:06:17.000Z
female sexuality is never the protagonist's problem
Jessie
2024-01-08T23:06:32.000Z
the problem comes from other people reacting to it and trying to contain it
Jessie
2024-01-08T23:06:52.000Z
and the conflict is in her identifying that and refusing to be contained
Jessie
2024-01-08T23:07:42.000Z
her supporting cast always lets her make her own choices, even when those choices are objectively bad
Jessie
2024-01-08T23:08:27.000Z
They're willing to be there for her when she chooses to return
Jessie
2024-01-08T23:10:28.000Z
and that part in Athens, I think? when they go outside and see the world for what it is, in that Victorian futurescape natural disaster landscape?
Jessie
2024-01-08T23:10:36.000Z
I'm still absolutely gutted
I just had a whole session with a client who is obsessed with the movie and what they've taken from it and man it's just such a rich film
yes that part was gutting
Jessie
2024-01-08T23:11:45.000Z
and that speech about how hope exists to be crushed
Jessie
2024-01-08T23:12:38.000Z
and I do appreciate Mark Ruffalo committing so hard
Jessie
2024-01-08T23:13:13.000Z
mustache-twirlingly evil but without any self-awareness of it
Jessie
2024-01-08T23:14:20.000Z
he did so much heavy lifting so that when you get to that ending it's just like "yeah that can happen in this world, sure"