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Sofidelune - Sonya - Tumblr Blog
modern dating is embarrassing i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (he’s the local hot priest who will question god because of me)
halloween couple costumes idea
the endings of gone girl and american psycho both HAUNT ME because they’re both like “okay so you don’t face consequences for your actions in a satisfying way but you will always have to be who you are and that’s a punishment in and of itself” and that’s fucked
thinking about how the hunger games were designed to prove that without society, order, government, someone to rule, we devolve into little more than animals, and how the games themselves prove over and over again that this is not true. We see it in every single game we witness.
Katniss placing flowers around Rue's body in the arena. Thresh sparing Katniss because she was kind to Rue, even though he was making it that much harder for himself to win.
Haymitch going back for Maysilee after hearing her scream even though their alliance had been broken. Haymitch holding her as she dies the same way Katniss did Rue.
Coral's "I can't have killed them all for nothing" when she realizes she's not going home. Lamina cutting down Marcus at great personal risk. And, my favorite moment in tbosas, Reaper collecting the bodies of his fellow tributes, his peers, even the ones who tried to kill him, into a pile. Taking the weapons from their hands. Closing their eyes and crossing their arms in the best approximation of a proper burial he can manage, covering them with the Capitol flag as a makeshift shroud.
The Games bring out the worst in people, yes. But despite the extreme circumstances, despite the exterior pressure of the Capitol, despite the fact that it could mean pain and heartbreak and death, it also shows that people have an enormous capacity for goodness. That even in a situation purposefully designed to make empathy impossible, people can't help but have it anyway.
Snow looks at the Games and all he can see is what's inside himself-- this pure animalistic drive to conquer and defeat. He kills and it feels good and he thinks that everyone else must feel that way too. He doesn't realize (maybe can't realize) that he is the exception, not the rule. He cannot see outside himself, outside his own warped perspective, to realize that the fact that people do show humanity in the games proves his entire worldview wrong.
THE HUNGER GAMES Lucy Gray Baird & Katniss Everdeen (inspired by x)
i want to draw eremika so bad but i burst into tears just bc of thought of them
playing once more to see you by mitski to increase the effect
this is where i post from
I’m a sucker for cinemas replaying movies in theater for their anniversary (I’ve seen american graffiti, the exorcist, jurassic park, the birds, and now I’m going to see the nightmare before christmas). It’s cool to see them on a big screen instead on streaming.
me drawing suguru geto with jungkook's piercing
Let me take your hands, I'm shaking like milk Turning, turning blue all over the windows and the floors Fires outside in the sky look as perfect as cats The two of us together again, it's just the same, a stupid game
me drawing suguru geto with jungkook's piercing
königsberg #2
königsberg
he’s a prophet and a pusher, partly truth partly fiction, a walking contradiction
‼️potential dune spoilers‼️
sometimes your babygirl is a revengeful pretty boy witch that is a mass murderer on an intergalactic scale
Video eassays part 2? Please?
gladly (part one: x)
the shining and the lighthouse: the horror of isolation
monstrous menstruations: the dehumanising of women in horror
the feminist horrors of jennifer's body, teeth, and a girl walks home alone at night
why the shining is terrifying
why you should watch disturbing horror movies
a monstress comes of age: horror & girlhood
jennifer's body & the horror of bad marketing
scary faces and loud sounds - analog horror
the nostalgic nightmare of skinamarink
queer representation in modern horror
the real reason the thing (1982) is better than the thing (2011)
how to make possession horror/the exorcist
the existential horror of david cronenberg's camera
the tale of two sisters / the unsettling mise-en-scene
what happened to japanese horror?
nope: the rise of existential horror
deconstructing the horror musical
pennywise: how to make a horror villain
alien - the art of horror
green room: why dumb decisions matter
let's talk about goosebumps scariest episode
the catharsis of body horror
the thing is the best horror movie of all time
what we can learn from korean horror
cure / creating the scariest non-horror film
the rocky horror picture show is the most important cult film ever made
ambiguous horror of the wailing
elements of horror - screams in horror movies
noroi: realistic j-horror
kairo / anatomy of the scariest scene ever
psycho / how alfred hitchcock manipulates an audience
the faith & horror of the exorcist
jurassic park is actually a horror movie
the horror (and problem) of sinister
the horror romance of let the right one in and let me in
mainland chinese horror & censorship
the most profound ending in horror film history?
courage the cowardly dog: an intro to horror
why do people dislike smart horror films?
exploring netflix's most unsettling found footage
universal monsters - why are classic horror movies still popular?
strange phenomena: the films of dario argento
exploring cinema's most controversial horror movie
why do horror games sound so beautiful?
atmosphere makes a great horror movie (alien 1979)
horror comedy: juxtaposed genre
why perfect blue is terrifying
the thing: horror in isolation
Hello! I recently watched The Piano Teacher because of your recommendation, I liked the movie loads, but I’m not the smartest person ever and I was wondering what general thoughts you have on what the film is trying to say. Sorry if this is too vague.
the film is using freudian psychoanalysis of the masochistic fantasy to create a situation in which erika and walter each have their desires nominally satisfied by one another, but in ways that contravene what they actually wanted and leave both of them harmed (albeit quite differently) by the climactic act of rape. erika's masochistic fantasy is fulfilled, but in a punitive way that robs her of the control she sought as a counterpoint to her relationship with her domineering mother and absent father; walter's desire for a sexual relationship with his teacher also comes to fruition, but at the cost of him acting in a manner that he deems perverted and that runs counter to his ideas of 'correct' romance and sexual intimacy.
[post discusses rape and incest in michael haneke's 'the piano teacher' (2001)]
according to freud, a child's fantasy of being beaten comes in three phases. in the second phase, which is masochistic, the child's pleasure in witnessing a sibling or rival being beaten has been converted by guilt and sexual repression into the fantasy of the child themselves being beaten by the father; this is ultimately the result of incestuous desire for the father. for erika, her father's absence prevents her from either enacting this fantasy or moving beyond it to the third phase of freud's beating fantasy. stuck in the repressed, unconscious phase, she is emotionally restricted, particularly in her professional life, and engages in acts of self-harm directed specifically at her genitals—unconsciously trying to punish herself for her sexual interest in the father figure.
erika's mother controls every aspect of her personal life and dominates her, fighting with her physically and berating her. she specifically expresses disappointment that erika failed to become a successful concert pianist—essentially a wish for erika to have become the man of the house. thus, both mother and daughter attempt to cast one another as the absent father, though to different psychosexual ends. for erika, her total lack of control in her relationship with her mother, combined with her repressed childhood desire for her father, results in her seeking a sexually violent relationship in which she can live out her beating fantasy, with her lover now cast as the violent father. because her relationship with her mother has stymied all sexual expression and seemingly all non-professional interpersonal relationships as well, erika has no frame of reference for a sexual relationship—she becomes so stimulated by seeing the couple at the drive-in that she urinates—and can only conceive of it as a way to enact her masochistic fantasies.
the key for erika is that she wants to experience masochistic violence that she has chosen and asked a partner for; the fantasy only works for her if she is ultimately the one in control of the relationship (another way in which she identifies with a 'masculine' sexuality, unlike the freudian boy child who must assume a 'feminine' attitude in the third phase of the beating fantasy). this is why she becomes upset in the bathroom scene, when walter disobeys her commands; although she is a masochist, what she wants with her sexual partner is the opposite of what she has in her relationship with her mother, ie total control. after walter reads her list of sexual demands and rejects her, erika seeks sex with her mother, an overt act of incest in a relationship that has previously been strongly subtextually incestuous. at this moment, erika's conflation of her mother's domination over her with her absent father becomes most overt, but her mother refuses to engage in the acts of sexual violence that erika desires, meaning she must seek out walter again.
though we spend far less time with walter than erika, it's clear that to him there is allure to seeking a sexual relationship with an authority figure, in this case a teacher. however, walter ultimately wants reciprocity in his relationship in a way erika does not: he wants to touch her in the bathroom scene, he tells her he loves her at the hockey rink, he is initially both shocked and disgusted by her list of masochistic desires and sex acts. recall also that erika and walter initially connect over a mutual love of schumann and schubert, romantic composers, though erika disagrees with walter's interpretation of a schubert piece, telegraphing a fundamental incongruity between their respective views of romance and relationships, and their sexual desires.
thus, walter's rape of erika at the end of the film is in some sense also a break with his own sexual desires and mores. he views the act, and erika's masochistic desires in general, as perverted and immoral. by raping her he is in some sense engaging in the fantasy that she has been asking him for, but configuring the act as punitive (it's an angry reaction to the 'wrongness' he perceives in her for failing to have sex with him at the hockey rink) and violating the underlying premise of the fantasy by actually overriding her will, thus replicating and elevating the violence she experiences from her mother rather than subverting it, which was what she actually wanted. having been cast in the role of the violent father despite naturally gravitating toward a more 'feminine' sexual attitude, walter ends the film by acting out the paternal role (once again conflated with the maternal one through the act of locking erika's mother in the closet, so that walter is replacing her as well) with verisimilitude that erika never actually desired, simultaneously granting her wish and making a traumatic mockery of it. meanwhile, walter has finally gotten the sexual relationship that he desired with his teacher, but at the expense of his idea of sexual normalcy, and only by acting in a way he considers perverted.
for erika, the final cruelty is seeing walter laughing happily with his family at the recital. in the freudian beating fantasy, both phases one and two are marked by the need for exclusive incestuous love between the father and child; the beating of the sibling in phase one is construed as an expression of love toward the non-beaten child, whereas by phase two the repression of this genital interest has turned the fantasy into a desire for exclusive physical violence that stands in for the sexual act. for erika, seeing walter with his family is not just seeing the man who raped her laughing carelessly; more specifically, she is hurt by this demonstration of the non-exclusivity of his love. thus, her earlier acts of self-harm (directed at her genitals) turn into her stabbing herself in the shoulder, simultaneously an act of self-punishment for the masochistic fantasy and an externalisation of the pain and trauma walter has inflicted on her by breaking the rules of the beating fantasy—both through the rape and through the emotional infidelity.
What are essay videos of horror movie you watch
oh my god yes, i have like an entire collection of them on youtube
how media scares us: the work of junji ito
what are we afraid of? societal fears reflected in film
the art of texas chainsaw massacre: making daylight scary
the importance of horror (why horror movies don't suck)
the grunge & ringu: what makes japanese horror creepy?
the vvitch - art of terror
how horror movies for kids dominated in the 90s
the shining analysis - tension, atompshere & mystery
creating suspence in a horror films
the art of scream: horror logic done right
wolf creek: australia's most infamous horror movie
why cosmic horror is hard to make
color theory in horror movies
society and queer horror
horror theory: the uncanny valley
the childhood horror of coraline
control, anatomy, and the legacy of the haunted house
elements of horror - don't look
the girlboss-ification of the horror genre
elements of horror - how eyes are used in horror movies
thai horror is so underrated
the history of insane asylums and horror movies
slender man (2018): misunderstanding ten years of the internet
the true history that inspired folk horror (part 1)
the true history that inspired folk horror (part 2)
the true history that inspired folk horror (part 3)
the history and evolution of jump scares
the complete history of horror movies
letterboxd horror lists
video nasties - banned films in the united kingdom
paranormal/supernatural - some movies may be missing but i had a lot to cover
slasher - same issue with above
folk horror
experimental horror
found footage horror
gothic horror
splatter horror
survival horror
erotic horror
medical horror
science-fiction horror
horror comedy
campy horror
my 111 favorite horror movies
Chainsaw Man, チェンソーマン, Chensō Man, Chainsaw Man 2 by Tatsuki Fujimoto.
VAGABOND • TAKEHIKO INOUE pt.2
Summer heat MaySketchaDay, MP100