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[bathfinder]

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[kaomojiloser]

my little blue eyed freaks :)

[the-irreverend]

Here's to hellsite solidarity!

[qucko-deactivated20151208]

reblog this for good luck

[notaplaceofhonour]

Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

[notaplaceofhonour]

that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah

[the-big-mood]

[afro-elf]

just saw pictures from mike flanagan carrie

[afro-elf]

okay serious fucking question, must he de-fang every female character he touches?

[afro-elf]

mike, it's actually more interesting for audiences that margaret is an abusive religious fundie (and also a victim of marital rape) who tries to literally beat the idea of sin into her daughter, it is actually TIMELY to adapt that correctly at this particular american moment. WHY is he so scared of every piece of source material that has ever been handed to him? i MUST know

[afro-elf]

you're laughing, mike flanagan wants to do gilmore girls with telekinetic rage and you're laughing

[goldcrescent]

what if carrie was about a young witch searching for a missing cat in the alps

[hard-times-paramore]

SIMON'S FULL BACKSTORY:

Okay, having watched the movie a second time, I was really paying attention to the flashbacks. Plus the sound was really crisp this time around. I have a few notes I can make. This is the full extent of what we actually get to learn about Simon in the movie. Full analysis and spoilers under the cut.

There are four main scenes I base this analysis on: the flashback during the concussion, the flashback when he falls asleep at the control panel, the storm of voices after he regains contact with Ava and she sents him to retrieve the black box, and finally, the ending sequence.

In what I perceive the order of events to go, Simon was born on a planet, not on Eden station. In the storm of voices, we hear his mother saying "c'mon, it has a tree! It'll be just like home. Simon, don't be like that." implying he moved to Eden at an early age.

In the flashback scene with the tree, we see the planets disappearing in real time before their eyes. So, the young actor for Simon is how old he was when the Rapture happened. A fun detail is that in the game no one was actually looking at the planets and stars when they faded, so this is a divergence between the movie and the game, cementing what Szymanski said about them being different continuities.

Shortly after that, Eden Station festered a defeatist death cult, probably because they had the last trees and plants alive. Simon's mother joined in, so he joined in as well, he was just a kid after all, listening to the adults in his life. Then again, I find it interesting that the voices at the end say his mother wouldn't recognize him after he became a killer - then in the same breath say death was all she taught him.

We know Eden has a religious/spiritual motif going on, with that preaching Father, with how Simon calls other Eden people "brothers", how they all get a pendant with a germinating seed, and the tattoo and X/cross motifs that we see across the movie. Simon's tattoo was shaped like an X (you can see where it was burnt off in some parts of the movie), and when he finds the pendant in the terminal, there was a little paper or tape X attached to it and the message.

The tree died at some point, but they said it would live again, because when there is no more soil, their bodies would become the tree's soil. I don't know when the tree died, but it might have been before little Simon killed all those other kids (or adults? I think they were kids his age). A friend of mine pointed out they were trying to return the universe to nature in the absence of humans, preparing and making way for the plants to come. "Add a little ecofascism as a treat".

Simon, as a child, slaughtered a lot of people in the name of the cult, so much he had the highest body count and was nicknamed "Simon the Butcher". He received a knife and holster from his mother, and he still owns the holster. He keeps it in his vest/shirt, and can be seen rubbing it under his hands for comfort several times during the movie.

But as Simon grew up, he wanted to escape the cult. He still somewhat agreed with Eden that there was no point in humanity trying to stay alive - given his line to Ava that "Eden didn't delude themselves with hopes for survival if everyone believes enough". But he eventually grew up enough to disagree with the cult. He wanted to live, and he wanted others to live, in his own rebel way.

When Eden invaded Filament Station, he tried to stop it from being destroyed, and in doing so, took all the blame for it. 62 people from Filament died, not counting anyone from Eden. He surrendered, no questions asked. He appears as an adult in that flashback of watching the soldier die in fire, indicating it wasn't long ago. Ava was in charge of him as a convict, as we see in the storm of voices scene.

Another difference from the game is that the movie explicitly states Filament Station was destroyed, when in the game it was rendered uninhabitable due to a breach in the reactor core, which, wouldn't you guess it, leaked radiation everywhere.

Some lines he says later on to the Speaker, about everyone blaming him for Filament, give me the idea he still thinks that was his only guilt, or his only blame. He seems in denial of the blame of killing the other kids. Maybe he's repressing it, clinging to an idea of being innocent, or maybe he doesn't think he's to blame when he was manipulated into a cult as a kid. EDIT: analysis here.

I find it fascinating, to connect that little butcher to the Simon we know in the movie, someone who even apologized to the control panel of the submarine after he punched it. I like the way the movie humanizes killers, reminds us they are not monsters, but people like us.

"Simon the Butcher, lost his nerve" was told to him by that same brother from Eden, the guy who told him to cross the wires. He implied that after everyone Simon killed as a child, he lost his bravery and devotion to death once he was in Filament Station.

Simon probably had to kill some of his Brothers from Eden when trying to stop Filament's destruction. A voice in the flashback of voices say "You'll have to kill your own brothers to stop this!" To which he replies "you're not my brother."

At the end of the movie, Simon even needs to use the knife holster he still kept to tie the life-vest together around the blackbox. That holster follows Simon across the movie up until it can be seen in the last shot of the blackbox, clear as day. Yeah, and at the end there, he does say "oh please, keep this safe, okay mom? It's more than me." He directly mentions his mother.

And, that's about the extent I could gather of Simon's past and backstory in movie continuity. I hope it was useful!

Update: omg y'all thanks so much for the response to this post. I'm really glad I could contribute to you as a lore guide.

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[alienontherocks]

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[urkinkansa]

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[therottingbones-sys]

dehumanization as horror is great and all but what about humanization as horror. Being forced into a role that was not made for you. Being forced to fulfill expectations that you can never achieve. Being made to exist in a society that so cruelly expects you to act in a way that is against your nature.

[residentyoufanatic]

and if i say this applies to entity Nikki being forced into the role of Bear's idealised version of real Nikki, constantly pleading with him because "i can't be nikki", and she's trying her best to be this perfect version of Bear's dream girl, whether it be imitating his cat as some people have suggested, or trying to become Sarah by wearing her hair and tattoos, crying whenever something doesnt go perfectly because "i thought we were having a nice date" or "why dont you love me" or "i feel like you dont love me as much as i do." real Nikki suffers so much in this movie because she's watching her body do and say things she has no control over and she's in constant agony, and entity Nikki is being forcibly humanized into a version of a person who already exists and is being expected to act a certain way even though she doesn't know how. real nikki wouldn't even know how to act the way Bear wants because that's not her!!!!! FUCK YOU BEAR