That moment when Luz actually opens up and talks about her feelings. The moment when Amity asks if she lied, the music gets tense and then the climax of. Silence. As Luz faces away and says it’s FINE. And you can feel the silent pain of both girlfriends. This episode, its scenes of their struggle with each other, it just got so raw and real and visceral!
Just the utter quietness of their reactions, the melancholy of those long, spanning shots that emphasize how small and lonely they are together, navigating a difficult and vast world around them. The subdued emotion. Their problems, their emotions are REAL and treated as such, and not as some manufactured kids’ show.
And that’s the thing, you really forget you’re watching a show, because you feel real people pouring their actual feelings and experiences into these stories, as Dana herself lost her father as a kid. It’s personal and intimate, it’s respectful and loves and praises its audience, as I’ve mentioned time and time before. This show doesn’t talk down to us and so we get these brilliant and earnest moments, because we’re not treated as kids and so we get straightforward, honest moments, just as Amity demands Luz be straightforward and honest with her, and is thus given that intense and unadulterated, unfiltered emotion with zero irony to it whatsoever. The directing was insane this episode, it really was something special as Rebecca promised.
I honestly find this one of the heaviest, hardest-hitting, gut-punching, realest moments in the show. And it’s not overtly angsty and heartbreaking, not that there’s anything wrong with that. It just makes me sit back and go “Man.” as I reflect and take in everything I’ve witnessed. The quietness just adds everything. It’s honesty cinematic. They’re just... quietly existing and letting their emotions speak for themselves, the show is letting these two speak for themselves, without having to actually say it; But when they do, it’s sublime. Just little moments like Luz silently realizing and taking in Amity’s reaction to her dead father, and immediately attempting to take it back; It’s everything.
There’s just so much thought process and emotions going in this silent interaction. You can see it turning in Luz’s head, what she’s thinking. The emotions are so well conveyed here, how Luz is thinking to herself Fuck I said too much take it back! Just these two getting to share a silent, peacefully intimate moment with each other. Amity walking up to Luz as she kneels over picking flowers like she’s before a grave, the cinematography...!
And then it’s all capped off with this perfect, wordless scene. These shots as we see what Camila and Vee are up to. The melancholy, the loneliness, the yearning. And how tired it leaves Camila, so she sighs and goes off; As if she’s going to rest. It’s just so much and the silence, the moment is so impactful and heavy. It just really weighs down on you and I love it.
...Fuck. I really need some levity after this, a breather.
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