cinema

“Since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream." - Federico Fellini

[dream-screens]

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

[starwars]

Production on The Mandalorian, Star Wars’ first live-action series, has begun!

http://strw.rs/6008D4Puo

[mydarktv]

ANNIHILATION // Aesthetics

[travalicious]

[sin-in-a-sweater]

@phallicasfuck

[robertdeniro]

Jake Gyllenhaal out in New York City on September 21, 2018

[wehadfacesthen]

Times Square on a rainy day, photo by Fred Stein, 1949

[chrishemsworht]

movies watched in 2018 Game Night (2018) dir. John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein

[wineandwin]

“There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.”

Hannah Gadsby: Nanette

[yesterdaysprint]

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Irving D Tressler, 1937

[mydarktv]

[leepacey]

The 2011 Korean film “Silenced” is based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where deaf children were the victims of repeated physical and sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

A newly appointed teacher at the school alerted human rights groups in 2005, and was subsequently fired from his job. This teacher was the first to come forward about the abuse he’d witnessed, as the school specifically sought out poorer teachers who would be completely dependent on the school for their financial security and therefore less likely to turn against the administration. 

Nine children eventually came forward, but more victims were believed to have concealed additional crimes in fear of repercussions or because of trauma. Children who were orphans or who had disabled parents were targeted specifically, and children who tried to come forward were sent back to school and disciplined by the faculty.

During the trial, the perpetrators received support from the local community, especially from the police and churches in the community. Of the six perpetrators, four received prison sentences, while the other two were freed immediately because the statute of limitations for their crimes had expired. Among those jailed, two were released after less than a year in jail. Four of the six teachers were reinstated in the school.

The film sparked public outrage after its 2011 release, which eventually resulted in a reopening of investigations into the incidents. The school was shut down, and several of the teachers pleaded guilty to sexual molestation charges, including the former principal, who was sentenced to twelve years in prison. The demand for legislative reform eventually reached its way to the National Assembly of South Korea, where a bill (named after the film) was unanimously passed in October 2011 to abolish the statute of limitations for all sex crimes against minors and the disabled.

The film’s ending scene is a protest that occurred following the suicide of a thirteen-year-old victim after the trial in 2005. As the crowd of human rights advocates and deaf people face brutality from the riot police, the fired teacher who initially came forward (who, along with a human rights activist, helped the victims through the trial process) repeats the name of the victim who’d committed suicide, saying “he cannot hear or speak.”

[parentless-suggestions]

Here’s a yearly reminder that u don’t have to celebrate or doing something for ur mother if ur mother is abusive or otherwise bad to u. U can’t have an appreciation day if there’s nothing to appreciate. Ur still a fantastic person if u don’t celebrate Mother’s Day (or Father’s Day) and this rando on the internet is really proud of u for making it this far

[actias-lunar]

They found you on the floor, I could tell you felt hollow.

[butterflyinthewell]

The next time somebody gives you shit about your late autism diagnosis, remember that Anthony Hopkins was diagnosed as autistic when he was 70 years old. 

People can go almost their whole lives and never know they’re autistic, but recognize they feel different from their peers.

And BTW Anthony Hopkins stims by rubbing his hands together, and being autistic is exactly why he’s such a good actor. He studies people’s mannerisms with an analytical mind, adopts those mannerisms for characters and turns out awesome performances. He’s a chameleon.

And he’s one of us, autistic community.

[dream-screens]

The Invitation (2015) dir. Karyn Kusama

"I'm free. All that useless pain, it's gone. It's something anyone can have, Will, and I want you to have it too."

[xod]

[cocoaswan]

The happiest part of the story is that Matilda and Miss Honey each got what they had always wanted. A loving family.

[yesterdaysprint]

Boston Post, Massachusetts, November 23, 1920