Suspension of Disbelief

Visit my blog site, suspension-of-disbelief.com, for an attempt to leave the world around me a more “artistic” place than I found it through the genre of creative nonfiction.

[brandonlees]

You punched me, made me walk through shitty water, dragged me through a crackhouse… and now I’m gonna have to kill this fucking clown. IT CHAPTER 1 (2017) Andy Muschietti

[chewbacca]

MEAN GIRLS (2004)

[graceandfamily]

Grace Kelly attends the 28th annual Academy Awards ceremony in her final appearance before leaving Hollywood to marry Prince Rainier of Monaco (March 22, 1956).

[bob-belcher]

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) dir. Jim Gillespie

[luxlightly]

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it a thousand more times: No piece of dystopian fiction has ever been a prediction of the future. They are observations and criticisms of the present. 

[luxlightly]

“Wooow! How did Orwell predict the surveillance state so well in 1984??” 

He didn’t. He was making an observation of the surveillance state that already existed in his present, and exaggerated it to make the metaphor obvious.

Learning and discussing these works in terms of them being predictions and having test questions like “do you think his prediction came true?” is not only pointless, but actively counterintuitive. When you frame these works as being ‘people from the past knew that the future would be terrible’ you shift the entire perspective to one of some kind of nostalgia for a past that didn’t exist. 

These author’s aren’t oracles. They’re satirists. Their predictions ‘come true’ because they were already true when they wrote them. 

[filmgifs]

It sounds like our killer is writing his own version of Stab 8, but doing it as a requel.

Scream (2022) dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett

[filmgifs]

Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani in House of Gucci (2022) dir. Ridley Scott

[deforest]

Marilyn Monroe, 1953

[deforest]

Lauren Bacall and friend, 1940s

[ladyxgaga]

Lady Gaga and Jake Gyllenhaal on the cover of Variety’s Actors on Actors issue

[chewbacca]

[ladybegood]

Shirley MacLaine, 1959

[wesley-craven]

SCREAM (2022) dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett

[just-purely-insane]

[boydswan]

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) dir. Stanley Kramer

[dailyflicks]

A SIMPLE FAVOR (2018) - dir. Paul Feig

[wlwvintage]

These are believed to be the first ever lesbian self-portraits which were taken in 1910. Photo booths were how most of the earliest forms of queer visual documentation started. It was the only way they could capture a photo in total secrecy since there was no need for a third party taking the picture.