[ima-incendia]

"They weren’t just two bros anymore. They were bros who kissed. The best kind of bros."

-TJ Klune, Flash Fire (The Extraordinaries #2).

[chilldeanne]

Thoughts about Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) with spoilers because I watched it two weeks ago and can’t stop thinking about it.

It has all of the flirty, heart-flutteryness of romcoms but also makes you low-key dread everything at the same time because we know and Andrew knows that Domino is engaged, so for basically the entire movie you’re wondering when it’s all gonna blow up in their faces. And then it really doesn't??? It blows up Andrew's perception of what was happening and what he imagined their future together would be, but theres no explosive fight or intense confrontation about her cheating.

And at first you think she’s stuck in this unhappy engagement and Andrew's gonna pull her out of it, and you're like, "oh shit is she really gonna get with this 22 yo kid who works at meat sticks??" And then she's finally honest about her intentions and everything makes sense.

She's not just an unhappily engaged 32 yo woman cheating on her partner. She's actually happily engaged but scared, and she's so nervous that she's gonna fuck up her marriage that she's self-sabotaging.

And then Andrew is attached to her because he finally found something that he's good at, and he thinks that this is his path. And all of the aimless drifting that comes with having just graduated college is suddenly fixed by Lola and Domino. He sees an actual future for himself, a future tethered to reality and not some fantasy in Barcelona. But Domino, as attached as she is, wants him to go live his 20s the way that she didn't get to. So it's this bittersweet, but very real ending that's in everyone's best interest.

And it hits every corner and every line of my heart-brain. I feel like it exists on the line. It lives in this in-between space the entire time, where it feels like nothing is defined. None of Andrew's relationships are defined. Even his relationships with his family are grey. He's an older brother, but he's also kind of a dad to David. He's a son, but he's also kind of a friend and caretaker??? to his Mom. It feels like all of the relationships in the film are in-between, and I think that makes it feel more real. Even the relationship between his Mom and Stepdad Greg is in-between. Is she IN LOVE with Stepdad Greg the way that we (and Andrew) think married people should be? It doesn't seem like it. But he does have money and stability and he cares about her, and she likes him enough for that to be ok, and that is real.

This movie destroyed me emotionally, and it might just be because i'm in my late 20's and sort of in transition from Andrew's phase of life to Domino's phase, and maybe that's why it hit me so hard. Or maybe it was all of the stuff about depression, but good god this movie pummeled me.

[happysadvibes]

“The things that I’m really scared of doing are probably the things that will help me the most, but I just can’t do them.”

— Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022), dir. Cooper Raiff

[louisandthedagger]

[ima-incendia]

hard relate

[screenwrite]

What if we just kiss? Maybe you’ll change your mind.

CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH 2022, written and directed by Cooper Raiff

[dyingenigma]

Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) dir. Cooper Raiff

[buffysummers]

Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) dir. Cooper Raiff

[inkskinned]

i know we’re both just messing around pretending to be whole but look at me. if the train was coming would you move. if the ground was falling from under your feet would you even notice or would it just be another tuesday for you. if somebody stabbed you could it hurt worse than you already do. what i’m saying is that i love you but i think we both drive over the speed limit when it’s raining. what i’m saying is that i want to hold your hand and i understand about how you sometimes have to sit down in the shower. what i’m saying is that i’m here for you and if the train comes please move.

[girlballs-archive]

um. penised to meat you?

[wandavisionedits]

Wanda Maximoff: bloody, powerful, and bloody powerful

[wandavisionedits]

Elizabeth Olsen | MCU behind-the-scenes featurettes over the years

[wandavisionedits]

Elizabeth Olsen as The Scarlet Witch Doctor Strange 2: Multiverse of Madness (2022)

[jelloandsugar]

Scarlet Witch in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

You break the rules and become a hero. I do it, I become the enemy. It doesn’t seem fair.

[mister-supernova]

She’s here y’all 🙌🏼 looking absolutely fine as HELL

[galaxygifs]

SCARLET WITCH IN DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

don’t let him make you the VILLAIN.

                  MAYBE I ALREADY AM.

[metamorphesque]

― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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