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scuderia-hamilton

Andrey Rublev as Sisyphus from "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus

#tennis #andrey rublev

everysunsofthebes

Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, reaching the US Open 25 final under a blood moon,

#sincaraz #carlos alcaraz #jannik sinner #tennis

hermywolf

carlos alcaraz by jonathan liew

#carlos alcaraz #tennis

kylejsugarman

i love how walt thinks he's sooo smart and sooo wise and sooo good at reading people when in fact his perception of others is so clouded by ego and traits that he has ascribed to people irrespective of their actual behavior that he is comically Bad at knowing people as they are. its both so funny and so depressing how walt sits there across from jesse and Tells him that he should go into business (right after, of course, telling jesse to get his GED even though jesse literally already graduated from high school because in walt's mind, jesse is Dumb and Reluctant To Better Himself) because walt has known jesse for just as long as we the viewers have and in spite of their time spent together, walt truly knows almost nothing about jesse beyond the most superficial facets of his personality. he's the one who Sells the meth, so obviously he should go into business. even when jesse speaks up and says he always wanted to go into sports medicine, walt shuts him down and insists upon his own advice. we the audience have spent the same amount of time with jesse as walt has and we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that jesse's caring nature would make him a great candidate for a field like sports medicine because we choose to see his nuance, what motivates his behaviors and what parts of him change. walt doesn't. his perception of jesse is set in stone and walt, the wise all-knowing father, must guide this pathetic, stupid, unmotivated junkie to some form of success so he can experience the pride of having "rescued" jesse from his own incompetence. get ur GED. go into business. do as i say and u'll be just fine. all of this time together and walt doesn't know A Thing about jesse.

#breaking bad

kylejsugarman

its actually so intensely fucked that we never once see jesse get any kind of concrete support in coping with jane's death or even someone to really talk to about it in a meaningful way. she dies, a complete stranger (mike) comes by to put her body in a bag and feed him lines for the police, he almost OD'ed before breaking down in the arms of the man who let her die, he goes to rehab still in a state of shock. he calls her number just to hear her voice mail. he keeps her cigarette butts still stained with her lipstick in his car. he tries to be mature and rational ("it's like u said. we wouldn't've lasted long") when a sleep-pilled walt brings her up, but we know from the cigarette stubs that it's just a facade. the two birds circling overhead. the final shots of el camino where jesse is imagining jane in the passenger seat with him are sweet but also so devastating in a way because they show plainly that jesse has had so few opportunities to process her death and can now only do it alone. he didn't have anyone in his old life to help him navigate the loss and now he has a new life that she can't logically be a part of. she's in the passenger seat, but that's the closest she'll ever be now. two birds circling, one always chasing the other but never managing to catch them.

#breaking bad

notcapableofbeingtheguy

It’s important to remember that even tho nacho and Jesse are both special little guys, they are very different as characters.

Nacho is rootable because he is an underdog who manages to be a bitch and screw up the plans of the powerful against all odds. Jesse is rootable because even when he wins his heart is too soft to celebrate violence.

Nacho is deeply self interested. But in the end he dies for love. Jesse is deeply self sacrificing. But in the end he lives for himself

#breaking bad #jesse pinkman

theqhreator42

There's something to be said about how every single shootout in the Breaking Bad setting is profoundly pathetic. Shots are almost never well-aimed, the combatants rarely have time to take cover or consider their tactics, people die in grotesque, absurd ways, and everyone always loses.

For me, the exemplar of this style is the final shootout in Breaking Bad (not counting Walt's machine gun gambit in Felina), where Hank and Steve confront Jack Welker's gang alone in the desert. On paper, it seems like a typical heroic climax: Hank and Steve stand up to the gang with no hesitation and prepare for the fight of their lives. The actual outcome, though, is more prosaic: totally outnumbered and outgunned, they are mortally injured without grazing any of the Nazis, and Hank dares Jack to execute him as Walt begs in vain to spare his life. The agents' desperation to preserve their honor by apprehending Walt alone becomes their doom.

Meanwhile, the closest the setting gets to a traditional "final badass duel," the confrontation between Gus and Lalo in Point and Shoot, ends with Gus tripping a circuit breaker, awkwardly ducking behind a bulldozer to pick up his hidden revolver, dumping all six shots at Lalo's general direction, and then collapsing under his own injuries. Lalo's final living act is to cackle at the sheer dumb luck of the situation as he drowns in his own blood, before Gus's minions bury him in the same pit as Howard (in case anyone believed that Howard, Sylvia, Mateo, Fred's family, Cheryl, or any of the other people bereaved by Lalo got a grain of justice here).

Even the final combat scene of the entire setting, the El Camino duel, has little heroism: Jesse wins the duel against Neil by breaking the rules and firing a second gun hidden in his jacket, then frantically dodges Neil's colleague's gunfire, picks up Neil's gun, and shoots wildly at the colleague, who takes a bullet straight in the head and comically falls face-first into a glass display case. We are happy to see Jesse live, but he doesn't improve himself by surviving this fight — he simply survives.

It's one of many elements of the Breaking Bad setting's cinematography that I really admire: the refusal to glorify violence. Every protagonist becomes an accessory or perpetrator of murder at some point, but none of them are improved by it, and it is never pretty, gratifying, or righteous. In a strange way, the rejection of violence as a positive act feels deeply humane.

#breaking bad #better call saul