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Château de Versailles

Versailles, France, 27 VIII 2023

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Neon Genesis Evangelion

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Ada Limón, from “The Hurting Kind,” in The Hurting Kind

[text ID: Before my grandfather died, I asked him what sort / of horse he had growing up. He said, / Just a horse. My horse, with such a tenderness it / rubbed the bones in the ribs all wrong. / I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers. / I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.]

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Dearest Father and Almighty Creator,

We ask for Your Grace tonight, despite our pride. Your forgiveness, despite our doubt.

Most of all, we ask for Your Love to soothe us through these dark times.

May we face whatever it is to come in Your Divine will with courage and open hearts of acceptance.

Amen.

DON’T LOOK UP (2021) dir. Adam McKay

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Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese

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Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese

Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man.

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Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese

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Little Women 2019 | dir. Greta Gerwig

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On loneliness.

“No Choir”, Florence + the Machine // “Little Women”, Louisa May Alcott // “A Face in the Crowd”, Holly Warburton // “I Know the End”, Phoebe Bridgers // “Bloody Mary”, The Magnus Archives

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It’s like the tide going out. It rolls out slowly, but it can’t be stopped. LITTLE WOMEN (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

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“I think Amy’s loved him from the very beginning … and I think one of the things that you got to see all the way through Amy’s life is just how much she’s adored him, from such a young age to then as a grown woman. … Amy gives something to him which is she desires him, she loves him on a different level, and that’s what they bring out in one another.” -Florence Pugh

“Amy and Laurie fulfill things for one another and play things for one another. That might not be as immediately satisfying, but it is in a life-long way. It’s a healthy, reciprocal feedback loop.” -Timothée Chalamet

“…With Florence as Amy, I mean, Laurie also allows himself to be loved by someone who loves him. Which is hard, and he allows it to happen and in that way he allows himself to become a man. And to become a man through the love of a good woman, what a wonderful thing.” -Greta Gerwig

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Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

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friends I am absolutely obsessed with the way Arrakis is introduced in the different adaptions of Dune. up until now, they all started out with Princess Irulan going “okay so here is this super hostile desert planet, it’s where we harvest Spice which gives us ALL the money. also my dad has the power to decide who governs it, everyone’s fighting over it, and whoever wins is gonna get super rich! :DDD”

1984:

2000:

I’m p sure it’s not even intentional, but what a perfect illustration of whose point of view the movie makers automatically defaulted to. what a perfect distillation of an imperialist outside perspective that sees the planet as desolate, dangerous, a resource to be fought over and harvested.

and then the 2021 movie just straight up overhead kicks that shit into the trash can.

we are not seeing Arrakis from outer space, as an outside observer would. we are not othered from it like we are in the other adaptions. we are right there, on its surface. and the movie opens with Chani narrating: “my home is beautiful.”

you’d think it’s just a small, insignificant change, but the difference in framing. the awareness. the fact that Arrakis gets introduced to us not as a dangerous material resource, but a beautiful home…! that shit is meaningful.

for so long this story about imperialism has been told by people who barely seemed to grasp the concept of structural critique at all. (I don’t think I have ever seen anyone miss the point as spectacularly as the guys who sat down and thought “Hey, let’s make a Dune RTS!”

“join one of three houses, whoever harvests the most Spice wins! :DDD” … just. incredible 🤣)

and I could go into more detail about how the other adaptions have a tendency to depict the Fremen as proud but primitive desert creatures and passive onlookers in their own subjugation, while the 2021 version makes it clear right off the bat that these are independent, capable human beings very well aware of their complex situation.

but I’m gonna stop ranting now cuz this was just supposed to be a quick lil meta on how the first couple lines change the entire meaning of everything, and how 2021 Dune displays a very welcome new awareness on the filmmakers’ part that has been sorely missing from previous adaptions.