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just rewatched tcsm2 and oh. ohhhhhh. let me talk for a minute.
OLD MAN YAOI. WOOF WOOF. LEFTON.
ok let me be coherent.
UNDER THE CUT: ME YAPPING ABOUT DRAYTON X LEFTY. CALLING ALL LEFTON FANS!!!!!!!!
(also tw brief talk about suicidal ideation)
drayton lives in a lot of fear. he is afraid of his family being found out, of his business failing, of not having enough money. he is afraid of every bad thing that might happen. who wouldnt be?? no one wants to be in his situation - born into that family and basically having to raise his siblings, as far as we know.
he doesn't show his fear with fear, he expresses it through anger, aggression. this is one of the only emotions drayton displays. it's easier that way. he isn't scared that their family will get found out and they'll be torn apart and/or killed, he's just angry at his incompetent brothers for doing stupid and risky things!! that's natural! importantly, to me, that isn't weakness.
i believe that drayton, at his core, is a very weak person. the issue is that he can't be. someone has to run the business. someone has to make sure there's enough money to sustain the family. someone has to keep his brothers from stirring up trouble. someone has to be responsible.
drayton is scared, and he is, indeed, angry. he does not like his life. he is not happy about his life. he says this quite plainly to us. this dialogue, i think, summarizes a lot of what i've been saying:
he hates his life. his life is stressful. he doesn't have anybody. have you ever thought about that?? it can be said, maybe, about all the sawyers, but i would argue a strong case for drayton being completely alone. he has to go out into society, talk to people, be with people, all the time, but he has no one he can talk to. he started telling this woman he doesn't know about how much he hates his life because no one else will listen.
bubba and chop top have each other.
nubbins... we don't really know. he seems to be more in the outside world than the others. he is also, as far as we know, quite alone, but he isn't the subject of this rant so i won't touch on that. the franknub in me says "at least he has franklin" but this is a lefton post so i'll shut up.
drayton doesn't have anyone he can go to. he can't go to his brothers, he's supposed to be responsible, he's not supposed to be scared and he's not supposed to hate his life. what would they think?? it doesn't matter what they think, they're too stupid to have anything worthwhile to say to drayton anyway, right?
anyway... what does all this have to do with lefton? i think i got a little off track. the point here is: drayton lives in constant fear. i went on a real tirade there. phew. sorry. okay back to the topic at hand...
lefty.
do i even have to add anything? he acknowledges that the killers - the sawyers, drayton - thrive on fear. of course, he means they want their victims to be afraid, and his lack of fear makes him stronger against him, but what he says hits so close to home, because drayton lives on his own fear, thrives on his own fear.
lefty doesn't have fear. somewhere, deep in him, he does, as does everyone, but never in the movie is he afraid. not when the foundations are crumbling around him, not when he's fighting leatherface, not ever. he's strong, or he at least appears to be. his motivation isn't fear, his motivation is love. he loved his niece and nephew, and they were attacked by these killers. he's spent over a decade trying to find the killers, even when everyone deemed the murders accidents and coincidences.
to me, lefty very much reads as being passively suicidal. trust me, i'm an expert on the topic. for a very long time i've been the same way. that line he has - "i got a perfect willingness to die" - is the clearest indicator of it, but there's more. why does he choose, of all things to do, to break the foundations of the sawyers' home? while he's inside, no less?
he wants to take them down, but he wants to go with them.
being passively suicidal is wanting to die (or, in many cases, not wanting to live, which is quite different) but not having any intention to kill yourself. this plan is lefty being actively suicidal, without having to admit it to himself or anyone else. it would be seen as poor planning, a fit of rage, an accident.
the only reason lefty hadn't already killed himself, in my eyes, is because he hadn't avenged his family. this would be his final goodbye. this brings up something else, and it's the assumption we can make that lefty is also deeply lonely. in that scene we looked at earlier, where he and stretch were talking, he shuts her down so quickly when all she wants is to help him:
that isn't the entire scene, but i'm sure you've already seen it - she has evidence that may very well help him achieve his entire goal, and he shuts her down. why? because he's stubborn, maybe, or independent. in my personal belief, he's similar to drayton in this way:
he's alone.
he needs someone to talk to, to be helped by.
he's too proud to let anyone help.
too proud to open up.
the most vulnerable moment we get from lefty is when he encounters franklin's corpse in the sawyers' home. (i apologize, i wasn't able to get all the dialogue on subtitles for these screenshots because my subtitles kept turning on and off? anyway i put what i could get and the missing dialogue between images 🩷)
"oh, god"
"franklin"
"they can't do this"
note what happens here. he has a tender, sad moment, and then what emotion does he go to? anger. he starts to get more violent. he yells.
earlier we were talking about how drayton lives in fear, but turns to anger and aggression. lefty lives with a lack of fear, and still is the same way.
what does this have anything to do with anything? i dont know, it could mean nothing. i have more to say about them, honestly, but i've done too much rambling already just to point out this parallel.
just... they're so alone. they have no idea how to process emotions in a healthy way. they would be perfect for each other in some other universe where drayton wasn't born into such a horrible family, wasn't set up for failure the moment he took his first breath.
ok wow i need to sleep i've got an early lecture tomorrow. thanks for reading if you got this far. goodnight or morning or whatever
The opening scene of TCM 2 is lowkey so funny if you think about it for more than 2 seconds
“Guy with a chainsaw attacks frat bros” okay, that’s PROBABLY leatherface
“Guy with chainsaw is using a corpse as a disguise” that’s fair, as expected for the Sawyers
“The corpse reappears later in the movie” that’s… Nubbins. That’s Nubbins, strapped(?) to Bubba’s body as a disguise. That’s his dead brother. He’s wearing his dead brother
“Okay so Bubba is on top of the car, and he’s using Nubbins as a disguise” but wait… this is a car chase sequence. Someone has to be INSIDE Bubba’s car and driving it, and they’re fucking GUNNING it
“Drayton complains about ‘you boys’ (boys, plural) making a public scene with the car chase” okay so there’s SOME other guy in the car, probably a Sawyer brother
“Choptop is introduced” well that’s PROBABLY the guy who was driving isn’t it
So “leatherface kills two frat bros in a car chase” turns into “Bubba is swinging a chainsaw on top of a speeding car while his brother’s corpse is strapped to his front, and also his OTHER brother is absolutely just fucking gunning this shit. Also, the FOURTH brother knew NONE of this and is mad as hell about it”
Little doodle of Choptop wearing my comfort fit.♡*.•°
(Life just throws me around at the moment. I caught a cold recently and now I can't swallow without it feeling like I'm forcing rocks down my throat...I'm sorry, I keep disappearing. I hope I find some time to post a bit more frequently soon. (人 •͈ᴗ•͈✿))
