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[fyeahmovies]

Parasite / 기생충 (2019): First vs Last shot

“I think that one way to portray the continuing polarization and inequality of our society is as a sad comedy. We are living in an era when capitalism is the reigning order, and we have no other alternative. It’s not just in Korea, but the entire world faces a situation where the tenets of capitalism cannot be ignored. In the real world, the paths of families like our four unemployed protagonists and the Park family are unlikely ever to cross. The only instance is in matters of employment between classes, as when someone is hired as a tutor or a domestic worker. In such cases, there are moments when the two classes come into close enough proximity to feel each other’s breath. In this film, even though there is no malevolent intent on either side, the two classes are pulled into a situation where the slightest slip can lead to fissures and eruptions.

In today’s capitalistic society there are ranks and castes that are invisible to the eye. We keep them disguised and out of sight and superficially look down on class hierarchies as a relic of the past, but the reality is that there are class lines that cannot be crossed. I think that this film depicts the inevitable cracks that appear when two classes brush up against each other in today’s increasingly polarized society.” — Bong Joon-ho

[lebassin-auxnympheas]

좋아하는 계절 날씨 시간

[mounak-s-deactivated20170517]

​I remember a couple of years ago listening to a podcast where the speakers were talking about how when they were in their twenties, they were in a perpetual state of panic. I remember that they were talking specifically about the anxiety that arises from believing – at 22 – that you should somehow, already have your whole life mapped out. And believing as well, that if you’re not quite there yet you’re already ten steps behind everyone else. The advice they were offering to scared twenty-somethings, was that feeling anxious, feeling scared or simply just feeling overwhelmed by the sudden gravity of it all, was simply part of the job. Just as how when you’re a baby, and your main concerns revolve around getting food or getting cuddled; by the time you hit twenty, your main concerns (though still primarily food and cuddles) start to revolve around real life questions like, where am I going to work? How will I pay off my student loans? Have my loans - that have put me in this much debt -  given me an education that will actually get me a job at all? But feeling like you’re on the brink of madness, isn’t always a sign of madness. Sometimes - even though it feels like pulling teeth - it’s just a sign that you’re growing up. For the last couple of weeks I’ve been expending huge amounts of time worrying worrying, worrying. Perpetual panic doesn’t half cover it. Each day, i’ve been pouring equal amounts of energy into hypothesising about where the hell I’m going, and then catastrophising that wherever it is, I’m not getting there fast enough. I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, aching from all the pressure that I am putting on myself  throughout the day. And then occasionally – like now – which is why I’m writing it down, when I have a rare moment of mindfulness I think back to that podcast that I heard whilst still in my teens. I think back and realise that though I am scared and though I am achy, I won’t be forever. And though I am anxious about wanting to fulfil my dreams, not knowing what my dreams are is ‘just part of the job’. I’m not supposed to know yet. And in realising that I actually feel completely fine. 

[sololoquy]

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.

Bill Watterson  (via khadlja)

[politicalsci]

[emmaktri]

Harriet Perry, Flower Interpretations: Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia Von Harden, Otto Dix (1924) All The Things I Never Did Are Done, Barnaby Whitfield (2018) Night With Her Train Of Stars, Edward Robert Hughes (1912) Watercolour No.14, Wassily Kandinsky (1913) Homme 99, Loribelle Spirovski (2018) Madame Matisse au Kimono, Andre Derain (1905) Woman by a Window, Richard Edward Miller The Bath of Venus, William Blake Richmond (1895) Les Amies II, Gustav Klimt (1916-7) Portrait of Lady, enface (unfinished), Gustav Klimt (1917)

[dame-de-pique]

A. de Perre - Stämningsstycken, 1900-1910

[lifeinpoetry]

“My body is an argument I did not start.”

— Morgan Parker, from “AND COLD SUNSET,” Magical Negro

[wishbzne-deactivated20210526]

the lost ingredient, anne sexton

[asoftwrongness]

Ruminations on codependency (Like mother, like daughter)

[anarchyisfunandfree]

Viewing politics as a spectrum with a ‘middle’ and ‘extremes’ is a really powerful and dangerous ideological concept. The prevailing ideology decides what constitutes the middle, its arbitrary, it doesn’t represent any sort of ‘balance’ or any other properties outside of its material content. If your ideology occupies the ‘middle’ space, it’s because the ideas constituting it are normalized in the prevailing mainstream, which speaks to the position of power it occupies, not to its inherent truth, practicality, or morality. There is no such thing as neutral, inaction and abstention are passive support of the underlying power structures of our society.

[asoftwrongness]

Keeping things to myself

[kata4a]

I stg every single time someone says “you are not immune to propaganda” I can barely hear them over the sound of their own subtext screaming “but I am”

[transhumanish-deactivated201905]

[morkitten]

[mizoguchi]

some of just like Garfield a lot

[holly-warbs]

People that I’ve passed by.

[shesnake]

Lucy Liu directing various episodes of Elementary between 2013 and 2018.

[bluegrasslove-moved]

when kristin chang said godhood is just like girlhood: a begging to be believed or when laurie penny said it’s no surprise that so many women and girls have control issues around their bodies or when fiona apple said there’s no hope for women or when elana dykewomon said almost every woman i have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness or when carolyn gage said you can terrorize her with her own body and then she will torture herself or when angela carter said i often felt like a female impersonator or when leslie feinberg said i don’t feel like a man trapped in a woman’s body i just feel trapped

[marxistbarbie-deactivated202109]

do you ever sit and think about your female ancestors and like how many of them endured forced marriages, sexual abuse, physical violence and complete deprivation of education and autonomy and suffered silently for literally centuries. going through pregnancies and child birth without modern medicine, having multiple children and watching most of them die before the age of five because that was just the way of life back then? and ultimately you are a product of their pain? i think about them a lot and then i think about how many women continue to share their reality in this current year