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I know other people can put this into words better but I really enjoyed the barbarian 2022 cause it was essentially a movie that shows why women are so cautious about navigating the world because of men and why we don't trust men

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Tess as a final girl is so interesting because she did everything right. She was suspicious and got documentation of Keith rather than blindly trusting him. She didn't go down the creepy passageway until it was properly lit. She was ready to bolt the moment she saw the murder room.

The real conflict of the movie was about pitting her self preservation instincts against her empathy, and it's specifically in a gendered way (I'm sure there are racial aspects as well, but I haven't finished rotating those in my brain yet). When she forgoes self preservation in her attempts to help Keith and AJ, it definitively comes back to bite her in the ass, leading to her capture in the former instance and her near re-capture and severe wounds in the latter. However it is notably her empathy/her ability to read the Mother that allows her to survive as well as she does.

This theme is repeated in the third act twist, where the well meaning retail employee helps Frank prepare for a birth, and unwittingly assists in the prolonged torture of one of his victims.

Paired with the number of times in the film that men refuse to take women's concerns seriously (Keith with the room, AJ denying his rape accusations when it's very clear he did something wrong, the cops refusing to believe Tess, the homeless man who insists that Tess leave AJ behind, etc) I think the film manages to say something interesting, if not very subtle, about the gendered nature of care in society.

Tess lasted as long as she did because of her strong empathetic response, but it's also the reason she was there in the first place

mercuryfountain-deactivated2024

am i going to start posting on Tumblr again?

notkatniss

On top of the Yankees field cat there was a praying mantis on top of the nationals players hat tonight. Huge night in baseball

heinousactszx

He was keeping the mantis updated on the number of outs, too

slunch

glad they added new pets to baseball

make america masturbate again

clockways

vaaltyrs

lycanthrop-ee

KRSNND these TAGS

bostonflavor

if this happened like 5 years ago people would be losing their shit, now it’s just like “oh yeah another thing”

xxredwoodxx

California monument’s gone now

takemetotheastral

What the fuck even prompted that lmao

xxredwoodxx

according to wikipedia it the youths viewed it as anti-christian, promoting illegal immigration and linked to the antifa movement

accounting-wunderkind

That random metal pillar? Yeah that’s antifa

the-fox-populi-says

Fellas is it antifa to be a monolith

going through my old posts on here when i was just out of a long term hetero relationship with somebody that was insecure enough that i couldn't think about being anything but straight dude guy, and god, i wish i could go back 7 years and tell myself i would get so much happier.