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is god is opens like "hello. Here are two precious sweet little girls. A little boy has just called one of them ugly. Her sister is going over, and she's beating that mean boy bloody, before she goes back to hug her, getting blood on her pretty little dress."

And that's a big piece of it. Two girls. Softness. Meanness, most often from men. Anger. Blood. And over and over, love, tender and violent.

batteryoperatedtrashcan

one of the things that i absolutely adored about Is God Is is the way that the film exists in this beautiful timeless placeless amorphous American setting. so many movies and TV shows attempt to create this almost "setting-less" world to avoid being dated and fail miserably at it, and Is God Is executes it flawlessly, making it an instant classic.

From the use of fashion and set design/props to the visual language of the film, you have to work really hard to nail down a specific time period that the film is set in. The opening scene in sepia with the girls' dresses could have been from the 19th century; the family flashbacks in sepia could have just as easily been set in 1965 as 1995; the present day sequence may as well have been in 1995 as 2025. No one uses a cell phone a single time. I'm literally just still thinking about how perfectly the film pulls this off.

And then the placelessness of it? The sisters live in the Northeast somewhere. NYC? Boston? Philly? They travel to the Deep South. Then they head West. Where? The film doesn't tell you because it doesn't matter. You just need to know the contours for context for the plot, but the themes are universal and therefore so is the visual language of the film itself w/r/t the place.

mobius-m-mobius

Blanc and his Watsons 🔎💕

freakoutgirl

Ilya was in Boston learning a form of English that would be of no use to him anywhere outside the state lines

rylandsgrace

Does it fucking kill you too? Not anymore.

Hollanov + season 1 timeline

taurzza

wip

cloudabserk

he was bracing himself for bad news

aavec

I understand that people have issues with ep 3, but I’m grateful for it bc it gave us the Scott/Shane fight and therefore all of these great posts on Tumblr.com

katinacrisis

kenloganroy

CLONE WARS GAMBIT: SIEGE | Karen Miller

agoodsoldier

Dog | Explicit | 3424 words

“Should call you the Ottawa Puppies,” says the Toronto centre, Svensson. As an insult it makes no sense, so Ilya ignores it, until he continues, “Hear Hollander keeps you on a short leash.” Ilya is the captain, so if anything, he should be holding the leash. In English, you can be singular or plural, but he knows what Svensson is trying to say. He is saying Ilya Rozanov, you are Hollander’s bitch. “Only sometimes,” Ilya replies, grinning. He wins the face off. OR: Ilya trains himself to be a very, very good guard dog for Shane.

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kiodja

nightmares

chickenwaffles17

i had to

issela-santina

ngl the change of phrasing from “if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear” to “if you are not to award me love, then I will indulge in rage” says a lot about what GDT wanted to do with the Frankenstein creature. I think Mary would have sobbed if she heard that

“I will cause fear” is more transitive than “I will indulge in rage” is what I'm saying. cause whose fear? which does align with how the violence the creature commits is in the name of trying to say something to Victor

meanwhile, indulge in rage. aka you know what, I'll just be mad. madness is the out-group created by the violence that it takes for sanity to exist as the in-group that opposes it. to the sane, anything can look like madness and rage as long as it's unlikable. Victor closes every possible door for the creature that he deems as unlikable to enter the company of the sane, the company of normalcy, the company of oppressors, and Guillermo del Toro, master of turning monsters into friends of the oppressed instead, responds like hey what if I need to belong to the sane and the normal and the likable to find my will to live again. I will be ugly and mad and I will enjoy life anyway