Love, Labor, Lost

Chris. Bi. She/They.

[borgevino]

so fucking stupid that meds literally work. "swallow this pebble it makes you think" hateful

[liltrashangel]

I do not feel well!!! I need to be held and babied ok

[pagesofkenna]

ok it was bugging me that i kinda recognized Taryon's voice and couldn't remember who they'd had cast, so i paused to read the credits and

ok cool wayne brady thats rad-

hold up what do you mean doty is voicing himself???

(article source)

[littlebosslady7]

He submitted paperwork to SAG, so Doty could play himself. I say this with love Samuel Brent Oscar Riegel, you wonderful madman, I adore this.

[cloudabserk]

just watched an interview with james ortiz (rocky’s puppeteer) where he’s like “they were torturing ryan gosling for this movie. it was killing him. he was developing isolation sickness in real life from being the only actor on set for 6 months. i needed to be there for him even when rocky wasn’t in frame to serve as his guiding light and the sole thread tethering him to the concept of love. i was kneeling at the altar” and what

[brothermouse-skeleton]

Just saw the new Beniot Blanc movie, I love that this established that Blanc's crime solving M.O. is to team up with whatever suspect has the kindest heart and commit minor acts of obstruction of justice to keep them from getting arrested until he can crack the case.

I hope that southern fried fancy boy never stops adopting good people at grisly murder scenes.

[corvidcorgi]

With three movies to compare between, I really appreciate how each Knives Out movie explores justice from a different thematic angle, not based on the murder that was committed but based on the cruelty that led to that murder.

In Knives Out, a compassionate, ethical young woman treats everyone around her with generosity, and the people around her repeatedly try to take advantage of her kindness to force her into losing the fortune that was gifted to her by a dear friend. There, justice means that she keeps the fortune and decides that actually, she doesn't have to be kind and giving to people who've proven themselves assholes.

In Glass Onion, a woman loses her sister to a gang of wealthy, successful people who've sacrificed their principles for the sake of ambition and ego. There, justice means that everyone involved will be made notorious: whatever their other accomplishments, they will forever be known for being complicit in the burning of the most famous painting in history.

In Wake Up Dead Man, the church takes advantage of a young girl's loyalty and faith to place her under a lifelong burden and fill her with guilt, shame, and hatred. Justice means helping her understand what was done to her and the women around her, and giving her compassion so she can find peace.

This is cool because it means the movies contradict each other! The compassionate justice of Wake Up Dead Man would be totally misplaced in Knives Out, and so would the toppling-monuments justice of Glass Onion. And because each movie has something different to say, they all stand on their own and feel fresh.

This is also why Benoit Blanc is the uniting figure but never the protagonist of these movies. He's an agent of legal justice in that he's the detective and it's his job to figure out whodunnit, but the protagonist -- Marta, Helen, and now Jud -- is always the character who delivers thematic justice.

[colidamae]

Really good movies

[prickly-paprikash]

It isn't just that Knives Out protagonists win by being kind and steadfast. They win by sticking to what it is they're good at. What they've been called to do, as thankless and as demeaning as those jobs can sometimes make them feel. They didn't play the "game" like Benoit did. They just did what they knew they were good at.

Marta wins because she was a nurse and a caregiver before anything else. She wins the inheritance because she gave Harlan companionship, not just medical care. She gets the truth out of Ransom because she acted as a nurse, trying to save Fran even though she still dies in the end. Had Harlan just fucking listened to the actual medical expert in the room instead of himself, he would have lived.

Helen wins because she's a third-grade teacher—her job is literally educating, caring for, and looking out for kids. Glass Onion isn't just the working class vs the wealthy, it's an actual functioning adult woman vs a bunch of adult-sized toddlers, whining and throwing temper tantrums and thinking only of themselves. She plays games with her third graders, and in the end she wins by making a game of destroying everything Miles ever held dear, even getting the others to side with her.

Jud wins because he's an actual fucking priest, who actually embodies everything his god taught. He doesn't try to poach Wick's "flock" or anything, nor does he allow himself to surrender to anger and vindictiveness in the way Wick did. Jud is absolved of all his crimes because he just wants to do good by his church, in the name of his god.

Just as Blanc is an excellent detective, so too are these three spectacular at their jobs.

Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig just keep reiterating the same points in every film and I do love them for it.

• Respect the working class

• Fucking respect women.

• Listen to the local queer person who is excellent at their jobs and you will go far.

• Be kind in a cynical world.

[phoenixfatality]

the Knives Out filmmaking is fucking genius because it doesn't hide ANY of the murder mystery details that get revealed later on. The blood stain is ALWAYS on Marta's shoes. You can see Miles hand Duke his glass, take his gun and hide it. You see Blanc hand Helen the Klear. You hear the 'clangy clunk' of Jud hiding the flask in the first scene of Wicks's murder. You notice it all after it's revealed. It's not added in in the reveal scene. All of the clues are always there, you just DON'T SEE THEM. It just makes it feel so much more real.

[lutheban]

Rocky, once again, being baffled and STRESSED about human biology and the things his human does to keep healthy i dont think mr "my whole crew died of radiation sickness" likes the fact that his alien and most things on his planet needs it for survival very much xD previous

[tuatara-time]

this is how that scene went, right?

[iliketobeirl]

I want to hug and SQUEEZE Caine so hard OMGGGG my babyy

[mslanna]

pretty princess at Tale Gate

[shrugsinchinese]

Wishing everyone a very Happy Earth Day with Stratt, who always put Earth first! 🌏🌱

[shrugsinchinese]

Grace fancam

[caspercryptid]

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

[caspercryptid]

If someone is doing things that don't make Sense, try to understand that it is entirely possible that their brain is probably under an enormous weight and fracturing under the pressure. People who have been stabbed will sometimes talk a circle around the fact that they've been stabbed because stress and shock prevent you from recognizing the distress you are in and what you need to do to seek help for it. PTSD will do this also. You will find yourself repeatedly jamming a bag of frozen fruit into the same spot in the freezer where it doesn't fit and keeps falling, over and over and over, focused on nothing but that bag. You will decide that a beanbag chair is 10000% necessary to your life. You will lose your entire shit because you stubbed your toe on a table and that means the whole setup of your furniture is wrong. These are largely harmless examples. People under strain will also hurt themselves and others. Cornered animals bite. And it doesn't heal the bite to go "Hey, are you okay?" But it might get you to an animal that stops biting, so you can start to heal. And before you had an animal that bit, you probably had an animal that kept doing shit you didn't understand as stress signals

[edgebug]

"grace. grace! grace give attention. rocky perform human ritual of escape closet now. statement."

"come again?"

"i learn more from thinking machine. human gender preference. attraction to same gender, means word 'gay.' all eridian same gender." rocky stands straight up. "rocky come out to grace now. all rocky plural gay, statement."

"...wow, that's... rock, i'm not sure it makes much sense to apply human ideas of sexual orientation to a monogendered species."

a long and judgmental pause. then:

"grace HOMOPHOBIC, question????"

[thatonegreyghost]

@to-be-kind-takes-work

[to-be-kind-takes-work]

LMAO

[thatonegreyghost]

Rocky knows damn well what they're doing and keeps doing it

[edgebug]

grace nearly has a hernia. "what?! no! homophobic? rocky, i like men! i mean, like, i like men as much as i like anyone else, which is to say, in theory, maybe! i'm not--i--" rocky is squeaking and chittering wildly. grace buries his face in his hands and groans really loud. "you're doing a bit."

"yes!" rocky crows and bounces triumphantly around, giving himself a big round of jazz hands. "yes, rocky do bit! grace always fall for rocky bit!

"yeah, yeah, har-dee-har-har, laugh it up."

rocky, still giggling, "actually, on erid, grace only person not of eridian gender, therefore--"

"don't say it--"

"grace only straight person on entire gay planet!"

"alright i am DEFINITELY not that."

"grace need parade, question?"

grace throws something at him. it bounces harmlessly off rocky's hamster ball. "hate crimes! grace do hate crime!" rocky manages to chirp out through laughter so intense his legs buckle a bit

[cannibalchicken]

[icedoatmilkmatcha-deactivated20]

also

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay Ill reblog that!

[aggressivelybicaptainamerica]

Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.

[ruffboi-mags]

The woman who popularized gender reveals wishes she hadn't, afaik.

[fall1ngfeather]

(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)

[p00pym00py]

This whole thread is so beautiful to me that I can explain it

[my-random-fandoms]

[pouncequick]

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[celestial-bat]

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[bulkhummus]

tonight im thinking about grace really yelling at rocky to calm down during their fishing trip in the movie - like thats gotta be the first time grace has really yelled while they were together, let alone at rocky. like sure they bicker and argue but that was a pure panicked plea of get your shit together or we are going to die

im thinking about rocky in a big metal tube thats blaring a hundred uncomfortable frequencies unable to do anything due to the atmospheric differences, completely at the mercy of grace's ability to get the situation under control

like imagine you are an individual and you stumble across this alien that has the technological and scientific ability to solve the problem plaguing your people, who willingly and routinely goes out into the empty quiet nothingness of space on walks, who climbed across the hull of a space ship while it was on fire, who is now screaming at you at the top of its lungs to calm down when every animalistic urge is clawing at your insides to panic. he's never heard graces voice crack like that, his heart hammer like that, his joints strain and insides twist like that and yet he's still doing his job

like the human ability to manage under immense stress and pressure has to be so completely alien.