“You mean so much to me that sometimes I don’t know how to handle it. I want you to care for and arrest you in my arms as if the world wasn’t yet ready to deserve someone like you.”
my favorite part of glass onion is how mad Benoit Blanc gets when he realizes he’s not in an impossible mystery but in fact dealing with the dumbest string of blundered crimes ever committed
jess misses her hit on purpose btw. if you even care,
i'm talking about this moment here, where lupe tells esti to do a double steal. now whether jess heard or understood what lupe said i don't know, but you can see that she still catches on to what they're doing before the pitch is thrown. so i think that when jess swings, she misses that ball intentionally, here's why.
some context for those not as familiar with baseball, jess is the team's shortstop, which is a position well known for having very strong all around players. meaning, there's a really really good chance she's going to hit whatever comes at her. especially this late in the season. the other team knows this, especially because jo has no doubt told them, and jess knows that they know this, so she uses it to her advantage.
now if jess were to hit that ball then she puts herself, lupe and esti all at risk of being out. if she doesn't swing then she's not in the way of the catcher, who will then have a much easier time throwing the ball out to jo at third base to tag lupe out. so instead, jess swings. and in the time that the pitch was thrown the other team would've had to go from covering the areas closer to their bases to prevent a possible steal, to then covering their wider fielding areas in the likely event that jess would hit the ball that she is currently swinging for. and then when jess misses, the other team has to quickly rush back to again try and cover that double steal, while their catcher also has to get enough space around jess to make a clean throw to third once jo is there to catch it. and they of course were unsuccessful.
if you watch jess' swing carefully you can see that it also just looks... really weird. it's too slow, her swing scoops down and there's just no power behind it. it looks fake tbh, which is strange for such a strong player. and when she misses she doesn't look upset or frustrated in the least, despite having just struck out. she's excitedly watching the double steal play out and cheering on her teammates when they pull it off. she sacrificed herself and an out to move her teammates further along, leaving them in the capable hands of shirley, who then brings lupe home before the inning is over.
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