sarah brontë

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[bentbackarms]

holy trinity of women cooper thinks he can save

[inthedarktrees]

David Lynch, Emily Screaming, 2008

[snoopylovessoup]

snoopy in the criterion closet

[mxgicdave]

TO BE LOVED ENTIRELY 🩸

[inthedarktrees]

A dream soul that wanders.

Sheryl Lee, Michael Horse, Kyle MacLachlan | Twin Peaks

[ngalitzine]

we owe so much to david lynch when it comes to film and television. so many horror films and shows were directly inspired by his work. but more than that he was such a eccentric weirdo, such a kind man. he was a comforting presence in this world and i'm glad he was here.

[reachartwork]

david lynch telling people in 2017 that you should accept trans people or kill yourself. he was so real for this.

[mentiranordica]

RIP David Lynch (1946-2025)

[hoopskirt]

Goodbye Mr. Lynch I’ll see you in my dreams

[mothercain]

in heaven, everything is fine ♡

[saintatreidess]

au revoir les enfants (1987)

there are so many movies about WWII that it gets overwhelming. we are saturated with battlefront epics and soldiers killing each other. there are also the movies that are specifically about the holocaust, exposing us to its horrors, and those are generally important. but some others can feel borderline exploitative and insensitive like the boy in the striped pyjamas which many (including myself) agree that it weirdly tries to make the audience sympathise with the nazis and relies on shock value.

but among the multitude of WWII movies, there is au revoir les enfants. the 1987 film is based on the director, louis malle’s, own childhood in nazi-occupied france. it follows julien who attends catholic school in the countryside, as children were sent away from the cities during the war. there he meets jean, a new student whom he progressively becomes friends with. we learn that jean is a jew, and that the priest who runs the school is hiding him there. of course jean’s identity is a secret and he is threatened to be found out by the nazi officers occupying the village at any moment.

the film is a coming of age tale that explores friendship, childhood innocence and the loss of it. julien (and the other students) comes from a bourgeois family, and despite living in a nazi-occupied country, he is relatively sheltered from the reality of it by his overbearing mother and social class. when jean enters his life he starts asking questions to himself and his brother about what is happening, who jews are and why they are being treated differently than other people.

the film is a slow burn, it takes its time to establish the setting. it’s also quiet, with a careful attention to details in the set design and dialogue.

one could think that the director choosing to tell the story of a jewish kid being hidden in a school from his perspective would be exploitative, but it’s far from being the case. the main character, julien, is not at all a hero, and the director isn’t trying to portray himself as a saviour, or a good person. julien simply is a child. he is naive and mean like all children are. the perspective of a child highlights the absurdity of hatred in the world of adults.

the film ends with the breaking of the fourth wall in the shape of a voiceover of the director, reminding us that this really happened: "more than 40 years have passed, but i’ll remember every second of that january morning until the day i die." simply haunting.

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[mothercain]

was their any literature that inspired this record? ♡

simulacrum and simulation - jean baudrillard

i have no mouth and i must scream - harlan ellison

pilgrim's progress - john bunyan

nausea - jean-paul sartre

[mothercain]

Did the work of the architect etienne louis boullée inspire the 7th track Etienne? If it did what about his work inspired you? To me the song reminds me of the longing and emotion in his funeral monuments.

perverts is amazing I was on mushrooms sobbing

ilysm♡︎

that's the only etienne i know! i like to imagine him as the first person, at least in recorded history, that even tried to conceptualize the temple of simulacrum's architecture. he was a visionary in that way to me. i imagine he must have felt so lonely, like noah building the ark. that song was my ode to him.

[rylandsgrace]

LILY-ROSE DEPP as ELLEN HUTTER

Nosferatu (2024) dir. Robert Eggers

[grillmasterdad]

I actually need Robert Eggers to make a proper adaptation of Phantom of The Opera because he would absolutely hit it out of the park and I'd actually pass away/levitate up to heaven-

[magdalette]

yes yes orlok as the grotesque manifestation of ellen’s hideous lust, monsterfucking blah blah blah. Hot.

But thomas… the lover that witnesses.. accepts… soothes… He saw her at her most depraved and still held her… you guys. He was the only other person who had *seen* what she saw in her dreams. He was there in that castle… was inflicted by orlok’s perversions. In the flesh. Still he made it home. Then he watched her, frothing at the mouth and shaking in demonic fury, to then crawling and begging at his waist for mercy, then a moment laters she’s looking up at him with the very devil in her eyes and tongue… and still, he held her! As she truly sobbed. He told her it was okay, that he had seen it too. Continued to love her as his woman, descend to hell and destroy the demon for her. And Ellen loved him too! She says she felt he was sent to her, made her feel normal and okay. Her salvation. A love that feels like depollution… to be so inspired by your love for somebody that for them you go, willing, to the altar as a sacrificial lamb. Her love for him gave her purpose! I love them… not orlok nor any contract could ever dissolve the bond between them.

[saintatreidess]

i’m haunted. ellen felt so lonely and traumatised as a child that she cried and begged for comfort and love, for a reassuring presence in her life, anything to give her some company. and she wanted this so desperately that from the darkness lying within her she ended up summoning the manifestation of evil, a literal demon.