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[scullyillume]

Here's the thing about William telling Victor that he is actually the monster. It's not just about the line. It's about the delivery of the line. It's about the utter tiredness and defeat in William's voice. It's about it not being a realization for him.

What William is saying is "I've known. I have always known. We have always known, and yet we have loved you, and we have helped you"

What does it say about you that no love was ever enough to fill you? What does it say about you that we loved you in your monstrosity, and you can't love your own walking reflection?

[scullyillume]

I did end up writing that mirror analysis, and it is long enough without me going into too much detail. But know that I know that Claire and Elizabeth being played by the same actor, thus falling in doppelganger territory, is also a mirror.

Anyway, here's the mirror analysis ft. Jacques Lacan:

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💬 2  🔁 17  ❤️ 72 · The long awaited, has been haunting me in my sleep, mirror analysis of Frankenstein 2025! One of my favorite psychoanaly

[scullyillume]

It is 11 pm on a monday, and I just pushed myself through watching Return to Silent Hill, so my neurons are not firing up properly to quite analyze the blatant omisions the movie made in favor of painting James as a victim and a bystander of it all.

But the movie makes it clear from the moment you see the poster, and it is him looking through a crack in the wall, that he was having no acting role in this. Plus, the constant dropping of his "weapons", the hiding, it all works to lessen his active role in literally everything happening around him.

I know for a fact that the director/one of the writers *knows* the themes of the game because he used them on his first Silent Hill movie. It was a choice to ignore so many of them in favor of writing this new narrative in which the one at fault is the town itself.

[scullyillume]

Maybe we use "altered my brain chemistry" a little too much, there's no wa-

My brain: hey, remember when Umberto Eco said that while you can have a reading that the author did not intend, you must support it with enough evidence so it can hold?

me, thinking about how butterflies can feed on corpses and blood, and how that connects to Edith finding the Sharpe's secrets *and* to her being drawn to them: ...yeah, why

[zarstarss]

whats cooking good looking

[tennesseewillams]

sucks so unbelievably bad that you can’t just like be a lady’s maid anymore. there used to be a job that consisted of taking care of one woman’s every need every day for your whole life including dressing and undressing her and living with her and that was a normal thing to do in fact it was encouraged.

[scullyillume]

I never thought that the way I played games was weird until a friend pointed out that it was.

Basically, I am not the pov character, I am next to them guiding their actions. Missed shot? That is on me. You got hurt? Oh, I am so sorry, honey, we'll get you healed up in a mo'. You died because you weren't able to dodge that hit? That is my fault, baby, I should've been faster. I will avenge you, and take care of you.

No matter what the game's guidelines for a good run are, mine is to have my characters die the least amount of times possible. I am the most stressed guardian angel, and I chose this job. For fun.

[homosexualpigeon]

If I was Spock I’d just lie and pretend I was going through Pon Far. Yeahhhh Jim you’re gonna have to fuck me raw :( it’s a life or death situation I’m sorry :(

[scullyillume]

Just watched Obsession, and I may go down the analysis rabbit hole later as I have been doing. My first semi-spoiler free thought 10 minutes in, tho, was:

"Why wouldn't you use it for the cat? I wou- oh, is this how we get a Pet Semantary situation?"

[akiragatr]

Tumblr is super big on the "I didn't say it was good, I said I liked it" but really need to discover the value in its opposite of "I didn't say it was bad, I said I hated it".

You can acknowledge that something is good, great, a masterpiece even, and just straight-up not enjoy it.

[scullyillume]

A detail that I wish the movie included is that there is a gun somewhere on the ship.

And I know what you're thinking. Chekhov's gun, the gun introduced needs to be fired by the end of the story; that never happens in this story. So you, the reader, aware that this is a story, keep thinking about it.

Grace never talks about it, never mentions it, it only ever comes up in a flashback. He thinks about using Ilyukhina's heroine, and he obviously uses Dubois' nitrogen, but he specifically never mentions Yao's gun. Even when thinking about dying, he usually says that he will starve; that is slow, and painful, and why would he do that if he has another choice? And yet, he doesn't bring it up. The only person who might be thinking about it is the reader.

The thoughts "there is a gun on the ship," and "Grace is going to die" are constantly dangling over the story. Every time something happens, you may think "this is it" whether about the gun going off or about Grace dying.

And the gun doesn't go off, and Grace doesn't die.

Even in the end, the ship is still out there, in orbit, and the gun is still on the ship, and Grace will die one day, but that doesn't matter right now. The gun is on the ship, but Grace is not. He is alive and he is home.

[scullyillume]

One of the things that I am still thinking about is that, in the book, Grace says that him and Rocky were able to translate his own name, but not Rocky's.

Which means that they had to have a conversation defining the term "grace" so Ryland could get a word for his name.

And, sure, it's funny that this awkward blob is called "grace" if you take the usual meaning. But grace is also kindness and nobility. And, over time, I think of Rocky seeing the friend who sentenced himself to starve for him, and realize that it does make sense.

[local-confused-lesbian]

Ethan Winters, when I catch you.

[scullyillume]

-Jack Baker

[scullyillume]

Glad that, even if the movie removed Grace horrified that people think he's sleeping with Stratt, they still horrified *me* for a second by making me think they were going to sleep together

[hieragalbatorixdottir]

[scullyillume]

I would know them blind. And it is me recognizing the Wrath of Khan reference in Project Hail Mary when Grace says he almost places his hand against the division between him and Rocky when they both almost died.

[scullyillume]

Finishing Project Hail Mary (the book) two hours before sitting down to watch Project Hail Mary (the movie).

[velvetwar]

Can we just start stabbing Julius Caesar now it's been a hard week.