#olalla

[folditdouble]

Women in Film Challenge 2025: [80/52] Olalla, dir. Amy Hesketh (Bolivia, 2015)

You’re a monster. In time, you will understand. The pain helps.

[katuschka]

As I'm slowly getting ready for my Christmas trip next week, it made me think about Olalla today.

We're in the middle of the story timeline, so it's safe to say that quite a lot of things I imagined while writing it are quite different now. For example, Josh didn't wear beads in his hair this past summer, there is not going to be a snowstorm in Zakopane next Monday (according to the forecast), Russia probably won't attack Poland in a few months (hey, that's actually good!) and Agnieszka would never accept Jake's proposal because it would mean she'd have to hand over her laptop, social number, family tree, a stool sample and Maya's period calendar just to try to get an ESTA... But hey, it's fiction, right?

[seabeck]

Reflections

[invisible-woe]

it's been a while since i've read Olalla but i think a very interesting contrast can be found between her, who rejects her family's vampirism and savagery despite her inability to escape it and saves the man she loves by pushing him far away from her, and Carmilla, who seems to be more or less the sole survivor of her kin and who indulges in all sorts of affairs that end in the consumption of her lovers. Vampirism runs in the family but Olalla doesn't exhibit its traits: she is nurturing, restrained, honest, self-sacrificing. while Carmilla is almost hedonistic in the way she builds these complex schemes, making up new identities each time and essentially playing with her food, deceiving it, loving it, devouring it little by little. love that can save and love that can doom, the martyr and the predator.

[dollartreelobotomy]

Olalla Pioneer Cemetery

📍Olalla, WA

[picklepie888]

I've seen people posting about how funny it would be if Jonathan Harker were the protagonist of Frankenstein or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Now I really want a series that's just Jonathan being insirted into various classic Gothic stories and writing his thoughts on the events in his journal. It would literally be the most hilarious thing ever, like:

Frankenstein

"Today I had come upon the most peculiar looking man. He appears to be roughly two and a half meters tall, deathly miscoloured skin, and the gleam of utter turmoil in his eyes. And I just found him lying in the streets. When I gathered the courage to approach him, he spoke profusely to me, as he claims most people are too afraid of him to willingly converse. Anyways, we had a lovely conversation about his father and his pure disdain for the man-"

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

"Yesterday evening while I was walking the streets of London, I witnessed the most unnerving sight. A rather small man beating a larger man with his cane. It was completely ill-mannered of that man to act with such violence, and his cane snapped in half during the deed! How is he to walk now?! (Mem. I must ask my friend Dr. Jekyll about this peculiar man.)"

Olalla

"For this past month I had stayed with this kind, but rather strange family. Aside from the mother, who mainly stays in her bed and never eats, her son who continually plays with dead animals and grovels at my feet like a dog, and the daughter of the house who keeps insisting I leave, I'm having a lovely time here. Anyways, let me tell you about the food-"

The Picture of Dorian Gray

"I came across a stunningly hansome young man today. Perhaps the most handsome man I've ever laid my eyes upon. But he was much rather rude when I spoke to him. His forehead was drenched in sweat, his eyes dilated and panicked, and his voice trembled in rage and fear insisting that I leave him be. By the way he was acting you'd think he commited murder. I suppose the lesson I got from this little encounter is that beauty is skin deep. (Mem. Must remind Mina of how beautiful a person she is.)

[craqueluring]

Robert Louis Stevenson, Olalla (1885) / NBC Hannibal (2013-2015)

[aftout]

I feel like they’d love to say Season’s Greasons