Wanderlust & other inadvertantly strange charms

Florence + The Machine, Nerdy Things, Journalling, and Creative Writing are just a few things you'll find here. Just Keep Following the Heartlines on Your Hand!

[love]

The Tree of Life (2011) dir. Terrence Malick

[mylovelylittleobsessions]

Okay, but y’all are sleeping on the novelization

[the-philosopher-daily]

Has anyone read Roger Ebert’s review of Goncharov (1973)? It is incredible!

“I couldn’t believe my eyes that by the end of the film, I was in awe of what I watched. Never have I seen a film that upon one watch of the film did it seem like a hell of a fun ride of a mafia film with stunning performances all around, but that had a lot of nuance that is readily available for critics like me and film students working on their PhD’s to sink their teeth into. The symbolism between the apple, time, jewelry, children, playing, horses, etc. alone is enough to feel like the film is a treasure map with our eponymous protagonist being the ‘X’ where the treasure lies. And what treasure is that you might ask? Perhaps it is the regret we hold as the choices we have previously made create a world around us that dictates us to continue to make those same decision. Perhaps it is the longing for a chance to start over, to actually do something meaningful that we have purposefully chosen for once. Perhaps instead it is just a damn good movie with shoot outs, subversive sexual tension, and a broken watch. Either way, this is a film that will go down for generations as that one film that everyone will remember changed cinema forever, along the likes of Citizen Kane, The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, and right their next to them will be Goncharov, lighting a cigarette wanting to rest after a life of crime in Naples.”

[the-philosopher-daily]

Okay but in Goncharov can we please talk about the scene where they arrive in Naples at the beginning and they see the children playing around the clock tower?! I know the clock tower is important but also the children playing by it. Children are another level to the film especially with Jodie Foster being there, which has already been talked about enough. Yes, we do have the interchange of how Goncharov thinks about how it would be nice if they had children and Katya shrugs it off, maybe not quite like “oh no, never”, but she certainly doesn’t give him any hope that their domesticity outside of the mafia will be able to be solidified.

Not to mention that kids are just constantly running around whenever Goncharov starts to think settling down would be nice, except when?! When the nanny tells the children to leave, when?! WITH THE SCENE WITH THE APPLE AND ANDREY! It seems like Goncharov wants the domestic life but it isn’t until we start to get a bit of a climax (pun intended) with G&A that we see the children start to leave, meaning he was doomed from the start of he did have his homoerotic fantasy with Andrey. If they did he would be pulled right back to the mobster life, which Katya also denies him and is pulling strings about too. He might be a bit of a flat character but he is certainly more dynamic as a tragic one in that all he wants to do is settle down and get what he wants, but he’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. Not to mention there’s a whole Adam/Eve and procreation subtext going on. It all puts a new spin onto shooting blanks in the film if you ask me.

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requested by disco-tea 

[beelzeebub]

Goncharov (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese

“The greatest mafia movie (n)ever made.”

[stay-close]

“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”

— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

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HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE

MAKE A WISH

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date of origin: 2013

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Florence + the Machine; How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

insta // overvhelmd

[valtsv]

i don't WANT to live in a society i want to live in a bookstore cafe

[givemearmstopraywith]

dante gabriel rossetti + joan of arc // 100 years by florence + the machine (x) (x)

[tea-withnofixinsplease]

Cloud atlas is one of those movies where you wonder wtf is going on for 20 whole minutes, but by the end...you're deeply touched. pondering your own mortality, while questioning the duality of your significance and unsignificance in the universe. You may not be destined to be some grand savior, but you can be a savior to someone...whether it be a hand extended in kindness, caring for someone deeply and unashamedly, or an individual in an army of rebels...we are all just drops in the ocean, but what is an ocean but a collection of drops.

[freshbrewedlife]

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nighthawks by edward hopper (1942) // no choir by florence + the machine (x)

[theegabbsterr]

I am the orchestra

The conductor too

My heart is a concert hall

And I filled it with you

[skyfullofsong]

Light of Love by Florence Welch (posted by Leanna Jansen)

[florentineghosts]

No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone.