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It had come to that.
y’all.
conservatives here are losing their minds over the morality play that literally has a man choking on his bitterness rather than giving Grace her due.
i’m losing my mind, it’s beyond parody, holy shiiiittttttt.
I love the joke that Jud Duplenticy is just Judas Duplicitous with extra steps, and I know Jud’s full name in canon probably is just Jud, but in my personal headcanon his full first name is Judas, named not for Judas Iscariot, betrayer, but St. Judas Thaddeus, patron saint of lost causes.
jud put up with a ton of shit before stirring a very stirrable pot but we have to admit he stirred that pot with impeccable talent. one plea for honesty 4 dead entire church injured
who else notices the young straight women without boyfriends or sons who need something to project their gender essentialism on to so they're out here being weird about their male cats
"only girls with boy cats will understand 🩷" and its just a video of a cat being affectionate to its owner...girl that is just a cat and he loves you because he is your cat and not because he is a boy. you also removed his balls so any hormone that would make him any biologically different from a female cat is missing from his body. that is a eunich and he loves you because you pet him and give him yummy meal. not because he has a penis
I put this in the tags but I feel this is very important: cats are individuals and can be mean or affectionate regardless of sex. However, the stereotype of male cats (especially neutered ones) being more affectionate LITERALLY LEADS TO FEMALE CATS STAYING IN SHELTERS LONGER.
Your gender essentialism is so bad it is affecting animals getting homes. Please unlearn this so that we can have a better world for all creatures.
Download Table | Comparison of Average Length of Stay (Days) of Male and Female Cats and Kittens Among Age Categories from publication: Age,
In my life I have had 4 cats - 2 male, 2 female, all fixed. If anything, my most affectionate cats have been my 2 female cats but everyone one of them has been sweet and lovely and the best kitties ever. Adopt all cats!
I can’t stop thinking about the final act of Wake Up Dead Man
This movie said there are two sides to religion, one has been used to stoke anger and justify horrid cruelties. And the other is community, and a source of love and support. And they’re both equally true. And we can accept that truth of one aspect without denying the other.
Benoit, an older gay man, clearly has distrust and trauma linked to religion, and we can surmise that religion has been used as a weapon against him. And at the end of the movie he is not converted, the harm done to him has not been forgiven, or healed. But he is still altered by his connection with father Jud. By his grace and forgiveness, and love for sinners.
The traditional third act of a detective story, involves our detectives acting as righteous arbiters of justice as they unravel the mysteries before them. But in the middle of this familiar tableau Benoit stops.
He stands up there, with all his righteous fury, he has taken up the pulpit and stepped into the place formerly held by Monsignor Wicks. But in this moment he decides to make another choice. To give grace to a dying woman, and allow her to find peace.
How does it make me feel? Truthfully?
ok i’m glad that Wake Up Dead Man is helping non-religious people to empathise more with believers but there’s still a fundamental disconnect between how some people understand religious belief. i’m seeing a lot of posts about how Wicks represents people manipulating religion for their own agenda (true) while Fr Jud represents people “using religion to do good”. but the thing is, no Christian views the faith as merely an instrument to do good, and neither does Fr Jud. his faith in God came first, and his love for the people is the natural result of his love for God.
and it’s the same for Christianity in general. Christians don’t “need a god to tell us to do good” as is so often accused. faith in God is supposed to amplify the desire to love and sacrifice for people because we realise they are made in His image. and we are called to do this the way Christ calls us to—even when it’s difficult, when our first instinct is to ignore them (e.g Jud praying for the woman over the phone)
anyway— 1 John 19: We love, because he first loved us.
nobody in that church mentioning a goddamn thing about the lack of Mary the blessed virgin the woman among women ANYWHERE in the church or the sermons is so telling.
Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude in name only. The bedrock being a story of a woman scorned and villainizing her. the church technically being saved by a woman killing a man who perpetuated this hate for an innocent girl. All the women in the story becoming free from the misogyny of the church by leaving one way or another. Jud renaming it to Our Lady of Perpetual Grace both in memorium of the poor girl and a push for forgiveness and open arms and not a battle-ready mindset. Kindness being a traditionally feminine associated trait and Wicks rejecting it. Benoit learning to accept it near the end.
Grace of course meaning grace. Vera meaning faith. Simone meaning to listen. Martha meaning the lady of the house. Our Lady of Grace. Martha being the lady of the house, formerly Perpetual Fortitude, now Perpetual Grace. Learning to forgive instead of dying with the hatred in her heart. Rian Johnson i am in your walls.
"what do i do?" "what you were born to do, be her priest." telling an ex boxer junkie street kid that actually he was born to be a guide for people he was BORN to be the good priest he is he doesn't have to strive for it he already IS that priest and jud only proves that by listening to martha w no judgement by saying "that poor girl" and MEANING IT by getting martha to forgive grace and let her hatred go in her last moments by crying when she passed fuckkkk
Marta 🤝 Helen 🤝 Jud
I want you to remember something that's very important. You won, not by playing the game Harlan's way...but yours. You're a good person. There’s nothing I can do. Except maybe… offer you some courage. And a reminder of why your sister walked away in the first place. My revelation came from...from Father Jud. His example to have grace. Grace for my enemy. Grace for the broken. Grace for those who deserve it the least. But who need it the most. For the guilty.
i'm thinking about the pulpit in "wake up deadman", as someone who was raised catholic that is not what pulpits look like. i've definitely seen gaudier ones but that one is very unusual and stood out to me immediately. another striking and out of place detail is the eagle on the pulpit. eagles are not super common in symbolism in catholicism either, at least not in my experience.
where eagles are common symbols is in american nationalism. i think that the pulpit represents the shift in american christianity, christian values have become synonymous with nationalism, there is barely a line of separation of church and state in america anymore. american values and christian values are meant to be one in the same.
but. but the fact remains that the church is without a cross. the ship is posed away from the cross. american nationalism and modern christian values are steering us further away from God and His teachings.
this movie is absolutely phenomenal.
Not to put on my filmbro meta analysis hat on here but watching the knives out trilogy shows how front and centre right wing radicalism has become in the last 6 years. In every movie, there is one character who is the chronically online right wing man, but he seems to increase in importance each time.
In knives out, Jacob is the character defined by his right wing views. However, he is a child, he experiences pushback on his views from his family (even if it's somewhat performative) and is often the butt of the joke. He isn't shown directly influencing anyone, he is only seen engaging in petty online fights in niche spaces. Although the film acknowledges that his views are bad, and they are reflecting in the world around him (with the looming threat throughout around Marta's family being deported in a conservative world hostile to immigrants) they are not the key themes of the Thrombleys or the movie, more commenting on the ingenuity of the rich which applies to all of the Thrombleys, whether they took the left or right leaning side of the argument around immigration in that scene.
In Glass Onion, we find the character reflecting right wing radicalism is no longer a young boy who is dismissed, but a man who has a sizeable following online. Duke (I personally feel and might not be the intention of the story) is what Jacob could become when he has grown up, unchecked in his beliefs and resentment towards women (who were the primary people in his family pushing against his right wing radicalism) with money and a platform to spread these ideas that were once fringe into the mainstream. He utilises this money and influence from Miles to push this agenda, but we do not see the fallout that comes from that. Duke is also the butt of the joke for quite a few scenes he's in, he's seen by Blanc to be overcompensating for everything with his gun to not wearing masks, and even his friends, equally out of touch rich weirdos comment on his behaviour. Right wing radicalism in glass onion has been brought into the mainstream and is being invested in by the rich, however it is still seen as a joke by others. It's still something to make fun of without consequence, and the impact of this new acceptance of right wing influencers dominating so much of the political space online has not been fully felt yet as it is a phenomena only just beginning to become a dangerous problem.
Finally, in wake up dead man, we feel the fallout of right wing radicalism in local communities and regular people swept up in a craze that had been introduced into the mainstream by the rich who had control over the media they consumed whether they liked it or not. Right wing radicalism in wake up dead man is not a character, or the butt of a joke, but a fully fledged, pervasive, deadly problem that is the centre of the story. These ideas of the world being against them, the "woke agenda" was peddled by both Jacob and Duke in the previous movies, but here we see the effect this has when radicalism isn't just accepted, it's the norm. They go to Wicks' sermons expecting this rhetoric, they expect it to be received well when they repeat it elsewhere like Cy, who believed the only way in politics was that fear mongering ragebait of right wing radicalism that Jacob was doing in comment sections in the first movie. It wasn't a joke anymore, it was the norm. Vulnerable people, who otherwise would have trusted their support system, modern medicine or the rights their ancestors fought for, now believed this was the only path. Because that was right wing radicalism is: scaring people into listening to you because any alternative is simply not viable anymore.
And that's how Wicks trapped his audience, based on the acceptance of those radical scare tactics peddled by Duke, which was indulging a child's personal ignorance enhanced by his own privilege. The knives out series is a really great way of showing how right wing radicalism has changed our political climate frighteningly fast over the past few years. I want everyone here to know it wasn't like this 6, 3 or even 1 years ago. That it's changed and can be changed again. Who was the young boy online for too long mocked by his family instead of having a support system to help him out of the radical right pipeline, turning into a bitter influencer repeating all the things he read as a child in Reddit and 4chan posts with the money behind him as his scare tactics work immensely well in the rich's favour, eventually becoming a borderline cult leader, manipulating and destroying the lives of those who follow him, and crushing everyone who dares disagree. Because his way is the only way to win, right?
Thanks for reading guys, I just had so many thoughts on the changing portrayal of the radical right in the knives out series I could write a whole paper. Forgive my yapping 🙏🙏
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So Wake Up Dead Man is out and I watched it tonight, here are my thoughts as someone who grew up Catholic (and my parents thoughts as current Catholics)
Eves Apple was really interesting to me. Specifically because in the Bible it's never said what fruit Eve eats (it's only ever referred to as the fruit of the tree of knowledge or the forbidden fruit.) To me this goes with the Wicks tendency to tell the Bibles stories in such a way that blames the world or encourages wrath, changing the stories to fit their prerogative. Calling it Eves Apple and attributing that guilt to her specifically and not 'humanities apple' or 'the forbidden apple' also goes with this, and shows how the faith is used as a thin veil to disguise the Wicks Priest's hatred.
I think this movie does a really good job at portraying the Catholic Faiths biggest issue, which is the church. We see that Wick goes manipulating the Bibles teachings to fit his view of the world rather than (like Father Jud) letting the Bibles stories and messages guide his views of the world. This is something that has happened a million times in Catholic history. We have bad priests, bad popes, bad bishops and bad cardinals who change the Bible to fit their mindset of what the world should believe in. Everyone here has probably seen the amount of inaccuracies in modern Bibles, but thats not a modern issue, thats something that is inherent to Christianity. Every translation, every new head of church, every new iteration of the bible has changes. Part of that is a good thing, times change and there are parts of the old bible that were products of its time rather than religious requirements, other parts however were twisted and changed because it didn't fit the narrative of people in power.
Benoit Blanc being both a proud heretic and respecting the Faith. So often I see people who aren't a part of the faith and are more progressive act hostile towards the faith. Now I understand why, the Church has done some heinous things and it's hard to not be cautious of it, I certainly am. However, Benoit Blanc shows us that you can both be a non believer who has bad memories of a faith and still be respectful to those who are genuine in their beliefs and who are not disrespectful to you. At the end when Benoit Blanc is invited to Mass, he respectfully declines. I love how he doesn't get angry with Father Jud for this by the way, people wanting to share their religion is often a kindness. If Father Jud had pushed it more times it would be disrespectful for him to ask again, but this is an offer given once which is declined and Jud accepts that. It's a perfect showcase of how a non believer can respectfully interact with faith and how a believer can respectfully interact with those who are not of the faith. With mutual respect, kindness, and understanding.
The background gags killed me. Blanc putting his hat on the Jesus statuette and Father Jud immediately and quietly taking it off was gold. This has nothing to do with religion I just thought it was funny
Father Jud is seriously the perfect Priest. I don't think people understand how rare that is. Like, he is kind, genuine, caring, and above all, relatable. He knows what it feels like to be a regular ass dude who has committed sin. So often pastors are these, "I am holier than thou" bastards who were raised in the faith and became priests as soon as they could. They don't know the struggle of someone who may grapple with every day issues because they don't have God on their mind 24/7. Priests like Father Jud are so important because they have empathy for all, they know the struggle someone goes through to admit their wrongdoings and try to reconcile. Thats rare, and its something the church really needs.
There is a distinct lack of Saint Mary imagery in the church. That is literally unheard of to us by the way. Mother Mary is, without a doubt, the most important figure that isn't God there is. The fact that such an important person isn't shown, likely because she is a woman that is all about forgiveness, is such a good choice for set design. Of course Wick wouldn't want her depicted, she was literally so pure that there was no way for Wick to manipulate her story into something that is unforgiving and full of hate. Thats just not something Mary is. Shes kind and forgiving and above all a woman who loves humanity despite all its pitfalls. And that is the absolute antithesis to Wick.