THE BEAR (2022-) + IMDb Trivia

Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902), "A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie" (detail), 1866

Maggie Gyllenhaal in Mona Lisa Smile (2003) dir. Mike Newell

 Jenna Ortega and Sabrina Carpenter behind the scenes of  'TASTE' music video

Inside Out 2 if it was filmed inside my head

“my mother & i” - lucy dacus // “eight bites” - carmen maria machado, her body & other parties

Knives Out (2019) Glass Onion (2022)

+ the last shot

anne boyer “the harm will come: it never doesn’t” / julia armfield “to watch a horror movie is to know that something bad is going to happen. to have a body is really the same thing” / hilary mantel “we don’t have to invite pain in, it’s waiting for us: sooner rather than later” / marie howe “you know how we’ve been waiting for the big pain to come? I think it’s here. I think this is it. I think it’s been here all along” / gregory orr “I want to go back to the beginning. we all do. I think: hurt won’t be there. but I’m wrong” / toni morrison “the hurt was always there” / torrey peters “pain that had to be endured, withstood, pain that was the same as being alive, and so without end”

What am I, Jesus? ZENDAYA as TASHI DUNCAN CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

[id: a photo of Toni Morison, with her quote across it, which reads “it’s not possible to constantly hold onto crisis. You have to have the love and you have to have the magic. That’s also life.” End id]

They wouldn’t be trying so hard to keep us from our joy if joy were not liberation.