L'AMICA GENIALE — ELENA FERRANTE ↳ a special poster for the wonderful and brilliant jo ( @dylanlila ) <33
Nicola Coughlan I Beauty Secrets I Vogue
Axel Schovelin (Danish, 1827–1893) - View of Frederiksborg Castle and the lake on a summer day
The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante / Gaia Girace as Raffaella Cerullo in L'amica Geniale / Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, Jennifer Lynch / Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with me, David Lynch
i've come to realize there are only two kinds of tragedies: preventable and inevitable. preventable tragedies are the kind where everything could have maybe worked out if only. if only romeo had gotten the second letter. if only juliet had woken up earlier. if only creon had changed his mind about antigone sooner. if only orpheus hadn't turned around.
inevitable tragedies are the kind where everything was always going to end terribly. of course macbeth gets deposed, he murdered his way to the throne. of course oedipus goes mad, he married his own mother. of course achilles dies in the war, he had to fulfill the prophecy in order to avenge his lover.
both kinds have their merits. the first is more emotionally impactful, letting the audience cling to hope until the very end, when it's snatched away all at once leaving nothing but a void. the second is more thematically resonant, tracking an inherent fatal flaw in its hero to a natural and understandable conclusion, making it abundantly clear why everything has to happen the way it does.
Uncredited Photographer Young Member of the French Anti-fascist Resistance 1944