okay but the passage of time and how owen is played by two different actors but maddy isn't. maddy is the one who runs headfirst towards who she is, even though it scares her. owen at first is growing, is changing, but once he refuses to leave with maddy he stagnates. and so even twenty years later he still is his high school self. he never grows and changes and becomes isabel, and so he stays the same.
BRIGETTE LUNDY-PAINE as MADDY I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024) dir. Jane Schoenbrun
the thing is that i saw the tv glow i am in the eighth grade sending grown men grainy photos of my rib cage my bedroom has no doors so i can never close ‘em i paint the ceiling black so i don’t notice when my eyes are open and also when you really think about it i think i was born bored i think i was born blue i think i was born wanting more i think i was born already missing you but my heart is like a claw machine its only function is to reach it can’t hold on to anything no i can’t hold on to anything
so you’re telling me that after what happened to louella/lou lou haymitch had to watch peeta come back from the capitol as a “mutt version of himself” and question whether the shell of a human with peeta’s face was even peeta at all
and he had to do all that SOBER???
Hadestown is the best take on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, because all over the internet I see people say, "You're not supposed to think of how he could have succeeded! That misses the total point of the story. Everyone was doomed and there was no way anything could have worked out alright. If you're imagining a scenario that didn't end in tragedy, you're just an arrogant fool. Just shut up and be sad about it"
But Hadestown says, "please please please think of how it could have been. Orpheus would have never looked back if he just had hope, please have hope, he would have wanted us to have hope. If you don't walk out of this theater thinking of how it could have been, we have failed you. go have hope, go see the world in the way it could be, so help us"
#the want #the thirst
WILLOW (2022-2023) | 1x08 "Children of the Wyrm"
in honor of me seeing one (1) post about this movie, here's some old art I made immediately after viewing it. transition or die.
[click for better quality good lord || also my review for the movie under the cut]
what if you were POOR and then you got a GIRLFRIEND who was always SINGING and then she DUMPED YOU and then you got elected PRESIDENT and then some district 12 rando ALSO HAD A GIRLFRIEND THAT SINGS and then he tries to BLOW UP YOUR CHILD DEATH ARENA and then ANOTHER district 12 rando can SING AND BLOWS UP YOUR CHILD DEATH ARENA and then she doesn’t SHOOT YOU but you still DIED
something about these overly specific genres of character
guys i did something