my love is the killing kind

Touching the Void.

Searching for cinema that soothes? Ella Kemp suggests it could be as simple as looking for a film poster with a white background.

How many weeks has it been? When did any of us last go blindly into a cinema and take a chance on something new? Film-watching in the time of Covid-19 has changed. The immediate and never-ending news of the world is frightening. Is it still, and more than ever, okay for me to sink into movies to alleviate my mood, just for a bit? How is that even possible when the world has come to a standstill?

We are forced to adapt, and it has taken some time for my attention span and emotional capacity to adjust. But I think I might have found a solution, and I have the meticulous list-makers of Letterboxd to thank. It was Izzy’s list of comfort movies that first lit the fuse. Specifically, the second, third and fourth row; films including Billy Elliot, Clueless, School of Rock.

Fifteen stark posters, speaking one truth: We are vulnerable and nervous. What we need is a film poster with a white background to assure us the movie exists entirely to serve and soothe us.

Part of Izzy’s ‘comfort movies’ list.

List-making on Letterboxd has never been more prolific. Pandemic movies, overdue filmography catch-ups, comfort movies galore. Everyone categorizes and logs their watches differently, but Izzy’s pattern speaks to me with an epiphanic answer. I’ve always admired successful color-coding, but now I see its crucial function.

Everything I did, I did for the Rebellion. And every time I walked away from something I wanted to forget, I told myself it was for a cause that I believed in. A cause that was worth it. Without that, we’re lost. Everything we’ve done would have been for nothing. I couldn’t face myself if I gave up now. None of us could.

Alright, folks, there are a lot of people in my inbox right now talking about time travel and talking about it is just CONFUSING, so I created some visuals with some explanations as I understand it, so let’s go through this together.

This is Steve’s natural timeline:

But then Steve goes back in time!

By the Russos explanation, this is what we have now:

A divergent timeline! EXCEPT???

Thanos turns to dust in 2023. That has specific connotations within the universe, which means the only logical explanation to divine from it is that he is killed rather than sent back to his own time.

The timeline from 2014 onward should collapse. There’s no more 2014!Thanos! But if it DOES collapse, he never traveled to the future to be killed, because there is no “future” to travel to!

But if it DOESN’T collapse, there’s no past!Thanos to create the Gauntlet, thus no Snap, and therefore no reason to time travel in the FIRST place. You having fun yet, gang???

But wait! There’s more!

WHERE IS THE STEVE FROM THE ORIGINAL TIMELINE?

If we have a divergent timeline, there should be 3 different Steves from 1970 onward:

1) The one in the ice 2) The one who stays, creating the divergent timeline 3) The one who doesn’t stay and goes back to his original time

THAT IS HOW THE MULTI-VERSE WORKS.

And then, what??? The other!Steve just casually reality-jumps to the original 2023–which should not even exist anymore!!!–to hand over the shield and be like, “BYE BITCHES I DUN LIVED MY LIFE”?

DIRECTORS:

https://ew.com/movies/2019/04/30/avengers-endgame-russo-brothers-captain-america/

So, has Cap been living in the past this whole time — or did he go and live in another dimension?

The directors say it’s the latter.

“If Cap were to go back into the past and live there, he would create a branched reality,” Joe explained. “The question then becomes, how is he back in this reality to give the shield away?”

The brothers smile.

“Interesting question, right?” Joe said. “Maybe there’s a story there. There’s a lot of layers built into this movie and we spent three years thinking through it, so it’s fun to talk about it and hopefully fill in holes for people so they understand what we’re thinking.”

WRITERS:

The Russo Brothers were recently quoted as saying that Steve Rogers lived his life out in an alternate past before returning to the original timeline to pass the shield and mantle of Captain America on to Sam Wilson. Markus, however, doesn’t seem to agree with the “alternate reality” theory as he dubs it.

“That is our theory,” he says when asked if there were two Captain Americas in existence for a time. “We are not experts on time travel, but the Ancient One specifically states that when you take an Infinity Stone out of a timeline it creates a new timeline. So Steve going back and just being there would not create a new timeline. So I reject the “Steve is in an alternate reality” theory.“

You mean to tell me that they’ve been working on this for literal years and nobody’s in agreeance as to what the fuck happened?

Also, Markus said, “There are 2 Steve Rogers’ from 1948 to now.”

Are you goddamn serious? Where the fuck does that year come into play?

So, fine, okay. You want me to believe that after Steve was done replacing the Infinity Stones (and Mjolnir) in time, he decided to jump farther back than 1970 rather than going forward.

You did clue me into what year it might be with that glimpse of the car from the street in front of Peggy’s house, so I’m inclined to forgive you this one, even though you left it ambiguously enough that arguments are still popping up.

But I’ll play ball. Fine, Steve went back further instead of going home to the future.

If that’s the case, then why the fuck didn’t he go back to 1945 and meet Peggy for their date at the Stork Club? Can you tell me that, guys?

You mean to tell me that he went to 1948, knowing goddamn well that Peggy Carter had mourned his death and was probably just beginning to move on by that point, and he just opens that wound again by showing up on her doorstep?

i hate it so much

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