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Has this been done yet

Where Simon challenges The Father. Because!!! It shows he is smart, he’s always been smart. He challenges authority when it he doubts what they are saying.

Do you know how dangerous a doubting child in a cult is??

The Father laughs like he likes the question and that’s the trick because Cults hate questions and doubts and independent thinkers- but they pretend to love questions.

Especially from new members. Simon is a new member (came from Mars- that one conversation with his mother “I don’t want to go- Simon don’t be like that.”) They love to answer questions from new members because it offers them a chance to nip any doubt in the bud, answer with absolutes and half-answers and usually end in humiliating or tearing down the person who asked the question. Not to get personal on main but trust me. You just see their teeth sharpen when you admit to a doubt or ask a question as a kid. They’ll make you feel stupid for asking and if you keep not understanding their half answers (asking more questions) they will get angry at you for persisting.

That’s why I headcanon that Simon has always been a doubter- especially with his monologue later about “what’s more likely? The stars disappeared or a few space stations?” (Paraphrasing) but it’s a very difficult and painful life for a doubting child growing up in a quite literally inescapable cult. But doubting doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t listen. Doubting doesn’t mean he didn’t fall for the dogma. He can still doubt and be their Butcher. They made him a solider, they made him loyal, and just because he privately thought it was all horse shit doesn’t mean he didn’t learn to not to challenge authority (that he still struggles with). That the belief sank into him like thorns, that he can’t help but feel a religious reverence for the seed despite hating what they did in the name of the Last Tree.

I'm still in awe of how these two films perfectly harmonize with each other. I've matched a few frames, and just look at how similar it looks! (I created a complete version and individual ones, if someone needs separate pictures)

Can you find me? 🌑🩸

Here is a (somewhat) tutorial i made, hopefully it can be of help to any of you

tbh idk what im doing 90% of the time this was really hard to make

Tut below!

Nolan wanted Mark to see how indestructible he was compared to humans, how his body destroys and perseveres, refuses to die. Mark was forced to feel just how much pain and suffering he inflicted, the same pain and suffering he will never have to fear.

For Nolan, Mark’s body NEEDS to be used as a weapon, because that’s how he thinks of himself, an extension of the empire, not a person. If Nolan resists the empire, he will die, so he has to open Mark’s eyes to the kind of strength he truly has, to the weapon and the tool he is for the empire, lest the empire gets to him first.