Death by exile

Rita Hayworth as Elsa Bannister in The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

if you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. in this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. this is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three baudelaire youngsters. violet, klaus, and sunny baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair. i’m sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes.

Keanu Reeves, 1980s

findme-oceans–away, 12:20am Wednesday, September 6, 2017 (via bloodydifficult)

Chungking Express (Kar Wai Wong, 1994)

pride and prejudice / faceless

“A very powerful uneasy feeling came over me… I turned and looked. I saw myself. I saw myself from long ago, in the old Philadelphia offices, listening to Cooper telling me he was worried about a dream he had.”

↳ klaus baudelaire, the researcher

Mulholland Drive (2001) Dir. David Lynch

Gregory Peck aged 19.

Dorothy Comingore in Citizen Kane directed by Orson Welles, 1941

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Alone with the Sea Nell Dorr, 1929

                   ∟we all have to decide how much sin we can live with.