It can't rain all the time!

I talked about it before, when I talked about Eric’s makeup and how it represents his place in the story , mentality , as well as the literal process/stages of grief.

I’ve said it a million times but I love how each crow’s makeup means something so deeply personal and connected to them as a being/when they were alive. It’s absolutely everything. Alex being the acceptation , his are burns and not actually makeup at all.

Eric’s makeup is inspired by the Drama masks kept up in Shelly and his home/apartment. Something interesting I just recently learned is that in the comic Eric never actually paints his face white. It’s only the black he does- his face is naturally that white because he’s dead and much more, corpse like.

There’s a detail to them I love which I haven’t seen anyone else bring up in that, in the comic the Masks haunt Eric through the whole story. They are always there in the background, still hanging on the wall in their house. In the same room. Always looming over where he sits, where he stands, where he trains. Eric doesn’t tend to move from room to room … it’s to painful. In times he does he finds himself completely lost in grief, pain, and anger. So he returns to the same room with the masks over him. The masks in the comic are actually 3 (there’s only one really in the movie). There’s nothing to stand out to them besides being regular comedy masks but it’s the fact that it’s the three in particular. Anger, joy, sorrow. Which are the three emotion’s he finds himself in a constant cycle of (spoke on more in my shattered mind post). 

Something else I think that strikes it even harder is I believe the masks to be Shelly’s. This part is purely speculation on my end. But it’s their presence, when they first become prominent is when they’re painting and Shelly’s being much more optimistic on home renovation. She strikes me as the “how do I have a cute apartment when my boyfriend lives with me? Don’t let him have a word in it, don’t tell him anything. Hell know about it when it arrives.” Vibes. Eric let’s her do it as she has a better sense of design. It’s just the way he will hold a mask, how he looks at them- how he modeled his look after them.