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Sullivan and his way of recovering

I promise I won't make any more sad gifs for a while, but ever since I first saw the series I've loved this part of his character. The fact that despite facing suffering both at work and in his personal life he always manages to be strong and appear so. I love the fact that every time he cries he allows himself just one tear before composing himself.

He goes to solve the murder of a rich white man in his home, and the dead man's Hispanic immigrant nurse has a spot of blood on her shoe. He says nothing. She actively fucks with the crime scene and destroys evidence. He does nothing. She gets into a full on police chase with an arsonist in the passenger's seat. He tells her it's ok and she needs to stop. She's a good person. She's nice. She has to stop. He'll fix it. He'll solve it. He proves the asshole rich nephew did it and immediately calls him out for his "ancestral home" that he got in the 80s from a Pakistani man. Because he researched. He calls all the rich people assholes at the end. He leaves Marta to her new fortune.

A new bunch of rich assholes go to a private island. A black woman tells him that one of them killed her sister, without an ounce of physical proof. He believes her anyway and he goes. He hates them so much. They're all rich and stupid and they think that they're smart and they're "disruptors". He hates them so much. One of them sexually harasses him. He still works to solve the case. He works with Helen to manipulate them all. He whimpers and starts to cry when he thinks she's been shot. He tells her to fake her death. He calls out the rich people. He finds the murderer. He gets a confession. The proof is destroyed. There is nothing else. He walks out, giving the black woman the tools to literally burn the place down. He smokes outside while the Mona Lisa burns.

A young priest genuinely wants to make a church better. Everyone thinks he's the killer. He is crying when Blanc meets him. He doesn't tell him that God loves him; he tells Blanc that the Bible is full of stories for them to learn from. This priest is different. He is also suspect number 1. He's kind of the only one who could have done it. Blanc lets him talk about knife robots. The priest tries to turn himself in. No one else could have done it, it must have been him. Benoit grabs him and shoves him out of the station so he doesnt. He stops the priest from confessing things he didn't do (or maybe he did) at every turn because he is a kind, loving, giving boy; the exact kind of Catholic he never saw growing up. The ones who blame the boy are all the kind he's used to. He will not let the one good priest he's ever seen go down that easy. He lies to the cops. He aids and abetts a wanted man. He lets him into crime scenes and he tells him to get down and shut up. He learns from him and lets him forgive the murderer because she was manipulated for 60 years. He lets her die at peace, understanding. Forgiven. He's usually angry. Mean towards the killers. He lets the priest be kind.

In Knives Out, a compassionate, ethical young woman treats everyone around her with generosity, and the people around her repeatedly try to take advantage of her kindness to force her into losing the fortune that was gifted to her by a dear friend. There, justice means that she keeps the fortune and decides that actually, she doesn't have to be kind and giving to people who've proven themselves assholes.

In Glass Onion, a woman loses her sister to a gang of wealthy, successful people who've sacrificed their principles for the sake of ambition and ego. There, justice means that everyone involved will be made notorious: whatever their other accomplishments, they will forever be known for being complicit in the burning of the most famous painting in history.

In Wake Up Dead Man, the church takes advantage of a young girl's loyalty and faith to place her under a lifelong burden and fill her with guilt, shame, and hatred. Justice means helping her understand what was done to her and the women around her, and giving her compassion so she can find peace.

This is cool because it means the movies contradict each other! The compassionate justice of Wake Up Dead Man would be totally misplaced in Knives Out, and so would the toppling-monuments justice of Glass Onion. And because each movie has something different to say, they all stand on their own and feel fresh.

can we talk about how this was the FIRST time that sullivan praised him like EVER? and look at that happy proud smile on his face! HE'S! SO! DAMN! HAPPY! HE'S BEAMING! FUCK! 😭😭😭 and those dimples! 😭✨

BOOTS 1.06 "The Things We Carry"

“What did i tell you about ghosts?”

Thank you so much @woodswallow for the request, I really hope you like it!💗

1.01 “The Pink Marine”

1.08 “The Crucible”