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collie parker called out for mcvries when he shot the soldier ☹️☹️☹️ the only other boy he thought would want to help him didnt ☹️☹️☹️ he took his own life so the soldiers couldnt take it from him ☹️☹️☹️ he tried to start a rebellion but the other boys just kept walking ☹️☹️

#reblogging again with your tags because they add so much#it's extra heartwrenching/kind of infuriating because pete eventually does attempt a revolutionary act by shooting the major!!!#he realizes the system cannot be changed from within and shoots the major out of love for ray but he couldn't find that will before#nobody could do that for collie#and maybe if pete had answered collie's call he'd never have had to lose ray in the first place#there's something there for sure#something very specific to indigeneity#collie parker#one of my friends once told me being indigenous & an activist is kinda like being a canary in a coal mine#only at least with canaries in coal mines ppl pay attention to the dead bird and change course#—#I had never heard that canaries in a coal mine expression but it does fit so well with this topic#and there is absolutely something there that it took Rays love and story to change Pete’s perspective to get him to go through w/ rebellion#that even though the system didn’t work for him before his childhood his parents passing the drunk uncle? the foster system#he still had some kind of hope in the world#constrasted with collie who kind of knew from the beginning that system doesn’t work#I haven’t read the book so idk and haven’t rewatched the film since my first watch but don’t we see collie spit at the cop that came to see#them walk? there is already a hatred for this system an urge to rebel perhaps already planned#or at least thought about before that he believes with the rest of the boys on his side it could be accomplished#but that canary goes overlooked it tries to fly out the mine because of the bad air quality yet the miners think we can still make it#a little longer take a chance to mine more for the man before coming up for clear air#they can keep walking further they’ve made it all this way they have to go further for just a bit longer#they have to hear the shot ring out and keep walking#see the bird fall and keep mining#for their wish#for gold or oil or whatever else you mine for that eventually becomes riches#riches over human life your own and others because that gets you out of the mine it gets you out of the system#supposedly#we see in the end regardless the winner is haunted and forever changed

no way that I saw someone say that the long walk is stupid because "why would they become friends with each other if they knew that only one would survive" THATS THE POINTTT ITS A STORY ABOUT LOVEEEEE

yeah yeah stephen king is a prolific horror author, but what he really excels at writing is gay subtext

btw pete said “you’ve got to choose love” and ray’s last words were “i love you” and that’s got to haunt him like nothing else

the long walk (2025) is like if orpheus and eurydice were allowed to walk side by side together, but eurydice sacrifices herself in order for orpheus to go home safely, so orpheus shoots hades in the head with a carbine for it

Something something The Long Walk is an excellent movie because it sets you up for the lesson that love and goodness can come out of hard situations and change the world for the better, and flips it on its head. And says no. Love and goodness are despite hard situations not because of them. That these things are beautiful and important and can get you so, so far, but not always. Sometimes the obstacles are too great and people do their best for too long, and end up continuing the cycle. That there is something sickening about our capability for evil, but something beautiful in trying to save off our own being. That today evil won and tomorrow it will probably win again and it's not our issue, but it's all our fault. But it's still important that people tried. God did they try.