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I don't see enough analysis about May December and how Whiteness played a role in Joe's continued abuse at Gracie's hands. How Joe's racial other-ness being the only Korean kid in his White neighbourhood made him more vulnerable to Gracie's abuse. How Gracie's Whiteness made it easier for her to get away with marrying her rape victim and starting a family with him in broad daylight. How Gracie's White womenhood allowed her to live with some semblance of normality as a wife and a mum and a small business owner in suburbia despite being a registered child sex offender. All things that Black disability activist Ola Ojewumi pointed out, happened to the real-life woman Gracie is based on in this thread.
And then, that same White female gaze that Gracie projected onto Joe, the gaze that dehumanized him and viewed him as nothing but a sexual object, is also perpetuated by Elizabeth.
This scene in May December broke me because how innocent and pure Joe is, how he knows that's something wrong with his life, he's trapped but couldn't get out and he didn't want anything that happened to him to ever happen to his son. It's heartbreaking to see how young he still is.
I want to give all the award for Charles Melton portrayal of Joe, especially in this scene, when he curled up in his sonβs embrace like heβs the one whoβs younger than his own son because in a sense heβs, mentally heβs, that tremble in his hands as he tried to explain his thoughts, thinking that he would do something wrong to his son, gosh heβs too young to be a father, and Charles Melton just completely nailed this role with his whole mannerisms, that small broken voice when he whispered βthatβs all I doβ. he's helpless, he's anxious all the time, but he bottled up inside because he has no chance to open up.
The way they portrayed Joe's naivety like he's still a young 13 y.o boy trapped in time because the manipulation worked with a vulnerable boy like he was. They showed his youthful spirit still with his hobbies with the butterflies, his timid movement or the way Gracie bossed him around and he didn't even realize it, that he couldn't even be open and honest with his feeling or be validated about what he's feeling because Gracie would just spin those words around and make it look like he's the one who hurt her, twisting his words to her advantage, the abuse never actually end, even after the 24 years of marriage.
Gracie is a predator, an unapologetic manipulative woman that thinks she does nothing wrong because deep down she's just evil that way, the scene in a forest when she met a fox and she look eye to eye with that predator, I feel like she was looking at herself. The way sheβs interacting with her children from the previous marriage, how cold a mother she was, she didnβt care much about anyone feeling. Or the way even her children with Joe didnβt like her that much, because theyβre old enough to understand that their parents relationship is not normal at all, but they just couldnβt say anything about it because at the end of the day she is still their mother.
Also it was incredibly eerie at the contrast love letter that young Joe sent to Gracie, where it was just so innocent, no ulterior motive or whatsoever, he was just a kid, feeling safe and at peace around adult and expressing it that way to her, it wasn't wrong at all, not a sign that an adult should make a move at that! Then compare to the one that Gracie wrote to him, she understood completely the situation they're in, the way she asked him in the letter not to tell anyone about it, she's always been on the upper hand, she took advantage of Joe's vulnerability and used it to her own sick desire. It wasn't told explicitly in the movie but seriously everything just feel so nauseating to watch thinking how young he was.
Now Joe is older and you know nobody can safe him except himself, If he wanted to be saved or not, or if he'd accepted his life just as it's, he's just a victim but he told himself that he didn't want people to look at him like one. It's all in the adult hands that should be the ones who do better because they know better and put a stop to something that's morally wrong, it's the adult responsibility to give the understanding, but the problem is Gracie is not a good person at all or a misunderstood individual or anything, she did everything with full conscience and with no regret because sheβs sick in the head.
Also Natalie Portmanβs character, Elizabeth, whatβs up with her? I feel like her interest for the project itself was so questionable, she looks like a predator herself at the end, was she having an affair with the director that wanted to produce the movie? The phone call she had with the director asking him about his wife was kinda sus, when she was looking at the tape for young joe character and asking for a sexier looking actor, 13 y.o boy? Whatβs up with that?? And that euphoric masturbation?? complete with a laugh she did at the shop where Joe and Gracie supposedly had their first sexual encounter together, itβs all so weird and not to mention she end up sleeping with Joe as well! She was taking advantage of him nonetheless, I know that Joe is older now and should be able to make his own decision but considering that Elizabethβs intention was never actually genuine and lure him in, flirting with him at his workplace, itβs manipulative as hell.
The way Elizabeth keep trying to mimic Gracieβs every movements, I know itβs for the role, but everything that she does also kinda eerie in notion. Perhaps she and gracie wasnβt that much different? She just didnβt act on it? Or is she such a psychopath in away she wanted to experience all kind of peculiar side of human? Where she's just so detached on human feeling and only sees everything just as story? Thatβs why she wanted to be an actress because that was her motivation? Is she a case of an actor that took method acting in extreme? To the point she lose the way to connect with story in away that still has humanity in it because this is real people lives sheβs adapting and not a fantasy. I really couldnβt read her true motives at the end. Perhaps there were two predators in the movie?
Over all May December is a really thought provoking film, itβs a movie Iβd recommend to anyone who just love a kind of movie that makes you think about it long after you watch it. Julian Moore, Natalie Portman and Charles Melton act so brilliantly in their respective roles. I feel like Charles Melton might get his first oscar nomination for supporting actor for this role because how good he was in this. 9/10.
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Charles Melton 2023 Annual Academy Museum Gala Β· via tiktok (whomagazine)

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May December (2023) dir. Todd Haynes
- God, I can't tell if we're connecting or if I'm creating a bad memory for you in real time, but I can't help it. - No, we're connecting, Dad. It's okay. It's okay.
MAY DECEMBER (2023) dir. Todd Haynes
anyway. I think the work may december does in illustrating how a perpetrator of violence can continue to view themselves as, if not a victim, then at least a passive party in the situation is remarkable. gracieβs insistence that joe pursued her, that she was the less mature party from the start, her meltdown about the canceled cake order that joe has to not only eat but act out enjoyment of in order to calm her down, her recollection of her brothers threatening boys who might have taken interest in her in adolescence, itβs all in the service of crafting her vulnerability, displacing her agency as a grown woman onto joe both at the beginning of their relationship and in the present. she becomes effectively another child for him to take care of in addition to the kids he has been responsible for since 14. the tell is of course in the control she maintains to present the situation as entirely of his doingβshe has to feed the narrative framing to joe because it sits in such obvious contrast to his reality. βwho was the boss?β is a question that answers itself as she tries to force him yet again to accept the lie of his childhood agency.
may december directed by todd haynes

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Charles Melton as Joe Yoo in "May December" (2023) director: Todd Haynes
May December (2023) dir Todd Haynes
i love how jennifer was cut out of a squid and it was literally never ever important to the plot
only gerard way, creator of the original umbrella academy comics, could stop steve blackman from ruining season four. but when the world needed him most, he vanished
if season 2 or 3 lila and five heard about season 4, they'd both kill themselves immediately.

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Steve Blackman really said:
"The world if the Hargreeves siblings never existed
"
And i think that's fucking messed up.
i was too busy focusing on the disgusting flesh kaiju at the time to pay too much attention to abagail and reginald's convo on that bench and i don't feel like putting myself through it again so i might be slightly misremembering. but. did she really just say i was dead as punishment for obliterating our home planet and i didn't want you to bring me back to life, therefore, it is ethical to destroy the earth ??????