Little Kpupper

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The Constant Lady🐝🕯️⚔️

could not get her out of my head after reading The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling!! there’s a titled/book cover mockup of this piece on my ig if you’d like to see that as well :)

You cannot kill me

in a way that matters

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A parallel to Laika The Space Dog: Schrödinger’s cat.

iron lung, eh?

a good trainer builds up trust with a horse to provide them with confidence to succeed at their tasks. lucky is only reactive when someone ignores his cues (at the beginning of the movie) and pushes him past the point of his training. you’ll notice oj never does this, even in the confrontation with jj, as lucky is doing tasks he is trained for, like galloping without a rider to a familiar point, and dealing with stimuli he’s encountered before, the flags, mask, and blow-up men. that’s not to say that lucky isn’t extremely brave, loyal, and, well, lucky, but oj created an environment where lucky could perform the best he could in horrible conditions.

and that’s why it’s not surprising to me that lucky returns to oj at the end. he’s confident that oj will be able to direct him to something he can do. there is certainly a big scary thing in the sky, but lucky knows that oj won’t steer him wrong. in a movie about spectacle and perception, oj and lucky look for each other. oj respects lucky’s boundaries and limitations which provides him with a safe place to return when he becomes stressed. any horse, even the most ridden, will kick you if pushed far enough, but it’s about being able to recognize the cause and give them their space.

but then i was like “well OJ didn’t JUST care about the horses, it was also about not wanting Jean Jacket to win. but yeah he cares a lot about the horses, it makes sense. and he’s not the type to make big heroic speeches anyway, he’s not showy like that.”

and then i realized something cool about OJ as a character. OJ not being showy, not caring about spectacle, is what sets him apart from everybody else in the movie. others see the spectacle, he sees the people and animals caught up in it. in his first scene the others want to hurry and film, but he sees the horse is stressed; if they’d listened to him and backed off, it wouldn’t have kicked. he tried to save the motorcyclist who was just yelling at him to get the camera before being eaten. he’s the kind of person who wasn’t around on the Gordy set, who knew when to stop pushing and listen before something bad happened.

He was the only one who realized not to look in Jean Jacket’s eye. He didn’t give in and look up at the spectacle in the sky. He kept his eyes low, and because of that he saw the ones on the ground who were suffering and wanted to help. He SAW the horses, he cared for them and he risked his life to save Lucky. He SAW his sister when their dad broke a promise to her for fame and money.

Emerald was the one who got the “money shot” of Jean Jacket and defeated it. i think that was important and good for her to do. Defeating this thing that had caused her so much pain, that had killed her father, her friends and maybe her brother. And in doing so she captured proof of what she and her friends went through, made sure that suffering wasn’t all for nothing. OJ helped it happen, he was behind the scenes staring down Jean Jacket while she escaped. But Emerald was in the spotlight at the end. She won.

But with all this in mind, I think it’s really beautiful that the final shot of the movie, the REAL money shot, wasn’t Jean Jacket. It wasn’t anything all that weird or spectacular. On the contrary, it was deeply familiar.