I finally watched Iron Lung!!
I don’t know if I need to put a spoilers warning on this considering iron lung came out like I think several months ago but I digress if you haven’t watched iron lung don’t read this .
FIRST OF ALL!! The costuming!! I mean, the use of layers to communicate like how the temperature is changing, and how his mental state is changing. I really loved the costuming and the set design. Everything was so meticulous and detailed. 
additionally, the scary lady that’s mean to him through the port hole window that he blasts with the radiation gun, Lowkey hot. And who was gonna tell me that Markiplier is so hot in this movie? Even covered in blood that man is so fine!! I feel like everybody in this movie is at least a lil hot lol.
 Also, us not learning his name until an hour into the movie is heartbreaking!! And you think that maybe it’s just because he’s really only talking to himself and the lady in the radio. Finding out that not only do they not refer to him by his name they refer to him ONLY as convict. On top of that they don’t even have a file that has his name on it in front of them. He is only convict. They literally took his name from him!! They are dehumanizing him! Using him like a tool!!
There will be no records of a Simon sacrificing everything that he cared about in order to possibly help humanity. There will be no records of him, using his only light source and his only flotation device and a piece of clothing that is deeply sentimental to him from his mom to just try and save humanity.
Preparing the black box so that even after his ship explodes and he is killed there may still be a way to save humanity. Telling his mom to take care of it because he put his little leather thing on it. All while being down there being punished for something he did not do!! All after being lied to like five different times that they were gonna bring him back up and that he would be free after this.  It’s disgusting. It’s heartbreaking.
I’m screaming from the rooftops!!
 Also the religious vibes, the existential horror, the hallucinations, ripping his own arm off and then the blood splurting out of it while The fucking submarine fills with human blood.
Anyways, I really liked iron lung. I really liked the theming. I also really appreciated the set design and the costuming. Everything felt really intentional and detailed. Even the moments of like I guess hallucinations or like visions of the like blood monster stuff was like really intense and almost fantastical in a way that made you as the viewer wonder if it was real or not.
I knew that there wouldn’t be a happy ending, but even at the end I was kind of like… what if we let Simon go home to his Mom? 😭 bc I was genuinely bummed when that shit exploded.
