Red Porch Observer

"Everyone I know is fighting to get back what they had. I’m fighting ‘cause I don’t know how to do anything else."

                                                                  ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours 

Paterson (2016) dir. Jim Jarmusch

Band of Brothers is all about brotherhood and how these men joined and formed a uniquely close knit group, those friendships helping them getting through the worst of war and with the same purpose, making it a point to contradict their motto “Currahee” meaning “stand alone.” In fact the motto is more apt to the characters of The Pacific, which shows a much more cynical side of WWII seldom explored in movies and television. There’s a sense of isolation that isn’t in Band of Brothers that can be found in The Pacific with the characters scattering at the end of the war, and with Band of Brothers ending with a wide shot of the company when The Pacific ends with a wide shot of Eugene Sledge alone.

Rami Malek as Snafu Shelton in The Pacific

BLUE VALENTINE (2010) dir. Derek Cianfrance (insp)

Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan in SEE HOW THEY RUN (2022), Dir. Tom George

The Edge of Love 2007

You’re on their side, aren’t you? Who are you betting on, hm?”

i don’t know what’s better scully’s facial expressions or mulder walking out the door

Eli ‘Hawk’ Moskowitz in s04 of Cobra Kai