homesick for another world

Knives Out: Autumn in a country house

Glass Onion: Summer on a private island

Wake up Dead Man: Spring in a small town

bear isn’t just a coward and pathetic loser as everyone says he is. those words feel to me, so humanising of who he really is. he’s as much of a predator as the man who drugs a woman then assaults her, as much of a predator as a man who tortures his SA victims.

i don’t know if people want to have this conversation, but this man raped nikki. he assaulted her. he tortured her. that’s not my definition of a pathetic loser. at least, just a pathetic loser. i mean, It was clear everything he did with nikki was non-consensual. if not from the first time nikki was at his place and screamed, “what the fuck!” and pushed him back, then clearly when she begged him multiple times to kill her. it was clear he was taking advantage of the situation just as ian told him he looked like and he denied and was taking advantage of the fact that nikki was under the influence of his wish. like this man clearly got off from the power he had over the real nikki. just like all predators.

love the way the director(s) of the movie highlighted this with the ominous music during the sex scene with both of them. clearly, very fucking disturbing.

so yeah, calling him a “pathetic loser” is way humanising than what he actually is.

besides, he’s also dumb as fuck, like, when he went to ian’s place to replace his wish to turn everything back to normal, all he had to say was, “yo, say “i wish nikki was back to normal/loves me the way friends do/everything went back to normal”, then break the stick in the middle.” but he has to blabber the entire existence of the one wish willow and make this entire crazy ass looking speech about how it’s real like mf, you don’t have time.

also the fact that this man knew nikki would quite literally kill for him. (he confirmed it when he asked her “do you really love me more than anyone in the whole world?”), and still went to sarah. never warned the poor soul once that she was practically on nikki’s kill list. this man knew after the entire kiss-the-person-to-your-left fiasco. so i never felt bad for him when he opened sarah’s letter and started screaming (i saw some videos saying “i feel so bad”, with this scene.)

so this man is a predator and a murderer.

details i absolutely loved and feel worth pointing out:

love the fact that usually when a person is covered in blood a normal person would literally do their best to understand and help the situation, but everyone bear meets literally is unfazed by his half bloody hoodie and face, almost like saying that everything is his fault so they have nothing to help him for.

and then the real nikki speaks to him. and she begs him to kill her. she is so scared. don't wake her up please dont wake her up just kill me. and bear gets angry. he doesn't even apologise. he doesn't care about nikki's true feelings. he WANTS her to be obsessed with him, he just doesn't want her to do it in such an ugly and inconvenient way. he lashes out at her. "What would be so bad? What's so bad about being with me?".

it has never been about her. if it was, bear wouldn't have been satisfied about living with a girl who's only resemblance to nikki was her body. he turned her life into a living hell. in fact, he turned TWO girl's lives into a living hell. because the entity was miserable too. she was created exclusively to love a person who would never love her back. who never cared about her.

and he never once considers how it affected nikki. he gets scared of the entity acting weird and creepy but the moment the real nikki begs him for a shred of sympathy, for just a bit of mercy. he doesn't care. he only cares about the fact she won't reciprocate his feelings. he only cares about how she can satisfy him.

it was the turning point of the movie that made me realise that there was never any justifying his actions. it re-contextualises everything. he was content with nikki's suffering as long as it brought him pleasure. as long as it soothed his ego. as long as it was convenient. and for as much as he talked about being in love with her, all he cared about was her body. the entity was an entirely different girl, all she had was nikki's face and body. if he ever truly loved nikki like he claimed, he would have been deeply disturbed by the personality change. but he never was. he was only ever disturbed by the creepy things specifically. but the palatable changes? the way she talks, the way she expresses herself, what she does in her free time, how she dresses? all of that was gone. different. a whole new person. yet he didn't give a single fuck.

frying dough

Me : *Going absolute feral at 2 am*

in ragnarok, taika:

cut Thor’s hair

took away his hammer, signifying that Thor was indeed a character beyond the hammer

took out his eye, signifying that Thor was powerful beyond his physical attributes and ready to take on the responsibility as king 

put Thor as the underdog in the situation, reminding the audience that Thor is clever and intelligent, not only optimistic and cheerful, and purely brawn

had him meet Valkyrie and earn her loyalty, showing him as a leader ready to right the wrongs of Asgard’s past and encourage his people to a better path

developed his relationship with Loki, reminding the audience that they were still brothers and Thor had great capacity for forgiveness, but wasn’t stupid enough to blindly trust Loki 

destroyed Asgard, showing that Thor is ready to take, make, and recover from the big sacrifices and do whatever it takes to keep, care, and protect his people

in avengers 3 and 4, the Russo brothers: