Subtly Brilliant

ryland grace + orange 🧡, yellow 💛, white 🤍 & blue 🩵💙 outfits

House of leaves

Piranesi

:-)

“For a moment I had an idea of what it would be like if instead of two people in the World there were thousands.”

it's well made, well shot, well directed, the music is interesting, the costumes are both thoughtful and subtly period accurate, the sex scenes are intentional and, again, accurate to what hooking up when you're like 18 actually feels like...the actors are of course attractive but they look like real people. the characters are varied and well fleshed out, the acting is really, really strong

so many shows and films shoot and then slot in whatever music kind of fits or could be licenced in the budget after time, but you can tell that the scenes in hr were shot with that specific music in mind. and the same intentional approach runs through the whole thing

When the translator is working, you can still hear the musical tones of his natural voice in the background (a detail a lot of franchises have missed, I’ve noticed.) In the scene where Grace is pinned to the control panel and the translator doesn’t work anymore, you can clearly hear Rocky saying his name in a higher octave, panicked.

Doodle that didn’t turn out how I wanted but oh well!!

After burying his crewmates, Ryland is scared and alone. And then the universe gives him this vision. And then it gives him Rocky.

The universe tells him, “Don’t worry, you’re not alone anymore. You will be okay.”