#beigrambles

Part 2 of the monstrosity that are my thoughts on sinners. Side note: I have too many and won't be posting them all because I physically cannot.

Others on tumblr have mentioned this already but: the dead?

60 people leave one night and vanish? The devastating hole that must've had been is immense. We never see what happened to Lisa, what happened to the widowers of Mary and Pearline, we never know. All we see is Sammie going back to the curch just in time for Sunday service.

Does someone bother to file a repport for those missing bodies, for those people? And what is Sammie supposed to do with all that grief? With the knowledge of everything that went wrong that night?

Do you think anyone asked? Did anyone remember the Preacher boy that was with the SmokeStack brothers the day before that dreadful night? Do you think anybody asked him about what he'd seen? Do you think Lisa looked for him searching for answers? For what happened to her parents?

Do you think she came to him running with tears streaming down her cheeks, yelling, running across cotton fields, asking, demanding, what went wrong? Why did her parents not come back? What did they do to get them killed? Do you think she asked where the bodies were to give them a proper grave?

So I went the other day to watch Sinners at the movie theatre and it was amazing, 9/10 honestly. I went with pretty high expectations since I'd seen some very good reviews and also because vampire movie and it was safe to say that the actors did not disappoint.

The only reason why I'm not giving it a 10/10 is the fact that I think that they could have done something more with the Choctaw folks that just showed up at the beginning to warn the couple about the vampire? Thinking about it now I understand why they didn't show up later in the movie (because the sun had set and they didn't want to put themselves on unnecessary danger). So yes, I DO get why we didn't see them later but... I still kind of wish they had (?) So yes, that was basically why I'm not giving it a solid 10/10.

Onto other topics:

I've seen that some people mistook Annie for Smoke's mother/aunt and claimed that in every scene they're in she's kind of a mother figure to him (excluding obviously the more physically intimate ones, if you get my gist) and also showing promotional pictures of the couple and I? Don't get it?

The pictures I've seen look very much like old pictures of married couples I've seen on photography exhibitions. The look like mature adults and somewhat parental figures. Because that's what they are. Parents/parental figures. They both had a child they love and cherish even if she's gone. Annie obviously has a motherly air in her because she *is* a mother just like he is a father. They both cherish that child and mourn her, and if that's not what a parent is then I don't know what is. Also, Smoke acts throughout the film as an additional parental figure to Sammie, making sure that he is alright and taking care of him.

Idk, to me it was very obvious since the moment Smoke stopped in front of his child's grave, because who else but the mother of that child would live in a house near it? Who else would talk to Smoke with such proximity when none of the characters mentioned any aunts, any grandmothers?

Also, I have to say it. I loved their relationship. It was so full of love and respect. Did Smoke personally believe in hoodoo? No, and he says so. But he respects Annie, respects her craft, and believes in her; he fully trusts her. That's why in the end he honours her wishes and prevents her from becoming a vampire, from not meeting her ancestors.

On that topic: why didn't she save herself? I believe she could have objectively saved herself using hoodoo and all sorts of things to defy fate but that's the issue. Annie is shown to consult her fate and is shown to embrace it, not avoid it. Because I think that for her death is not the end. Death is not leaving your loved ones, abandoning them and ending in this bleak landscape of pain and suffering for eternity. Death means reuniting with your roots, with those who left a while or a little ago; death means closure. Annie is not afraid of death because she knows someone is waiting for her on the other side; and as a mother, there are very few things she wants to do aside from being able to see her baby again.

So I watched k-pop demon hunters today on Netflix (because I didn't find it anywhere else for free).

To be honest I see it as a kind of ok movie for maybe a younger audience. It's fun, colourful, has a lot of catchy songs, not too violent, not gore, and with the slightest splash of drama and romance. It focuses a lot on themes like friendship and trust, which I think is very nice; and overall it's an alright musical magical girl movie as long as you don't expect incredible writing.

The songs are just ok to me, maybe catchy but not anything to write home about, and the demon boys are very flat characters along with half of the cast. In fact I don't think we get to know *any* of them except Jinu. And I wanted to personally stab Jinu almost every time he was on screen for being the "I can fix him he's just misunderstood" kind of guy. At this point I like this kind of characters depending on my mood and in this case I was already very done with this dude.

But back to the demon extras: we don't know who they are, where do they come from, their motivations... They're just background characters really.

And this is just a very personal irk but I just don't like their design. I don't know why, but I spent all movie looking at them like there was something wrong with their faces and I cannot figure out what it is, aside from the fact that I would have made their original looks (their demon looks) more grotesque.

Every demon in hell if you see them looks like well, a demon. I don't see any reason why they shouldn't look like their peers or at least a bit less human when they're not in disguise.

Moving on to our main girl Rumi. Very cute, very caring, loved the ending where she decides to fight with her friends and save humanity but also her past? And the fact that she always wears long sleeves and no one bats an eye? In kpop???

First of all, her origins (very cliché): being half demon half hunter are never adressed. What happened to her mom? Her dad? Where is the rest of her family? Why did no one in hell know about her if Gwi-ma can controll all demons?

Secondly. If you listen to kpop at all you'll know that idols wear all sorts of ouftits and in my 5 years of listening to this genre and watching mvs and performances I've yet to see an idol who is always covering up their arms without at least someone questioning why.

And last but not least. I'm so sorry but the love story was too much for me. It was cliché in a way that for me wasn't that well executed because it was very predictable. VERY

The other girls I can't say a lot about them because well. They're just there. They are ok, their design is alright, and they're nice supporting characters. I do like that they play an active role in the group and are not just there to decorate but that's about it.

And Gwi-Ma... Classic comic book demon villain who wants to destroy the world and keeps their subjects under a reign of tyranny. Not too bad, not good either.