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...forgive me, Grace.
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insane parallels between vera and grace. while grace was a rebel, vera obeyed what her father told her for YEARS because she knew the story of the "harlot whore" and her shame and the disdain the church had for her. but after vera learns of the monsignor's aop, she's the first one to extend any sort of sympathy to grace, being the first one truly recognize "that poor girl" (which father jud later echoes in remembrance after the reveal) because vera realizes she's been trapped between her dead father and her "son" just like grace...incredible. and when the monsignor calls vera "her father's worst nightmare," it hits doubly hard bc that's exactly what the church viewed grace as. oh rian johnson the writer you are...
obsessed with characters who snapped because their circumstances were so fucked that losing it was literally the sanest response
The way Father Judd renamed the church from "Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude" to "Our Lady of Perpetual Grace"... I am insane about this film. Grace Wicks you WILL always be famous
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Love how Martha cleans the church and the rectory, sews the testaments, files the paperwork, and even feeds Jefferson Wick.
That Vera took over handling his legal matters, and then (unknowingly) raised his son even as people spread rumors about it.
How Simone’s donated money is “his” church’s main source of funding.
Even Grace provides the bedrock myth his distorted church stood on.
But Jefferson Wick is so incredibly misogynistic he doesn’t even have a statue of the Mother Mary.
One of the things that strikes me the most about Wake Up Dead Man is the portrayal of Grace Wicks.
Normally when a character (usually a woman) who starts the story being villified and villainised, just as Grace was deemed "the harlot whore" for 60 years, their redemption in the eyes of the story comes from the revelation that they were a better person than people gave them credit for. Maybe they were a good mother, or did their best in the face of the deck being stacked against them.
With Grace, we don’t see that. I can’t recall any instance in the movie of her being a particularly good person, or a good mother to Jefferson Wicks, or a virtuous woman as befitting her name. A lot of her actions are recontextualised to be more understandable within the story, yes, but that’s not necessarily the same.
Grace is messy. Some would call her shallow with her focus on expensive brands. She’s unashamedly destructive. She probably wouldn’t have wanted her father’s church where she was pretty much held hostage for years to be named after her, even if the Wicks family weren’t in charge anymore.
And she STILL didn’t deserve what Prentice Wicks and her family did to her, whether she was a good person or not.
There are no perfect victims. Trauma, shocker, tends to mess with people’s mental state a lot, and they’re not always going to act the way people think they should. They can’t always be, well, graceful about it- I dare say they can’t be EXPECTED to be.
And people don’t have to be perfect or even particularly good people to be sympathised with as victims.
And it didn’t take anyone finding out about her secret better side or good deeds. All it took was one person - Vera - having a change in perspective, to consider things from Grace’s point of view and realise she never really had a chance to BE a better person, to plant that idea in the heads of the characters and the audience.
That poor girl.
Grace Wicks my beloved. The way the narrative refuses to let her be forgotten. The way she claws and screams and demands to be remembered through the sole act of enduring and enduring and enduring. The way the narrative cradles her, keeps her memory alive and makes everyone realize what she truly suffered. The way the story is not complete without acknowledging her injustice and the final words of the woman who perpetuated her condemnation, those final words are asking for grace. For Grace's forgiveness. Grace Wicks the character that you are
