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Just had to draw something for the salaar x project hail mary thoughts I was having earlier

It was set up as “oh no Metropolis and Jarhanpur are in trouble! He needs to quickly finish one and then help the other!” But no. Instead he just called his friends and they stepped in where he couldn’t. Even at Metro, he had Mr. Terrific’s help.

This is not a one-god-army kinda Superman. This is a I-could-try-to-do-it-all-or-I-can-ask-others-to-step-in-when-needed and isn’t that the crux of humanity right now? All of us may not be able to go where the problems are happening but we can help those who are there. We can also face the problems happening in our neighbourhood with people who can’t be close but can help in whatever way they can.

In Knives Out, a compassionate, ethical young woman treats everyone around her with generosity, and the people around her repeatedly try to take advantage of her kindness to force her into losing the fortune that was gifted to her by a dear friend. There, justice means that she keeps the fortune and decides that actually, she doesn't have to be kind and giving to people who've proven themselves assholes.

In Glass Onion, a woman loses her sister to a gang of wealthy, successful people who've sacrificed their principles for the sake of ambition and ego. There, justice means that everyone involved will be made notorious: whatever their other accomplishments, they will forever be known for being complicit in the burning of the most famous painting in history.

In Wake Up Dead Man, the church takes advantage of a young girl's loyalty and faith to place her under a lifelong burden and fill her with guilt, shame, and hatred. Justice means helping her understand what was done to her and the women around her, and giving her compassion so she can find peace.

This is cool because it means the movies contradict each other! The compassionate justice of Wake Up Dead Man would be totally misplaced in Knives Out, and so would the toppling-monuments justice of Glass Onion. And because each movie has something different to say, they all stand on their own and feel fresh.

Anarcha Westcott was a young Black girl enslaved in Alabama. After a traumatic childbirth, she developed vaginal and rectal fistulas, a condition that left her in constant pain and shame.

Instead of receiving care, she was experimented on over 30 times by Dr. J. Marion Sims, who operated on her without anesthesia. He used her body to develop a surgery that would later be used to treat white women, with pain relief, dignity, and consent.

Anarcha didn’t agree to any of it. She wasn’t a patient. She was a victim of medical violence.

Naturally, during my rewatch, I paid close attention to see if I could find a scene that didn't contain red, and I discovered another interesting parallel.

In 1x03 Potage, Hannibal and Will visit Abigail in the hospital and take her for a short walk to the greenhouse.

Try and see how much red you can find in these two shots. At first glance, there isn't any. Not in the characters clothing (Will's sweater is brown), not in the background. As a matter of fact, we are surrounded by green - the colour opposite red on the colour wheel, the colour that is used to neutralize red.

At second glance, though, we notice that there is some red.

A few flowers on the left and one plant on the right. There's also orange leaves on the glass roof - the seasons are changing.

This is also when Abigail asks Will "So killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?", and his reply is "It's the ugliest thing in the world."

I think that the lack, or maybe very targeted use of the colour red perfectly encapsulates Will's and Hannibal's relationship at this stage of the show. Will has barely stepped into Hannibal's world. He doesn't know him yet, he's still closed off. The green is still fighting the red. Killing is ugly. It's horrible. It haunts him. And yet, there's little bits of red, of Hannibal, that are starting to push through, to bloom.

The complete opposite of this scene is, of course, the end of 3x13 The Wrath of the Lamb.

There is red everywhere, literally. It is inescapable. The blood is running and dripping. It almost feels like we as viewers are also tainted by it.

And yet, in a full circle moment, we get Will Graham's final line of the show:

"It's beautiful."