put the pout away ♡

Watched Mother Mary tonight. I went in with absolutely no expectation or real idea what I was watching. Without any expectations at all, Mother Mary was fantastic! Sound was great. Every shot, shadow, and harsh light made it feel so intimate. I loved the ceaseless flowery prose from Sam and the strangely submissive one-note speech pattern from Mother Mary, their constant tug of war. Their weird, tense, again, intimate connection is something you can cut with a knife. Very eerie and perfectly paced scares. Mixed toxic lesbian angst with eerie ghost story (A Ghost Story?!) Again, everything kept teetering on a knife's edge. LOVED the flashbacks/storytelling methods. Visuals were just amazing. Freaky, beautiful, and emotional. Captures the nebulous and fluid range of human emotions in its non-Newtonian way. Did I mention the sound?

I'd be Hilda. If I was one of those characters, she's the one I'd be. That's a no-brainer. A bitch knows herself, and that's that.

This movie is sooooo gay ass. Okay, fine, they don't even kiss, much less fuck, it's all subtext, yada yada yada, BUT COME ON: Sam LITERALLY PENETRATES Mother Mary with her fingers (we even get some kind of fuck ass POV penetration shot!) in order to help MM find some relief! The whole thing is an allegory of two lesbians who had a bad break up years ago and now need to fuck one last time before either one of them can ever truly know peace again! I said what I said!

In this regard, I found it to be a very beautiful and romantic movie. It was definitely hokey at times, especially the whole "best song in the history of songs" thing (and bless your heart, Hunter Schafer, for that monologue at the end!), but the movie repeatedly talked about needing to have an open heart, which is something I myself believe, so I gave my heart to the film, I surrendered to it, and for doing so, I felt REWARDED! To paraphrase one of my all-time favorite films, Double Indemnity (Barbara!), Mother Mary had a heart as big as a house, and I loved the movie for its big, beautiful heart.

I love "the ghost" and the whole visual texture of the film. It was like Under the Skin, but instead of human meat and aliens, we get red chiffon and Gaylor.

Michaela Coel is. So. Fucking. Beautiful! I need more of her in my life, yes please and thank you!

Also, Annie was terrific, and I LOVED her "Spooky Action" dance!

Treated ourselves to a viewing of Mother Mary last weekend. Loved it! I go feral for stories about the bitter separation of formerly co-dependent collaborators and this elevates the genre, tbh.

DO IT!!!!! DO IT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!

IF YOU LOVE LESBIANS, CHARLIE XCX, LADY GAGA'S MAYHEM AND BORN THIS WAY ALBUMS, CATHOLIC IMAGERY, WITCHY SHIT, COSTUMES THAT LOOK LIKE THEY COULD HAVE BEEN MADE BY ROBERT WUN, THE SUSPIRIA REMAKE, FKA TWIGS, ANNIE MOTHER MARY FUCKING HATHAWAY;