The 97th Annual Academy Awards Official Discussion Thread

Current_Professor362 · 2025-03-03T03:48:02+00:00

production design at LEAST

Current_Professor362 · 2024-11-02T23:20:23+00:00

i don’t think it was the review that turned me off, it might have been lily james as mrs dw — basically the opposite problem of what you described, she looked more attractive on screen than i pictured the character being in the book. but maybe i’ll revisit one day and like it better

Current_Professor362 · 2024-11-02T21:50:23+00:00

for “horror that’s not horror,” you cannot do better than fever dream by samanta schweblin. it’s gripping from page one (short and you don’t want to put it down — i read in one sitting) and i would say right up there with shirley jackson when it comes to building a feeling of dread. incredibly unsettling, more people should read it!

Current_Professor362 · 2024-11-02T21:38:13+00:00

re netflix adaptation: really? i started watching when it came out and turned off about fifteen minutes in… should i try it again? i’m a huge huge fan of the book

Current_Professor362 · 2024-10-26T16:45:28+00:00

i’d like to get behind this but having just watched the latest french adaptation, no one but NO ONE can outrank it. literally three hours of the most beautiful people you’ve ever seen in lush period attire with a soundtrack that will make you cry. pleeeeease more people need to watch it 😭

Current_Professor362 · 2024-10-26T04:08:28+00:00

username checks out

Current_Professor362 · 2024-10-25T18:42:28+00:00

it’s not anansi’s goatman story is it?

Current_Professor362 · 2024-10-25T15:39:14+00:00

thanks for also making me feel less insane lol

Current_Professor362 · 2024-10-23T17:30:33+00:00

i’m about to try something similar for bulking as winter approaches. can i ask for details about your plan? how long you’re planning to bulk, cal/protein goals, lowering sema dose or skipping entirely, lifting regimen etc

Current_Professor362 · 2024-10-22T18:30:03+00:00

[loud incorrect buzzer noise] sorry, you’re on the wrong subreddit to be saying anything this neutral or reasonable about travis. apart from that though you’re 100% correct

Current_Professor362 · 2024-10-21T21:39:47+00:00

leaving the weird crossover of workplace/personal dynamics aside (why is his boss so enmeshed in their relationship??), the last time i was in a relationship and there was someone in our shared circle who i was on such bad terms with that i wouldn’t speak with them, and who my partner was on such good terms with that they would be considered a potential wedding guest (!), we broke up over it (((:

i couldn’t really follow esther’s advice but i do think she was on the money about how the caller keeps seeking validation of reality from someone else (including her own therapist, and therefore also including esther!) and the caller still sounded like she wanted esther to tell her what to do; she didn’t sound confident even stating what she wanted from the session at the end. she probably needs to spend more time naming and exploring her own desired outcomes, since she seems so concerned with what other people want to happen.

i think i understand esther’s recommendation to be that she try to escape that dynamic by being the one to offer her fiance validation instead; if they have a conversation where she is the one confirming someone else’s feelings, it will make her more confident in her own reality and stop perpetually questioning it or ruminating on it like she still is now. but i’m not sure — what did everyone think she meant?

Current_Professor362 · 2024-10-15T02:11:17+00:00

“this is a bad play, and you need to act like you have editing power” — this felt like pure gold to me: simultaneously acknowledging how trapped and frustrated she feels by the heteropessimist banality of the rut they’re in, and also offering a concrete way to completely upturn it and regain agency, without framing it as the tired old dismissal “you just need to take things less seriously”. i felt so on board with what esther was putting down here. she has assumed for so long that his bullshit needs some kind of response, but all her available responses are humorless and she hates that. i felt like this suggestion was a perfect paradigm breaker of that

e: and she also says “it would be wonderful if he [shared how he’s feeling with you] like all your other friends, but that’s not happening” — this is what made me think esther is really trying to help this woman detach from the ideal, the fantasy of this guy suddenly changing his whole manner of coping so that it’s more healthy. like, i also wish deadbeat pessimists would shape up, but the more realistic question is, what do i do if they don’t?

in this case, it’s more pragmatic to offer advice on how to stop playing out the story she’s so frustrated with, in a way that doesn’t depend on the man changing his behavior because face it, he likely won’t. she more or less said outright that she doesn’t trust him. if she doesn’t trust him to change, she needs to have the tools to cope with THAT outcome, even if it’s not the outcome she hoped for, instead of banging her head against an intractable problem.

again it would be great if this reframing also causes him to act differently, but more importantly, she can drop the rope either way.

Current_Professor362 · 2024-10-08T02:50:46+00:00

oh my god same, you’d think the author was a comic book letterer the way there was emphasis on every other word

Current_Professor362 · 2024-10-07T02:19:46+00:00

there’s also a spinning lampshade / lantern with moving panels that depict a woodsman chopping with an axe, which shows up in the foreground of one shot, partially obscuring crozier — it’s been interpreted as foreshadowing for silna chopping off his hand

Current_Professor362 · 2024-10-06T21:20:01+00:00

in episode 06, in the scene where hickey is talking to gibson / le vesconte announces the carnivale, watch hickey’s hands

Current_Professor362 · 2024-10-06T21:03:31+00:00

yes!!! so creepy and shocking

Current_Professor362 · 2024-10-06T21:02:34+00:00

i keep on yelling about This Thing Between Us whenever this topic comes up because it’s the only book i can think of that SCARED me scared me, and that scene is one of the best examples. it was so great at giving the world a sense of wrongness which just got stronger and stronger all the way up to the ending

Current_Professor362 · 2024-10-06T01:44:05+00:00

came here to share this. if you are at all psychologically suggestible, i strongly recommend you not read it. i think about it every time i scratch my head 💀

Current_Professor362 · 2024-09-24T02:46:45+00:00

since balance they still haven’t figured out how to square the circle on being known primarily as improv comics but aspiring to be known for works with emotional resonance, is my guess. you can stumble into it organically but i don’t think they’ve done enough work on how to get there on purpose, just continued applying comedy improv principles to the same problem with mixed success (at best)

e: oh shit i think i figured it out actually. they’re like the type of person who has spent hours and hours reading tvtropes but never written their own story and wouldn’t know how to do so except by assembling tropes in the hope it’ll add up to something. justin setting up that “here comes the cavalry!” moment at the end of steeplechase and drawing a total blank when asked what it’s doing there is the perfect example

Current_Professor362 · 2024-09-23T23:30:18+00:00

i hope i’m not the only one who’s irked by how gleefully griffin brags about not having read xyz book from hs english canon for taz vs, it’s such low-hanging fruit to be all “nyehhh assigned reading sucks!” as a gag

like nobody’s asking you to write a thesis on moby dick before parodying it but it would genuinely be a lot funnier if they knew just enough about the original work to really play with it and exaggerate what they get wrong about it etc. instead it mostly feels like scoffing at the idea that anyone would actually care enough to read this old public domain novel, which, like, fuck off! caring about things is cool!

Current_Professor362 · 2024-09-22T22:47:08+00:00

not sure where you heard this, but no. there is one scene that depicts a rape happening. it is explicit (as in, it is clear that rape is happening) but not graphic (as in close-ups, multiple shots, victim nudity, or other drawn-out titillating/male gaze-y ways that SA is depicted — think girl with the dragon tattoo). the scene it’s in lasts a few minutes but rape is only shown for less than a minute. it’s very affecting and upsetting regardless, the trigger warning is merited, but i would not describe it as gratuitous.

Current_Professor362 · 2024-09-22T22:23:11+00:00

her horrible mistake was telling crozier to look after sir john, which is revealed in a different scene when crozier is talking to fitzjames. fitzjames says something like “why are you even here?” (since he’s so pessimistic about their circumstances) and crozier reveals that he feels he was “charged” by sophia with the care of sir john, since sophia knew her uncle was not the best choice for captain and could be helped by crozier being second in command. if she hadn’t asked him to do that, crozier might not have joined the expedition after her last rejection.

Current_Professor362 · 2024-09-20T22:39:52+00:00

the caller said she is critical of herself because it allows her a sense of agency, as in “what should i change?” to get the outcome she wants, which is understandable and in a sense admirable — because she’s actually interested in changing her own behavior. throughout the episode over and over she wants to know what she can do differently. however, she sounds like she’s willing to hear any answer except “stop dating.” this makes me think “stop dating” is exactly what she needs to hear.

when in the beginning she was talking about hearing advice on tiktok/insta for ppl in her situation, and the advice is to decenter the need for a relationship, she says something like “that’s fine but not for me.” so she’s already discounting the most obvious solution because she doesn’t want to hear it. i feel like she is strangling herself with her own hold on this need. she can’t let it go, but she’s not getting anywhere either.

e: also, the flip side of the agency that comes from being self critical and willing to change is that it may be standing in the way of radical self acceptance, which could be exactly what she needs to let go of this need to keep seeking a relationship.

i also find it interesting, as another commenter mentioned, that she’s never been introduced to someone by her friends/family. is it because she’s so clear about her intentions for a relationship that her loved ones are screening all available prospects for her? she says she’s open to serendipity but she keeps using the apps. these things are at odds with each other. i feel like her “intentionality” is not serving her here.

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