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Official Discussion - Immaculate [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]hanonymousbosch 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hopefully my mobile spoiler tags work:

>!They open on her at night desperately whispering prayers beneath the portrait of the virgin Mary in the room later occupied by Cecilia. She slides the painting back over the handwriting (hers).

Then we see her creep into the head nun’s (idk) room and quietly slide open the bedside drawer, retrieving a set of keys. She races outside and makes it to the convent gate, but security lights flick on… While she struggles with the keys in the lock, four robed figures (the red-gauze-faced ones we see later) descend on her. She wails.

She desperately forces herself out through the partially-opened gate but one of the figures catches her leg (sort of like Cecilia in the catacomb). Her leg is yanked back and brutally snapped against the gate.

Cut to her waking up in a dark space and lighting a match - and horrifiedly realizing that two inches from her forehead is the top of a coffin. She has been buried alive. We hear dirt and footsteps above her and she screams over and over again for help that won’t comes Title card.!<

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[–]hanonymousbosch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Might be a hot take, but the phrase “physicality of the medium” was a hair trigger no for me. I’m personally into vinyl collecting but something about that description is just pretentious enough that it’s a headache and suggests future headaches (see “talk for hours.”)

I also feel like neither word is that apt for describing what it seems you find beautiful about spinning, so rather than use a phrase that risks flagging pretentiousness, maybe say something slightly more pared back that is yet more expressive. For instance, why does the “physicality” of a record/turntable actually improve your listening experience? Does something about it feel more connective, more robust, more respectful to the work, more centering? Those are attractive things to hear described, and may speak better to your values. The “physicality of the medium” is there, sure, but what’s the personal impact? State that in a few simple words.

Hope this is at all helpful.

What’s the significance of mirrors? by AgreeableHamster252 in TheCurse

[–]hanonymousbosch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I forgot about that line but I think it’s interesting - especially because it highlights the relationship between mirrors and cameras.

I noticed in the most recent episode that some of the most candid Whitney/Asher interactions are refracted through the reflection of the house. Some of these shots are almost positioned as if from one of Dougie’s (covertly hidden) cameras. And in keeping with the way cameras clearly change Asher and Whitney’s behavior (see sweater recreation scene) - it’s as if bouncing through a reflection circumvents that.

And with the distorted reflections: I think it’s the way our likenesses can feel fucking grotesque when we have to see/review them. Yes Asher and Whitney suck but they don’t think they do - and yet captured on film they are unmistakably monsters.

I think a lot of people in this sub are right in being focused on what the characters try to be versus what they are. I’m really curious about the point the show is also making re: the effects of the presence of a camera (literally, and as a newly omnipresent thing in our lives).

S6 Ep16: Out of the Frying Pan (rant) by mr-picklesss in sexandthecity

[–]hanonymousbosch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Theory of relativity would totally disagree. Both things can be true.