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Ginger Snaps 2000
🐺 the monstrous feminine, but make it lycanthropic.
à la carrie and the exorcist, ginger snaps explores emergent female sexuality as monstrous.
conversely to both aforementioned 70s horror flicks, however, i believe ginger snaps has something to say about sisterhood as well.
here, the body is still a site of abjection, with the menstruating adolescent living on a liminal plane—a plane marked by the push and pull between the aversion caused by her blood and the desire caused by her…
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Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation 2019
🕊️ a dionysian event that stopped the clock for three days.
for many, woodstock served as an escape, a countercultural getaway. while for those three days, attendees didn’t have much contact from the outside world, it’s important to remember that nothing happens in a vacuum. music can be liberating, but also anchor on a lack of liberation. take hendrix’s rendition of the american national anthem; you can become transported by the sounds he’s creating, but they’re still grounded in reality,…
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The Substance 2024
👁️ who needs a new dorian gray adaptation when you have the substance?
okay, but in all seriousness, here are my intial thoughts:
as i said, very reminiscent of the picture of dorian gray, but also like a million other pieces as well. i’m talking helter skelter, titane, black swan, love lies bleeding, carrie, and in that order.
very on the nose, very obvious in its themes. just like how barbie was said to be the film version of an…
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Spencer 2021
👑 stunning, eerie, tense, and isolating.
kristen’s performance was one of, if not the best, i've seen from her. from the first line she spoke she embodied diana’s character. like others have mentioned i’m not sure how accurate her portrayal was, but i loved every part of her performance down to the minute details.
the fantastic cinematography and score do a great job of transporting viewers into this odd, liminal space.
although the film takes place over the span of…
