My guess on the meaning of the movie ladybird. (Because I haven't slept and I've been thinking about this and it's 5 am)
Christina created her own persona "ladybird " where she can escape her mother's and the world's rules and expectations for her. She, as ladybird can be and do anything.
However, in doing so, she builds walls to protect herself using and absorbing the same abusive personality traits her mother has. Re-purposing those abusive traits makes her a part of the cycle and is the main ironic theme of the story.
This backfires, however, because she becomes the person she's trying to defend herself from. She becomes, in a way, her own abuser. That's not to say her mother had no part in it bc she was part of the cycle too.
The ending of the movie was to show how she became her own person, a part of her family and love for her mother, and a part of her own story too. Showing the two versions of herself can coexist in the usage of her name as a metaphor.
The only thing I didn't like was that the mother seemed to only feel regret about her actions and never seemed to truly attempt to fix her patterns of abuse.
Idk. That's just my take on it.
Now that would've made an interesting musical number
the high school musical x challenger connection has made my week
Yes. Just as I fall down this rabbit hole further, yes.
i honestly think so much of ethel cain, like that girl understands me and i feel so deeply for her
Namjoon: Pretty chill in the beginning, with time jumps at sudden scares.
Jin: Screams like an ahjussi every single time a jump scare appears, brushes it off like nothing happened.
Yoongi: Doesn't give two shits, finds the movie mildly amusing. Probably aready asleep.
Hoseok: Scared shitless, probably inside the couch cause he's too afraid.
Jimin: Formed a ball with himself by crouching to his knees, hides his face at scary scenes.
Taehyung: Literally just a huge ass koala and snuggling up to everyone and probably just latches onto Jungkook cause everyone else shoved him away.
Jungkook: Bored AF. Wants the movie to get over with so he can play overwatch.
It is here.
I CANβT WAIT TO GET MY COPY (in a month probably)
THE ALBUM IS FUCKING GOOD I CANT.
Jungkook: Hyung, will the next one be posted tomorrow?
Rapmonster:Yeah most probably.
*Next day*
Bighit:Oh let's not wait too long lets surprise them.
*after uproar of second picture*
Bighit: let's do it again *evil smile*
β΄ January 23, 2025. βΛΰ·
While this is a transposition that has nothing to do with Seneca's entire statute, I firmly believe that Charlotte Wells's film is so multifaceted that it allows for opposing and complementary readings of its characters in equal measure.
ββββββββββββββββββββββ ΰ¨ΰ§ βββββββββββββββββββ The situations are pleasant, simplistic yet heartbreakingly human, with Calum's (Paul Mescal) tender witticisms and his father jokes concealing conflicts that slowly escalate into their reality. The film shows us, without much fuss or show, that time does not heal everything, that we are happiest in our memories because they sometimes fade for our sake. What are we but the pictures of our happy moments, or the silly dances in places where no one knew us? Aftersun is a subtle visual and narrative treatment of pain, but it does not completely erase it. Like time, the film navigates in our memories, in what we may have overlooked unintentionally or by force. We are Sophie in the past and in the present, sometimes also Calum, trying his best not to ruin the moment at the cost of our own peace.
It would be foolish to pretend that this coming-of-age film, full of emotional mirrors for the viewer, is a film of tissues and snot for the simple pleasure of appealing to our empathy.
Aftersun works on a micro level with vital elements such as nostalgia and loss in all its forms. Action, or the lack of it in the face of different situations, is also what makes Wells' work so special, for aren't we the ones who deform past events to the point of unconsciously changing them? the ones who miss not having noticed things we couldn't intervene in? The powerlessness of an isolated space like the present of the past, Sophie's position as a child not allowed to help her father, and Calum's willingness to keep everything to himself in order to make her happy.
The intimacy of the film goes beyond the superficial analysis of its subject, because visually it feels alive, with a pastel, almost dreamlike texture, and a camera that allows the characters to exist in silence, to be more than their careful dialogue. The lighting plays an important role in the expression of the characters' minds, like the clue that is removed by the first experience, which, from a spectator's point of view (like Sophie's), makes all the sense in the world. His narrative does not replace the aesthetic, but accompanies it, without in any way overlapping it.
One hour and forty-two minutes condense weeks of experience, years of pain and the innocence of two characters who are nothing more than ghosts to us and to themselves, and all that time is not enough to heal the emptiness Aftersun leaves in its viewers or to dry the escapist tears of those who say they never cry at the cinema. It's a film to live and relive, because your own memories will be there, and it will look more beautiful with every viewing, even if it hurts.
-ΛΛ philocalistherzΛΛ
I have a personal vendetta against daily pass. Like what the FUCK do you mean that if a webtoon is complete you will slap me with a charge to read an episode. FUCK OFF NAVER.
i hate daily pass so much. wdym i cant binge re-read my favorite webtoons??? i dont have the type of patience to wait a day between episodes. GIVE ME BACK MY BINGEABLE COMICS WEBTOON
in the words of katya, βhereβs the thing about being gay: sometimes, it gets sad.β
Namjoon:Studies animals and understands the intricate values.
Hoseok: Freaking out at the reptile house.
Jin:Makes dad jokes and tells them to the animals.
Jimin:With Jhope at the reptile house and calming him down.
Jungkook:Trying to imitate the animals and having the other members laugh at him.
Yoongi:Spiritually relating to the sloths at the zoo.
Taehyung:Going so wild after seeing animals that the zookeepers think he is one on the loose.
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