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welcome back the four people from 2022 the goldfinch tiktok!!!!!! bro i used to edit so much of tgf.. i loveeee my doomed queer couples! pls come back the goldfinch 😞
It's basically 1 Am, and I'm laying on my bed, sobbing and thinking, damn, I still love Theo Decker with my whole soul.
He's a lil bitch but hey! nobody should blame him for that!
yes, the rumors are true...i want to h*g Theo Decker
Bitches be out there crying because of a painting. It's me, I'm bitches.
What kind of heroism did we do in our past lives? Because we really don't deserve Oakes Fegley as Theo.
Oakes = beautiful
Me = broken
Andy and me dancing on Mrs. Barbour's expensive carpet while Theo is crying in Platt's bedroom.
Can I just meet Andy Barbour? We could talk in Japanese and complain about complex kanjis, sing and dance to vocaloid songs and have an anime marathon!!
That's my desire, I mean, Donna created him so he could be my weeabo mutual!
I hope I'm not the only one who is in love with the goldfinch's cast, I couldn't ask for any other better group of actors. Everyone I just so on point. I have to admit that (physically of course) I thought about some characters in different ways, for example, Hobie, but I don't have any complains, so I want to get my fangirl mode on:
Talking about Hobie: that man, Jeffrey, brings such an innocent and caring touch, just like the Hobie we know from the books, it's just too pure :(♡
I WANT TO TALK ABOUT NICOLE KIDMAN. Yes, THAT WOMAN IS ALL I EVER DREAMED OF MRS. BARBOUR OMG. She seems like a mature person and also looks gorgeous, she's Mrs. Barbour and I'm PROUD
My baby!, the precious!, Ashleigh Cummings!, as Pippa! OMg. Her performance on NOS4A2 is amazing, you should see it! It's an interesting but underrated show :( she plays Vic (the protagonist) AND SHE'S SO BADASS, but in tgf she's just a beautiful softie like my bby Pippa, I think she's going to do it amazingly :')
Talking about Pippa, I have to give a shoutout to Aimee Laurence! Unfortunately, I haven't seen a lot of her, but physically, I think she's great, I don't know if any of you remember, but when Theo sees for the first time Pippa at the museum, he obviously describes her. He says that yes, she's pretty, but there's something in her, the shape of her face, her eyes, the case she has... Of course he makes himself a lot of questions and Yaya... But I think that Aimee seems great, she has an interesting vibe and in the trailer the way they portray the shape of her face.. stunning.
Do I really have to talk about Finn Wolfhard? We know he's going to kill it, he's amazing, he is the young Boris we all could have imagined and he really seems to be into his role, he talked about how this was actually the first time he had to look for accents, and how to portrait a personality like Boris', I think he'll do great.
My sweetie pie ANEURIN I love him so much I don't- I don't even have to explain, I mean, didn't we all were like OMGDMIDHS when we first saw him talk in the last trailer? his other's roles were amazing and he's gonna come to slay in front of our faces. We don't deserve this man, we don't, I love him bye.
And, of course, my beloved Theo. I really really really love Theo, with all my heart, he's one of the most important things in my life (but we'll talk about it later, don't worry) and I only ask them to do him justice (and the movie). But Oakes???? This??? Really??
Just kidding, if you think I'm going to complain about my boy Oakes then you're wrong, VERY WRONG. At first, I was captivated by him, the way he looked in those clothes, I have so many expectations on him, He's the perfect guy for young Theo, I can't even try to think of any other young actor to be young Theo, he was the chosen one, and it's so disappointing to see a lot of people complaining because their favourite actor didn't get the role. I'm excited, I'm looking forward this kid Fegley to be Theo, He is the boy.
Ansel Elgort.. I saw a few people complaining at him because he didn't look like what they were expecting, but I think he's great, I know he's a good actor and Ansel and Oakes are pretty similar, even the Ansel himself said that he thinks they have a similar vibe and he can truly believe they both are the same person. I remember showing a friend them, and she was agreeing to similarity they have.
And besides that, Ansel also seems good (more than good) as an adult Theo!
Also, Nicky Torchia as Tom Cable, that's it.
Of course there are more actors and characters, but I needed to talk about them (Sarah as Paula?? SHE'S BEAUTIFUL I MEAN-) (and Ryan as Andy is so uwu). This cast, has my whole heart.
But what about you guys? What are your thoughts? I would like to read them, if annoying.
All these clowns actually think it's fine to drag two young actors just because they're doing what they have to do in their jobs?
And all these ladies who are in the same position as I am, (which is not being famous), think that their lovely Finn Wolfhard is from their property so he can't date anybody or kiss anyone in a film?
Well, guess I'm the wrong here, sorry for think that these actors are people with feelings and just good intentions on working for a movie.
Andy: そろばんでこの式が解けますか?
Theo: of course, you had to be a weeb
Boris: А ну, чики-брики и в дамки!
Theo: are you fucking kidding me?
Theo: Oh, Pippa, at least we both speak the same language!
Pippa: I know! Anyways, which is your favorite music piece? I'm totally into Arvo Pärt right now, don't ask me why, but have you heard palestrina??? Omg it's just too good,, sorry, I was too excited.. are you into classic music? At least I'm sure you have heard of Dmitri Shostakovich, He is my icon I love him so much did you know..
Theo: I hate my life
I appreciate how dedicate Finn stans are but seriously, there's nothing wrong if you watch the movie because he is in it and there's also nothing wrong if you're not interested in the book, but please.
I understand how much you like him and how proud are you of him, he's such a great young actor with a great future.
But in the trailers' comment section I only see
"OMG FINN", "WAIT, IS FINN GAY?", "IS FINN KISSING A BOY?"
Yes, fellow people, he's kissing a boy, BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT OF THE MOVIE/BOOK. You see, there's like 1 minute of video (or more, depending the trailer) of this tiny boy with glasses who is suffering because he's tormented after his mother's death and because he stole a painting which means a lot to him.
but yeah who cares about Theo right? He isn't the protagonist or something
I think we love gay stories and stuff, of course, I was like that when I started to read the goldfinch but, the more I read the more I was into Theo's story, and I absolutely know that it's a fact that all of the internal homophobia Theo has and his story with Boris is absolutely important for his life.
But again, the more I read it, I was more interested in Theo's behavior, his feelings, than if he fucked or kissed a guy.
I’m watching Tgf and Tom Cable literally says “my mom blew up over that shit too” about the cigarettes are u fucking kidding rn, like… idk how I didn’t notice before
I am so emotional over the goldfinch…like so so emotional..but I have to do homework!!!!
"More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing on the edge of my tongue, the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying it out loud to him in the street—which was, of course, I love you."
– The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
Theo and Pippa tumblr bloggers, one in secret the other sooooo so open and proud.
"I got 360 notes on my last post Theo!"
"oh wow that's so awesome!!" *got 1869 notes on his last post but can't let anyone know what the post was about or that he regularly uses tumblr*
We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I’d met him was that he was never afraid.
boris: [putting out cigarette in the ash tray, hasn’t showered in 2 weeks, vomit on his shirt, black out drunk, calling popchyk slurs]
theo: the way boris leaned over, collarbones creating dark pools at the base of his neck. his nose a strong aquiline with the barest suggestion of having been broken like some ancient bronze statue of a greek boxer. he seemed to me like a divine being who had come to earth only by mistake, perhaps as a punishment for some heavenly crime or another. anyways, I tried writing a letter to pippa the other day but had nothing to say so I gave up.
A lot of people seem to cite Boris as the character who gets Theo into drugs and kind of brings about his subsequent drug addiction, but this is ignoring that by the time he meets Boris, almost every adult who is supposed to take care of him has already drugged him.
Page 111, "Mrs. Barbour had started giving me a little green pill called Elavil that she explained would keep me from being scared at night...(it strikes me now, though it didn't then, that Mrs. Barbour was well out of line by giving me unprescribed medication on top of the yellow capsules and tiny orange footballs Dave the Shrink had prescribed me.)"
His caretaker, Mrs. Barbour, teaches him that he should treat his grief with drugs. His mental health care team assigned by the state treats his grief with drugs (I think Xanax, which is pretty addictive.) Granted, he's in therapy at this time as well, and I'm not trying to malign the sometimes necessary decision to put minors on prescription drugs for mental health, but combined with Mrs. Barbour, it contributes to the sense that adults give him drugs for being sad.
Page 218, just a couple hours into his father's custody of him (and after his father and Xandra have already once let him get drunk), his father and Xandra see he's scared in the airport, link it (partially correctly) to his trauma from the museum explosion, and conclude:
"Why don't you give him one of those, you know."
"Got it," said Xandra smartly, stopping to fish in her purse, producing two large white bullet-shaped pills. One she dropped in my father's outstretched palm, and the other she gave to me.
By the time Theo meets Boris, every adult responsible for him since his mother's death has seen his grief and trauma, and told him, through their actions, that medication is the answer.
When Boris gives him alcohol and drugs, he's doing it for similar reasons, (page 333-- "I slightly wished we had picked another night to take them, but Boris had insisted it would make me feel better." and page 351, offering him coke, "It'll make you feel better!") But Boris is about the same age as Theo, and, like Theo, has learned to self-medicate from the adults around him. Out of everyone who offers Theo drugs (actual prescriptions from Dave aside in this point), he's the only one who believably doesn't know better.
But one key difference is that Boris, of all the people who give him drugs, is the only one who really engages with and witnesses Theo's grief and trauma. Getting drugs from Mrs. Barbour and from his father are both intended to dampen his outward symptoms because they are inconvenient to others. It's to help him push everything down. When Boris gives Theo alcohol, it actually brings out his true feelings, and Boris never seems inconvenienced by this or unwelcoming of it (page 280-281, "Sometimes, in the night, I woke up wailing...Happily, Boris never seemed annoyed or even very startled when I woke him").
So, while Boris imparts bad drug and alcohol use habits to Theo, he's not the one who gets him started self-medicating. Of all the people around Theo, he has the most limited resources by far (financially, psychological coping mechanism-wise, etc). In fact, he needs help himself that he never really receives. Despite this, he's the only character who really hears Theo's experience and offers all the resources he does have to help.
Goldfinch obession has surpassed "Damn, someone I know needs to read the Goldfinch already so I can scream about it!" And reached a new, previously unknown level of "In truth, maybe it's better no one has, because it stops me from grabbing their arm and begging them to get in the car, come on fuck it, one seven hour flight, we'll be eating breakfast over Amsterdam when the sun comes up? A forty-five minute drive to the Hague, and we'll be on a transformative journey to the Netherlands, looking at the Goldfinch?"
thinking about how theo used boris’ home phone number as the passcode to the locker where he (thought he) kept the goldfinch painting aka the physical manifestation of his heart... so every time he went to see the painting he would have to think about boris... donna you really crossed a line with that one... !