All Is Not Well

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
mod2amaryllis
mod2amaryllis

today's nope post: thinking about how i read someone point out the way we expect a cut to black during the star lasso experience, because that's essentially what happened with gordy. we weren't permitted to actually SEE the chimp carnage. it sets an expectation for star lasso which is horrifically shattered as we watch the people get sucked up, squeezed, screaming. that scene felt so gratuitous seeing it for the first time. i was shrinking in my seat hoping it would end. never ever saw it coming. how spectacular.

then i thought about what my husband said to me after we left the theater, and i was so so affected and scared by that scene, and he was ok. he loved it. and i started to talk about it and dissect why we had such different reactions, and he said something that shifted my brain on horror, cuz i can't always handle horror and violence on screen.

he said, "when there's something scary i just think: this was made for me to enjoy. people worked hard on it exclusively for entertainment."

and THAT'S when i really started to fixate on nope!!!! like..... you're right this is for me to enjoy!!!!

so tying that back to the disconnect between gordy's violence being hidden behind set pieces, followed by jean jacket's violence being all too explicit, it works SO FUCKING WELL GRRRRRRR gordy is rooted in reality this has happened in real life to really people. but jean jacket??? terrible and horrifying as she is, she was CREATED, she was written, she only exists for ME TO ENJOY.

it's like the movie saying, hey. spectacle is a double edged sword, and we're all addicted to it. so look at THIS look at this shit we MADE for you. like let's make art the spectacle, not people. let's create let's collaborate let's not exploit real actual people let's make the spectacle

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me watching the jean jacket scenes before the star lasso experience: wow, i think it’s kind of cool that the ufo sounds like it’s screaming as it moves around! really haunting stuff and makes it super eerie, i wonder if we’ll ever get an explanation on that. maybe has to do with the ship’s internal mechanisms or its aerodynamics?

me watching the jean jacket scenes after the star lasso experience:

A blurry image of Elmo with a horrified expression on his faceALT
podracerbarrelroll
podracerbarrelroll

Got around to watching Nope (2022) and Daniel Kaluuya’s character is literally so funny. A fucked up giant alien that eats people starts flying through the sky and terrorizing his ranch and he’s immediately like, “that’s a weird horse. Don’t look it in the eye.” Opens his car door to see it hovering overhead and just goes “nope” and closes the car door. Fucking falls asleep like that. Aggressive amounts of chill re: the giant flying alien that eats people, but try to make him do public speaking and he hides behind his gay sister like a toddler hides behind their mom’s legs when you smile at them at the grocery store. He’s going to do (1) interview and become a meme immediately and hate every second of it. OJ just wants to contemplate the mountains and train his horses in peace, and people keep making memes like, panel 1, you’re trying to print in a hurry, panel 2, someone has badly photoshopped him and the flying alien over it like “DON’T LOOK IT IN THE EYE.” Em ropes him into going on Jimmy Fallon or some shit talk show and the host is like, “OJ, what do you think of this meme!?” and OJ goes, “Printers don’t have eyes” and that also becomes a meme. He’s despairing. None of these people even care about horse safety. Angel is still there for some reason. Em has three girlfriends, and yes, they smoke weed.