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Tár (2022) dir. Todd Field

ma'am

THE LAST OF US 2.04

THE LAST OF US 2.01 "Future Days" (2025) | THE LAST OF US PART II (2020)

can't blame him for failing in this timeline

(uploaded this on inprnt btw!!)

The funniest part of Sinners was when the Native Americans just said “yeahhh good luck with that”

I'm going insane

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remmick and the vampires present a false dichotomy

Hogwood (the man who sold the twins the mill) and the KKK are very obviously bad, they are outright malicious bigotry, they use the n-word and plan to lynch the moore's and their community, they are so blatantly racist and hateful it's unavoidably obvious

remmick and the vampires however say that they believe in equality, say that they want to create a community, and yet remmick's goal throught the movie is to both metaphorically and literally steal sammie's ability for his own goal of reconnecting with his irish ancestors, a white man wants to harm a young and upcoming black man and use talents for his own goals without giving any regard to said black man's autonomy or agency

when sammie sings 'I lied to you' in the juke joint and calls forth the spirits from the past and future, it's a blend of cultures; west african, east asian, native american, and african american song and dance blend together across time and space to tell the stories of blues; where it takes its inspiration from, the music genres it then inspired, the complex history of black american culture and its intersections with other peoples of colour in the USA

when remmick and the vampires kill and turn the people in the juke joint, and then perform rocky road to dublin, only remmick's irish culture is on display, there is no influence from the black and asian people he has forcibly assimilated into his song, it's juxtaposition with the earlier scene is blatant, remmick is more than happy to assimilate people of colour into his 'community' of 'equals', and yet its only whiteness that is celebrated, that is normative

remmick claims that he's doing people a favour by turning them immortal, conviently ignoring that he literally has to suck the life out of them to do so, trapping their spirits on earth, he claims that he's the good guy, that the KKK were gonna come and lynch everyone at the joint in the morning anyways, conviently ignoring that he's doing the exact same thing; a white man leading a mob to kill a bunch of black people

in the final confrontation with sammie remmick repeatedly dunks him into the river, a forceful baptism. both the celtic irish and enslaved west africans had their religions suppressed and destroyed by colonialsm, had christianity forced upon them by the british empire, and in that scene we see remmick repeating that cycle, using christianity to inflict harm, and sammie reclaiming christianity, despite all the complex emotions he has arround it, as many colonised peoples have and still do, when he recites the lord's prayer

remmick and the vampires are no less racist than hogwood and the KKK, are no less predatory or evil, they're just less blantant about their bigotry, they represent the system, the normalised white supremacy that is seeped into the very foundation of culture in america, the point isnt that remmick would call any of the black characters in the movie the n-word, i dont think he would, the point is that his exploitation and desacration and inserting-himself-into-when-he-wasn't-invited of the juke joint is a microcosm of what white people have done to black american arts and culture since ever since there have been black and white people in america, and even before that

theres a reason vultures are shown early on in this movie

Something that a lot of people forget about Sammie and Remmick is that Remmick didn’t only want to take Sammie’s musical ability, he also wanted to give Sammie a piece of him. He wanted Sammie’s gift but he also wanted Sammie to have his gifts. He wanted Sammie to see what he saw and to see what Sammie sees. He wanted what’s essentially a spiritual marriage.

“I want your stories, I want your songs, and you gon’ have mine”. He didn’t say “I want your stories, I want your songs, and you’re gonna give them to me” he specifically said that he’d have Sammie’s stories and Sammie would have his.

Now excuse me while I go sob about them

smoke x annie were everything to me

Wunmi Mosaku's London promo looks for Sinners | Part 2

Woke up, still obsessed with Sinners.

Seriously, if you ever wanted to ask/wondered:

What and why our music means so much to the Black community, the roots from the past to the present

Why it's so deeply insulting to deal with the cultural appropriation and disrespect of Black music, given the depth of that meaning

How we use language, history, and context to determine when somebody ain't kinfolk despite pretending

How you might be allowed to forget that you're white, but we aren't allowed to forget that you're white, and that frames our interactions with you

How your allyship can fall oh so uselessly flat, no matter how well intentioned you may be, if you refuse to understand your position within the game

Why what scares you as fantastical is often a living nightmare for people of color, and how that history and social context can weave a horror story that hits close to home (I have a whole lesson on that!)

And more, go watch that movie 🙏🏾

pedro getting emotional over how all the crew and bella crowded around him on his last day of shooting IM SOOOOOO UNWELL

THE LAST OF US 2.01 — future days

me and my homies support real artists who put their passion into their pieces instead of a machine who rips off the hard work of talented peeps

Doechii before going on stage at the AT&T Block Party during the 2025 NCAA March Madness Music Festival, on April 4, 2025, in San Antonio, Texas

TIMEBOMB again

Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova in Thunderbolts (2025)

✨🐈 Slinky kitty 🐈 ✨

Viktor Art

Go piss girl

"it was in 2020" oh so like a year or so ago. a couple years. im sorry 5? did you just say five? five years ago ?

i love it when fish are like

Zaun vik and Jayce

pirate timebomb but make it extra soft

Unus Mundus