all those layers of silence upon silence

Saltburn (2023) dir. Emerald Fennell

film n°29: My Own Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant, 1991

Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.

…even when you are all alone.

Keira Knightley as Anna Karenina (2012) dir. Joe Wright

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Keira Knightley in Anna Karenina (2012)

films without faces: Maurice (1987, dir. James Ivory, cinematography by Pierre Lhomme)

the ocean was very cold today!!!!!

“Quiet, composed, graceful, discipline. These are the qualities we see in the good ones. These are the qualities we see in Mulan.”

First poster for Mulan (2020)

It may help to understand human affairs to know that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

GOOD OMENS S1E01 THE BEGINNING 

Everyone has free will, including the right to murder! Just think of it as a microcosm of the universe.

David Tennant as Crowley in Good Omens (2019)

Good Omens | 1.03: “Hard Times”

wide open field hold a special place in my heart

The truth doesn’t care about our needs or wants. It doesn’t care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. And this, at last, is the gift of Chernobyl. Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask… What is the cost of lies?

Chernobyl (2019) dir. Johan Renck

If it weren’t for you, I never would’ve survived my childhood. You would have.