"blessings from my mother."

monkey man (2024) feat. "rivers of babylon" by boney m.

why should you go watch monkey man? well dev patel gets beat up continually for a solid hour before being brought back from the brink of death by a group of trans and non binary people who then help him kill and maim a bunch of politicians and cops. also there's one scene where he stabs a guy in the neck with a knife and then uses his teeth to slit his throat

in monkey man when dev patel makes the final confrontation he asks "do you know my mother's name? do you know any of their names?" and that's when it hit me...his character has no name and we've gone the entire movie without him ever identifying himself that way. when you give up a part of yourself for a righteous cause, losing his name so he can fully embody hanuman...yeah this movie is so good

two things about dev in monkey man is he will be biting everyone and he will be quiet.

Monkey Man spoilers.

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There're two details I noticed while watching the movie that are just way too cool to not talk about, aiding the narration of The Kid and the ending.

1, in one of the flashback scenes, his mother held his hands and gently map out the root lines inside his palms and told him that these lines tell a human's future. We learned that Monkey Man's hands are burnt trying to save his mom, he no longer has visible root lines. His future died alongside his mother.

2, aiding to the bit above, another flashback screen has his mother asked him what would he like to be when he grow up. We saw him answering, but we never heard or made it out what he wanted himself to be when he's grown.

Just. Beautiful and heartbreaking scenes + symbolism.

I'm a brave enough woman to admit that when Dev finished shoving a knife into a guy's throat using his mouth, I wondered for a half second if I'm REALLY a lesbian

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"dev patel got an eye infection crawling around on the floor in the bathroom scene of Monkey Man" is the new "viggo mortensen broke his toe kicking that helmet in The Two Towers". btw. if you even care

I'm so glad that y'all are so into Monkey Man and the badass hijra priestess army, but friendly reminder that hijra are NOT trans women. Hijra are their own distinct gender; trans women are women. India has both :)

the dev patel girlies have KNOWN how hot he is for years and years but the little giggle I heard from a grown man seated next to me when he took his shirt off in monkey man tells me it's truly over for everyone else. god bless

Save me dev patel..

I can't stop thinking about this movie 🐒💥

Save me bianca del rio....bianca del rio....bianca del rio save me

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