So the job I thought I had was just taken away from me. The entire company was laid off. The CEO gave zero fucks abt us. We’re not getting paid. I feel so sick. My bank account is in the ducking negative. None of this feels Real. Please if anyone out there can help I’m not ok by any means and I need help getting my meds and today was the absolute worst. My cash app is $shiesa my Venmo is $shiesac my PayPal is [email protected] I’m in such shock I still can’t breathe.
I feel numb tbh. I wanna die but I know that won’t fix anything. So here I am asking for help.
having seen jordan peele's three movies at this point im pretty sure the way on-screen gore and violence is used pretty sparingly is part of his style. and i like his style a lot, but the way so much of the gore is kept off-screen works SO well in Nope (2022) specifically
like for one thihg, having some of the most gruesome/terrifying parts of the movie happen just outside of the camera or blocked by something in the shot definitely elevates the horror. gordy attacking jupe's co-stars is all blocked by the set, we only see the shadows of everyone getting sucked into jean jacket, and even tho we see them inside jean jacket a little bit, it's more to show us how they were being kept alive. we don't actually see them die/get digested. and because none of these things happen on-screen, our brains connect the dots and come up with the most horrifying shit we can imagine
but even outside of just how Not Seeing The Scary Thing Makes The Scary Thing Scarier, it fits fucking thematically with the whole movie. we don't need to see the gory gruesome details of someone's death to know what happened to these characters, showing these things on-screen wouldn't add to our understanding of the plot. it would just be a spectacle of gore and pain and the whole point of Nope is condemning the act of pointing the camera at suffering to exploit people's pain
antigone //
black sails //
amc's interview with the vampire //
washing machine heart by mitski //
“i’m ‘wife’— i’ve finished that” by emily dickinson
orestes //
interview with the vampire by anne rice