ask me to eat you bones & all with your dying breath or DONT waste my time

Bones and All (2022)

Timothée Chalamet as Lee in "Bones and All" (2022)

you wanna be people?

"In a world that isn't ours

In a place we shouldn't be

For a minute

Just a minute

We made it feel like home

For a minute

Just for a minute

You made it feel like home"

Bones and All, dir. Luca Guadagnino // Crush, Richard Siken

Lee ❤️

“You want to be people? Let’s be people”

“Yeah, let’s be them for awhile”

im soo normal about this

lee begging maren to eat him. "it's the easiest thing, maren, love. love me and eat." that last shot of them together. love as consumption. im soooooooooooooooooooo

I’m curious about your impression of the very last scene in Bones and All, Lee and Maren sitting together out in the grass. I wish that it meant that Lee somehow survived his wound.

! BONES AND ALL SPOILERS ! 

Good question, good question. Thank you for asking it in my inbox 🙏

My first — and main — thought is that this last scene is more about some edit/4th wall thing that about the storytelling itself. My idea is that, as filmmaker, you must think about your last frame as much as you think about your first. Probably even more about your last, because it’s the thing your audience leaves with at the end.

So my guess is that they wanted Bones and All to end with a more tender note than Maren eating Lee on the floor, because that what they wanted their movie to be about — their love, the nature, and the beautiful colors of the American sky.

That being said, there’s more to say about it if I try to think more deeply.

For me, seeing Maren eating Lee and seeing them hugging naked in a field is the same scene told two different ways, speaking to two different sensibilities. I’ve completely agree with @694699 when she linked the eating part to the cmbyn quote saying something like "I believe every cell of your body should live and die inside my body" or something like that. For me, Lee asking to be eaten by Maren and Maren eating him is all about that. About Lee continuing to live in some way through Maren and her love (bitting my tongue so hard) for Lee keeping him alive inside her. Until she dies as well. I don’t know if the scene is the same in the book and written to encourage that kind of interpretation or if it’s a conscious or an unconscious move from the movie writer or if it’s a simple coincidence but it’s a link that can be easily drawn in my opinion.

So when we see her wrapped around Lee in the last scene, we see an illustration of that feeling as well. So for me it doesn’t mean that Lee survives. Not in a literal way, at least.

Lee + blood >>>>

love how maren’s friend invites her over for a sleepover bc she mentioned she wants new friends and maren goes to the sleepover and eats her friend’s finger that’s so real of her actually

For a minute....just a minute....

You made it feel like home.....

bones and all (2022) // crimson peak (2015) // titanic (1997) // star wars: the rise of skywalker (2019) // stranger things: season four (2022) // wonder woman (2017) // rogue one: a star wars story (2016) // romeo + juliet (1996) // interview with the vampire (2022)

Worm has released its stranglehold on me long enough for me to sneak in a cannibal movie, so we are temporarily back to our regular programming, folks!

Bones and All (2022) fucks. Going in, I thought it was going to be something like she was a girl, he was a member of the texas chainsaw massacre clan, can I make it anymore obvious? But it turns out NO! this is a vampire movie!! I mean, they definitely eat people. Chomp right into their flesh. But like, other than that, basically the same as vampires. They can smell each other out and everything.

There’s a lot to love about this movie. Here’s a numbered list. I do recommend watching this movie without being spoiled for it, which the below will do.

1. The movie looks great. The scenery is beautiful, the people are beautiful, and the houses are gorgeously rumpled. The paint is peeling and there are dishes in the sink. The movie feels lived in. Moreover, there’s consistently really interesting, unusual shots being framed. POV’s of a car on the road, wide shots of conversations you cant hear because of the background noise, sudden cuts to the exterior during a fight.

2. The movie shows you, over and over, people biting into people’s bodies. The act is not softened by cooking, like Hannibal, or elided with the metaphor of blood drinking, like Interview with a Vampire. Skin stretches. Blood oozes. It rocks, because a lot of the movie is dedicated to the question, “Am I good?” And you can’t shield your eyes from the horrible thing that they’re doing. You have to evaluate whether they’re good while knowing how gruesome their lives are.

3. The movie spends a lot of time asking “Am I good?” I feel like a lot of the vampire media I’ve read and watched dismisses or avoids that question, by getting blood from animals, or donors, or willing participants, or by saying “yes, because I’m different, superior species than humans.” Bones and All lays out the three options: eat, kill yourself, or commit yourself to an institution that will keep you locked and drugged up. The protagonist’s mom decided on the latter. The protagonist decides on the former.

One answer to “Am I good,” is “no, and you disgust me, because you eat people without having a compulsion to.” Maren is just as much a cannibal as the normal human, but if she tries to resist eating, eventually her hunger takes over and she bites her friend’s fingers off.

Another answer to “Am I good” is “no, and I’m leaving you over it,” when Lee accidentally chooses a man to kill who has a wife and kids. It didn’t matter to Maren when she thought he was single, it only mattered to her when she saw the people who would be impacted. It’s reminiscent of their conversation in the slaughterhouse, about how pigs have parents, children, and friends. Maren was hungry, so Lee found someone for them to eat.

Another answer to “Am I a good person,” is “I would have done what you done, and the only thing I know is I love you.” That’s a goddamn good answer, because like…they are murderers. The question, in this case, is a relative one. Lee isn’t asking whether it’s ok to kill and eat people, he’s asking whether it was ok to kill and eat his dad. Maren feels guiltier about killing and eating people in general, and so she gives him the real answer.

Since Maren has decided to live, she has to make her peace with cannibalism, but she definitely think that there is better and worse cannibalism. Compulsion, mitigating the impact, protecting the people you love. That’s what it all comes down to for her: love.

4. That’s what everyone in this movie is looking for, love. Marten’s dad leaves her, and she goes looking for her mom. Lee’s dad and Maren’s mom try to kill each of them, and they find each other. Sully’s been alone all his life, and goes after Maren. Cannibalism is very real in this movie, but it’s also a metaphor for loneliness. Being a cannibal drives you apart from normal people, and most other cannibals. Either your violence drives them away or your differing views on what the rules are drives them away. Lee’s final wish as he’s dying is to be eaten, bones and all, by Maren. It’s a way for him to be with her forever, as a part of this once-in-a-lifetime euphoric experience. It’s her reentry to loneliness, but it’s also a consummation. Compulsion, impact, love. The perfect meal.

10/10 absolutely delicious, I already want to watch it again.

thinking about how in the midst of such violence and chaos Lee and Maren’s love was so pure and innocent oh my fucking god. they go to a fair together, they’re road tripping, they talk over coffee and swim out by the lake. “I sang to my girl in that truck”, “you learned to kiss in that truck”. Maren and Lee were the safest among the stars and the grass and it was when they were trapped by nuclear family, the psych ward, Sully they were in danger. The only house that was safe was in the one abandoned and alone by their family-less victim “love has no room for monsters” and Lee died in their kitchen where they ate.