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oldfilmsflicker · 8 months

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new-to-me #616 - Knives and Skin

#2023 in films #Knives and Skin #Jennifer Reeder #52 films by women #directed by women

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firespirited · 7 months

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Do you like the colour of the (neon noir) sky?

I think Knives and Skin was possibly the worst possible film to try and watch with low focus. i sat through it to spite my own brain which is an irrational thing to say because the person forcing themselves to mentally eat sawdust was very much me, and I could feel myself splitting and violently forcing myself back from dissociation to focus on every detail to try and wring meaning out of it.

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Remember that fad for super slowed down music? The thing it worked best on was ultra textured orchestra pieces, anything else was just sound... but long. This was the bad kind of stretched.

Tartovsky makes the deliberate choice to make you aware of time in some of his films by making it ache but he's doing it for a reason to make you feel heavy or to linger on the surroundings - Cosmos Panatos does something similar: it's supposed to be unpleasant so you feel relief when it stops.

The time-dilation-ache doesn't work here because Jennifer Reeder doesn't focus on the two people for whom the horrible wait of finding the corpse would be relevant. As such, it should have been at least half an hour shorter: this wallowed without letting the right characters wallow. It could have been truly brilliant as two or three character focused music videos or as a 20 minute short.

There was potential here, potential that we see realized in Perpetrator with the same actors harmonizing, same oddball worldbuilding and oddly enough, the same exact lines.

I have had my time wasted by worse films, this at least had the decency to give most characters some minor growth, if not tying up the dozen loose ends... but I'm afraid the worst sin was drowning the impact of grief under layer upon layer of dragging aesthetics (way too much slow motion and drone) and that felt like an insult to both the characters and the viewer.

4/10 - everyone involved is worth looking out for in future projects. I can't recommend this other than an exercise in endurance. Reeder is brilliant at short films btw.

!! To all art creators : editors are worth their weight in gold. Some art benefits from the extended edition, most other times? swallow your pride and trust that the edit has been designed to pack the right punch.

#knives and skin #movie reviews #saf

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mwagneto · 1 year

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funniest part of the knives out movies is when blanc is like ok enough nonsense time for me to reveal the truth *starts stripping*

#can't point out the murderer if you dont show some skin #glass onion #knives out #knives out 2

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uselessimpulses · 4 months

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something something plant membranes as clothing so hes n akey

#im literally brain rotting to the point that ive made an extensive gdoc to work on research for the anatomy of plants #like not only for the love of making the plantussy work but like #because i need to know how they work #like he doesnt need to eat or drink like vash in tristamp so i need to figure out how his organs are in a dormant state or stasis even #the draw of energy and where the requirements for rest are #also he doesnt wear clothes we see the blend wheres his d k at #like i fully believe its not a real bodysuit like clothing i think its like a second skin membrane sort of situation #but im just insane abt it rn he confuses and intrigues me #trigun stampede #trigun maximum #trigun #millions knives #tristamp #trimax #also plants not having a gender or being hermaphrodites technically im so !!! full of the need to research

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sinematically · 1 year

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made this post for sapphic reasons

Edit: assume this post says “working class/woman who destroys the rich”, and not WOC ‘cause I got it wrong. Ana de Armas is not a WOC — she’s Caucasian and of Spanish/Cuban descent which is her ethnicity.

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texaschainsawmascara · 3 months

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curiosity-killed · 21 days

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caught in the middle

[ALT ID: A digital illustration of a Plant from Trigun screaming and weeping as Knives' hand rips their hair back and Vash's hand cradles their cheek.]

#thinking thoughts abt plants #this is not actually the drawing i wanted to do #but i can't quite figure out how to do that one #partially bc i'm struggling with plant skin tones #and partially bc i am. a little bit #psyching myself out #anyway #have some sibling fights!#my art #trigun #vash #millions knives #trigun plants

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theonlypristine · 1 year

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(source: joni thrombrey’s wiki page)

if they’d kept this scene in knives out

no one would’ve said that benoit “i ordered snail jelly moisturizer and it gave my sensitive skin a rash so now i’m suspicious of this company” blanc

was straight-coded/“not obviously gay enough”

i think rian johnson should reveal the bblanc skincare routine immediately

#knives out #glass onion #benoit blanc #daniel craig #joni thrombey #toni collette #rian johnson #i have a petition #what is babygirl blanc’s favorite skincare product #does phillip have to buy stuff for him because he doesn’t have a damn clue how to shop for his skin type #is he a beloved regular at sephora #does he always get drunk elephant bc it’s the only thing he remembers and he can afford it thanks to sugar daddy phillip’s money #i need to know

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millionswive · 5 months

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I'll never shut the fuck up about this Knives' outfit.

Going feral

#goth Knives my beloved #trigun manga #trigun knives #millions knives #trigun maximum #trigun #BARKING #i have a mask kink #trigun stampede #i need a TriStamp version of this outfit asap #ARF ARFR ARFAR FRRR GARARAAFFATA #sex with clothes on IM JOKING PLEASE #can't wait to have this kind of Knives tattooed on my skin/srs #giggling and kicking my legs

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puppyeared · 3 months

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i have an idea for a character design but what animals are usually associated with medicine??? the most common answer i got was snake, but i also thought of lab rats/mice, rabbits etc

#snake has the longest history with medicine especially since its shown on the rod of asclepius and the myths around venom #i also didnt know this but their shedding skin is referenced as symbols of rebirth and growth while their appearance resembles an #umbilical cord which gives it a really strong connection to health in some cultures.. although if i had to think abt modern medicine and #pharmacies the first thing i think of is white lab mice like pinky and the brain. for some reason i also thought of rabbits #bc of how its used for anti animal testing logos but thats more loose. however i did learn that the jade rabbit is shown to #use a pestle and mortar to create medicine in some stories so that could work...???? but its not as well known i think #i also thought of possums but that was more of an irony thing. same for bats but both are ironically really resistant to disease and act #as carriers. a death symbol like vultures or ravens/crows might work with a plague doctors mask but i feel #like that isnt the vibe im going for. black cat would be interesting considering superstition but im also on the fence abt that #actually what else is associated with medicine?? normally its stuff like pills crosses bandaids syringes etc #doctors coats and gloves.. especially plague doctor masks or medical masks in general but not much else huh #hand sanitizer and tissues.. pill bottles... blue nurse uniforms.. gauze and casts with signed names... hmmmm/.........#nurse dresses..??? sure?? i also see scalpels and knives but thats more for like. horror doctors for scary stories #im going for cute maybe even regular ass doctor vibe. like harvey sdv. or tony tony chopper #yapping

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cleocatrablossy · 1 month

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PIRATETIMEPIRATETIMEPIRATETIME

they are theatre kids your honor

#I got more out there as I got more tired of having to do this and just decided to tack on more design notes #I’m gonna say they all have different sashes for guns and knives and stuff but I just didn’t add them here #impulse looks so boring here hhhhh I’m sorry I’ll admit I don’t watch his videos much and didn’t know what to add #my art #grian #impulsesv #tangotek #geminitay #goodtimeswithscar #zombie cleo #pearlescentmoon #7 drunken pirates we’re the 7 deadly sins #my desire for historical accuracy vs my desire to match the actual Minecraft skins #please assume all non-traditional sailors clothes are stolen and were altered during down time #I think I accidentally made them all orange but I also might be loosing it because I spent so long in this #I should probably stop using bright red as my fill-in color #almost none of the extra things are practical but they are scary and there are stories of Blackbeard tying fuses into his beard and the who #-le thing of pirateships having so many people was to be scarier to get a surrender ASAP so actually it sorta works(?)

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millionsnife · 10 months

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@orangetintedglasses || this isn't new kansas, totoro

There's something almost tangible in the air; some sort of heaviness or... something, that pricks at every sense Knives has between one step and the next. He's not entirely sure, but he suspects that he's just been hit by one of those stupid fairy cats and their pranks that his brother's human had described on more than one occasion.

He can already tell this is going to be incredibly annoying.

A glance behind his shoulder reveals nothing but blank sand and dunes for miles, confirming his suspicion with the lack of farm he'd been at only a few steps ago. With a sigh he starts walking; it's time to find a town or something. Anything that can help him figure out exactly where he is.

An alternate timeline, he decides half an hour later staring at a vaguely familiar town. He knows these people, or at least a version of them. None of them greet him as usual though, so definitely not his version of reality. Still, at least he can get a tea or something at the local cafe. He knows for a fact they're good, and the cherry pastries they make are almost as good as–

Aaaand there's a face he wasn't expecting. (In retrospect, he should have. She'd said they would drop people in the one place that'd cause the most chaos just for their own amusement. Of course dropping him in the vicinity of an alternate version of his brother would be funny to them.)

"At least try not to make a scene in public," Knives suggests, before this other Vash can react. He doesn't actually know that he will make a scene, but based entirely on his own brother, reminding him of innocent civilians in the area was usually a good way to avoid getting a gun pulled on him. "There's an alley three buildings down, I'll meet you there after I get my damn pastry."

He hopes he lets him get the pastry.

#main verse;; plant like me #orangetintedglasses #adventure time;; how to skin a cat #Sometimes a man made of knives just wants a pastry but the fae decide to fuck his day up

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scarmille · 22 days

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via ig

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lateraniansweets · 1 year

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okay hear me out hear me out

Nai learning how to cook for you.

Millions Knives, big scary Plant man busting out one of those how-to-cook-for-beginners cookbooks and attempting to cook you a meal.

Since he himself doesn't it he doesn't quite Get It. Like why do humans spend so much energy and resources to prepare their food? Why are there certain foods that are meant for this and that occasion?

Still, he tries his best to whip something up and he decides to go with something he deems suitable. Think, a dish that's delicious but not too complicated to make.

At some point, while preparing a meal he's low-key questioning his sanity because again big scary Plant man is trying to cook for a human. Ew.

(Nai is smitten and down bad but he'd rather die than admit that.)

He won't burn down the kitchen or something but he'll accidentally damage the counter once or twice while chopping something up.

His name is literally Millions Knives, HE CAN MAKE A MILLION KNIVES but he's subpar at using kitchen knives. If he's cutting up potatoes or carrots into squares it'll look like shit fr.

Nai will set the table up all fancy once he's done cooking.

Though he only sets up one plate and that's for you and for you only. He doesn't eat, eating is below him.

(He is watching you eat happily wee)

Eventually, cooking becomes a regular thing for you. Sometimes you'd do it together with Nai doing the meal prep and dishes while you did the actual cooking.

Sometimes and I mean SOMETIMES Nai does eat something and its usually pastas or noodles.

Man hates the feeling of chewing or eating in general so consider it a miracle that he even CHOSE to eat.

He does pick up baking at some point and you guys had banana (are banana's even a thing in trigun) bread for WEEKS.

Overall, he's a great cook but don't expect him to make his own variations/recipes.

OKAY THAT WAS LOWKEY A MESS BUT I NEEDED TO GET THIS OUT. this might be ooc but who cares knives needs a hobby that isn't ominously playing two person piano pieces in this weird space onesie as he plans the destruction of humankind.

#trigun stampede x reader #trigun x reader #tristamp x reader #trigun imagines #nai x reader #nai x you #millions knives x reader #i want to punch this man.#my friend said that knives should've been absorbed in the womb because he's ugly #how tf does his tristamp outfit even work??? is that his skin??

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duncanor · 1 year

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Vash the Stampede is never beating the transgender allegations after this episode.

#trigun #Trigun stampede #Tristamp #Vash #Vash the Stampede #He's ftm #But at what cost #The horror #It's the horror #Knive is not beating them too #Skin tight outfit and he got no cock and balls?#That man has either a pussy or nothing at all whatsoever #Fascinated

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halffizzbin · 5 months

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The more times I re-watch Lost the madder I get that ANYONE still wants to leave the island once they discover there are showers and processed foods. What more do you even need? Smartphone-induced insomnia?? Office jobs????? Robocalls??? Vacuuming???? INCOME TAX????????

#I am specifically referring to the characters without any family or decent relationships back home lol #but like #I have parents and a sister and nephews and a cat #and I'd still be like. Not in a massive hurry #sure if you're not a main character there's like a 1% chance you get offed by an Other or Smoky or dynamite but is it worth it? Maybe!#and I would be forced to redirect my stimulation-junkie ADHD brain away from stupid shit and just obsess over learning new skills lol #teach me how to butcher a boar or something I'll get SO good at it just WATCH me #it will be all I care about for weeks until I find the next thing like throwing knives or tying knots or hand-to-hand combat #I won't have to grind my teeth over not being able to contribute to my Roth IRA EVER AGAIN #Do you even KNOW how many cool spiders they have in tropical locales?#My skin and my curls look SO good in humidity #JACOB #I WANNA GO #DO YOU HEAR ME JACOB????#Lost

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