yellowjackets fucks severely because the major plotlines are like: a flock of teenage girls lives out their very own hatchet nightmare scenario, black lesbian politician’s campaign for state senator is stymied by cannibalism accusations, recovering addict teams up with sadistic nurse true crime failgirlie to discover their mysterious blackmailer, and shauna has a sexy milf adventure :)
people always mention how jackie had to die because she was too caught up in the social hierarchies of the old world, but laura lee also had to die because she was the only competing spiritual presence against whatever mystical force is keeping the yellowjackets in the woods and rewarding them for their worship
Yellowjackets is the greatest show of all time it has everything it has cannibals it has lesbians it has the unarticulated shared agony of a past none of you can bear to face it has tripping on shrooms in the forest with your high school soccer coach because the world is ending anyway it has all the hatred and desperation and psychosexual longing of teen girl friendships laid bare it has a homoerotic baptism/abortion scene it has regret so profound and painful it haunts you for life it has deeply tumultuous relationships built on a decades-long trauma bond it has leaving part of yourself out there in the woods and not being able to get it back it has a part of yourself that you never wanted to see again following you home from the woods and not being able to escape it it has murderous wilderness cults it has killing everything you love it has book club
Yellowjackets is the greatest show of all time it has everything it has cannibals it has lesbians it has the unarticulated shared agony of a past none of you can bear to face it has tripping on shrooms in the forest with your high school soccer coach because the world is ending anyway it has all the hatred and desperation and psychosexual longing of teen girl friendships laid bare it has a homoerotic baptism/abortion scene it has regret so profound and painful it haunts you for life it has deeply tumultuous relationships built on a decades-long trauma bond it has leaving part of yourself out there in the woods and not being able to get it back it has a part of yourself that you never wanted to see again following you home from the woods and not being able to escape it it has murderous wilderness cults it has killing everything you love it has book club
One thing i loved about this All Quiet On The Western Front adaptation is how they focus on food.
There’s a scene from the book that i will never forget about how the rats crawled on their faces while they slept to get to the bread stored under their pillows. That imagery has been with me since i read it back in high school. And i know starvation and food rationing is a common aspect to focus on in war movies, but i really love how this film handled it.
Whenever we see soldiers eating in this film, they are huddled together, eating quickly, messily. They are grateful for the smallest morsel. They steal food. They risk their lives for food.
Whenever we see the wealthy, the politicians, the older men who are not in the trenches eating, there is tons of space between them. They eat elegant dishes. They are in no rush. They sit alone in the fancy dining car of the train with all their courses laid out. They sit the entire length of a great dining table apart while chatting casually about their upbringings. They complain about their perfectly good croissants not being freshly made that day. This meal is not life or death for them. It’s not snatching a hurried bite under the worst conditions imaginable, with another blood-stained, mud-covered soldier by their side; it’s a leisure activity with no sense of community. No impending doom.
yeah i like horror but it’s horror as a way to explore loss and grief and love and death and fear and loneliness and religion and human connection and time and desperation and goodness and greed and corruption and addiction and memory and self and change and beauty and control and peace and life and god and eternity and guilt and forgiveness and i could go on but yeah, yeah i do like horror
it’s a treasure island prequel but there’s also historical pirates in it but it’s about so much more than pirates it’s actually a story about the suffering of marginalised people under colonialism but it’s also about legacy and how stories shape our past present and future and
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