Blink Twice

[Stormy]

Wonderful movie but I’m still uncertain if the character Lucas was a victim of rape or if he’s a perpetrator.  For those who’ve sent the movie, what do you think? 

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

It was...  Okay.

Tatum's face continues to get more and more bloated looking, leading me to believe it's either booze or just a hard life.

[Manhattan]

Idiotic, nonsensical story telling.

An unattractive leading lady, because well, you know...

A trigger warning because Motion Picture Ratings aren't enough. We need to virtue signal on top of that, because who would expect a horror movie to have violence?

Another story of female empowerment like Barbie and Poor Things in which the woman fights the Patriarchy only to reenforce it by taking it over and behaving the same way the men did.

A suggestion that there might be homosexual activity! But we can't show it because gay men are a problem for Hollywood right now  

Please reject movies like this. It's 2024 and we could tell interesting stories about all kinds of people if we supported good directors and writers with imagination. 

 

 

 

 

[SoCalBaseball]

I’m in a phase of just feeding uplifting content to my mind, and it’s been incredibly helpful in so many ways. I've noticed a pleasant shift in my overall mindset. It’s amazing how much of an impact what we consume has on our mood, mind, and outlook, most things by the entertainment industry lately drag us down

[SirBillybob]

On 9/9/2024 at 9:44 PM, Stormy said:

Wonderful movie but I’m still uncertain if the character Lucas was a victim of rape or if he’s a perpetrator.  For those who’ve sent the movie, what do you think? 

Blink once and it could be one plot line, twice and could be another. Maybe nepo baby Kravitz didn’t clearly write in nepo-baby Hawke for a reason.  Ambiguity ensued.

He wears the perfume intended to wipe memory yet castigated by Slater for standing by when the females were victimized. All characters’ knowledge of enacted reality is transient. Yet he could be called out for paralytic inaction over which no recollection could be accessible other than that implied by Slater; how could he actually interpret that indictment? Can’t really. Yet you can’t blink at all or you’d miss why Slater had transient non-redaction of recall. 

The flower extract nullifies recall and snake venom from a random bite or that is curated as antidote to perfume reverses erasure. That’s the cartoon plot device that pushes the otherwise non-credible narrative along. 

Binary victim-perp categorization is confounded all round. At first glance it appears gender-stratified yet Stacy (Davis, a known face of #metoo anti-misogyny in real life) is perp adjacent and perfumed, and the old woman (the sole undrugged) is allied with Frida. Lucas may have been a token option for victimization but could have remained in a neutral zone according to whether he was a desirable for those cast as predatorial or whether he had a similar predilection for exploitive cruelty as most of the males. Similarly, it is unclear whether perps paid for the privilege or were all simply pawns of Slater and his Machiavellian shrink.

Whoever saw dead people didn’t later.

My take is that Lucas simply didn’t fit in due to mostly decent majority membership and most on the island had not been selected via vetting anyway. At the risk of plot-spoiling, Lucas’ outcome was unrelated to any particular intentionality of any type directed his way. In a consensual context I wouldn’t have particularly deemed him fuckable. 

Edited September 24, 2024 by SirBillybob