First Kill knows exactly what it is an who its for. Its doesn't waste a minute trying to please anyone outside of its intended audience. It plays the classics but its not afraid to shake things up and tell the story it wants to tell. And I really admire that. I would rather watch something made with a budget of thumb tacks and paperclips that has the courage to be itself than a million dollar block buster with no heart. That's my favorite thing about it.
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No thoughts, just Vegas posing Pete to fuck him the same way he posed him the first time he offered Pete tenderness.
...No wait okay I lied I have a lot of thoughts actually, because there are other parallels between these two scenes and they're quietly driving me insane:
Pete telling Vegas to set him free by letting him die vs Pete telling Vegas to set him free by binding him
Vegas leaning over Pete with a pill in his mouth vs Vegas leaning over Pete with a condom in his mouth, when the pill was a promise of change and no further harm
(I could rotate the second image 90 degrees to show the visual parallel better but hell if the tilted camera isn't tipping me right over the edge into madness, along with Vegas framed directly between Pete's arms on bottom and the chains wrapped around his ankles on top. This post isn't meant to be about framing, but asdk;lfsj;lkj)
Pete looking up at Vegas, mutinous and trying to understand his actions, vs Pete looking up at Vegas both willing and completely aware
And afterwards, Vegas settling on the floor facing opposite Pete and meeting his eyes with a chain visually splitting them apart vs settling on the bed beside Pete and meeting his eyes with nothing in between
"Why did you lie to stay here?"
GRAY SHELTER (2024). EPISODE FOUR.
I’m not joking when I say: masochism as a survival tactic. masochism as a skill. masochism as an upper hand. life is full of pain, those of of who’ve figured out how to enjoy it and transmute it and use it are so fucking ahead of the curve.
Let's just stay like this.
the korean web drama Fragile that was first announced as korean remake of Skam and then was retracted as such and advertised as its own show (with similar model of airing and themes) premiered
i skimmed through episode 1 and plainly, it is Skam. not just similar or reminds of, but a really damn faithful adaptation of the show, remade with korean filming style and mood. the story, characters' profiles and traits, relationships, the storytelling style (like intro speech about societal problems of high schoolers), showing the date of events in the beginning of a clip, the airing model with bonuses on social media, it's all identical. we have a korean Eva with horrible insecurities and loneliness, korean Ingrid who makes her feel like shit in classes, her boyfriend korean Jonas whose affection she is so unconfident about
korean Isak is very possessive of korean Jonas and his feelings can be seen like 5 kilometers away so i assume if it's renewed for more seasons we will see a gay storyline later too
korean Noora briefly appeared in the middle of the episode too and seems to be as cool as the original which thank god, korean Eva is gonna need her influence badly
if anyone is a Skam fan and wanted to watch back when it was announced and got discouraged when it was retracted as a remake, you can do it. as long as they don't suddenly go completely different way in episode 2, it's Skam Korea
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