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the girl can be seen just listening to his voice, your face focused on hers, she’s got tears welling in her eyes, she’s trying to keep things together because there’s people everywhere — but right as chester crescendos: all her past memories of chester’s voice and linkin park helping her through the toughest moments of her life just come completely flooding back into her reality.

you can literally see when she raises her hand back up to cover herself from crying, her hand is visibly having a tremor (shaking uncontrollably) right as chester’s voice crescendos it was safe for you to cry, dear.
it’s beautiful.

and chester himself knew that, every single person he saw out in the crowd, that singular girl and hundreds of million more worldwide.

a lot of people of people in this world deserved you chester: but i don’t think the world itself deserved you. you were too good for this world. rest easy, chester.

this video deserves more attention.

one of the most overlooked and underrated sci-fi and mystery films. very few films in this genre can capture your attention the way this film does.

the acting is up to where it is expected to be by every cast member, the direction is very well done (we know to expect that by danny boyle) and the soundtrack:
the soundtrack is haunting.

“faint” is also the 7th track on meteora (007).

thought it was pretty cool.

“I don’t know, sometimes you feel like a total waste of space really when you just look at people with proper jobs. And then you go, “What the? What am I doing? Flouncing around, putting on voices, and dressing up.” But people need to go to the pictures, and people need some sort of escape. Artists don’t let people down like politicians let people down and bankers let people down.

The quality of the work may fluctuate, but they keep making it. They keep trying and they keep giving some sort of succor, I think, you know? Kind of overpaid and there’s a huge amount of stupidity and hot air that, that surrounds it all and a lot of that, I don’t, you know, subscribe to.

But, I think sometimes a film or television series can change someone’s life. Now, if you can do that through a piece of art, then I feel like you’re giving something important back.”

out of all the “big four” slashers, three all share one thing in common: they’re basically not human.

• freddy is outright supernatural.
• michael is technically human, but he’s portrayed with superhuman strength and durability.
• jason literally dies and comes back, and his physical power is beyond anything human.

leatherface is different. he’s not superhuman — he’s just a massive, mentally stunted man who acts out of fear and confusion as much as aggression. he’s dangerous because he’s huge and brutal, not because he’s supernatural.

that’s why Sally and the 1974 film feel so uniquely grounded. her “final girl” status isn’t a miracle against an unstoppable monster; it’s a believable escape from a horrifying but realistic threat.

you’ll never meet a freddy, jason, or michael. but leatherface? a deranged, violent man in an isolated rural environment? that’s something that could happen — and probably has.

that realism is what makes the original texas chain saw massacre so dreadful. every viewing feels familiar, like something you could stumble into by accident. the film’s aesthetic, tone, and characters make it feel less like a slasher fantasy and more like a nightmare pulled from real life.

(however, i will just as confidently say the 2003 and 2006 films have the same tone to them as the original, too. which is fucking great.)

because the widely agreed upon opinion is that he is clearly intellectually challenged — i don’t disagree with this necessarily.

but, are there any moments from any of the films (any of the films that matter, at least.) that demonstrate instances where his intelligence is clearly shown as deficient or even perhaps circumstances where leatherface’s iq is actually shown to be somewhat clever? any moments that come to mind?

because i do suppose “clever” can mean something completely different for everyone, and for leatherface specifically, who is usually seen as clearly intellectually deficient — are there any scenes in which he is actually outshining that? or not really?

true detective - “the secret fate of all life” (1x05)

as requested. i’d like you all to really consider both episodes, if any of these images shown can recollect your mind — which of the two episodes do you feel is more incredibly written?

the thing is: breaking bad’s season 4 finale, and true detective’s fifth episode — i personally believe are very close, if not at the exact same point in each story when considering true detective is only 8 episodes.

and because true detective is written so fantastically, the story never needed 62 episodes, only 8. breaking bad is clearly in the upper echelon of writing, though true detective in general does not get talked about as much as it is due for.

especially the fifth episode. so i’d like to hear your reasoning for which prevails. how did you feel watching each episode?