クライング フリーマン/CRYING FREEMAN
CHAPTER 5 — Art by Ryoichi Ikegami
Crying Freeman: Portrait of a Killer (1988) // dir. Daisuke Nishio
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Things people don’t talk about enough from the Hunger Games:
- Many of Katniss’ strongest allies are women that are over looked by others (Madge, Rue, Mags, Wiress)
- While Katniss has a strained relationship with her mother, her mother is never demonized. Katniss recognizes the trauma her mother went through and was willing to try to improve their relationship in CF
- The rebellion didn’t start with the berries. The rebellion started when Katniss showed compassion towards a dying, black girl that the world had already written off as unimportant
- One of the beauty trends in the capitol that Katniss finds odd is the shaving of body hair. When her leg hair grows back in CF, she expresses comfort in it.
- Katniss’ character arc throughout the series is her understanding of who the enemy is. It isn’t the rich people in district 12, or the other tributes, or the other districts, or the people in the capitol. It’s the government and it’s Snow.
- Katniss never wanted another hunger games with the kids of the capitol. In that meeting she recognizes Coin’s commitment to perpetuating the cycle of violence. She votes in favor of it to cover her plans of killing Coin.
- The violence in the books is SUPPOSED to feel random and unfair. Prim being reaped was supposed to be against all odds because in the real world, violence is indiscriminate.
- Gale is a victim too and was not solely responsible for the death of Prim. He spent the first two books feeling helpless as he watched people he loved be put in danger and suffer. Coin offered him a way to regain control. At the end of the day, Gale is only 18 and doesn’t realize the depth of the games being played.
- Katniss is great with kids and actually enjoys being around them. She says the only reason she doesn’t want them is because she can’t imagine them being put in the hunger games. Her having children in the epilogue is a sign of her healing and finally feeling safe
The defintion of hell is knowing a show is incredibly well-received in its first season, but if people don’t become machines churning out tweets, content, and rewatching 24/7, there’s no likelihood it’ll get a chance to tell its whole story. This shit is madness. Shows in different genres shouldn’t have to pit-battle for dominance. First seasons are MEANT to be baselines establishing worlds and characters, not complete storylines. The idea that this golden age of television has turned into “get it done in one or get out” is revolting.
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.”
— Stephen King, The Stand
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SISSY SPACEK as CARRIE WHITE CARRIE (1976) dir. Brian De Palma
My favorite It (book) Quotes
Mike: “ I’m almost done with this diary now-and I suppose a diary is all that it will ever be, and that the story of Derry’s old scandals and eccentricities has no place outside these pages. That’s fine with me; I think that, when they let me out of here tomorrow, it might finally be time to start thinking about some sort of new life… although, just what that might be is unclear to me. I loved you guys, you know. I loved you so much.” (page 1142)
Bill: “so drive away quick, drive away while the last of the light slips away, drive away from Derry, from memory… but not from desire. That stays, the bright cameo of all we were and we believed as children, all that shone in our eyes even when we were lost and the wind blew in the night. Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness. “ (page 1150)
Eddie: “Far away. Unimportant. He could feel everything running out of him along with his life’s blood… All the rage, all the pain, all the fear, all the confusion and hurt. He supposed he was dying, but he felt… ah, God, he felt so lucid, so clear, like a window-pane which has been washed clean and now lets in all the glorious frightening light of some unsuspected dawning; the light, oh, God, that perfect rational light that clears the horizon somewhere in the world every second…… Not bad, he would begin. This is not bad at all.” (page 1086)
Stan: “I believe in the scarlet tanagers even though I never saw one,”he said in a high clear voice. The bird screamed and banked away as if he’d shot it. “Same with vultures, and the New Guinea mudlark, and the flamingos of Brazil. I believe in the golden bald eagle!” Stan screamed after that. “And I think there really might be a phoenix somewhere! But I don’t believe in you, so get the fuck out of here! get out! Hit the road, Jack!” (page 1046)
Richie: “He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unsuspected fissure in what he had considered a solid life— how easy it was to get over onto the dark side, to sail out of the blue and into the black. Out of the blue, and into the black, yes, that was it. Where anything might be waiting.” (Page 71)
Ben: “I'm scared almost insane by whatever else I may remember before tonight's over, but how scared I am doesn't matter, because it's going to come anyway. It's all there, like a great big bubble that's growing in my mind. But I'm going, because all I've ever gotten and all I have now is somehow due to what we did then, and you pay for what you get in this world. Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for...and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.” (page 83)
Beverly: “she laughed at the stars, frightened but free, her terror as sharp as pain and as sweet as a ripe October apple, and when the light came on in the upstairs bedroom of the house this stone wall belonged to, she grabbed a handle of her suitcase, and fled off into the night, still laughing.” (page 124-125)
Patty: “Crazily, she thought: I would call the turtle, but the turtle couldn’t help us.” (page 57)
[it - stephen king // blood brothers - bruce springsteen // dead poets society (1989), dir. peter weir // maurice - e.m. forster // stand by me (1986), dir. rob reiner // bobby jean - bruce springsteen // no surrender - bruce springsteen // the body - stephen king]
Bruce spinning, stripping, and dancing as Clarence plays during “Rave On” at the No Nukes concert.
my hand is empty now
“Dirty Leaves” Richard Siken // My Own Private Idaho (1991) // Sue Zhao // Evening - Maurice Pirenne // “Hurt” Johnny Cash // heavensghost // Happy Together (1997) // “The Touch” Anne Sexton