Anne Carson, from The Glass Essay
52 International Horror Films
13/52: Cl*max dir. Gaspar Noé
2018 - Belgium
SAMARA WEAVING in Ready or Not (2019) dir. Tyler Gillett & Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
You have to go to the real world.
BARBIE (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig
“I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside me.”
— Christa Wolf, tr. by Jan van Heurck, from “Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.
C.S. Lewis
Alanis Morissette, Sorry to Myself/Haruki Murakami,1084
I’ve been on my knees since I was 5.
In the chapel,
in a bedroom,
in an alley late at night.
Always facing an inflated
godlike
version of some guy.
But as a girl you do what you need to survive.
You open wider, take the body.
Thank your father, you’ve been naughty.
2 Hail Marys, 20 lashings.
“I’ve been sent to punish you for daring to exist.
You will never know a love as meaningful as this.”
I’ve memorized
the lines
since I was 10.
From the Bible,
from the playbook,
from the magazines for men.
If you should mess it up, you’ll start again.
But, still, they only want
the women
they condemn.
I think that I’d have too much fun in hell.
With the pagans
and the hedonists
and sapphics there as well.
Purgatory seems the better fit
I can’t stand waiting in the corner,
but I do love being hit.
There’s not a torture you can prescribe
that I wouldn’t find
a way to like.
Every single second I’m alive
I’m sharpening an axe I’d like to grind.
“I was sent to punish you
for the way I was designed.
You will never know a love
that you fear more than mine.”
- “God Fear a Woman” 2023
EVIL DEAD RISE (2023)
Director: Lee Cronin Cinematography: Dave Garbett
