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screen-studies

DERMOT MULRONEY as Michael O’Neal My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)

#okay hold on a second

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vicshush

[ID: A photo of a white t-shirt [design by Arcane Bullshit, per the notes]. Against a green background of grass, hills, trees, and cattails, dark grayscale birds (including some kind of wading bird), dragonflies, and turtles are arrayed. Large black text reads "The only bank I trust is" across the top and "the riverbank" across the bottom. Smaller black text underneath 'riverbank' reads "I gave all my money to a turtle! It just swam away." /end ID]

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dogsmouth

enough about the eroticism of cannibalism what about the eroticism of parasitism. this is our body because i live in you.

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historyandmemes

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than half a million people in Gaza — a quarter of the population — are starving, according to a report Thursday by the U.N. and other agencies that highlights the humanitarian crisis caused by Israel’s bombardment and siege on the territory in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. The extent of the population’s hunger eclipsed even the near-famines in Afghanistan and Yemen of recent years, according to figures in the report. The report warned that the risk of famine is “increasing each day,” blaming the hunger on insufficient aid entering Gaza. “It doesn’t get any worse,’’ said Arif Husain, chief economist for the U.N.’s World Food Program. “I have never seen something at the scale that is happening in Gaza. And at this speed.” ... At the start of the war, Israel stopped all deliveries of food, water, medicine and fuel into the territory. After U.S. pressure, it allowed a trickle of aid in through Egypt. But U.N. agencies say only 10% of Gaza’s food needs has been entering for weeks. (Dec. 21, 2023 | Source)

DON'T LOOK AWAY.

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duncebento

sailermoon

i love the way the universe works sometimes

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need to watch more movies like the killer of dolls and beyond the darkness 🫶🫶

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weirdlookindog

David Rocha in The Killer of Dolls (El asesino de muñecas, 1975).

#the killer of dolls #horror #films

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marypickfords

The Killer of Dolls (Miguel Madrid, 1975)

#the killer of dolls #horror #films

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wombesties

el asesino de muñecas (1975) dir. miguel madrid

#movie of all time…..#the killer of dolls #films

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omg this client and their private caregiver…. i’m going to kill myself in front of both of them.

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whenmagicfilledtheair

Stumbled on this blog of a London-based human right's observer's trip to the West Bank in 2013. While there she was attacked by settlers who threw a bucket of bleach at her group, witnessed Israeli soldiers detaining and harassing Palestinian children, and talked to a 13 year old who was detained for 10 days and beaten after his house was raided at 3am. This was 10 years ago. It's only gotten worse since then.

You destroy the soldier himself

“You destroy the soldier himself” That was the response of Munir, a Palestinian who is faced with Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint opposit

Melanie Ward in the Middle East

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museenkuss

Okay, this is twitter so we can't expect sources, but No 3 is "Heimkehr" (Return home) by Hans Adolf Bühler, painted in 1940.

I've seen this painting around a few times lately and as a (German) art historian I'm asking you to please be mindful of the art works you consume online. Art is and always has been powerful because it invokes emotions in us. Artists have always used that fact. We talk about media literacy so often on here, but that extends to other forms of art as well (beyond the written word). What do we see? Why did the artist depict the scene in this way? What can we assume about the artist's intentions?

For one, the man is a dead soldier, as we can tell by the title, the uniform, the general atmosphere. So he's the odd one out in this collection of lovers embracing, right off the bat.

Secondly, the title, the date and the general atmosphere raise some red flags - it's a blond youth heroically dying for the good of the country, in the arms of an equally blonde woman. Everyone is beautiful, young, soft, lovely. And as wikipedia tells us with one quick google search - "Hans Adolf Bühler was a German painter and National Socialist Kulturpolitiker."

In other words: It's a painting of a young, clean, beautiful German soldier, dying heroically, painted during the 2nd world war by a nazi artist-politician. It's soft, it's sentimental, it's painted in the traditional style favoured by the Nazis (as opposed to "degenerate" modern art) and it's intended to send a message. Let's try to decipher those messages in the paintings we see in the future!