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welcome to the era of superlaziness (opens the original)
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The most irritating part of my life at this moment is that friends have started to sound AI mediated, movie storylines feel empty, and news articles come with no texture. The weeknight pasta I tried to make a few weeks ago from an online recipe tasted like the off-the-shelf never-fail shit I used to make when I was twenty-five and wouldn’t eat anything that didn’t come off the front page of Buzzfeed.I mind that everything around me feels so flat and lifeless. I mind that it has inspired me to wr
what happened to andrew kevin walker? (a se7en epilogue) (opens the original)
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I’m an Andrew Kevin Walker girl through and through. If I had to pick a favorite “screenwriter boy,” if you will, it would absolutely be Walker, the mastermind behind my all-time serial killer fave, Se7en. Evil is crafted to be so frightening in Se7en not just because it is evil, but because it is ordinary — “he is still just a man,” as William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) described it. Walker’s unique perspective that evil is cheap, petty, whiny, annoying, and tiresome, rather than majestic or sup
top 30 final scenes (ranked by how much the protagonist had it coming) (opens the original)
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Every year, as I cautiously accept the world’s impending ending, I find myself asking the same question over and over again: did this person deserve that. Sadly, given the fact that the past few years have been the years of Grift™, making did they deserve that? is the question to end all questions. It’s one I ask, on average, about five times a week. Did Melania’s exec producers deserve that? Did Lauren (yes, that Lauren) deserve that? Did Sam Levinson deserve that? You bet your beautiful ass. I
my verdict on the odyssey (opens the original)
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Picture this man: Handsome as an expensive watch and unhappy as one, wound up tight. His job is to steal the dreams, to father the bombs (in leaner years, the magic). His wife is dead. If she isn't, give it an act. She keeps visiting him in blue light, wearing the dress she had when the clocks were better, and each time the plot pauses expectantly to let him suffer at the largest possible aspect ratio.He is obsessed. He is guilty about the obsession. It is the source of the crime that defines hi
rebutting the anti-identity theory of directing (opens the original)
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I've been thinking lately about the way people use one anecdote to flatten an entire conversation about any single topic online. Case in point, someone posted this on reddit a couple of months ago:<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="220" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch
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