The Bride!
"i just want so much, it's terrifying."unabashedly invigorating, riveting, disorientating, spellbinding, alluring… the most fun i’ve ever had in the cinema. i don’t get why this is so hated 😭, this was peak camp. it’s all the misogynistic men that don’t get it. jessie buckley’s range is so amazing
“never was there a tale more fine, than that of the bride and her frankenstein.”human’s are lonely creatures, we spend our whole lives looking for someone to love, to care for, to accept us for who we are, without being subjected to a box of suppression, subduing one’s identity. and as victims of oppression, be it through gender, or sexuality, or race, wanting and yearning for so much, wishing and hoping for certain futures and possibilities shouldn’t be a crime.
“where’s your fight, girl? where’s your rage? i thought you were a monster.”characterising mary shelley, the author of frankenstein, in the movie, as a tool and catalyst towards the bride’s awakening and agency of choosing her own identity (and starting a feminist rebellion), in this new life she’s been given, is probably my favorite aspect of maggie gyllenhaal’s stylistic worldview.
“i would prefer not to.”the concept of consent is also brought up. none of us consented to being created, to being born, yet the horrors of the world are thrust upon us since our inceptions. the same with victims of sexual assault or coercion. we have the autonomy to dictate the rest of our lives. so, we should take it into our own hands, to create our own destines, and write the sequels to the rest of our lives.
“there’s is nothing left to do now but live.”