Weapons

I almost left about 30 mins into this movie because I felt a panic attack that has been bumbling beneath my surface all day, I haven’t been able to get out my head and accept that maybe this is all there is and that’s ok, instead I have been hyper fixating on everything wrong with me and my life on an endless loop and the only solution I can think of that makes sense, is to kill myself. And as I rummaged through my sack of endless shit for a pill that I forgot to bring, the movie scared the shit out of me and I was able to turn my brain off and distract myself. And that in a long winded personal and stupid way is why I love horror movies so much. The distraction from the fucking horror of being less than ordinary.  I really wasn’t sold on this movie until I saw a red wig. And I’ll say nothing else but that’s when this dials up to about 1 billion. I cannot imagine a more fun character to play and it was all so totally believable.  I haven’t been this impressed by a movie since The Substance, this year has been so completely crummy movie and life wise, the only other movie I really have loved with my entire being is The Ugly Stepsister, but Weapons truly impressed me on a gigantic level. I cannot believe it exists and I can’t believe people are saying this isn’t scary, yall think together is scary but not this?! Ok…. I wish people would stop comparing this to Magnolia/ every single other fucking movie. Shut up. It’s its own thing, entirely.  Amy Madigan, I didn’t know you had that in you, but I am so glad that you do. Blew my brain and heart wide open. Best storytelling I’ve seen in quite sometime.  Life could always be worse, you could have an aunt Gladys!- my new anti kill self mantra Edit to add that I love what this says about selfishness and how we are ALL weapons in others lives and especially in our own lives and pain has a way of coming back to us. People keep the pain more alive than others and spread and spread and spread until the entire town is infected. We are all, in many ways, parasitic.  I swear the more I digest this, I can’t help but be overcome by its brilliance.