This World Is So Funny

Not me scrolling through the Conclave tag only to see no one talk about the deliberate positioning and framing of the women in this movie.

Pulling up this movie I completely expected to only encounter Sister Agnes as the one woman we see in the trailer, the conclave a space that has been kept from the female members of the church. Now, color me surprised when I started the movie and most of the establishing shots we got were focused on all the women working in the Vatican.

And it is such a deliberate choice, it does the film a disservice not to talk about it.

Because while Cardinal Lawrence is having his fifteenth breakdown during sequestering and Bellini finds the ambitious asshole within himself, Ray does all the leg work, and Bel---- we see the women work.

We see the kitchens, we see them cook, we see them stand aside. Most of the time when the Cardinals are conspiring it is the women who interrupt because they are busy working, walking, running errands.

And there is power in that.

I think it is very deliberate how often (and with such lingering gaze) the camera shows us the lives of the other half - partially to connect to the wider themes of the movie, on how Bellini asks for women to get more power but never thanks them, and how Benitez stumps them all by thanking the women preparing their meals when asked to say the prayer (considering his own probably tumultuous relationship to gender within the church).

But it also stands in direct opposition to a long tradition in story telling: servants don't exist. How often the heroes of a regency romance are "alone" because the two hand maidens and three maids don't really count.

Conclave doesn't do that.

It doesn't let us look away.

Between all the petty drama, the politics, and the real life consequences of the conclave, we never stop looking at the people doing all the work.

Yes, we follow the ups and downs of Lawrence and Co, but in doing so the movie reminds us again and again of the women working the kitchen.

And that was just such a powerful artistic choice in a movie about a famously misogynistic church... I loved it. And I had to talk about it.

no looking back, orpheus. you promised ▋

have you ever heard of the ‘group effect’? how people are more attractive as a group but if you take them as a singular person, their flaws are magnified and they become wholly less appealing?

that’s osamu but opposite.

osamu’s so cool when he’s alone. respectful and kind to elders, engaged in children’s conversations. he knows how to haggle the most intimidating vendors, can fix a leaky sink, and appreciates drawings made by 5 year olds.

but then you place him in the same room as atsumu and then you realize he’s one half of a whole idiot.

View between villages. Posting it here because apparently the YouTube video is unavailable in some regions agajsbs

fun fact: a group of starfish is called a galaxy

LISTEN LISTEN nerdy gojo x bad boy geto

gojo rich boy and a nerd, especially in physics + he has vision problems (unlike in canon XD) at first he annoyed geto, but... suddenly he can defend himself and is very sharp on the tongue, which ultimately captured geto

you know what!!!! the absence indeed becomes a presence!!!!!!

Gregory Alan Isakov- Words

i love when a song is an acquired taste. you can listen to something once and go huh. there's something here even if im not quite ready for it yet. and you listen a couple more times. and then bam a couple weeks or months or years later you listen, youve finally worn the song in and it's the most beautiful thing you've ever heard

what will it be, boss? the comfort of misery or the pain of change?