though without vocal chords

[eattheschoolboy]

it comes off poorly no matter how i word it but i really don't like when people look at stuff and reduce it to only being scary/unsettling (specifically about horror etc media) as 95% of it is telling a story & that seems to get thrown to the side for people's flismy first reactions. Hold on. This is such a Uh duh example because letterboxd is kind of a torture field anyway but i get this spurred on alot by looking at reviews on there. earlier i watched the grandmother by david lynch & it like genuinely gutted me i don't think i've ever been so pulled into a film before. so many of the reviews were just talking about how weird/unsettling/scary it is and it really doesn't come off that way to me at all. obviously it's stressful and grim to watch because The child abuse but it's so whimsically intriguing even so..

kind of jumping topics but watching or playing or reading anything and then looking at discussion about it online and seeing people completely neglect to mention very potent themes of csa/incest(ual abuse) in any way always makes me feel suuuper crazy. let's play question mark because on-screen abuse is never allowed to be shown on-screen because it's exploitative && evil but also if there's a metaphor or at least an allusion to it 1 it doesn't exist 2 you're making things weird by bringing it up also this gets notched up to twelve if it's csa and you get called a pedophile for noticing it

anyway back to letterboxd reviews in specific i don't think leaving a review with only your unthinking first reaction is anything to anyone. it feels so disrespectful. and the cringefail quirky one-liner attempts are on thin ice.some of you are very genuinely funny though so i'll let it slide