>>6087527>NONSTOP GOTH RAINIn 2024 the only way to make audiences watch opera, listen to classical music, is to present a concurrent murder spectacle bisect a helpless security guard's head with a sword, gun down his colleagues amputate their limbs. The opera is apparently Robert Le Diable (1831), hmmm
I actually quite liked The Crow (2024) there are detailed gore effects, several head severings etc. If you saw the youtube trailer you have already seen the entire film, FKA Twigs does a Calvin Klein underwear advert, sample dialogue: What sort of tea is hard to drink? "Realit-tea" ; "If I am ever hard to love, remember to love me harder" someone inevitably plays Chopin raindrop prelude (why?? urgh) the actor bloke from 30 Days Of Night plays a sort of Faustian pact sorceror-vampire but he never really offers much threat or menace, the robot concubine lady actress from aapl Foundation is in it, numerous scenes of self harm (in fact, the film appears to be an exercise teaching a younger generation to effectively self-harm themselves) you can perform erotic plastic bag asphyxiation it is perfectly fine, overdose on drugs leap off a bridge improvise a razor blade toothbrush, all depicted as cinematically normal indeed to be encouraged among the viewing audience. Dozens of crows were made to fly through rain, also as in all films: torture a horse, I hope all those animals were digital. The EVIL carry umbrellas, the hero walks around rain-sodden.
The film initially portrays the eponymous protagonist as being rather inept at fighting, this was convincing but I was momentarily confused by the very first target of his murder / love-vengeance (some corrupt police detective) the lighting blur noir visuals made him look a bit like he was strangling Emmanuel Macron, just a weird facial resemblance. Why do undead goths hate opera, umbrellas, Emmanuel Macron? Maybe it was just me. There is a scene where the lovers escape from a pink clothing gender identity prison then liberate themselves with goth clothing or Calvin Klein underwear, also some criticism of successful black matriarch women in this film. It is ok, the black mother woman kills herself. yay?
Perhaps it is the influence of scenes like this pic related
>>6086300but you know in every climactic moment when the protagonist is locked in a DEATH-STRUGGLE with the villain, the culminating FINAL BATTLE, will he DEFEAT THE EVIL / RESURRECT HIS TRUE LOVE?? etc it is hard to stage or even watch these scenes without them appearing gay. It is just the homoerotic insinuations of two men entangled interlocked with each other grasping clutching sweating and grunting ggrrr arghh grraarghh etc IT WAS YOU YOU KILLED MY BELOVED GGRRARRGGH it just seems a bit gay. Then there is some additional imagery where you penetrate an enemy with a sword STUCK INSIDE YOURSELF like a phallus it just becomes incredibly undeniably a visual gay metaphor. Maybe all villains should be women?
