Woke Up, Still Obsessed With Sinners.

YEAH BABYGIRL NEVER DID ANYTHING WRONG

if sinners (2025) taught me anything, it's that it IS actually always about race.

you can be oppressed, and still promote and maintain the very same systems of oppression onto other marginalized people. being oppressed in one dimension doesn't allow you to be exempt from oppressing in other dimensions. the "villain" of the movie, remmick, being from the time period of the english colonization of ireland, all the while wanting to take a piece of sammie's own culture from him, use him for it. and this plot point coming after remmick witnesses the significance of sammie's playing within his culture, for his ancestors and how it would shape Black culture in the future.

even in today's society, ive noticed that people treat Black people like a commodity. our worth is only as much as other people decide it to be, and that's usually dependent on how much the oppressor can take from us. for example, the controversy of"internet slang" and how it is blatantly just AAVE with a bad disguise on

do you listen to Black musicians? do you watch Black movies? do you engage with Black creators? do you defend the racist tendencies you notice in your friends, in your family, or do you stay silent? do you listen when Black people tell you you've said or done something racist? do you actually care about not being racist, or do you just not want to look like you're racist?

i just think people have a very specific take on what racism is, and that if they're not committing KKK-levels of violence on people, then they're not racist. or if you've experienced oppression in one form, you cannot possibly be engaging with oppression in another form. but the ways in which we interact with other people and the world will always be through the lens of race, because that is simply what it means for oppression to be systemic, especially in the US and our current political climate

anyway 10/10 movie. highly recommend

why so rodent

boy why so meerkat

the children yearn for stuilly

we deserved a better ending for billy and stu in scream. stu should’ve ran over to billy dying and confess his love for him and then billy says i love you back and then they hold hands until they both bleed out man fuck this movie and fuck sidney

um who was gonna tell me that french pop is fire? ‘tu mens’ and ‘le temps de l’amour’ by april march are so so so good

leo’s hair is CURLY and his skin is NOT PALE and he only wore overalls ONCE

I will never forgive Viria for making everyone think that Leo's hair is straight/wavy (it's curly) and that he wears that atrocious outfit (he wore it 1 time).

Everytime someone give him straight hair an angel lost it's wing and at this point it's a mass murder

i love seeing real analyses on challengers 😭 all of the “mike faist hot 🤤” stuff is very nice and relatable, but i like seeing people’s thoughts on the movie beyond just that

Art's relationship with food is so important to me. Obviously, we know tennis and Tashi keep him on a strict diet with all the electrolytes and the green juices and shit, just another way he's restricted in his adult life. But when he's with Patrick he eats all kinds of unhealthy fatty foods freely (honorable mention to how Patrick uses food for flirting). And I don't think it's not only a representative of his relationship with each of them, it's also a reflection of Patrick's and Tashi's personalities and how Art just absorbs them, does that make any sense??? The churro scene, Patrick saying Art's dreaming about eating hamburgers again, the barely touched Applebee's dessert. I think it's all so telling of their dynamics. But I don't know, I might just be obsessed with food.

And don't get me started with the oral fixation...

kali uchis’ “your teeth in my neck” is my new obsession. the song isn’t lyrically phenomenal but the way she can make a song about wealth inequality so sultry is amazing 😭 her voice is so smooth and raspy and the way she pronounces her vowels is so satisfying 😻

why is “keep on livin’” by le tigre labeled as “cry for everything bad that’s ever happened” on spotify 😭

it really frustrates me to think about how people are inevitably going to take Remmick’s one (1) singular statement about how much he resents the way the Irish were colonized and forcibly converted to Christianity and use it as fuel for “actually he had a point” and “he was right actually” and “he’s not really the villain here” posts, when the whole point is that Remmick is, through the vampiric hive mind he’s creating, forcibly assimilating people into yet another manipulative and parasitical system. he doesn't value the cultures of the people he assimilates—notice how all the vampires he turns dance to his culture's music using his culture's dances, and how he only uses the languages or knowledge other vampires have to offer when he needs to manipulate someone. Remmick is extremely transparent about the way he sees the people he turns as resources to exploit.

he’s perpetuating a cycle that he claims to hate and resent, and I think the movie is pretty damn clear about the fact that he doesn’t see anybody as valuable or useful to him except as prey and as pawns—otherwise he would just, you know, focus solely on people who actually consent to being turned. but he looked sad in that one scene and he’s an apparently attractive white cis man so people are gonna bend over backwards justifying all the harm he did.