lostlokichaos:

lucianalight:

This is another one of beautiful shots of Thor 1 that conveys a genius symbolism. Here’s Odin who pitted his children against each other for the throne and his unfair treatment of them set the brothers apart. And he is standing on a broken bridge. The bridge that was broken as the result of the brother’s conflict over the throne, over gaining Odin’s approval, over being worthy. The broken bridge of the brother’s relationship. The conflict that he fueled drove his children, literally and also figuratively on the verge of falling down into an abyss. The brothers are holding to the Gungnir, the symbol of the throne. Their hands are close to each other but the Gungnir, the throne has kept them apart. A symbol of how the throne and their rivalry for it, came between them and set them apart. And Odin, the real reason for the destruction of his family, is standing safely on the broken bridge, and he he is holding Thor, his favorite son, by the ankle, while Loki is the farthest to him in this chain. A symbol of how his lies and his treatment of Loki, drove away Loki more than Thor and how in the end, they pushed Loki away, just like Odin’s “No, Loki”. And as Odin had favored Thor and alienated Loki in all the years, here he held on to Thor and pushed Loki away and left him to fall in the abyss.

Branagh is a Shakespearean director. Shakespeare is layered with symbolism, allusions, double-triple-more meanings… we are still studying those plays centuries later after all! Kenneth’s work draws on so much more than cgi flash and glitter; he puts his knowledge of how to convey so much (with words, with setting, with body language, with what is not made explicit) to use and he applies it brilliantly in the cinematic medium.

ejacutastic:

never try to consider yourself one of “the good” privileged people because tbh that just is cutting you off from continually learning and continually deconstructing your privilege and learned bullshit. every time i’ve thought “ok i’m one of the good guys now” i’ve learned more fucked shit i’m doing and deconstructed more bullshit and if you continually cling to “BUT I’M NOT RACIST/SEXIST/TRANSPHOBIC/ETC” you’re refusing to face the possibility that you could still be doing really bad shit and that means you’re part of the problem. being aware of privilege doesn’t mean you’re absolved of it.

ms-cellanies:

mediamattersforamerica:

On November 25, U.S. federal authorities launched pepper balls and tear gas into a crowd of adults and children seeking asylum.

Right-wing media have jumped to border patrol agents’ defense by attempting to justify the use of tear gas on those fleeing violence in their home countries. In a particularly egregious take, a Fox & Friends guest downplayed the effects of pepper spray by arguing that it’s “literally water, pepper, with a small amount of alcohol for evaporation purposes. It’s natural. You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it.”

I sure wish they would try it ‘cause it’s gonna burn like hell coming out.

twodotsknowwhy:

millennial-review:

My parents met and got married while in med school. On the way to graduation, they were both headed to the room where the graduates were to wait before the ceremony, when an attendant stopped my mother and told her that the room was only for graduates and the spouses were supposed to wait in another space.

Now this would be crazy enough, but the kicker is that they went to a historically female medical school. Their class was mostly women. And still when the attendant saw a couple of graduates, they assumed the man was the doctor and the woman was the wife.