alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

she and the fish person fucked :)

lol they accidentally clipped Strickland's new Cadillac

oh no i forgot about some stuff in this movie

love her

i liked the romance montage.

she is not very flappable

now i just gotta rewatch The Shape of Water and i can issue my official ranking of every feature film he's directed by how much I liked them (and possibly also a separate ranking for how good they were)

i think this was probably my least favorite of his Spanish language movies (not a negative remark! Cronos and The Devil's Backbone were both very good)

there is something to be said about Guillermo del Toro heroines (Ofelia and Mercedes here, Conchita and Carmen in The Devil's Backbone, maybe even Princess Nuala in Hellboy II, Aurora in Cronos, perhaps the human lead in The Shape of Water) but idk what that is

good movie. fucking fascists.

also also the trouble with reading critics is that it's too easy to just interpret them as saying things i already agree with when they are maybe saying something subtly different.

also the trouble with reading critics is that Derrida says a lot of complicated things I don't fully follow

perhaps this is arguably the case with pretty much all writing and its sources and influences, but it's a lot more apparent in the criticism case

the trouble with reading critics is that they spend their time writing criticism of particular texts and then i read that and then i feel like to get the most out of the criticism i need to go read the thing they're criticizing.