Includes some spoilers for themes and events.
From the opening scene of a simply-decorated title cake and the first few notes of melancholic, wistful score reminiscent of downbeat French carnival music, I was enthralled. I think we get to see a glimpse of the director Christiane Cegavske here (and at the end) too, in a papier-mΓ’chΓ© mask, placid smile pasted on, styled to complement the opening sequence of her creation perfectly. It's apparent from the beginning that Blood Tea andβ¦
"These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness, and in the taste confounds the appetite."
I can totally see why Baz Luhrmann wouldn't work for any one person, based just on this film alone. But this adaptation of Romeo and Juliet is such an anachronistic time capsule, so unapologetically and vividly of its very specific time, that I can'tβ¦
Who tf goes around robbin graves just to leave the loot behind as grody statues? Seems dumb. In summer in Texas too. It's like they're askin for heat stroke, although minus a good 50 years of climate change, it was probably tolerable to be a sneakthief gravedigger round those parts.
Freakin heat waves distorting the air in some of these scenes say probably not tho.
"I'm sure it's very nice to know how to live in the forest, and eat bark, but I'm gonna show you girls how to survive in the wilds of Beverly Hills."
Watching this on repeat in the early 90s was the closest I ever got to being in girl scouts and thank goodness for that cause I don't think I'd have done well in juvie with my problems with authority figures.
"Let's just take all this crap down, it looks like a crime scene."
Wow if ever there was someone who needed to be murdered by an evil burlap sack child on Halloween night. Who takes their decorations down on HALLOWEEN NIGHT?! Take your spiritless self inside and sit down ffs. I miss when entire neighborhoods used to decorate houses for trick-or-treaters or just to be fun on a holiday and this girl is over here like "UGH I HATE HALLOWEEN."β¦
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hungry. thirsty. sweating. thieving. destroying.
burning.
lick of flame carries whispered screams
on behalf of the dead, the gods grant a wish
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a black cat
a black gate
a white ghost, gliding silently through the sky, standing silently before
a trap laid with honey, spider to noxious fly
a cat's cry in the bamboo grove
wind rustling through guardian leaves, a splendid residence stands sentinel
a slight chill,β¦
