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Kevin’s dream-death is only one of endless images of suicide on “The Leftovers”: Nora has a prostitute shoot her in the chest, shock therapy after she loses her children; Kevin pulls plastic bags over his head, then tears them off at the last minute; Laurie appears to drown herself, accidentally on purpose. On another show, this obsession might seem grotesque, self-indulgent. But the power of “The Leftovers” is its capacity to embrace taboo impulses without judgment: to show radical faith, extended mourning, or hallucinatory paranoia not as pathological but as human, deserving of a gentle eye. The show is full of tenderness for every character who imagines seizing some control, even if that means writing his or her own ending.
Critics haven’t seen the finale yet, but for once the landing doesn’t seem to matter. “The Leftovers” could end with an hour-long monologue about how critics misread “Lost” and I’d be satisfied. In daily life, hearing someone else’s dream is a burden, but here it’s a gift. Or maybe it’s more that “The Leftovers” itself has felt as absorbing as a dream, the art you flee into during hard times. It’s not real, but you want to stay as long as you can. I’ll be grieving when we wake.
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— Emily Nussbaum, the Apocalypse According to the Leftovers
8:07 pm |
December 3 2018
Bradley Cooper as Will Tippin with Jennifer Garner’s Sydney Bristow in Alias and Bradley Cooper as Jackson Maine with Lady Gaga’s Ally in A Star is Born
9:22 pm |
October 5 2018
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I’ve made mistakes before in work and in personal relationships where I’ve just been like, I just want to be here so badly, that I will look past this glaring issue that I do not like. And that makes me feel uncomfortable,” Slate said. “I would not be able to metabolize that thing that I didn’t like. It would just sit in me like a stone… It would burn me up from the inside out, and then I would reach a point where I still hadn’t processed it, until I would be like, Why am I sitting here on this job? Or, Why am I sitting across from this person? I’m not serving them, and they’re not serving me. You can—for a while—look past the problems, but for yourself, you can’t really look past anything. You can repress, and you can try and be blind, but you will always be hobbled. I think one will always be hobbled by what they’re trying to hide in themselves—that burden will always make a weird emotional posture for you.
The last three years of my life have been the best years of my life and also the hardest. It was really hard and sad to get divorced. It was really hard and sad to watch what happened in the last presidential election. It’s hard and sad to watch the news. And for me, I think I had to take a look at what wasn’t serving me. Because I started to not recognize the way I behaved. I think of myself, and I believe in myself, as a kind, rational woman. And I think I really started to expect the worst in people, and I really didn’t recognize that point of view in myself. I started to understand that it came from a dissolution of some of the belief systems that I had. I believed partnership should be one way, and then I got divorced. I believed that our political system worked in a certain way, and that democracy worked in a certain way, and that was really, really turned upside-down. I had to take a look at what my own behaviors were, why they didn’t serve me, and what I lost in my life. Whether it was my own self-esteem, whether it was my sense of reality, whether it was simply my temper that I lost… or was it just my faith or my innocence? Those are things I want to keep, no matter what’s going on in this world. [I want to keep] my faith in people—not my religious faith, but my human-based faith. Those are the things I need in order to be an artist and in order to be a good partner. And I just didn’t feel that I believed in myself as either one of those things. And so I had to really look at it. And it’s really hard. It can be humiliating.
The second that I started to have to be alone and really understand what I want from myself, it started to happen pretty quickly that I was able to make changes and grow up finally. I really do feel like I’m the adult version of my child self—which means that I haven’t lost my innocence or my inclination to be gregarious or have fun. But my self-respect has grown, and my dedication to being a feminist is stronger than ever… Whatever my next partnership is—even though I don’t know who that will be with, because I really have been so super-solo—I know I’ll be a good partner, because I feel that I have more dignity, and more flexibility and more eagerness to accept someone than I’ve ever had before, and I do think it’s because I accept myself.
Jenny Slate on Nylon
12:36 am |
October 3 2018
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Bradley Cooper
Top photo by Sebastian Kim for TIME
Bottom photo by Ryan Pfluger for NYT
4:41 pm |
September 30 2018
“Your experience change you, your personality, your expectations, your beliefs, your desires. This is self-evident, but not at the moment when you’re working late at a job you should have outgrown years ago, or crying unexpectedly in public, or listening to your ex-boyfriend say he’s marrying someone else. At that moment you’re just wondering what happened to the person who used to have your name and how you can be that person again, how to get back that freedom, or innocence, or whatever significance that old body contained for you. She’s gone for good, that girl, the girl who could give herself completely to a person or an idea, who believed she could handle anything and plunged forward into the unknown as easily and thoughtlessly as she tied her shoes.”
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Ruth Curry, Out of Season (from Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York)
when i looked back i found that i had been leaving myself crumbs all along
(Source: jaelau)
12:26 am |
September 7 2018
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jaelau:
i’ve been fine before i met you i’ll be fine after, too
12:19 am |
September 7 2018
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i know i’m extremely inexperienced but nothing in my life has prepared me for the “your first love who you never dated is getting married” reality
11:26 pm |
September 6 2018
hurt people hurt people
someone hurt someone, someone hurt someone else in the exact way they were hurt and by the time they realize the big mistake it’s already too late
1:31 am |
July 27 2018
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