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This post will be a collection/depository for all the shorter posts from the tumblr that were flagged by tumblr as NSFW and are not compliant with their new policies. Some of them are really good posts and it hurts.

From the commentary on Sleepwalkers:

An ask about The Dreamers (September 24th 2014):

Message: Have you watched The Dreamers? What are your thoughts?

Answer:

It’s not one of my favorite movies, but I appreciate it. I’ve actually only seen it once, and it has been a number of years – 5 or so – so it’s not exactly fresh in my mind or particularly well-known to me.

I suppose I sort of resent that Theo and Isabelle invite a third person – Matthew – into their sanctum. They were so close – twins, best friends – and they had their parents apartment to themselves, and they let a third person in to see all that was private about them and to become almost as close to them as they were each other.

But at the same time, I see how they needed Matthew as a proxy. He could have sex with Isabelle and Theo could watch or imagine and it was less taboo. And Matthew serves as the narrator’s POV since he’s new to them and their lifestyle and everything that’s going on.

And having Matthew get so close to them and yet never close enough in a way just reinforces the idea of the bond that Isabelle and Theo have. That’s something that I took away from the ending. Matthew tries to call them back, but he’s not really one of them.

I guess I think it’s stupid that they even needed a proxy, but I also delight in this intense level of unresolved sexual tension between Isabelle and Theo. They refuse to consider that they might just be together, and so they play this crazy game of “everything but”. And actually one of my favorite parts is when their parents come home and are about to catch them all sleeping naked in that tent, and Isabelle sets out to kill them all. It shows how deeply ashamed she was, and how, on some level, she had a very conventional set of values.

Well, take all of this with a grain of salt. Like I said, I saw it once, five years ago. I’ve got a copy, I just haven’t watched it again yet.

I suppose a lot of the other things that make it appeal to people – the visionary Italian director, a 1960’s Paris setting – aren’t the sort of thing that get me too excited. I do love Eva Green, though.

An ask about John and Samantha from Doom turned into this discussion: