listen its about the last unicorn being fundamentally no different from the harpy and feeling more compassion for her than she does the trapped animals or the humans trapped by circumstance. it’s about haggard grabbing the unicorn only once she has become human enough for him to drag her down and realise her eyes are empty. it’s about schmendrick and the magic that lives in him more than he wields it, it’s about “never run from anything immortal, it attracts their attention” while walking slowly from an unspeakable horror devouring an old woman, it’s about “how dare you come to me now, when I am this?”. it’s about the unicorns staying in the water until they can’t anymore, until the castle crumbles and the one unicorn who is different from the others now - she lowers her horn and she digs her hooves in and she stands her ground for a dear, dead boy. it’s about the trade of immortality between schmendrick and the unicorn, it’s about stories needing to be told, it’s about lir loving the unicorn enough to know that she cannot stay with him, and to let her would be to do her a disservice.
it’s about “your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. i would tear myself to pieces to call you once by your name.” it’s about regret.
(it’s also about little 5 year old me renting the movie from the library whenever i could and watching it on loop for hours. it’s about just how much this story has shaped me and my understanding of storytelling.)
god i rewatched this movie today and there is something about it that brings me to my knees. i cried at almost every other scene. she wanted to find those like her, to know why people were saying they were gone even though she was right there. and she had to completely lose who she was to do so. how utterly gutting, to be so removed from everything you are and knew. and to lose that too.
trope i really like is self-loathing characters desperate for the catharsis of punishment for frankly rather selfish reasons who r also obsessed with repeatedly pressing others into hating them and hurting them as essentially a method of self harm. yes baby continue making it worse for urself and everybody around u instead of doing an actually productive and effective journey of improvement and redemption
i like lost because season 1 kind of sets up jack and sawyer to be enemies/foils before it reveals that jack and JOHN are the ones who are narratively opposed to each other. meanwhile jack and sawyer just get kind of gay
you know i’m actually quite famous as the first trans woman to ever get an abortion. yeah. after my bottom surgery i actually went and got pregnant on purpose JUST so i could abort it. “abort that thang!” - my catchphrase
