Can we all take a moment to appreciate this scene where before he goes to right his wrongs, he takes accountability for said wrongs.
He doesn’t say anything like “What have you become?” or anything that tries to deflect the blame from himself, he recognizes that he was the one at fault and then immediately goes to rectify his wrongs, all without the slightest trace of hesitation or reluctance.
Even if he didn’t intend for all this to happen, he still realizes that if he wasn’t so quick to lose faith in Nimona none of this would’ve happened at all, and as a result, he puts the final nail in the coffin of any remaining doubt or prejudice he held toward Nimona.
I know it’s only a small detail, but it’s a detail that makes an already poignant third act that much more moving.
Two things I haven’t yet seen anyone discuss about Nimona:
For a thousand years, the kingdom was protecting against something that not only wasn’t a threat, but that lived within their city that whole time. They didn’t know she was there, of course, but she was. They built a wall to keep the monsters out, but the one who was there at the beginning was inside the wall the whole time. Kind of like how queer people have been here the whole time, just living their lives and quietly existing.
The kingdom is terrified of what’s beyond the wall. All of them are. The director talks about how she has a recurring dream about the wall failing and the monsters flooding in. And then the wall gets broken down, and….. there’s no monsters beyond the wall. There’s just lush rolling hills and a winding river. They cut themselves off from the rest of the world for a millennia, but the monsters they feared so terribly weren’t even out there.
obsessed with this whole sequence. the pre-ceremony public canoodling. the heart eyes. ambrosius’ glower. ballister’s little glances back at him. how ambrosius catches him. the hand holding ambrosius back.
god can i move past all the relationships that teach me some horrible life lesson and be in the arms of someone who treats me so safe and sweet forever?
it’s really not fair that if your parents treat you like shit your self worth becomes nothing and then you go on to only attract people who take advantage of that. fuck you
Japanese Breakfast, Slide Tackle // Mary Oliver, Wild Geese // Patti Smith, Woolgathering // Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood // Saul Bellow, Herzog // Mitski, I Will // Florence Welch, Useless Magic // Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star // Mary Oliver, Dogfish // John Steinbeck, East of Eden.
