peter didnt get autism in brand new day hes always had it. what he GETS is chronic illness progression and flare ups which makes his already heightened senses more sensitive.
Frankly, I think the best thing to come out of this movie is the possibility of drag performances referencing Homeric works and the high likelihood of someone using the name Gagamemnon.
btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here.
In America I ordered a milkshake and the young man turned it upside down over my head.
I did not move. A samurai does not flinch, even when the ice cream is above him and gravity is the law.
Nothing fell.
The cup hung there, upside down, defying the sky, and the boy held it over me with the calm of a man who has done this ten thousand times and buried his fear long ago.
This is the Blizzard. This is Dairy Queen.
If it falls, they told me, you get it free.
I understood at once. This was not dessert. This was an ordeal.
The boy was not showing off. He was swearing an oath, with his own arm, that he had made the thing thick enough to hang against the earth, and he was betting the price of it on his honor.
The flip is not a trick.
It is a vow.
In my land a smith proved his blade by cutting.
Here a boy of seventeen proves his by turning it over a stranger's head and looking him in the eye while the whole line waits to see if he lied.
He did not lie.
He set it upright, handed it to me, and said "there you go, man," then turned to the next customer as if he had not just gambled his good name across a counter.
I tipped him everything in my pocket.
He tried to give it back. He said it was just a Blizzard.
I told him it was not just a Blizzard.
I could not explain the rest in English, and there was a line, and he was busy.
So I bowed instead.
He said, "You too, man."
That answered nothing I had said.
It answered everything I had felt.
lestat protecting the memory of nicki by telepathically telling his story to daniel to ensure that his story will not be exploited in the way his daughter’s was 🫥
Guys, the reason there’s a scene at a strip club is to parallel Lestat to the sex workers. He isn’t turned on by any of it, he even talks to the strippers like they’re co-workers. He’s seen by Gabriella (and Christine in the phone call) as nothing more than a body, like them.
Not understanding why Lestat keeps bringing up the incest and how he speaks about it is crazy. This is a portrayal of how the brain works when it knows something isn't quite right. Lestat's belief that he must keep telling you why it's fine is a major part of the story.