The wings of flies, gentlemen, represent the aerial power of the psychic faculties.
Я не стала эти два поста про Томаса объединять в один. Этот пост тумблера, который во многом определяет моём отношение к Томасу и почему я не присоединяюсь к людям, которым этот персонаж противен как слабый, безвольный и скучный. Просто потому, что мне кажется это довольно однобоким видением героя. Здесь сказано про всё, о чём я думала. Что Томас не способен на убийство и жестокость, что ни смотря на своё детство, он не хочет становиться как его отец. И что именно благодаря Эдит он начал понимать, что любовь не должна приносить столько боли, она может быть нормальной. Он стремился к этой нормальности всем своим нутром.
И ещё важный момент про насилие. Нам странно видеть мужчину жертвой и не понятно как он может оказаться в ситуации "дама в беде". Эта роль, в котрой мы чаще можем представить себе женщину. Очень важно помнить, что мужчина тоже может оказаться в ситуации абьюза.
Отдельный развёрнутый пост на тумблере про манипулирование и абьюз в отношениях Люсиль/Томас.
Если будут желающие, я могу перевести статью, которая ниже.
IDK why people don’t like Thomas Sharpe. There was that one interview where the interviewer or whoever called him the most despicable character in the movie and I’ve heard people complain about him being “spineless” and “weak.” I really don’t get it.
He’s definitely not my favorite character in the movie (that is Lucille), but he’s certainly far from detestable. He’s a victim of Lucille’s brutal affection and twisted love, not to mention his own love for her and attachment to her. He can’t escape her. He’s been raped and manipulated and used by Lucille for years. He closes his eyes to everything she does…until Edith comes into the picture and he realizes love doesn’t have to hurt.
Thomas’s whole arc is escaping Lucille’s vice grip on him. He realizes what she’s done to him and, worse, made him do. He tries to make up for it. He TRIES and is killed for it. And even after all she did he couldn’t hurt Lucille.
Thomas is a good person at his core. He’s a dreamer. He’s an optimist. He is a creator. He’s not a killer. He can’t even kill a dog. I really like Thomas, and I find his slow realization and his inability to fight Lucille, to escape her, to be really realistic.
I actually think a lot of the dislike comes down to the fact that Thomas is the damsel. He’s Emily St. Aubret. He needs to be rescued. He needs to learn defiance. He’s the prisoner in the hands of a woman rather than the other way around. That’s why people see him as “weak” because as a society we accept that the woman needs to be rescued. The woman is the victim regardless of what the reality of such situations is (men can be manipulated, abused, and raped as much as women can, but our culture refuses to address it). If it were the other way around in Crimson Peak I bet people would praise Lucille for breaking Thomas’s hold on her. They wouldn’t see kindness as cowardice if Thomas was a woman. And that’s fucked up.
Both Lucille and Thomas are extremely deep characters, as much victims as villains. Neither Lucille nor Thomas is truly villainous – or at the very least not truly evil – regardless of what they’ve done.
And I fucking love them.
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И ещё важный момент про насилие. Нам странно видеть мужчину жертвой и не понятно как он может оказаться в ситуации "дама в беде". Эта роль, в котрой мы чаще можем представить себе женщину. Очень важно помнить, что мужчина тоже может оказаться в ситуации абьюза.
Отдельный развёрнутый пост на тумблере про манипулирование и абьюз в отношениях Люсиль/Томас.
Если будут желающие, я могу перевести статью, которая ниже.
IDK why people don’t like Thomas Sharpe. There was that one interview where the interviewer or whoever called him the most despicable character in the movie and I’ve heard people complain about him being “spineless” and “weak.” I really don’t get it.
He’s definitely not my favorite character in the movie (that is Lucille), but he’s certainly far from detestable. He’s a victim of Lucille’s brutal affection and twisted love, not to mention his own love for her and attachment to her. He can’t escape her. He’s been raped and manipulated and used by Lucille for years. He closes his eyes to everything she does…until Edith comes into the picture and he realizes love doesn’t have to hurt.
Thomas’s whole arc is escaping Lucille’s vice grip on him. He realizes what she’s done to him and, worse, made him do. He tries to make up for it. He TRIES and is killed for it. And even after all she did he couldn’t hurt Lucille.
Thomas is a good person at his core. He’s a dreamer. He’s an optimist. He is a creator. He’s not a killer. He can’t even kill a dog. I really like Thomas, and I find his slow realization and his inability to fight Lucille, to escape her, to be really realistic.
I actually think a lot of the dislike comes down to the fact that Thomas is the damsel. He’s Emily St. Aubret. He needs to be rescued. He needs to learn defiance. He’s the prisoner in the hands of a woman rather than the other way around. That’s why people see him as “weak” because as a society we accept that the woman needs to be rescued. The woman is the victim regardless of what the reality of such situations is (men can be manipulated, abused, and raped as much as women can, but our culture refuses to address it). If it were the other way around in Crimson Peak I bet people would praise Lucille for breaking Thomas’s hold on her. They wouldn’t see kindness as cowardice if Thomas was a woman. And that’s fucked up.
Both Lucille and Thomas are extremely deep characters, as much victims as villains. Neither Lucille nor Thomas is truly villainous – or at the very least not truly evil – regardless of what they’ve done.
And I fucking love them.
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