Just Watched The Wonka Movie.

Just watched the Wonka movie.

I enjoyed it as a standalone film but especially enjoyed it as a prequel to the Gene Wilder Wonka. It retroactively made Wider’s Willy so much more tragic.

And that’s because Chalamet’s younger, earnest and kind Willy Wonka is CONSTANTLY having his kindness and compassion and belief in the good intentions of others thrown back at his face almost. Every. Single. Time.

What happens to him, in no particular order: People take advantage of him when he is at his lowest; they sabotage his chocolate; Hugh Grant steal his chocolate and beats him with a frying pan; he is nearly drowned by the chief of police; a boat he’s in is rigged to explode; they try to drown him AGAIN but now in melted chocolate under a church; he is tricked into debt and forced into indentured servitude; the chocolate mafia wants him dead; he has to crawl in the sewers just to sell his chocolate without the police beating the shit out of him at the chocolate mafia’s command, and a bunch of other moments either his earnest nature (or the fact he is illiterate, because by the way he is illiterate) is taken advantage of.

But he keeps believing in the good of others. He has friends, and a pseudo daughter that taught him how to read and his mother’s memory and so many dreams…

And then we arrive at Wilder Wonka. Who was betrayed one too many times. Who had his recipes stolen from him. Who shut himself from the world and trusts no one.

Who doesn’t care for these spoiled people walking around his factory, even if they were his last attempt at proving to himself that good people, good kids (Like Noodle) still exist.

Who is alone.

TL;DR: seeing a young Wonka who is so optimistic knowing how he is going to end up after being betrayed over and over and over again is a emotional experience that I was not quite ready for.

an old copy of Alice in Wonderland I found at the antique store; illustrations are from 1916 by Milo Winter 🐇🃏

12 Laws of the Universe:

1. law of divine oneness. everything is connected. everything in the universe is an extension of source energy, which means that on a spiritual level, nothing is separate.

2. law of vibration. everything is made of energy, and energy vibrates at a specific frequency.

3. law of correspondence. your external reality is a direct reflection of your internal state. this law can help you assess the alignment of your vibration.

4. law of attraction. your energy is constantly attracting its vibrational match.

5. law of inspired action. inspiration will come once you are aligned with who you are- an extension of source.

6. law of perpetual transmutation of energy. energy is constantly evolving and fluctuating.

7. law of cause and effect. where your focus goes energy flows. our thoughts is the cause, and our experiences are the effect.

8. law of compensation. you get what you give, you reap what you sow. what you withhold from others will be withheld from you.

9. law of relativity. everything is relative because we all perceive reality in our own way.

10. law of polarity. everything has an opposite. or every problem, there’s a solution. for every right, there’s a left.

11. law of rhythm. like the four seasons, everything in life has a cycle.

12. law of gender. when both your masculine and feminine energies are in alignment.

Nothing can be forgotten. Nothing can be lost. The universe itself is one vast memory system. Look back and you will find the beginnings of the world.

—Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

THERE'S NO CONSEQUENCE FOR LIVING .

it was during the after hours in which they'd both frolic at the top of frank's apartment balcony,

unbeknownst to her, spike had captured a video footage, the slight shakiness of the quality lets her indicate that this is probably the first time spike's ever grasped a handheld camera

its a candid sight, but also surreal, witnessing for the very first time her past self give a genuine smile.

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(background not mine - credit goes to dangiuz on artstation)

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