The moral of knives out was entitled rich people are the same. There were various types of political leanings in the Thrombey family: leftist, liberal, conservative, alt-right. However, none of that mattered when their money was threatened, whatever political opinions they held went out the window if it meant saving their lifestyle.
And, actually, when the power dynamic wasn’t them at the top. Meg is sort of positioned as the one nice one of the family, and the one who genuinely sees Marta as a friend - but the turning point for her is not when she loses the money (she even suggests to her mother that they should honour the will, at first), but when she tells Marta that she’ll have to drop out of school. Marta’s response is “No, Meg, that won’t happen. I’ll take care of you.”
It’s a line that gets said to Marta repeatedly by the family, and she’s expected to be grateful for it. But when she uses it at Meg, Meg is so offended by it that she tells the family about Marta’s mother’s immigration status. Literally, this lovely, leftist, progressive white girl is so furious at the temerity of the poor Hispanic nurse offering her charity that she immediately lashes back by using her enormous privilege to put Marta back in her place. She risks Marta’s mother being arrested and deported, so that she can assuage her own ego.
And she feels guilty about it, sure. She feels terrible afterwards.
But in that moment, we see what she really is, and just how dangerous wealth and privilege make a person to everyone else around them.
I’m late to the party, but I wanted to add that I read the screenplay today and the comment above is true.
“Horrified, mortified, barely comprehending what she’s just heard.” It’s the fact that Marta offered her charity that really causes Meg to panic. She can’t stomach the tables being turned that way. She betrays Marta, not to get the tuition money, but to put her world back the way it’s always been. She can’t imagine a world where she has to take generosity, not give it.
drew valerie’s fantroll. love her design, legally cannot say her name, and the brush i used for the lines is delightfully out of my usual go-to brushes so this was fun to draw
“Punk” spiked clothing makes it much harder for someone to find a spot to grab onto you. Isn’t that interesting? How some rivets on your jacket and wrists can make it much harder to detain someone? I just thought that was a fun little detail in fashion everyone might want to know :)
Diy clothing is extremely easy to identify. Even if you don’t add band logos.
A guy wearing a spiked vest assaulted me at a show once. It scratched up my shoulder while he was grinding on me but it didn’t prevent me from grabbing him by the vest and yanking him down to the ground and standing on him when someone crowdsurfed by.
I love you all but cops wear armored gloves.
All your studs do to someone wearing those is provide more nubby bits to grip onto.
Also there’s like a whole layered history of subcultures and why punks wear embellished leather and denim jackets but long story short it’s not about avoiding stabbings or cops, it’s about an aesthetic callback to post WWII bikers which is PRETTY COOL honestly and a good jacket will totally prevent road rash and save your skin from getting torn up if you fall in a pit.
But they are not cop-and-stab-repelling armor just wear a plain hoodie and cover your face and run.
Remember that girl who got tracked down for setting a cruiser on fire because she was wearing a shirt from Etsy?
Think about this really carefully: Have you worn your jacket to any shows where someone might have photographed you wearing it and published those photos?
Just wear a plain hoodie and cover your face and run.
i have no idea if this is funny to anyone else but the other night i had
a dream that i was watching some weird TOP TEN WEIRDEST WEAPONS thing
and for #1 they showed like a bunch of .50 cal snipers progressively
longer than the last until the last one was like a mile long like
also the barrel was so long that when you looked through the scope, you
could literally only see to exactly where the barrel ended, and that
made me laugh so hard that i woke up
