no cruel jokes or pranks this April 1st we should instead celebrate the better April 1 holiday
What is the better April first holiday and what does this saucy little scamp have to do with it
I can’t find an article in English but essentially in France it is a common children’s prank to on April Fool’s put little paper fish on people’s backs and it’s called “poisson d'Avril” (April Fish). when i was in school in our french classes we would hide paper fish around the school as well and i took great joy in wedging mine in deeply impractical places that im honestly not sure were ever found. looking at it now, my French teachers had billed it as a Whole Separate Holiday but it actually seems more to be like a cultural in-joke/France-Specific April Fool’s Prank lol whoops
regardless I like it better than some of the more mean spirited stuff I’ve seen associated with American April Fool’s day
can’t be mad at someone just taping one of these lil guys to your back right !
i’m still there 😭 the look they give eachother not knowing where they’re going or what will happen or anything at all except for the fact that they’re together. something really significant about the way that, despite running with no real intention, every turn is in sync. no one gets left behind, they never turn opposite ways and then have an odd moment of ,oops!, they just go together.
mark and gemma stopping at every corner, having to run behind and catch up, barely even looking at eachother. there’s such a massive difference in their dynamics i wanna die
also: the ultra cinematic, smooth, slow way that omark and gemma interact with eachother. how it resembles the slowmo and the glances that imark and helly had. idk something something it’s very interesting and this show is full of parallels
“see you at the equator” the invisible line dividing mark’s selves and the warmest place on earth when you are the sun to him…… he’s always at the equator and always looking at you….. in the subterrenean labyrinth in a tent in a snow forest in a dingy red-lit restaurant in the firelight of the cabin he is always always always turning towards you. you are the light that reaches both of his selves.
You cannot tell me this wasn’t an intentional reference. Running together into the tragic ending that was inevitable. The freeze frame, the slow fade into a fuzzy quality in Severance and sepia in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The refusal to allow the audience to see (in Severance’s case for the time being) the fate of the characters even though we know it cannot end well. They were crazy for this.
