watching train to busan like…. su-an and seong-kyeong wouldn’t have made it if the train driver hadn’t kept the train moving forward on blind faith that he wasn’t the only survivor aboard! if sang-hwa, seok-woo, and yong-guk hadn’t fought past the zombies to rescue them when they were trapped!
if the doors had been closed a second sooner!
if so many characters, over and over, didn’t choose to risk themselves for someone else! and they would STILL have been shot at the end if su-an hadn’t started singing! or
if the soldier hadn’t waited to fire even after being given an order! this movie grabs you by the shoulders and says: in horrible, apocalyptic times, you won’t need to reject your own humanity!! humanity is not irrational or stupid, it’s a source of strength!! you will survive by refusing to abandon your humanity and your emotions and your care for other people!
“Time is not a straight line, it’s more of a labyrinth, and if you press close to the wall at the right place you can hear the hurrying steps and the voices, you can hear yourself walking past on the other side.”
— Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015), from “Answers to Letters”, in: “The Great Enigma”, translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton
it’s not “children in adult spaces” if the space revolves around children’s media and media geared towards tweens and teenagers. it’s not the early 2000s, the internet is not a space only for adults and y’all have to make peace with the fact that much of the internet is also for minors and respect their boundaries. as the adult, it is your responsibility to not invade spaces meant for minors and it is your responsibility to not interact with them. it’s really not hard to understand this basic concept if you care abt anyone other than yourself.
