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Simon Ramshaw
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Film critterings and witterings.

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I might be right, I might be wrong…any thoughts anyone? 7/7
June 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
the wake of an event that nearly wiped us out, that should have shown us how to cope with the worst and cherish what we have left. When one threat has vanished, how do we deal with the suspicions that another isn’t just around the corner? 6/7
June 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The toxic codes of yesteryear kept by its sects of uninfected and the permanent states of rage found in everyone else are going to be the real terrors going forward, as isn’t our post-pandemic reality just that? Big ideas and entitled powers vying for dominance still, even in 5/7
June 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
All this leads me to think DaCosta and Garland are going to serve up a second instalment where the trouble isn’t the virus any longer, but the calcified cultural codes that have turned stale and gaudy in the three decades since the world froze. 4/7
June 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The “magic of the placenta” seemed too convenient to me; surely the flesh and blood of two infected people would be more than enough to make their offspring as such too. If babies can be born in our world with addictions and viruses, it stands to reason they should here too. 3/7
June 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We see plenty of near-misses: Spike splattering his mother’s forehead with blood and quickly wiping it off; Isla linking hands with the infected woman in labour; Kelson being nearly smothered by Samson’s huge hands; the baby born without the virus at all. 2/7
June 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM