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evewithanapple) wrote2022-09-10 11:10 pm
evewithanapple) wrote2022-09-10 11:10 pm
Vid: "New Road" (Operation Hyacinth)
Title: New Road
Music: “Love My Way" by the Psychedelic Furs
Fandom: Operation Hyacinth (20210
Summary: They just want to steal us all and take us all apart.
Warnings: Police brutality, homophobia, suicide.
Notes:
[Saoirse Ronan "women" voice] gay noir . . .
I edited this whole thing in a single afternoon, which should really tell you how much this movie has eaten my brain. Film noir is a genre I've always been drawn to, and one which feels extremely queer - it's about life in the shadows, the inherent hypocrisy and violence of "polite" society, being on the outside looking in, corruption - and yet it's a genre with a notable dearth of explicitly queer characters. A big part of that is because the golden age of noir was also the time period in which the Hayes Code was in effect, which meant that queerness was simply not permitted onscreen at all. Another part, I think, is that the tension between what the protagonists say and what they think offers an extra oomph to the general twistiness of your story, so why make it explicit when you can rely on that? One of my favourite neo-noir films is L.A. Confidential, a movie which I would absolutely argue is deliberately coding its lead character as queer - but they still never say it in so many words. And L.A. Confidential, a movie about a policeman in his father's shadow discovering the deep-rooted corruption in the system and having to decide whether to stay or walk away from it, feels like a natural precursor to Operation Hyacinth. I might have a vid in me about that.
"Love My Way" clicked into place as a song for this movie almost as soon as I watched it - it's got this dark, mournful quality to it, even though it's about love triumphing, or at least love fighting for survival. It's not a song explicitly about being gay in a homophobic society, but . . . it's not not that.
The ending was the hardest part of the vid for me, because the song fades out, which is always difficult to vid. Then again, doesn't it fit the movie's open ending? I'm honestly kind of shocked that the film ends as hopefully (or at least, not directly unhappily) as it does, given that it was made in Poland, a country that still has some of the most oppressive homophobic laws in Europe. Maybe Robert keeps his promise, makes a run for it, and finds Arek; maybe he doesn't. I'd like to think he does.
Music: “Love My Way" by the Psychedelic Furs
Fandom: Operation Hyacinth (20210
Summary: They just want to steal us all and take us all apart.
Warnings: Police brutality, homophobia, suicide.
Notes:
[Saoirse Ronan "women" voice] gay noir . . .
I edited this whole thing in a single afternoon, which should really tell you how much this movie has eaten my brain. Film noir is a genre I've always been drawn to, and one which feels extremely queer - it's about life in the shadows, the inherent hypocrisy and violence of "polite" society, being on the outside looking in, corruption - and yet it's a genre with a notable dearth of explicitly queer characters. A big part of that is because the golden age of noir was also the time period in which the Hayes Code was in effect, which meant that queerness was simply not permitted onscreen at all. Another part, I think, is that the tension between what the protagonists say and what they think offers an extra oomph to the general twistiness of your story, so why make it explicit when you can rely on that? One of my favourite neo-noir films is L.A. Confidential, a movie which I would absolutely argue is deliberately coding its lead character as queer - but they still never say it in so many words. And L.A. Confidential, a movie about a policeman in his father's shadow discovering the deep-rooted corruption in the system and having to decide whether to stay or walk away from it, feels like a natural precursor to Operation Hyacinth. I might have a vid in me about that.
"Love My Way" clicked into place as a song for this movie almost as soon as I watched it - it's got this dark, mournful quality to it, even though it's about love triumphing, or at least love fighting for survival. It's not a song explicitly about being gay in a homophobic society, but . . . it's not not that.
They'd put us on a railroad
They'd dearly make us pay
For laughing in their faces and making it our way
For laughing in their faces and making it our way
There's emptiness behind their eyes
There's dust in all their hearts
There's dust in all their hearts
They just want to steal us all and take us all apart
The ending was the hardest part of the vid for me, because the song fades out, which is always difficult to vid. Then again, doesn't it fit the movie's open ending? I'm honestly kind of shocked that the film ends as hopefully (or at least, not directly unhappily) as it does, given that it was made in Poland, a country that still has some of the most oppressive homophobic laws in Europe. Maybe Robert keeps his promise, makes a run for it, and finds Arek; maybe he doesn't. I'd like to think he does.
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I hope you don't mind me popping up out of the blue to comment. I just wanted to say that I came across this post by searching for "Hiacynt/Operation Hyacinth" on dreamwidth and loved this vid!
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