Give Me Sidewalk City Shadows

nissanissas:

#can we talk about how much i love that shot in the top right #it’s the first time we see the tattoo #and it’s via a crane shot #she’s literally on display like scenery or architecture #you don’t use crane shots for people sitting on the floor in intimate spaces #but because this moment is about talking to the audience #about saying look #this is the girl you came to see #the girl with the dragon tattoo #not lisbeth #not this actual girl#but this franchise #this name #this /brand/ #a brand that is /literally on the skin of this girl/ #lisbeth is commodified and packaged and shot like scenery in the movie’s most metacinematic moment #she’s a girl. she’s sitting on the floor. she’s working. but the audience cares about her tattoo. #and the way this is shot#right over her brand #into her face #her upside down face #her harsh unforgiving askew face #this girl is not architecture. #this girl is not a title. #this girl is lisbeth. #and it’s because of the culture you propagate#where you allow girls like lisbeth to be put on display like this #to be commodified like this #to have to perform the charade of femininity constantly like this #that girls like lisbeth are reduced to the tattoos on their back.

(Source: rachel-puckermans)