When I was in Seattle, Lorna and I went to the Chihuly Garden and Glass museum. The museum is filled entirely with the works of Dale Chihuly, a glassblowing artist from Tacoma. It was so incredible and has inspired Chihuly nails!
My Colors
Avery by Zoya, Pretty Edgy by Essie, Mira by Zoya, Blue Print by Milani, Mod Square by Essie, Jancyn by Zoya, Black Sketch by Milani & White Canvas by Milani.
My favorite part of the Chihuly exhibit was Mother's Garden, a piece inspired by mamma Chihuly's flower garden. I recreated the glass plants on my nails!
First, I painted my nails with Avery.
Then I added some spiky green plants!
Here are the blue reeds.
I couldn't miss this monstrosity!
No garden is complete without these green and black striped things.
I added this little guy!
While Lorna and I absolutely loved the Chihuly museum, there were some glass pieces that we HATED. But like what's with this larva chandelier?? Why?? Its existence makes me SO ANGRY! We had a lot of feelings about the art.
First thing we hated, this stupid exercise ball thing. UGHH it still annoys me SO MUCH!!
Don't even get me started on this red potato that's expired so now its sprouting. I HATE YOU STUPID TUBER!
Yay Chihuly nails!
I Spit on Your Grave!
*WARNING I Spit on Your Grave is a very disturbing film. It's about a woman who's gang raped and then murders the four men who raped her. I'm going to discuss some of the more graphic parts of the film, so don't read ahead if this upsets you.
So critics HATED this film! They called it anti-feminist, disgusting and even pro-rape. Roger Ebert's review was probably my favorite. He called the film "a vile bag of garbage... Attending it was one of the most depressing experiences of my life." But I Spit on Your Grave is mentioned in all my feminism horror film books and seems pretty important to the slasher feminist film genre, so I thought I'd give it a try.
In my mind, I Spit on Your Grave is split into three parts.
One
You meet Jennifer. She's a writer from New York City who is renting a summer home in the country so that she can finish writing her book in peace. She wears super cute 70s crop tops, is killing it at the sunglasses game and spends her time sitting by a lake and writing in her notebook in the most perfect, loopy cursive. A truly #blessed #nofilter situation.
So earlier in the movie you see these four young men who live in town. They epitomize the redneck stereotype. They are constantly shown lying around and being lazy. They use incorrect grammar and act uneducated. While these men represent country, Jennifer is city. She first meets these men when they pump gas for her. The film sets up this poor rural male serving rich city female tension.
Two
These four guys rape Jennifer. You really see the rape parts for about 20 minutes and it's very upsetting.
Three
Jennifer recovers and then it's revenge time! Jennifer murders all of her rapists and it's pretty satisfying. In one scene, Jennifer takes the ring leader of the rapist group back to her house. She lures him into her bathtub and surprise castrates him. While he's screaming in pain she calmly gets out of the bathtub, puts on her white robe, locks the bathroom door and goes downstairs to sit in her rocking chair. She puts an opera record on the record player and starts rocking back and forth. As his screams get louder, she turns up the volume, rolling her eyes because ugh why won't he just die already.
I don't think this film is a vile bag of garbage. While it is hard to watch, it's not much more shocking and disgusting than the highly acclaimed rape-revenge film, Deliverance. After watching so many horror films (ex. Night of the Walking Dead) where the female characters are weak, it was refreshing to see a lady who fights back. How many times have you watched a horror film where the female character runs from the monster, falls down and helplessly cries for the male hero to save her. Jennifer doesn't need a male hero. She has a knife, a solid collection of opera records, and a closet full of badass white robes.
#slayJenniferslay #butactually
