Definitely going to need to get the rest of this monologue from IMDb. // looks like Mara and Tess got that cool old lady beach house! Yay! // so this is an adapted book; writer-director: Brian Duffield (no idea if I spelled that correctly). #SpontaneousFilm
Pharmacists old ice cream truck with the painted dinosaur on the side. // “they’re going to tear down the school, which makes sense…by the end of the school year, 31 members of the senior class died…I didn’t die. I guess I’ll never know…I’m going to be amazing despite all this shit… #SpontaneousFilm
That’s just what life feels like sometimes. // life really sucks. // it really does sometimes. #SpontaneousFilm
Dylan’s mom is empathetic (and surprisingly cool with Mara’s messy expressions of grief). #SpontaneousFilm
Mara with an incredulous face. Caption: that’s fucking stupid.
Mara pours a bottle of vodka into an offscreen punch bowl, with a determined look in her eyes and a near blank expression.
The soundtrack for #SpontaneousFilm is great too. As I type this, “can I have this dance” is playing. Looks like this is grad and prom. // fuck it! In a few screenshots. Damn…this really is graduation and prom in a super depressing combination event. // expressions of survivors guilt there too.
#SpontaneousFilm continues to go there via amazing acting by these teens and tight scripting. // “I hope you live forever. Like an elf.” My heart… #SpontaneousFilm
Oh yeah, #SpontaneousFilm definitely fits as a what the fuck would Parkland surviving teens do after that mass casualty. The nihilism would inevitably hit; surviving teens would feel cursed like Mara. Poor girl. // this film is way better than it had to be. Difficult thematic elements handled well.
“I can’t help you the way you want me too. You want to stop existing until you actually stop existing.” // I’m surprised and not surprised the district is still holding in-person classes. That seems counterproductive; but then school resumed so fast after COVID’s height too. #SpontaneousFilm
Poor girl. “All I remember is wanting to die.” #SpontaneousFilm
Maybe something in the school itself (toxins?) combined with something in the high school seniors’ bodies that’s been accumulating? // or treatment for #Spontaneous combusting of these teenagers worsened the effects? // Maybe in the remaining students they have protective factors? #SpontaneousFilm
“If we’re not fleshy dead bits…” #SpontaneousFilm
Young Dylan, you better not explode all over our little Mara. But the horror/thriller movie watcher in me is terrified for the both of them. But I think that’s the idea: being happy despite the mundanity of constant tragedies. #SpontaneousFilm
“You don’t think it’s done, do you?” Good call little Mara. You read that agent like a book. #SpontaneousFilm
And I guess for all the testing the scientist-docs did, they must have found some kind of biological origins for the #spontaneous combusting of these local teens. #SpontaneousFilm
Yay! Looks like Mara is out of quarantine. There is a pill — they’re calling it “the snooze button.” // good parents: “we know you smoke pot. You’re terrible at hiding it.” And they got a 🎄! An attempt to bring Mara a little bit of normal. #SpontaneousFilm
Yes! A ridiculous PSA! “Working together to keep you together.” #SpontaneousFilm
I love you, Cole! “What’s your name?” “Cole.” “Cole what?” “Cole I want my lawyer.” // so they’re likely contact tracing at this point… the scientists. #SpontaneousFilm
“I think they’re doing tests on us. The whole class is here.” So this is probably the CDC. Probably whoever handles biotoxins. Hmmm… #SpontaneousFilm
Hazmat guys? Do they seriously think that Mara might be a bioterrorist? Or perhaps the next person to explode — like they’re assuming this exploding is a proximity thing. Maybe a toxic exposure thing? #SpontaneousFilm
These teenaged (possibly 20-something) drug dealers are surprisingly savvy — good for them. // until Joe explodes while driving to the next location. Then Jenna explodes. Is this related to an unknown additive in their drug supply? #SpontaneousFilm