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real life is stranger than my dreams
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First three frames, this is it, this is the scene of peaky blinders. Most episode ever.

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I wanna explain now.

Drives me insane how the sapphire is a metaphor for money and wealth. The whole point here is that no matter how much money you earn or how expensive your house becomes (Tommy blowing it up in the end too), it cannot save you. It cannot save you from yourself, your past (war), your roots — Tommy’s whole monologue about legitimacy and never being accepted in high society at the end of the season. And at the same time in their rush for richness and legitimacy and presentability the Shelbys lose and lose and lose. The ‘better’ it gets, the worse it becomes. Grace’s death, John’s death, Arthur’s addiction, Polly’s death, Ruby’s death, Micheal’s death, it goes on and on, and it all got started with the sapphires. With the desire to become expensive and wealthy, with the desire to become respectable. And yet, ‘the currency in England is blood’. Also at the same time this wish to become rich doesn’t even come from greediness, it’s a striving to protect yourself from all the horrible helplessness you’ve experienced. Not just from the war trauma but also from being chased off of the canals, being able to afford only ‘bread and lard’, your children being taken away from you, your mother stepping into a canal. You want money so that you are safe (‘who’s gonna hang us now?’), and in your chase for money you lose your wife, your brother, your aunt, your cousin, your child. And you promise yourself that you’ll stop; but you cannot, and this wheel is already spinning on its own. Insane.

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