tw: abuse

“this is what i did not know until now […] it is poison. all day and night, until i ran, i was drinking poison.” 
- in the dream house, carmen maria machado 

There is a sense of bittersweet tragedy to the final shot of priscilla. The triumphant image of her driving away, literally and metaphorically freeing herself from elvis, is contrasted by the use of ‘i will always love you’ as a needle drop; even after everything she…