obviously not exactly a new movie, and idk if i would wholeheartedly recommend watching it, but if you’re okay with seeing the implied killing of a horse and explicit death of a person, i think you should, before you read the rest
oh before i start, i watched the movie because of the “movies vs capitalism” podcast, highly recommended, they recently had an episode about it, i haven’t actually listened to it yet, i have thoughts to express and they won’t listen to me anyways :)
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am i reading this correctly, the creators say that women are these beautiful creatures, like horses, that can become so damaged, that they are better off dead?
i was nodding along most of the way, oh yeah, poor people doing crazy stuff for food and temporary shelter, show guy being a dick, exploiting them as much as he can, and then he says he’s being fair
and people watching, throwing pennies, surprisingly, pretty relevant to recent years’ reality tv and streaming obsession
and then, oh she has a gun, who will they kill i wonder … herself?? what??? he’s just watching, she can’t do it, so he does it ??? and i feel like we’re being told that was the right call
also, i thought a 1000+ hour dance marathon was a crazy exaggeration, but based on a quick search, there were longer ones irl, before they were banned, rightfully
imo that’s a charitable read (maybe deserved, idk the writer or the director), there were two examples of definitely broken young women and one dead old man and the rest of the guys were either in control or doing fine-ish
Why do you believe the main guy isn’t broken? He’s completely apathetic and lifeless.
well basically everyone in the movie is broken, but he’s alive and sane(ish)
compared to dead and insane, he’s on top
You really think what he did and how he reacted was sane? The guy is not a psychopath or cold heartless murder, and he didn’t even try to flee the scene.
I believe the most in-control character is the main girl, she’s also the most intelligent - seems to be the one to better understand everything that is going on, and her decision at the end shows she was still capable of making choices - it was also her choice to leave, wasn’t it?
The reason she carries the gun is the same reason she jokes about buying rat poison earlier, she wanted to do it long before the dance, the dance just made her lose the little faith she still had. The guy was in such a state that he would have gone along with anything she asked, his decision-making capability was completely impaired. Isn’t the dialogue before he says the movie title something like “Why did you do that?” “She asked me”. He wasn’t capable of accessing what he just did, his last rationalization is that they were just livestock, so it didn’t matter.
But back at the creator’s view, I think it’s expressed in this scene:
tbf his decision making was already non existant “hey you! join this weeks long dance marathon!” “okay i guess”
but my point still stands, it’s the porcelain womenfolk who cannot go on
i thought he was going to kill himself as well, that would’ve made more sense to me