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
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well basically everyone in the movie is broken, but he’s alive and sane(ish)
compared to dead and insane, he’s on top
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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