>"IS THAT YOUR LITTLE, AH, INSTAGRAM THERE?"

Based, he sounds just like me

>>213769893 (OP)
> he sounds just like me
post a vocaroo of your voice then

I think Joaquin should retire and disappear after what he did to Joker.

>>213769950
This is not a thread for stinkies

>>213769893 (OP)
His best role

>the raped actor plays a character tired of getting fucked by the government
>the sex pest actor plays an authoritarian politician
It's like poetry.

>>213770016
afraid of getting outed, sanjeet? understandable i suppose.

>>213770069
The Master was one of my favorites and now it's ruined forever because Joaquin, for whatever godforsaken reason, agreed to get raped on screen for a fucking McDonald's arthouse DC Comics movie. Fuck him.

>>213770345
you sound like you need a raping.

>>213769989
not wakeens fault, that was the fault of retard faggot todd phillips

>>213770069
about a hour in -- it's a good horror movie but I doubt I'd watch it again

>>213770345
How does that ruin his other roles I didn't even watch joker 2 because I'm not a masochist

>>213769893 (OP)
i don't care how much you shill this shit, i'm NOT watching your junk

>>213770345
>McDonald's arthouse DC Comics movie.
I see you’re still assblasted about the first movie winning the Golden Lion.

>>213769893 (OP)
How come only boomers utilize their non-pants pockets?

>>213770484
you’re not patrick bateman. you’re a fat incel from mexico.

>>213770508
That really was absurd

I have an instagram but dont post anything on it. I just like lurking to see what others are doing

>>213769989
Ainte his fault, Bruddah. They probably would have made it without him and he said fuck no I AM joker.

>>213770484
>Ignoring the absolute best black comedy horror western of the year

>>213770736
>>213770394
>NOOO IT WASN'T HIS HECKIN' FAULT
If he wanted to, he easily had the status and leverage to nix Phillips so either he was stupid enough to get duped into the rape scene or he thought of it himself along with the musical angle. Either way, he's a walking crime against cinema and should fuck off and fucking retire.

>>213770772
one could even say it's a docu-drama

>>213770551
Venice was always a joke compared to Cannes but that sealed it. I still can't believe they'd stoop that fucking low. Jesus.

>>213770893
Berry tru.

>>213770345
He was raped in the Joker because chuds fund rape to be funny

>My thread about the movie dies with no replies and this shitpost is still here
Keep it up tv

>>213771247
>he comes here for serious discussions
lmaoing at your failed life, chump

>>213769893 (OP)
>overly negative
>liberals are humanized
> too much cussing

>>213769893 (OP)
My dad was like this and sounded like this. He's dead now. Now I miss all his dumb "dad questions" about obvious shit.

>>213769893 (OP)
why are chuds so violent

>>213770484
Just check it out anon, it's an incredible and shockingly based film.

>>213770772
>>Ignoring the absolute best black comedy horror western of the year
for me it was when Marjorie Taylor Green showed up and the entire theater burst out laughing

>>213769893 (OP)
>"WHERE THE FUCK IS HE GETTING ALL THESE BLACK PEOPLE"
>"I don't know" - Black deputy
Brilliant film.

>>213770551
>>213770937
>extremely prestigious and well-respected film festival
>”no ackshually it’s fucking stupid because a movie i didn’t like won their top prize”
Redditboxd faggots in action

>me whispering under my breath at zooms

>>213769893 (OP)
Why would Aster cast Wahkeen as a cop? Least believable role he's ever played

>>213772173
its the strategy of chud governments

>>213772131
Does that character get killed?

Hereditary was great, what the fuck is this garbage?

>>213772131
Gets me every time.

>>213772218
>what the fuck is this garbage?
Megakino, you should check it out.

>>213771888
Redditboxd faggots championed Joker, you Redditboxd cocksucking tranny. Joker should've never been in competition, let alone win. A capeshit goyslop Amerigoy movie should NOT be in a fucking prestigious and respected European film festival

>>213769893 (OP)
Is this movie
>le white people bad?
I know nothing about it but it's the impression just the movie poster gives me

>>213772218
its called kino you fucking retard, ever heard of it?

>>213772298
the movie is about how easily propagandized people are and how the elite use it to gain power, dumbfuck

>>213772280
Venice isn't cannes, retard

>>213770345
>fuck I can't even enjoy enjoy passion of the christ after belluci got raped in irreversible

>>213772131
>the cheap uncomfortable but "effective" mask sliding over the nose while the comfortable "ineffective" mask never moves
subtly really funny
I forgot how people made billions of dollars on masks, and then we found out most of them were useless and we didn't even need them outside

>>213771888
>t. didn't know what a Golden Lion was before Joker won

>>213772690
>then we found out most of them were useless and we didn't even need them outside
anyone with half a brain could tell that from the beginning

>>213772794
it was a humiliation ritual, a compliance test. if masks worked, it wouldn't matter if I was wearing one or not, if they didn't work, it doesn't matter if I wear one or not

>>213772298
It shits on everyone, not just whites. I liked it

>>213772298
There isn't a single likeable person in the whole flick.

Joe Cross (Wakeen):
>sincere trad sheriff guy who definitely racist, enables his NEET wife, is kinda just weak of will even though at his core you can tell he wants what's best for his dying town

Ted Garcia (Pascal):
>textbook insincere lib/lefty mayor whose wife left him probably because of his bullshit, slow-bleeding the town to near death for his Tech™ overlords, doesn't actually care about the town because he's angling for state governor, low-key misogynist, etc.

etc. etc. etc. everybody in town is a fucking twat.

>>213773206
you didnt like the bitcoin black cop? he stood with the police over the protestors

>>213772173
Weird seeing a movie use the actual brands and political figures rather than coming up with some bizarro world analog for everything.

>>213773361
and the Pueblo policeman was actually competent

>>213770779
Who gives a fuck about Joker? That movie was always Taxi Driver for Indians and Mexicans.

>>213773361
He was pillaging young white girls with his penis

Seriously though how old was White Rosa Parks supposed to be? She seemed like she was 17 and Deputy Mike was like 30, which I guess is based I dunno, I'm having trouble rectifying that with his black penis

>>213769893 (OP)
I didn't understand this film. What was the deal with his wife and her mom?

>>213773773
>What was the deal with his wife and her mom?
casualties of chud propaganda on instagram

>>213773361
seriously though why do blacks do this?

>>213773454
that's like saying that a programmer working for people who rape toddlers to death was actually competent

>>213770345
A mind broken vet was just raped by govt

>>213773773
Wife was presumably raped by her own father, and her mother was in denial about it and tried to accuse Libcal of the deed, while being an enabler for the father.

>>213772218
Hereditary was weak nuHorror. Aster is only getting better.

My wife looked so pretty

>>213774118
she da kween of cat ladies famalam

>>213769893 (OP)
Film of the year

>>213771863
Same, but for anti-white propaganda scene at the dinner table.

>>213776333
yeah that was funny too

>>213772021
>Were you recording?
>Christ! Make sure you cut that out...

>>213771888
>it’s fucking stupid because a movie i didn’t like won their top prize
Correct.

>>213773361
>>213772131
Does this movie actually mock the paranoia of liberal protestors? Or are these scenes played straight?

>>213774118
>watch flick for the 7th time today
>finally pay attention to her dolls and shit
>they're all about being suffocated and consumed
>all the doofus-ass dolls with a brimmed hat are clearly her passive-aggressive jabs at her husband

>>213777043
Mocks the ever loving shit out of them. Ari is a hardcore leftist, but he thinks all that kind of shit is clowny and more detrimental to progress than actually helpful.

>>213777043
it mocks hard on both sides. the message of the film is about top vs bottom not left vs right

https://youtu.be/QGJuMBdaqIw?si=APTtc8wKuc8YOBMK&t=40

I thought it was great

>>213769989
it was a fuck you to cringe nerd capeshit fags like you

>>213777347
TURN THAT SHIT OFF

>>213777415
PUT YOUR MASK ON

>>213777347
>song is now eddcore

that shit actually goes hard on the live sound system, of course by 2020 when it's a bunch of old boomers listening to it, it loses something

>>213770394
You mean toesucking chaddit

>>213777347
fucking kek

>"Janny, wagie, homo...tranny to be?"

vernonbros...

>>213777619
I wish his part was bigger, hes a kino actor

>>213777043
>Does this movie actually mock the paranoia of liberal protestors?
Brutally, it even goes the extra mile of depicting them as feds and useful idiots

>>213769893 (OP)
Anon, you sound like a sweet old lady.

>>213773773
>What was the deal with his wife and her mom?
The idea was that they were sedentary, vulnerable people weak to propaganda and thus went down schizo rabbitholes, but that their schizoness ultimately had kernels of truth to it that they didn't quite grasp or realize.

>>213769893 (OP)
>>213773361
>>213777043
It's an extremely fair and centrist film, which is exactly why it got walk outs at the "pretentious onions film festival TM". It makes fun of both sides aggressively which is why it got borderline mixed reviews. It's his best work and proved Ari is a true filmmaker. I'm actually sad that he may not be given a chance after this. It honestly felt very punk and like a big fuck you to everyone who tried to pigeon hole him into a certain type of director with a certain political stance. I also like that he never makes anyone out to be completely bad, it's just that everyone is completely brainwashed and no one knows what the fuck is happening anymore. "No Peace" kind of sums up our world now, which is portrayed in the film beautifully. We're all just fucked. The film nailed our true enemy as "the tech giants" who have successfully mkultra'd everyone on planet Earth.

>>213778244
Pedro Pascal's mutt kid was legitimately evil

>>213778244
>The film nailed our true enemy as "the tech giants" who have successfully mkultra'd everyone on planet Earth.
this

but sadly the film filtered so many retards

https://youtu.be/dbDHK4agj_c?si=JAD3Zz-C_jhugqlL

>>213778244
I feel like we (in the West at least) are slowly waking up to the existential threat of Big Tech™ nerds with too much money and zero humanity. The problem is Tech™ still gets gassed the fuck up online by every 3rd world turd with a social media account, which helps maintain an illusion of power and influence.

>>213769893 (OP)
> I'm an adult, I don't have instagram

BTFO by Sean Baker

>>213778618
if the people actually knew how much internet comment sections were filled with payed people and artificial users by the tech companies they would freak out about how our entire reality is basically fake. Like pretty much the entire narrative of our lives is just made up by the technocrats now.

>>213778244
It's midwit to see things through "both sides", instead of divide & conquer by the ruling class (USG in bed with big tech/insurance/pharma/wall street, etc.) Doubling down on the noise, & making up BS that police force corruption can double for the average conservative resisting govt overreach. Abs brainlet take when there were people who became disabled, impoverished, and abused for not following the unreasonable mandates. Aster does NOT know world history + politics, a gnat overpraised to be on Kubrick's level.

We need to free each others hearts.

>>213769893 (OP)
Why did the sheriff shoot the homeless guy?

>>213772021
this was hilarious

>Joe panicking when the last merc runs at him with the knife
that whole sequence was nuts in the theater

>>213778711
Seriously. It's tough to watch the remaining baby boomers in my life be completely owned by all of it as well. People I used to regard as aware and intelligent have become nothing but prey to the flood of shit. They likely will not snap out of it before they die, and it's sad to see.

>>213779031
>Ted "find me now on bluesky" Garcia

>>213779093
When Pedro got sniped someone in my theater said "NO"

>>213778930
It's what everyone wants to do, but no one has the balls to do it. It's maybe the edgiest take in the entire film. Also Ari loves putting homeless people in his films

>>213779508
I saw it as he did it as a way to get out his aggression because he knew its easy to kill a homeless person because the system literally doesn't care.

>>213779447
every fag said "no"
incompetent sherriff should have aimed lower on his stomach so he could choke on his blood

>>213769893 (OP)
why did he do it? is he evil?

>>213773773
wife was molested by her dad and mom refused to believe her

the whiteboard with the retarded slogans was such a good gag
>Make New Mexico Not Old Mexico Agin!

>>213772280
>Redditboxd faggots championed Joker
Literally the exact opposite you mongoloid. "McDonald's Arthouse" literally comes from them.

>>213770551
filtered

I laughed when Elvis said the guy was gonna give testimony to a common law court

>>213771863
>>213776333
Gawd I fucking wish I watched this in a packed theater. Truly the best film I've seen this year.

>your being manipulated

>>213771247
It do be like that.

>>213772068
Because he's not a cop. He's a Sheriff.

>>213777043
It mocks the left and right to a perfect degree.

>>213777200
Checked. This. It's just interesting that the longer the film runs for the creepier the top vs bottom thing escalates.

>>213779718
>Gar-SEE-YA

i'm surprised more webms aren't posted here. when Joaquin gets stabbed in the head twice and the quick cut to his eyes rolling back in his head was kino

OH N-

>>213777465
>Katy Perry goes hard
I hate zoomers so much. You fucks are the reason Joker 2 with lady Caca is a thing.

>>213778342
>Mutt kid
>Literally brown
I thought you need to be half white to be a mutt? Anyways, he wasn't evil, he's just a piece of shit teenager, son of an "important" guy in town. All the teenagers in this are assholes because this is how teenagers are being brainwashed. "Bitch resting face" is something zoomers actually strive for.

>>213778711
This is why music and movies and tv got worse. They brought in this system of aggregated reviews like Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, and companies actually use the score on their products and trailers like a badge of honor. Meanwhile the majority of reviews are literally who paid shills and influencers (zoomer word for paid shill). Personally I don't even like commenting or reading comments on other sites because you have no idea who the bot is.

>>213779977
Aster has a weird obsession with heads getting mauled or straight up destroyed

>>213779977
I liked the scene when he goes back to the house and sees his wife via hallucination before realizing it is the mother in law.

Then he does the big speech about how they are in the middle of history before shit goes down.

>>213780043
also showing cocks and balls

>>213779982
was it that he couldn't taste anything because of covid? he eats whatever is in the filter but maybe the mom was doing some schizo shit and he was seeing that it was

>>213780054
i didn't really understand why he thought it was his wife for a bit

>>213780043
yeah, felt bad for the native cop who was probably on his way to arrest joaquin lol

Guys, cool it with the spoilers. Learn to use the fucking spoiler tag. Let people experience this kino without them. It's a fucking genuine rollercoaster ride.

>>213780133
>cool it with the anti-Semitism

>>213780133
>>213780348
hey cool it with the spoilers.

>>213778244
Idk, I saw it as pretty realistic in how each side was portrayed up until the sheriff went all solo and killed those people. How each side has their own nut jobs who have no concept of where life ends and harmful idealism and fanaticism starts. And the ending was neat with actual mysterious deep state funded terrorists. I just dont feel like it did enough with the concept.

>>213780414
>>213780348
Spoilers are pro semitism guys. Cool it.

>>213780472
>each side has their own nut jobs who have no concept of where life ends and harmful idealism and fanaticism starts
you are cookin here

>>213774118
reminds me of this actress

>>213780133
Don't enter a thread about a movie you haven't seen.

the way the super soldiers moved weirded me out. like some uncanny valley type shit. especially the last one but that had to be intentional

What was the deal with the black cop's fate at the end? The movie seemed to linger on him and I didn't understand it.

**He obviously survived, and looked very angry. Was he angry at Joe, his ex, or the feds? What was he training for? Did he realise that his father was nicked by the feds and he almost suffered the same fate? Was Joe's father nicked by the feds?**

>>213770522
yeah my dad always puts his phone in his shirt pocket for some reasons instead of his pants pockets

What was the deal with the black cop's fate at the end? The movie seemed to linger on him and I didn't understand it.

**He obviously survived, and looked very angry. Was he angry at Joe, his ex, or the feds? What was he training for? Did he realise that his father was nicked by the feds and he almost suffered the same fate? Was Joe's father nicked by the feds?**

>>213780648
they were probably androids unironically kek

>>213780728
i don't think his training was anything other than the set up that he would be framed later. I think he probably figured Joe and possibly the other cop were behind it and why he was pissed that his family was in power

>>213780728
>What was the deal with the black cop's fate at the end? The movie seemed to linger on him and I didn't understand it.
I think he is training to become a mass shooter or something

>>213780728
I said this before, but he seemed to be mad at Joe when he zoomed the camera on him at the end like he knew Joe set him up. Yet, he really shouldn't think that. He should think that he was the victim of an over the top glow op. If I was put at the center of such a glow op he was, I would think it was all the glowies. One of my issues with the film desu.

I honestly have no idea what this movie was trying to say besides the obvious big message that tech companies abused the pandemic and all the anger for their own benefit, but I enjoyed it

>>213780728
He went back to what he was doing before. Shooting guns in the desert. But scarred from the conflict, no better than before it all happened. Futility I think.

>>213780617
I've already seen it, but we have spoiler tags for a fucking reason.

>>213780846
>hey hey, spoiler tags.

>>213780874
fuck you!! ;_;

>>213780728
I think he was basically training for the future. He said something about how his dad never made it past Captain or something.

>nurse smacks him in the face
>immediately says sorry and holds him

>>213780472
That's the thing, the way you interpret it is valid too, it's not even a political film, it's a slice of life of the current world. Our world is so insane that the film is the literal norm.
>>213779659
He's just a shitty kid raised by a shitty dad, trying to get laid. Nothing deep about the kid's character.

>>213780819
>I honestly have no idea what this movie was trying to say
Me either. I feel like it just condensed all the political and social bullshit of the last 5 years and covid times into a "cool" fiction storyline. It was done well because he seems to understand what it all amounted to, pain and conflict. But I dont think we needed a movie about it. Maybe its just me. I just hated all that covid bullshit and i dont ever wanna think about it again

>>213778711
People are a lot more easy to control than we'd like to admit. It's very scary.

>>213780846
Im not gonna spoiler shit and you can't make me. If you're afraid of spoilers stay on the homepage.

>>213780929
>it's a slice of life of the current world
Yea it really is. Its a movie about an era. Like if it was done thirty years from now itd probably be more enjoyable. Maybe it feels political because it was so recent.

>>213780728
He got absolutely fucked by everyone, his own police force, the people supposedly standing up for his rights, his ex, by the agenda of the rich and powerful and is all alone in the desert next to the big data center. It's kind of on the nose. And he wasn't even a bad guy, but has been pushed to the edge.

>>213780940
I thought it was cool seeing a movie about something from 5 years ago made like how a period piece of an event from like 20 years ago would be made

>>213781034
>>213781047
Lol I kinda posted the same thing.
Yea I see where you're coming from.

>>213771863
I can usually keep a lid on my laughs in the theater but the kid name-dropping Big Mike on some dumb podcast got a huge laugh out of me and nobody else, that whole montage was very funny.

>>213771863
him talking on zoom to James Woods

>>213780940
I'm a shut in so Covid was a great big chill vacation for me besides people dying (family worked at a major hospital). Kind hated how pompous some people got like my friends.
>Covid is a liberal weapon!!
>OMG they're making us wear fucking masks!!!!
>Bro you're using the wrong mask? Lmao you're so stupid you need THIS mask to stop Covid
>Da jab is fucking microchips from Bill gates and da illuminati!!!

The movie has a lot of that but I think most people are going to miss the actual conspiracy aspect. Someone said it best here how the winners of covid were really the tech companies and anyone holding Pfizer stock like Trump and his friends. Like just thinking of how the movie starts with the homeless guy walking into Eddington from the highway. I need a few weeks before I watch it again, but it definitely deserves a second viewing to study what is happening in the background.

>>213781001
Intentional spoilers are against the rules of MY board. So use the tags.

>>213780966
This is basically the first teaser poster. Stampede of lemmings.

>>213781207
>>Covid is a liberal weapon!!
>>OMG they're making us wear fucking masks!!!!
>>Bro you're using the wrong mask? Lmao you're so stupid you need THIS mask to stop Covid
>>Da jab is fucking microchips from Bill gates and da illuminati!!!
fucking kek

i didn't realize the homeless dude was this guy until waaaay late. i think i recognized his voice first. dude was in so much kino i saw growing up. He and Aster must be fans of one another because i find it odd he would take this role

>>213781257
Holy shit. Where have I seen this guy recently?

he crushes the skeleton of Geronimo lol

>>213781257
So what was the deal with the hobo anyways? Was he like a physical representation of chaos and evil walking into the town. Like a harbinger of something. Or was he just supposed to represent the issue the town was actually supposed to deal with but they were too busy being retards with covid and riots to take care of it.

>>213781627
people on reddit were saying that some of the things he was blurting out at the start of the film are what actually happens later or something but I didn't really look into it much

>>213781627
He seemed like a mad oracle. A lot of things that he was saying were a foretelling of future events in the movie. He could even tell when **{Joe wanted to kill him}**

>>213781627
i kinda took it as the second one. everyone just ignored this guy that obviously needed help because they were too busy arguing about other shit. then once Joe took his anger out on him is when he decided to say fuck it. Joe was a fucking shitty sheriff even before all the stuff near the end

>>213781348
these are some recent ones from him. i don't remember him being in Once Upon A Time at all

>>213781627
elephant in the room
he speaks of someone he loves being stuck in a black box
and how you give your eyes and face to become rich
he even utters "tick-tock"

>>213781839
He was one of the characters on Lancer. He didn't have any lines, he was just driving the stagecoach.

i’ve seen so many lib reviews hating the movie saying joe cross was a “maga conservative” but he clearly is not like that at the start. He’s like a Hank Hill tier boomer, he hates his conspiracy theorist stepmom, he only hates masks because he has asthma. Social media and the events of the movie, the blm protestors, garcia and his son being dicks, it all basically pushes him to the extreme. And I feel like the second half of the movie is like the beginning of Beau Is Afraid, like it’s all in his head

>>213781887
ah okay, he must be buds with Tarantino and Aster then and they threw him in there

>>213769989
No acting was saving that shit script

>>213781953
Tons and tons of shit got cut from OUATIH, Tarantino even had a title card at the end for all the people that didn't make final cut. I wouldn't be surprised if Collins had had a lot of dialogue at some point

>>213781839
>>213781257
Maybe this is just autism talking but I always saw a connection between Collins and Tarantino because Collins had a scene doing the "asshole on my elbow" talk in The Rules of Attraction before Tarantino used it in Kill Bill. It was almost word for word and I was always thinking how random it was to take that

>>213780728
>What was the deal with the black cop's fate at the end?
It's implied that he's going to be the next justifiably angry man with a chip on his shoulder who will inevitably be the focal point of another crisis, thus starting the whole cycle of conflict and exploitation over again.

>>213781897
His ending seems like it's basically saying old fashioned conservatism is on life support and it's been replaced by conspiracy mongers and podcast bros.

>>213781967
>shit script
It arguably has the best screenplay of any film in a long time

I want my friend to watch this so bad but I know she will seethe at Aster about the protest stuff. she's from LA and I feel like she won't be able to look at that stuff with any sort of nuance and just think Aster is a chud, unfortunately

>>213782142
the Joker sequel? kek

>>213782177
>Joker sequel
Fuck me, it's late where I am and I just finished picrel, so I'm a bit loopy and thought you were talking about Eddington like the retard I am.
No, Joker 2 is one of the worst films ever made and I'm not exaggerating, what the fuck was wrong with me at that moment.

>>213782098
yeah that makes sense actually

I should maybe rewatch this but why exactly was the strike team disguised as antifa? Was their plan just to kill Joaquin and have people blame some other faction because he opposed the data center?

>>213782152
>I want my friend to watch this so bad but I know she will seethe at Aster about the protest stuff.
Funny, the reason I finally watched this movie was because of the fact that my Grandpa's uber-establishment left girlfriend has spoiled kids that went into it thinking it was a Western like Hell or High Water and walked out of it halfway through because they lost their shit at the "are you fucking retarded" scene, and I heard similar stories from Letterboxd types.
You should actually show this to her to redpill her on how the establishment weaponizes and manufactures internal political conflicts over bullshit to distract from the actual fucked shit they're doing 24/7.

>>213782246
>why exactly was the strike team disguised as antifa
So it'd seem like he was killed by political unrest in the town instead of by feds/mercs.
>Was their plan just to kill Joaquin and have people blame some other faction because he opposed the data center
The idea was that they'd kill him after killing Ted so everything would balance out/settle down and they could run some bootheel to take over. That didn't happen, so instead they flipped the script and went with a "right-wing" angle instead.

>>213774118
couldn't stop seeing her as Sissey Spasex

>>213781627
My take is that he is a plant by a big tech firm or globohomo to cause chaos, because it turns out the teenagers were not vandalizing the town, it was the homeless guy and also that he is the only one talking about the truth of what's going on but they MK Ultrad him so fucking hard that now he's like this. People are not born schizo homeless, they become that way through extreme trauma and he was even saying that they got his daughter

>>213781839
I think it's West World.

>>213782246
Apparently I’ve heard the tech company’s name is on the plane but I didn’t notice that when I watched it

>>213777043
It legitimately feels like a live action South Park episode
And I don't mean to turn this into a >le current year South Park discussion
But it truly does have that tone of South Park
It's a very fun and funny movie and I think is a good encapsulation of that time period, without leaning too hard in either way

>>213782246
Literally paid anarchists. It's what the FBI/CIA/police use to destroy protests but they are flying on a fucking private jet, so most likely hired by a tech company. They had those fake White Supremacy signs and shit so when the terrorist attack is over the media and police can point and say "look, it was the racist white man who killed all these people. We need to be more vigilant against the racist white man." And causing more distrust against the population.

>>213781897
>i’ve seen so many lib reviews hating the movie saying joe cross was a “maga conservative” but he clearly is not like that at the start
Something I think is smart about the film is it avoids Trump, much like in actual 2020 all the shit going on at that time overshadowed him, especially in small towns where national politics is rarely relevant. He has ambiguously conservative, Western values; particularly being fixated on classical liberal freedom and Christian love.
He's not motivated by more base or malicious instincts like racism or political radicalism, he's simply motivated by the fact that Ted is pushing policies that harm the well-being of the town and are destroying what remains of the meager local economy; and he's especially pissed off by the egomania and power trip Ted is getting from the COVID stuff that feeds into his worst instincts.
He's not even really radicalized that much politcally regarding ideology or beliefs, he just becomes exponentially more radical in the ways he stands up to Ted and eventually the manufactured chaos/disorder consuming the town that he doesn't figure out until its too late.
Hardcore D/R partisans hate the film because of how frank it is in depicting the nature of how controlled opposition is and how incredibly fake and manufactured the nature of political discussion/activism in the U.S and contemporary Western countries.

are there really no other works taking a critically satirical approach to the pandemic at large? idk it wasn't exaggerated and absurd enough like Beau to make the first 90 minutes that funny or interesting for me. I guess because things were so crazy irl and I'm pretty tapped in this just felt like -yep, people did act like this, ok. picks up with the sniping though for sure

>>213782517
>the tech company’s name is on the plane
The logo is, not the name.

>>213782520
It’s kind of like a less funny more dramatic team america world police

>>213782532
i thought they had signs that were leftist

>>213782549
>are there really no other works taking a critically satirical approach to the pandemic at large?
No. That's why this film is incredibly valuable, because we quite literally might not ever get anything like it again due to the powers that be.
I'm pretty sure the only reason it got made at all was because producres saw it as being anti-big tech and didn't read the finer print, because I'm actually shocked a bigger filmmaker with an A-list cast made a movie as based as this in 2025.

>>213782589
>i thought they had signs that were leftist
They have both leftist and rightist signs/gear on the plane, they're provocateurs/crisis actors.

>>213772218
Eddington > Beau is Afraid > Midsommer >>>>> Hereditary

>>213782864
Beau is Afraid makes you feel like a jew watching it

>>213782589
Yeah like in the beginning where somebody is on their phone and they see the video of antifa killing cops. That was them. And that false flag attack basically set people to be anti-antifa (just like in real life) and to distrust BLM protests. Like it was weird in real life hearing rightoid news say that all the lib cities were burning down, yet I live in the biggest "lib" state of them all and the only thing burning was our wilderness and trees (ironically caused by bad actors to remove people from land and buy it up for cheap). see how that scene flew by your head? That's how most people are going to see it. They're not going to get what it really meant right away.

One of the few recent kinos that deserves a second watch.

>>213782864
Eddington > Hereditary > Beau > MIDsomebore

>>213782864
hereditary was fucking great, that's crazy

>>213782864
Eddington >>> Hereditary > Beau Is Afraid >>>>>> Shitsommar

>>213782907
That's why it's so good.

>>213782532
>>213782923
Good to know Ari is based and Mcgowan pilled.

>>213774118
Did she get diddled by her dad?

i thought it was hilarious how fucking confused Joaquin must have been for the entire last phase of the movie. He had no idea who was hunting him at all

such dark humor too with the one actual good cop in the area gets obliterated when trying to most likely arrest Joaquin. just another person lost in the fold

>>213783136
>Did she get diddled by her dad?
I believe that's the implication, but that Ted also had a realtionship with here where he didn't explicitly rape her, but did take advantage of her. Either way, it's one of the most interesting aspects of the film that I'm glad Aster left open-ended.

>>213783187
Ted said that she wouldn't even let him touch her, which tracks that she doesn't let Joaquin either. I believe he was probably being honest and Joaquin was just seething that they "dated" years ago

>>213782923
Big Tech™, Billie-boiz, etc. are the new colonizers, using all tactics just short of war and bloody genocide (so far) against the new savages, which are us. The sad thing is most of the West is so retarded and degenerate now, they're played just as easily as the former indigenous nations were, hundreds of years ago. Instead of fire water, they offer us other vices and dopemine/fear candy via social media

All the people still fighting the "left vs right" culture war are fucking lost, retarded, and should be forgotten and ignored (a good chunk them are just bots and provocateurs from enemy nations, anyway.)

Also why did she do it, bros?

>>213783213
>I believe he was probably being honest and Joaquin was just seething that they "dated" years ago
There's that angle too, which would make sense with how Ted's kid unintentionally stoked a lot of the hostility between the two by fucking with Joe and saying Ted fucked/raped his wife.
That interpretation gels with the central premise of the film being about misinformation/propaganda for sure.

>>213783244
I swear to God that's Daniel Clowes. Couldn't believe it when I was in the theater when he showed up.

>>213778244
Yes this is really the first Arti Aster movie I think is actually good and not just OK.

It's anti white propaganda. I don't have to watch it to know that it is. All amerigoyslop is anti white. Fuck Joe Briben

Joaquin's character was so pathetic and beaten down in this movie kek. Such a bad sheriff but insanely good with guns. Makes sense because he crumbles with any threat up close but is actually very good from far away and safe

>>213782864
Beau > Hereditary >= Eddington >>> Midsommar

>>213777619
this part is going to go viral amongst obese women on tiktok, heed my warning

>>213769989
he's been initiated, raped, it was beyond him

Will this movie be funny if you're not American? I'm interested but I suspect there will be some cultural dissonance
T. yuropoor

>CUZ BABY YOU'RE A FIIIIIIIREWORRRRRK

>>213782201
>pic related
Underrated kino

>>213783489
it's a modern version of a classic coen bros film, yes

>>213783489
I'm Aussie and I loved it. I don't know the level of lockdown madness you had in your country but it captured the frivolity of all the social rituals & political suppression.

>>213783489
This movie is for people who hate Americans and want to laugh at Americans.

>>213783371
>It's anti white propaganda
Quite the opposite actually, see >>213772131
>Fuck Joe Briben
The ending of the film is deliberate reference to Biden and figures like him, literal zombies filling seats who exist to justify the powers that be running over everybody else.
>>213779878
>>your being manipulated
Even that's a double entendre; because while being a funny riff on rubishness, it could also be read as "your being, watched", which is pretty smart.

>>213783489
Most of the issues shown in the film fucked the world in a pretty global way. It's still enjoyable if you're not American.

>>213783508
the Coens dont make 2h30m movies
GET AN EDITOR, ASTER

>>213783506
TURN
IT
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>>213783569
*SMACK*
*smack*

>>213783537
americans love to vote for their brain damaged golems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman

>>213783548
true true

>>213783489
>Will this movie be funny if you're not American?
It gives you a window into the state of American culture/politics in an era, particularly our COVID/post-COVID era. I'd say a good comparison would be stuff like Dr. Strangelove and Matinee were for the U.S during the 1960s Cold War or Network and Taxi Driver were for the U.S in the 1970s.

Did Joaquin always plan to frame his deputy? it seemed originally he planned to frame protesters or the movement but then i saw that he took the watch or whatever it was. not sure when he planted that but it almost seemed like he came up with the idea later

>>213783695
>Did Joaquin always plan to frame his deputy?
Not really, it's implied it's something he thought of on the fly given he was desperate to cover his tracks and didn't really see any other logical choice. He just went with pure Dark Triad instincts, and while he's doing it he seems to be very emotional about doing so because he knows what he's doing is extremely fucked given he genuinely likes/appreciates the guy.

>>213783726
it seemed like he decided when the kid came in talking about how he sent the deputy the picture of the girl kissing the kid but i don't know when he could have snuck the watch in the car before they searched it

>>213783695
he thinks on frame his mother-in-law at some point, lol

>>213783695
It seemed like improvisation on his part. The whole scene with him investigating the crime scene and the native American cop butting in was the funniest scene in the film for me purely because it's just so obvious how much out of his depth he is.

>>213783783
i don't remember that. what?

What could have fixed him?

>>213783824
her name is in the "list of suspects"

>>213783859
oh right kek. what a moron

i feel like he should have laid low in the gun store instead of coming out again. have them come to you if they even saw where you went, ya know?

>>213783842
>What could have fixed him?
Ted not being such an asshole.
That's pretty much it, he probably would've been far better off had Ted just been fair and took him seriously.

>>213783273
Dude no fucking way. This film feels EXACTLY like a Daniel Clowes story. What the fuck. It's basically like everything in Eightball. Good eye.

>>213784047
this dude had way more problems than Ted. he was a pussy sheriff that was in way over his head

i'm rewatching now and didn't realize the mother in law was on 4chan at the end kek

>>213784099
>only irl /x/ user is retarded boomer gaslit by bots
Man, Aster really did his homework for this one.

>>213783842
It's right at the beginning of the movie, he wants a family with Louise.

>>213783489
The story could happen anywhere in the world. This is just the American version. I could imagine an Italian or Spanish version. Even an Ireland kino would be sweet.

>>213783695
It could be both, man.

Did he take it as a souvenir or did he panic?

Also it was nice seeing Luke Grimes from Yellowstone in this. He's such a goof in this and so serious in Yellowstone. Especially when he goes out to the BLM protest in operator mode

>>213783842
Not getting with Emma Stone.

>>213783948
True but they had explosives. Maybe if he got to the roof? And picked them out? It just seemed funny that this guy who has asthma and was running decided to pick up the most American gun that drains stamina. Also I don't think I have ever seen Joaquin Phoenix run that fast in a movie before. Absolute gold.

Powerful stuff.

>>213784195
That guys was such a cunt.

>>213783824
After she starts rambling and he spits out the coffee that scene is the trigger to start putting Dawn on the suspect list. He's just losing it pretty quickly by that point.

>>213784099
>She is using chrome
>She is on 4chan
>Her desktop is messy as fuck
I can't wait for the 4k disc release and someone can write down what all her desktop shit says.

>>213784195
>DOIN YOUR MOM
>DOIN DOIN YOUR MOM

>>213784232
>Spits out the coffee
I wonder if part of that is that he either knows he has Covid or he doesn't know he has Covid and that's why it tastes bad. If he knows he has Covid maybe he thinks he believes that he is going to die because of his asthma and it makes him panic. also it's fucked that maybe he catches it from going to that party

>>213783695
I noticed one of the signs in the second bigger blm protest had e written the same way Joaquin wrote it, which I thought was odd since it alarmed the indian police

>>213784099
how do you do Fellow Knights?

>>213784551
>>213784099
>There are Milfs on 4chan posting right now

>>213781627
Some anon in another thread said that his daughter got trafficked.

>>213784580
>>There are Milfs on 4chan posting right now
There'e a British one that uses /tv/ who I talk to every now and then, she's a fujo

>>213784551
Ah yes I am well, feeling very knightly tonight my brethren

>>213784246

>>213784321
I thought he just spat the coffee because it tasted like shit because his wife was gone and her mother is even more useless than her.

>>213784551
Quite chivalrous I do say
>>213784659
>dolls by his wife
Brutal
>fedposts on /x/
Not bad.

>>213782532
no retard, they were LITERALLY de CIA false flagging both sides

>>213784186
The shootout at least partially felt like a send up of First Blood. Still pretty tense though.

>>213784915
Either glowies or mercenaries.

because the story is written as a farce, its not meant to be taken serious in a literal sense and just a vehicle for the pretentious hellspawned jew to espouse his superior intellectual takes that he sees dwarfing the lowly gentiles
the viewer is hit over the head multiple times w/ things like pic related, almost mocking "see? see? wake up sheeple! its all a ruse!", hell movie's opening shit is the poster for the data center building project - no subtlety at all
is there depth beyond reddit tier occupy wallstreet midwittery? certainly not as part of the intention of the director

>>213785593
>anon doesn't understand satire
Nigger this entire thread and several like it since release have been dedicated to autistically analyzing this film in a way I haven't seen in a very long time for a financially unsuccessful indie movie on this board. This film does in fact have a surprising amount of depth to it.
Would you rather go to the 69,420th capeshit/star wars/franchise crap thread filled with Indians and plebbit tourists, or something far more interesting and 4chan-specific like an Eddington fan theory thread?

>>213784659
>searched for seed oils to find this thread about his wife's cult
kek

>>213784195
he was a shithead teenager. felt real because i had friends like that trying to swoop in on women they knew i liked

>The cosmic backdrop (physicist Eddington’s general relativity work, starlight bending) is about questioning reality itself — are the laws we take for granted fixed, or is even light bent by hidden structures?
>Tthe servers are a man-made singularity — sucking in matter (land, concrete, energy, water), emitting only heat and obscure “signals.”
>The metaphor comes full circle: just as Eddington proved light bends around unseen forces, society bends around unseen computational gravity.
>The film can be seen as staging a cosmic allegory — a small town reenacting humanity’s attempt to reconcile transcendent truth with mundane control, but falling into ritual sacrifice to a new god: computation. The data center is both altar and black hole, absorbing meaning and resources while exposing the bankruptcy of our political imagination.

>>213785881
>"What's this 'Sneed' oil I keep hearing about on this forum?"

>>213785593
>your
haven't seen the film is it some kind of reference to something?

>>213784099
what sort schizo saves their bookmarks on the desktop...

>>213784099
the post numbers don't make sense
you got the one on the top that's >>2579434 and the middle one that's >>937839 and then the last one that's >>923028383 that's a shit load of posts made in a single day

>>213785966
>is it some kind of reference to something?
It's one of his campaign slogans and one he has painted on the side of his sound truck.
On one level, it's funny because it's a misspellling of "you're", and on another it's unintentionally smart because it can also translate to the more figurative "your being, watched".
So it's a double entendre that plays into the overall theme of the film and Joe Cross as a character.

>>213786054
why does your post read like a chatgpt analysis

>>213786068
>why does your post read like a chatgpt analysis
Because I'm sleepy and my brain has a tendency to slide towards one side or the other when I'm exhausted. Tonight the left side is getting its due.

Austin Butler and Emma Stone are the best representation of qanon retards i ever saw in a media

kino movie. love these that make me want to watch again and again

how the fuck did this dumbass think he wouldn't get a phonecall about obvious bullet holes in the walls at a bar?

bump. i don't think the antifa warriors were shown to be "both sides"

>>213783842
not being an idiot who jumps to action after the slightest bump

>>213786321
He's the Sheriff, he was really only expecting to have to fool his deputies.

>>213783537
>it could also be read as "your being, watched", which is pretty smart.
what the fuck are you talking about? Why are you translating "manipulated" to "watched"? You are losing the meaning of this

>>213778244
It's not a centrist film, you gigantic fucking retard. Aster is obviously more sympathetic to the left (and that's precisely why he's mocking these liberals 'woke' retards who pretend to be left-wing). He might even be a Marxist. Because Aster actually understands that the basis of these psyops is ultimately material. All these people have different worldviews but these worldviews are shaped by discourses shared on social media. Now what is the material basis of social media? Infrastructures, like data centers. The film begins and ends with a data center. That's the fundamental problem. But these characters are all sentimental, they'd rather try to impose their own sentimentality on reality instead of seeing it as it truly is. Remember what Vernon says: the devil is sentimental.

>>213779031

>>213777043
you need a trigger warning before watching a movie? Afraid it might hurt your feelings? Lmao

I feel like some comments in this thread could be in the movie

>>213787057
in one of the previous threads there was an anon who said the operators at the end were hired by rich pedos. He didn't even realize austin butler's character is supposed to be schizo

>>213786885
>automatically calls someone a retard simply because they disagree with their opinion
retarded nigger behavior

>>213787114
You might wanna reread your own post, you pathetic mongoloid.

>>213779233
>where is he getting all these black people??

>>213787099
>>213787057
>give up your inquiries, stop noticing things, dont draw your own connections
>just join our enlightened post-self-ironic centrist thinkers group of exceptionally unmanipulated beings

>>213785593
>occupy wallstreet used as a pejorative
OK shlomo.

>>213779816
It's an experience alright, especially if you live in a libshit hellhole.

>>213785945
Unironically makes sense. Bravo.

>>213787099
On one hand I've been near actual schizophrenic and this kind of outlandish persecution talk is pretty textbook, on the other hand you have this kind of accounts in the Dutroux files as well. So it was probably more tongue-in-cheek and layered than that.

>>213787339
I don’t get it. Are you another schizo? I knew what Butler’s role was in the movie

>>213781034
its only political because everyone in this era is a boring politicized faggot

>>213787877
I've also known a few schizos, this anon is right.

>>213781627
schizo greek chorus

>>213781897
liberal were media illiterate and didnt get the movie was taking a shit on them

>>213787323
woosh

>>213772280
Joker spawned arguably the most popular letterboxd review
>if you've never swam in the ocean then of course a pool seems deep.

>>213784915
The logo on the jet was a hand on planet earth.

>>213786592
They are the ones shooting the cops on the rooftop in the phone video. They also had pro white power signs in the jet and in the town

>>213786903
THEYRE EATING MY VAX.

>>213785945
Noice.

Also
Don't look up what MK Ultra (Em Cai Ultra) means in Latin. I feel like this movie is super schizo with the conspiracy stuff. I love it.

>>213788376
The signs on the jet were anti white power. The stitched things on the backpacks were a bit more muddled but the signs were all blatantly to be seen as leftist

Beau and Eddington felt like edgy Cohen brothers but in a good way.

>>213770345
>t. Pigfuck

>>213780940
People need to be reminded of their own retarded actions for the rest of their lives. Never let them live it down.

>>213788815
I love the Coens but never really got that impression. I know the thread is dying so I guess I’ll never know what you mean