I would have respected Sheriff Joaquin because he seemed like a decent and honorable lawman unlike the asshole cops in my area. I'd probably stop loitering and illegally recording people if someone like him just gave me some fatherly advice instead of having some buzz cut 24 year old barking orders at me.
>>213830614
What was Deputy Mike plotting? It almost seemed like he was plotting and practicing with the gun at the end to snipe Cross out of his misery. Cross was low-key racist but other than that they were amiable. (Also he never learned that Cross was the one that killed the mayor, planted the watch, etc.)
Anyone remember the Homeland season where Carrie literally gets groped by a 4chan freak? I think it was one of the later seasons like s5 or s6 lol. Was extremely HOT... and she kicks him in the nutts too.
>>213830874 >>213830733
I don't think so. I think in the end he was mad that the guy he trusted most turned down him so quickly. He clearly got abducted by the mercenaries and he figured this is why he was being set up, to kill every cop. In the end I feel like he's been mentally and physically scarred and he's training in the event that any other terrorist attack happens.
>>213830567 >name a worse fate than this
Being forced to read nu-/x/ specifically >>213830733 >What was Deputy Mike plotting?
The implication is that the cycle of violence, disorder, and decay is going to repeat itself.
>became the dipshit wife of a cult leader >chest is suspiciously branded, an odd detail to just benignly add in at the end
At least with Joe, she was legitimately safe, despite his wishy-washyness. All they had to do was get rid of her mother's poison presence. Now she'll get wrapped up in god knows what
>>213830841
We already read you two threads ago lil bro >>213833012
Many anons forget the part where Joe livestreams himself saying she was raped... It doesn't matter if you're in small town America, small town Sicily or rural Afghanistan... you can't just taint the honor of your wife like that. It's something universal. She had no other option but to leave.
>>213830733
That nigger was a good man/cop, chewed up by the system and turned into another violent crazy. Echo'd the accidentally-right point the coalburner was arguing at him during the protest.
>>213833454 >cries that he's gonna kill himself if he can't hang out with his friend >immediately tries to cuck said friend and rubs it in his face >pretends to be a chill cool guy to get women
Great character. Realistic shitty teenager, loved to hate that little faggot.
>>213829002 (OP) >plays a hard charging salt of the earth chud >still does that little mannerism where he quietly mutters in a puppy voice like every Joaquin joint
>>213830014
What Union? There is a federal government that killed 600,000 people to preserve its authority, and today its a den of kikes that serves only itself.
>>213833550 >plays a hard charging salt of the earth chud
Is that really what you thought of him? I thought you fags were the ones constantly talking about βmedia literacy.β
>>213833406 >friend confides in him that he likes that Sarah girl >acts like she isn't worth it >moves in on her himself >"wish you were heeeerre!!"
Fucking faggot. It's no wonder the white kid went full-rightie by the end of the movie, because everyone he knew on the Left in that town was a piece of shit, including his supposed best friend. I still think it would have been hilarious if the girl Sarah ended up being his gf at the end when he was a full blown right wing influencer, as it would have really driven home her insincerity
>>213833160 >Joe livestreams himself saying she was raped
I feel like fifteen minutes were deleted from my torrent of the movie because none of the Emma Stone/Pedro Pascal backstory and cult stuff seemed relevant to the plot, or even have (much) bearing on Joe chudding out
>>213836306
It was just an earnest, crystalized portrayal of the type of discourse and people of that era, with an entertaining "what if actual militant terrorists flying around in private jets were going around and kicking stuff off on top of it?" angle. Despite the maker being a jew, I didn't feel like he was demonizing people that were against covid lockdowns/nigger riots. He even communicated the message of "the money always wins in the end anyways" with the final shot being a lingering view of the tech company eclipsing the town, and the government spook that Pascal worked for rubbing it all in cripple joaquin's face on the way to the press conference.
>>213833160
She treated Joe like shit even after she was damaged goods. Joe deserves better, it was his inclination to settle that ultimately sealed his fate.
>>213836626
Joe accepted being treated like shit. He never should've shacked up with her but hated himself enough to do so. He took it over and over from everyone until he snapped.
>>213836306
The ending should have made it clear. Listen to Ari on the podcast. He said he identified with the kids whose "hearts were in the right place" tells you all you need to know about (((Aster)))
>>213836668
Agreed. If he would have found a based unsullied woman who actually fucked him,.he would have been a lot happier. A broken bitch ain't worth the headache.
>>213837305 >I loved being his penis and scrotum in this film
Were you also Willem Dafoe's stunt penis? >>213837196 >he's been playing these downtrodden cuck types a bit too often
True but in Eddington he finally made it work.
Absolute retard. The kids hearts in the right place means that their generation is wanting change and progress but they are literally too fucking stupid, gullible, inexperienced, and suffer from Twitter brainrot that they will never succeed. All they don't know how to protest, they don't know what they're really protesting, the just know they have to be used something IS actually wrong with America but they don't realize the thing they love the most (social media, brainrot) is problem. So all they can do is just parrot bullet points written by literally who people online and scam artists like the BLM or Tucker Carlson. That's all people do because they can't actually think for themselves.
>>213838049
Big true. It was such a weird action shot. Like every camera shot is on the ground and then these literal angels (demons) from heaven fly down like they're there to save the day.
>>213836618
Portrayal unnecessary when everything is online + in clips. He even cherry-picked the stuff mocked by MSM, not the serious policy overreach that harmed real lives. He sees circus, not the corruption in managing the circus attractions
>>213838313 >>213838210
Didn't they seem like... Hallucinations? They just moved more like... Shadows or monsters or something. It's really weird. Also what bad shots they were. Or they were just out fucking skilled by Joe Cross. Makes me wonder if Joe had killed people before or been in the military. Also remember the part where they say the dad died and he was there?
>>213838349 >Makes me wonder if Joe had killed people before or been in the military
He's been a sheriff since forever and he's an old stock White American from the rural mountain West. He's been shooting guns of all kinds for decades.
>>213838349
I genuinely thought that "ZOG operators personally hunting down Joaquin 'The Raped' Phoenix" was supposed to be an American Psycho style mental breakdown, then a few minutes later the credits rolled
>>213838899
oh yeah, it's pretty hilarious that the entire time he's being chased he doesn't really know why they're doing it or who they are. someone willing to just walk out all casual with a blade was ballsy
>>213839448 >Gives up and tries to put his hands up at the one point he might be on equal footing >Zoomer retard manages to miss every shot before the guy gets blown apart by offscreen gunmen
I wasn't crazy about the movie as a whole but there were a ton of great visual gags like these.
Probably a "better on rewatch" thing.
>>213838349
They make a point of showing what a good marksman Joaquin is. He misses a ton of shots in that sequence because he's having a mental breakdown, an asthma attack, and maybe has covid. Retard would've made it out just fine if he stopped and breathed before wasting his last mag on the last guy, or if he'd reloaded his pistol/grabbed a new one at Gunther's.
>>213839746
He very clearly turns around before the last shot hits him square in the forehead
Movie kind of sucked but I'd actually be interested to know what Aster was trying to "say" with it.
>>213839798
Go to bed, Zach, you're a respected filmmaker now and have stuff to do. Put down the gallon of PCP >>213839791
Yeah and you see the gunshot the kid fired that kills him. What you see is him get shot in the back of the head, and the bullet coming out the front.
Also for the anon who wanted an easte eggn in last thread:
Solid Gold Magikarp or SolidGoldMagikarp is a phrase that makes ChatGPT freak out and output "garbage" results and "breaks" the AI. Also Gold Magikarp is the extremely rare shiny version of the regular Magikarp Pokemon.
>>213833012
The reveal of the tattoos reminded me of Synecdoche New York. Olive also gets a bunch of tattoos as a visual to show how far she's fallen into a "bad crowd"
>>213840160
It's not a cop gun, it's a civilian gun. Could've been .45 but mag size suggests probably 9 mil, which can go through your head. His limbs weren't blown apart, either.
>>213840187 >This is going to be a cult classic on the level of eyes wide shut
Probably more along the lines of Fight Club or Wag The Dog, but it's definitely going to be the runaway cult film from this year and arguably the decade.
>>213836728 >the ending should have made it clear. >"Leftist" government is just a lobotomized right winger being paraded around and doing the bidding of the big out-of-town money
Aster is a kike but I think he might have put the art first on this one.
>>213841710 >>213836728
I think Ari is an oldfag Marxist/commie politically who's more concerned about the elites and class above race/sex woke shit that he sees as a distraction from the class war, one of those "no war but class war" types; which makes sense given the film's staunchly anti-corporate message and engagement with "conspiratorial" elements.
the entire movie is about control, and completely unnecessary division between people that leads to nothing good for the town. While the rich reap the benefits.
>>213842005
Like all materialist radicals, old-school Marxists tend to be great at criticism and noticing serious problems that are taboo to discuss. Problem is when they start proposing their retarded meme ideologies as a one size fits all solution.
Luckily, Eddington merely identifies the problem in excruciating, painful detail rather than going that extra mile and just being a nakedly communist film, and settles for merely being a more broadly radical one.
>>213843539 >difference between leftism and liberalism
It's more like competing schools of thought on the left that are all branded as "liberal" for some retarded reason by American "conservatives" (who ironically are more "liberal" in the traditional sense than almost any other major political current worldwide).
>>213830598
I've got like 40 tabs that i actively use and if it doesn't slow down the PC, why not? It's effective and convenient. Normies strike me more as people who'd browse dozens of sites through 1 tab or have 50 inactive tabs opened
>>213844212 >>wealthy Jewish landowners in the south had the most slaves
My point exactly, hell Grant was the one that kicked the Jews out of the upland South.
>>213843539
Itβs because they are the same, the left will never seriously oppose liberalism (they vote blue in every single election) and liberals always make excuses for left-wing criminality. The function of the left is to provide plausible deniability for liberalism/progressivism