more mr. nice guy

you bought raw milk? are you out of your mind?? you know i only drink extra raw. no, no don't return it, it's fine. i'll just stir in some dirt from the yard

sociopaths may be maliciously manipulative but still, there's no denying that they always seem to know exactly how to get my guard down!!

taylor lorenz over here tweeting from Midsommar like, Finally someone who really appreciates me

he has all these little gadgets that he uses around the office

he should work at a bank but in a really cool way

i'll make sure to keep an eye out

dibs on kill

they're not a monolith

looked like reversed footage of a deer pooping

I didn't even know how to pronounce Aum Shinrikyo, but the Supreme Leader called me in instead of calling me out, and now I know all the Threefold Salvation sutras. Checkmate leftists

from capitalism, yea

sociopaths may be maliciously manipulative but still, there's no denying that they always seem to know exactly how to get my guard down!!

taylor lorenz over here tweeting from Midsommar like, Finally someone who really appreciates me

man that fuckin focus pull through shooting range target at the end??? insane bit of technical showboating that's basically just for the movie heads

i think he is a harbinger in that his release into town is sort of the starting gun for the capitalist end game, but i think the presentation of him as Evil himself is a misdirect. there's only a couple evil characters and a Whole Lot of ignorant rubes doing someone else's evil

they both possess something close to half of the truth of what's going on but they've both been compelled to think it's their secret when it's actually someone else's

these characters are both so genuinely scared and stressed and pathetic! they have so much in common and they could probably help each other cope so much if they weren't programmed to be enemies

i think probably a lot of the story is on Lou's Facebook confessional vid that we see the start of twice but never any more, and after it's published there's a whole hell of a lot fewer people in town

i think a rewatch will give me a clearer sense of his place in the implied wider narrative. i feel like he might even be Lou's dad... an inconvenient person who got abducted and brainmelted until he was something they could use

i just think that's part of the game being played. there's nothing else that points to god or satan so while initially he seems to have materialized outside of town to bring suffering.. seems more likely he was placed there. it's a movie about capitalists creating and exploiting perceived divisions

lol at least eventually she seemed to realize that it's her picture on the sign. might've been an important experience for her

i think starting with him is intended to put you in the shoes of Eddington's population. you think, ok something cosmic or spiritual or whatever is happening here. but it's not. it's just business

he's not been fair to my friend

i think he's a red herring! he's what the rich guy wants everyone to be scared of. you're supposed to think he might be satan. but he's just some poor sad drunk

when a computer was on screen and scrolled by an article like "Masks make it easier to abduct children?" she went GOOD POINT

there were like three other people in my theater and one of them was a Qanon type lady who kept making really embarrassing remarks (eg "you sheeple!") until about 40 minutes in when i figure she realized the movie may not be on her side lol

in one way or another yeah. some can be bought with a pretty girl. some are too principled for that and have to be bought by disappearing their wife

also great surround sound mix that really puts you on your heels sometimes