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This echo chamber is nice!
I also loved Glass Onion, and think it's fascinating that people get miffed when someone solves a whodunnit halfway through, because my husband and I spend 100% of our time trying to suss it out, and are delighted every time one of us nails it. I actually avoided Knives Out because I read an interview where Rian Johnson said he wasn't particularly interested in making a whodunnit that people could solve. I like having big clues dangled in front of me to make me feel clever, dangit! This movie breaks a cardinal rule of the genre (are there many other whodunnits where the viewpoint character spends half the story lying to the audience?), but it's still solvable, in a Phoenix Wright kind of way.
I laughed because I had everything pegged the moment the twist was revealed, but got turned around in the second half making things more complicated in my head than they actually were. It was, indeed, a glass onion, peeling back layers only to find that nothing's there.
I completely missed it was them! I think my mom was asking me something right at that moment so I'm glad you pointed this out!Angela Lansbury and Stephen Sondheim's final cameos were a freaking Among Us reference
So you want Jordan Peele and Taika Waititi to stop? (Just to name a couple.)I… guess Rian Johnson is the only person I want making movies from now on.
Not saying there aren’t going to be DrawbacksSo you want Jordan Peele and Taika Waititi to stop? (Just to name a couple.)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles: Watched this because it was the new #1 on the Sight & Sound greatest movies of all time poll, and the first ever #1 directed by a woman (Chantal Akerman). It's a 3 and a half hour movie about a single mother who also does sex work to make ends meet, but it primarily lingers on mundane tasks. You see the title character, for example, peel two potatoes or plate dinner for her and her son in real time, as opposed to with cuts or in a montage—the movie really draws attention by how compressed time is in most movies by focusing on these simple actions in their entirety. The sex work is not a shocking reveal, as it's basically the first scene of the movie, and for the most part it's a lacuna. You know it's going on in the background, but generally it's not where the movie's focus is. For most of the movie, it's really only tangentially addressed, as the context the audience knows but the son does not in her conversations with him about relationships between men and women. Instead, you see the rhythms of her life over three days. You get used to the sounds and rhythms of her footsteps and light switches flipping on and off in her apartment and she moves from room to room, and you become very familiar with her kitchen and meal prep and her other chores around town.
That's not to say the movie is flat, as you gradually see little wrinkles introduced in her routine, and there's a definite change in tone over the course of the movie, and it is all building up to something. You definitely need to be in the right place to watch 3 and a half hours of chores, which is admittedly probably a hard sell for many, but if you're in a headspace to take in the rhythms of daily life and observe minor shifts in patterns, I do think it rewards your patience and attention in the end.
I'm sure many lister's did not see it as a chore at all!
As far as how it got to the top of the list, submissions aren't ranked (or, they can be as a personal touch, but the ranks don't matter, just the number of mentions). So, you could see it easily standing in as a representative experimental work and feminist work on a lot of lists. Also, it's honestly pretty accessible for a movie that could be classified as experimental. I think basically anyone who watches Jeanne Dielman all the way through would "get it" in a way that's not guaranteed with other experimental entires in the top 10 like Mulholland Drive or 2001: A Space Odyssey.
You were clear and I was just kind of illiterately misreading Loki's post, which was also just descriptively using the word "chores." Brain friedThis made me realize I was ambiguous about something—I didn't mean to say that the movie is figuratively a chore to watch, only that the movie is primarily made up fo scenes of the title character literally doing chores.