• Pizza_Rat@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Fools Paradise. I loved it. Thought it was beautiful, subtle, and weird.

    I was absolutely shocked how poorly it has been received. I think most people completely missed the point of the movie.

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      10 months ago

      Are you a fan of Charlie Day stuff, or did you go in more off the ideas of it? It sounds interesting skimming the Wikipedia page on it.

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        10 months ago

        I’m a big fan of Always Sunny, but not much outside of that.

        My take on it is this: it’s a movie about being a nobody with small, kind of pedestrian life goals, in a time when everyone is trying to be famous and we are inundated by media and celebrity. Everyone in the movie tries to make themselves the main character, except for the actual protagonist.

        The most essential question of the film, at a literal and existential level, is this: who is this story about?