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@hey.its.BrandishJaye
Жыл бұрын
My biggest joy with the end of the film was Benoit telling Helen that his power is only contained in the system itself and stepping aside to let her truly disrupt. A clear demonstration of how the system can't be broken from within itself.
@loverrboyy2879
Жыл бұрын
A Klear demonstration 😅
@hey.its.BrandishJaye
Жыл бұрын
@@loverrboyy2879 Dammit. It was right there. The whole time.
@Ka2vids
Жыл бұрын
I just had the thought, each of the ‘disrupters’ represents an aspect of society that capitalism controls. Clair is politics, Buddy is the entertainment industry, Lionel: science and development, Duke: The far right movement, Whiskey: the “influencer”, Peg: the working class Even Benoit Blanc in the begging counts as the Law/ Justice system And Andi is innovation, killed by capitalism because it can’t be controlled
@insertcheesypunhere
Жыл бұрын
to quote lou wilson, "black women are the best!"
@GeahkBurchill
Жыл бұрын
Okay, my hot take on a popular movie is District 9 is NOT anti-Apartheid in any respect. It’s very much PRO Apartheid and designed to show; ‘despite that you may meet a “good one” most of “them” are naturally ignorant, violent and deserve their separate station”. District 9 may be the most racist movie hiding in plain sight I’ve ever seen and somehow managed to convince people it’s message was actually opposed to Apartheid.
@daniellewasdelayed8921
Жыл бұрын
To add onto the point about how the Disruptors shouldn't/aren't forgiven by the end of the movie, it's important to note where they joined in on Helen's destruction of art and what they thought was too far. Whiskey, the only one that has been humanized so far, is the first to cheer her on, the others joining after they get the okay, having fun by shattering the art on the pedestals. They're only brave enough to knock a glass of water off the counter, like a petulant child, to stroke their egos by 'fighting back.' But everyone in that room knows that glass of water is nothing, a symbolic destruction with no material damage. So when Helen keeps on going, destroying the piano with a mace and then going after the drinks with another big thing, they all stand back with shock since this is now *actual damage*. And when the fire starts burning, the Disruptors, the extension of Miles' power, are the ones trying to get her to stop because *they would still rather stay and stop the fire than leave the building and let it burn*. Then, it all explodes, the flames consuming everything... except for the Mona Lisa. And this is the only time that Miles does anything but bargain, going into a full-on sprint to prevent the destruction of the only thing that can actually ruin him: the bad press of letting priceless art perish. This movie is frankly genius and incredibly efficient.
@jcoliveira93
Жыл бұрын
He doesn't even get that the Monalisa's destruction is the PR nightmare that sinks him until Helen tolds him
@EbonyPenmarks
Жыл бұрын
Peg was also smiling so wide after Helen exploded the whole place. It was like Peg witnessed an unparalleled beauty.
@MarieForest
Жыл бұрын
I’m also pretty sure in the movie Miles was being loaned the painting so it’s also going to be a huge problem. He probably has insurance but if the insurance company finds the override he installed then he’s probably on the hook for that.
@yourlocalnerd7788
Жыл бұрын
I noticed that too with them. I thought of the dirupters in that moment like a lot of the people in the lower wrungs of power, they'll maybe change a few things look on the side of the people, but when someone presents real radical change they get scared and don't want anything to do with it because they still want what power they do have.
@borkborkx10
Жыл бұрын
The scene between Helen and Whiskey was really important, I think. For one, it humanized and deepened Whiskey, who might have been little more than a gag character in another director's film. Instead, we get two women who go outside of their acts and objectification, and Helen is actually supportive of Whiskey. And she is about to make a choice in her career: follow Duke in the manosphere/conservative media and basically join this group of assholes in their Bron-adulating game, or use Duke's platform to create her own media presence and endeavors. She's at a crossroads of being one more disruptor or being independent. By the end, she's seen through the lies of it all and seen the cost of it. I kind of wish we had a scene where she and Helen talked again, cleared up the whole killing Duke thing again, and saw where they might each be headed.
@hartthorn
Жыл бұрын
She also helped humanize Duke in a weird way. We all know how much those manosphere jackasses are all hat and no cattle. And her kindness to Helen and in turn appreciation of Duke as a PERSON, not just a stepping stone, just sort of let's us know that when the camera is off, he was still a person. Like, by no means an excuse for misogynistic bullshit. But helps sell his death as still a tragedy. He wasn't so vile that we should cheer his death.
@KalinTheZola
Жыл бұрын
I was pretty surprised how much I liked Whiskey by the end of the movie. She's far from perfect and I think still could run the risk of falling into the "disruptor" mentality, but I like to think seeing Helen fight back the way she did inspired her wheras the others only really turned their backs on Miles once they felt safe enough to do so.
@chada4806
Жыл бұрын
I think it's important to note that Andi sought justice through the system. Twice. Once through the courts, and once through the sh*theads themselves. And she was killed for it.
@Noct31
Жыл бұрын
I also really liked how each film portrayed both the similarities and differences between Old Money (Knives Out) and New Money (Glass Onion). Both groups suck, but operate in different, unique ways.
@shiloh483
Жыл бұрын
I watched this movie with my really conservative mom. During the scene where Helen smashes the box my moms like “so is she dumb?” And I’m like “not necessarily, she got the box open”
@catdragon2584
Жыл бұрын
Glass Onion is everything I want in a movie. It’s smart, it’s got glamor, it’s got style, it’s got intrigue, you catch onto more details the more you watch it, and the grand finale was perfection. Love it.
@jessrl8025
Жыл бұрын
I honestly didn't catch the anti-capitalism message at the very beginning because I was too wrapped up in the anti-Musk narrative of it all. But I read in an interview that Johnson didn't write the movie with Musk in mind, just tech billionaires in general. When I watched it again with that info, the anti-capitalism message was very apparent and it makes me appreciate the movie even more.
@JessieShadowhold
Жыл бұрын
Lol, it's just unfortunate that Musk happened to reveal he was the perfect IRL representation of the flaws of capitalism right before this movie came out
@Nightbreakeryt
Жыл бұрын
@@JessieShadowhold Exactly, I found the irony just perfect
@SaotomeLuna
Жыл бұрын
I like the (potentially unintentional?) foreshadowing at the beginning of the movie; we see the "Disruptors" so excited and thrilled about the puzzle boxes, playing up how complicated they are, and then Helen simply smashes it. To me, this seemed like a reference to the myth of the Gordian Knot; like Alexander, when presented with an overly complicated problem, the fastest solution was simply to break it, and like Alexander, Helen conquered something believed to be unconquerable; she was the one to finally bring down Miles Bron. I am probably overthinking it, it was probably meant to simply show she wouldn't play his games, but when I saw that scene, the Gordian Knot was what came to my mind.
@CalebSherriff
Жыл бұрын
Actually, this Pillar of Garbage video explores the Gordian Knot connection in the film: kzitem.info/news/bejne/wK6FqH5vqXeCeGU
@JessieShadowhold
Жыл бұрын
I think you're spot on. It's unclear to me if they wanted to make a Gordian knot reference, but it for sure shows that Helen is the actual disruptor and not the sycophants clinging to welth
@ConductiveFoam
Жыл бұрын
Considering the choice of names for the Brand twins I'd say it's very fair to make that connection.
@estrellagarciazamora8721
Жыл бұрын
Not sure if the family in Knives Out actually count as "Old money". Their fortune's origin is still within living memory. They just pretended they had an ancestral home and things like that.
@billcasey2732
Жыл бұрын
Worth mentioning the disruptors use all of their connections to barely solve the puzzle box according to the rules, while Helen Brand breaks the system. PS - Benoit Blanc playing Among Us and then later on team imposter? Coincidence?
@jlgirlxox
Жыл бұрын
I've seen others saying if Miles was good at anything, he was at least a "producer," being able to get the rest of the Disruptors off the ground. But, imo, the man was incapable of even finding potential talent to invest in- Just like everything else he bought his way in and stole the group of friends from Andi. Miles is a rather sad character- clearly clinging on to the nostalgia for those early days when things were simpler, the goals smaller, and the friendships maybe even a little genuine. He is so clearly desperate to be needed, to be wanted by others, not just for what he can provide. He wants greatness for greatness sake. Surrounding himself with the greatness of others- hoping perhaps the proximity to greatness will elevate him as well. But the goals only become bigger over time- just like with capitalism, there is no end point. The is only growth for growth's sake. If a business isn't constantly growing then it's considered a failure. And it is that which keeps Miles/capitalism from being truly innovative.
@sarahnkanu
Жыл бұрын
Mmmmmm! That last paragraph! So true
@emilyrln
Жыл бұрын
Growth for growth's sake, the requirement for everything to be profitable immediately, is what kneecaps innovation. When companies don't invest in R&D because it's a "waste of money," how can they possibly expect to develop new products? The only other way for them to do that is buy someone else's creation, to gobble up the competition and suck it dry, then cast it aside and go on to the next acquisition.
@AG_KEMPER
Жыл бұрын
I think that Cassandra "Andi" and Helen Brand are analogs to Cassandra and Helen from Greek mythology. Cassandra - an Apollonian priestess from Troy - could see the future, but was cursed to never be believed. She foresaw the destruction of Troy and prophesied that Helen (the Spartan whom Cassandra's brother took for a wife) would bring it to fruition. Well, no one believed her, so Cassandra watched her family and her land perish. Helen was a Spartan woman who was either seduced or kidnapped by Paris (Cassandra's brother). Regardless, her arrival to Troy is what sparked the war that Cassandra prophesied. Helen is believed to have assisted the Trojans in getting that horse into the city. Obviously, Cassandra Brand is the one who had all of the great ideas ("prophesies") for Alpha ("Troy") When she told Miles and the Disruptors that the hydrogen fuel capsule would bring about destruction, he didn't believe her and decided to go through with it. Miles killed her to ensure that he could do it with no pushback. Helen Brand became the catalyst for the downfall of Alpha when she stepped onto that island as her sister and brought Benoit Blanc (a "Trojan horse" of a sort). She used the hydrogen fuel capsule to destroy the symbolic Troy. This could all be a coincidence, and the analog isn't perfect, but I still think it's worth mentioning. P.S. the "Mona Lisa" comes from PARIS, France, and Cassandra's brother (and Helen's husband) is Paris. Yes, this is a stretch, but just let me have this LOL.
@YEY0806
Жыл бұрын
That is such fantastic analysis 👏
@BenjaminRodriguezReyes
Жыл бұрын
I don't think it's a coincidence, I've seen others mention this as well but you went further in depth with your commentary than I've seen before, thank you!
@andi-roo9426
Жыл бұрын
Not a stretch at all. You have wonderful insights. I thought I "got" the film, but between the video and your comment, it's clear I need to give it another watch. I ain't even mad tho.
@gozerthegozarian9500
Жыл бұрын
Very observant!
@pompe221
Жыл бұрын
And, of course, it's set on a Greek island. There's one more connection to Greek mythology. Helen of Troy was the sister to the Gemini twins Castor (mortal) and Pollux (immortal). Andi and Helen are identical twins; Andi dies (mortal) and Helen lives despite being "fatally shot" (immortal.) I know, it's a stretch.
@roari-clydea.soule-fahey1756
Жыл бұрын
One thing I really appreciated about Glass Onion that I haven't seen anyone talk about yet; the way the pool scene was filmed. I can't fully articulate what I mean, but I'll try my best, so bear with me. Generally in pool scenes in movies, if there are women in bathing suits, there will be some sort of effort on the part of the camera to zoom in on their bodies and sexualize them with camera angles and with the way their bodies are positioned. I appreciated that when Whiskey was coming out of the water the focus was either on Birdie, in the background, or the camera angle cut away, so Whiskey's face was in frame as well. The way Birdie and Whiskey, as characters, were handled in that scene and others just made me appreciate the editing, directing and camera work in Glass Onion. It felt like there was a conscious effort to avoid sexualizing the women in the movie.
@sworddragonsliege
Жыл бұрын
When I first watched the movie I was cheering for Helen when she was destroying things because it was badass. When I watched the movie a second time I was in impressed awe because I knew she wasn't just destroying without reason and that she was doing the very thing Miles pretended he did: disruption. It is definitely a movie that improves with multiple watchings.
@YourXavier
Жыл бұрын
It even fits his description of starting with little things that people, deep down, want to see broken. And let's admit it, we all wanted to see those glass sculptures smashed to pieces.
@Monochrome_11
Жыл бұрын
there is this quote that really stuck with me "to people who hold power the best path towards progress is the one that allows them to keep it"
@BetaPositiveSA
Жыл бұрын
I wish someone had explicitly pointed out how Miles' "ideas" are universally just some half assed one sentence summary that Leslie Odom Jr has to figure out how to implement. Miles just keeps spitting out random concepts that Leslie has to turn into an actual thing.
@animeotaku307
Жыл бұрын
And despite only a few truly taking off (thanks to someone else’s efforts), he’s still heralded as a genius. While the rest that don’t take off are just called “too complex for plebeian minds to comprehend.”
@d9sinc390
Жыл бұрын
I watched it last week with my family and they were applauding that the "Disruptors" finally did the right thing and I pointed out that they only did it out of self-interest which was the thing that caused them to turn on Andi in the first place so they aren't any different to Miles Bron's shitty attitude since they also wanted to stay in that same benefitting world.
@Syurtpiutha
Жыл бұрын
It's a minor point and doesn't really go anywhere (and isn't really important to the plot either), but the way Pegs demeanor changes every time she sees Helen just delights me every time. Big 'try to act casual in front of a crush' energy.
@animeotaku307
Жыл бұрын
Her actress did say that she envisioned Peg as being gay.
@snorpenbass4196
Жыл бұрын
Ironically, this is why even the Soviet Union never left capitalism. They used a variant of socialism as their _political_ system (in actuality just a party-governed authoritarianist regime) but kept capitalism as the actual economic system. Because much like with Miles, capitalism always responds to ideas of change with "Yes, very interesting, but how do I make more of a profit than anyone else?" Miles only helped people because it brought _him_ up.
@devynelliot8839
Жыл бұрын
Glass Onion was an entertaining watch. I was elated after Knives Out that we'd be getting more Benoit Blanc! I haven't seen too many standalone, original IPs coming out of live action in the past few years, and we're still in superhero saturation. It's great to have an engaging mystery with slick commentary to watch.
@charisma-hornum-fries
Жыл бұрын
There's a 3d coming.
@carpevinum8645
Жыл бұрын
I did like that at the end of both Movies, the main participants (excluding Benoit and Harlan's painting in the first one) the "victory" is embraced and accepted, but not "celebrated". Because people still died. Shit is still f'd up. And for all this was a "win", the system isn't beaten. Though this film came a step closer. Marta "won" by not compromising herself. And "won" by by also being herself, just accidentally actually being a "disruptor". Curious what he will tackle in the third instalment and what the next step is.
@justaghostinthesea
Жыл бұрын
The comparison to Doctor Who is surprisingly apt. I never made that connection.
@YumLemmingKebabs
Жыл бұрын
Miles is also explicitly parodying Steve Jobs in the scene where Andi tells him shes going to take half the company. He's dressed in a black turtleneck and Andi mentions a "reality distortion field." So yeah... Even without the deeper analysis he was clearly meant to represent more than Musk.
@daniellewasdelayed8921
Жыл бұрын
For once, I'll be doing the homework assignment and talking about a movie that I walked away with a totally different take than what I saw most people saying. And that movie is Velvet Buzzsaw. For a brief summary, this art gallery gets ahold of a vast portfolio from a dead guy's apartment, beautiful stuff he painted that never saw the light of day since he didn't want it to (a bit fuzzy on that last specific). Afterwards, mysterious supernatural murders occur to those who participated in the theft and display in some way. There's a sideplot about John Malkovich's character (Piers), a successful artist, and how his agent wants him to finish a piece so that it can be sold, that he hadn't produced anything for quite a while. The final scene that plays during the credits is Piers on a vacation, creating these gorgeous swirling patterns in the sand on an abandoned beach, enjoying art again, nobody around to see it, with the knowledge that the tide will come in and wash it all away. Now, because all of the art critics are written to be disliked or hated, being 'snooty art critics,' most of the takeaway I saw was that it was an average-to-okay slasher film where the high and mighty get karmically killed and we get to watch it. But if that was the point, why was Piers in the movie at all? He isn't being directly contrasted with either the dead guy or the critics, and the final scene is incredibly out of place... Unless you see the movie as being about Doing Art For Art's Sake and how capitalism/commercialization has prevented that from happening. Piers' agent wants him to produce more art, the gallery needs to get more art in to get people in the door, the dead guy's completely private art is thrown into view because there's no reason to paint if not to show it off, etc. As the credits play, Piers is physically showing us that the tears that get lost in the rain are not gone and the mere act of crying is worth it. (This is a muddy metaphor but oh well, sounds 'poetic')
@sarahnkanu
Жыл бұрын
how beautiful , thank you for sharing
@lusandantintili8668
Жыл бұрын
YEssssss thank you!! I totally agree! I desperately want more discussion of this film *everywhere* It absolutely blew my mind on first & 2nd watch, and that last credits scene with Piers always stands out to me because it communicates so much with just the visuals: 1) the beauty of transience - sometimes something is beautiful *because* you know its not gonna last forever; 2) he'd clearly been at it for a loooong while, when you see how much beach he covered, so it was a massive creative release; and 3) it's a salve that the message of the film isn't that art is inherently evil, but the *exploitation* of art is. I think it's so far the most nuanced film/media I've seen of how the formal art scene (in the western + capitalist sense) doesn't really concern itself with art that's innovative, meaningful or resonates deeply with people, but is more concerned with power & money. I only disagree somewhat that Piers "isn't being directly contrasted with the dead guy or the critics", I think he and Damrish are the only other artists we see in the principle cast, (besides the dead guy) and they also represent artists with different levels of power in this system. They are both obviously moved (maybe disturbed) by Vertril Dease's works, & out of the gallery owners, critic, curator & assistants who suffered after monetizing the dead artist's work, they are the only 2 characters who didn't directly profit from it and it makes sense to me that they survived. I think Piers was actually the template for how an artist in this system learns to exploit themselves, given that yes, he started the film in a creative block and was pressured to make something new by the gallery owners/agents, BUT he was already wealthy because he owned his own factory to create replicas of his old works and he was still treated like a big fish by the gallery owners, despite not producing any original art in a long time. So he was held in high esteem because he also managed to own the means of production, and this shows that the characters and the art system in the movie already valued profitability more than art, & it sets the stage for that assumption through Piers. However, Piers wasn't fulfilled & yearned for artistic inspiration, which we came to see on the beach at the end. I think he very easily could have perished as well if he *only* wanted to hold onto his wealth & esteem, and may have also exploited Dease's work to do that. Whereas Damrish chose art that speaks to community by returning to the collective, and rejecting the individualistic power being offered by the formal art world.
@alarcon99
Жыл бұрын
2:24 I find this so interesting and actually went back to watch your Knives Out video again and I’m on my third watch in this one. As a white latina who presents as very white until I open my mouth, I feel the term POC applies to me in the way that it may apply to a light skinned black person that may present as white or latinx. I understand that my privilege protects me from the worst of the racism and xenophobia (very rarely have I been followed in a store and only when young) but it would be naive to believe it’s no longer present (as I’m reminded when someone asks, “No, where are you REALLY from?”. POC could be interpreted as (perhaps woefully insufficient and inaccurate) short hand to really mean “people subject to racism and or xenophobia”. Furthermore, I object to the comparison of Latinae people to Italian people. There are latinx people that have lived in the US for generations but they still have coloration and accent that immediately identifies as other even if they are as American as apple pie (I immediately think of Mexican descendants living in Arizona and New Mexico and Puerto Rican people). They are always treated as “other” in a way that I’ve never seen Italian-Americans be treated (in the past yes but definitely not now). And then there are the white latinae that are also treated as other because of their accent. I think maybe the only people not subject to that would be Anya Taylor-Joy (Argentinian descent) and Louis C. K. (Mexican descent) 😂. All of that being said I also feel that for me, using the term POC comes with an inherent responsibility to not gate keep others, to be on the alert and protect others that would be subject to aggressions from others (intended or otherwise) and to educate others, because I also recognize that my appearance makes it appear I am more “approachable” and then it’s a short leap from there to being everybody’s latina friend (like I represent everyone) and thus racism and xenophobia no longer exists. Whilst also educating latinae people that feel that they are better than or more worthy (or outright gatekeep) because their skin is lighter than others or they have blue eyes or blond hair. Colonialism did a number on us that we have barely begun to digest and you still have too many older folk who believe the value of a baby is in how light skinned they are 🤦🏻♀️ one of the biggest ironies of my life is my father (as a Colombian) being absolutely outraged at being called/treated like a Mexican when to many Americans due to lack of education in geography everyone south of the border IS Mexican 😂 Edited to add: On another note. As far as the “Capitalism is Control” section of the essay and how the Patriarch in Knives Out is using that control and nepotism to control his children then a proper trylogy would perhaps continue this thorough line? And I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it 😊
@lucaiozzo8273
Жыл бұрын
About how capitalism breeds innovation, you can see at the start of the movie how Miles created a million dolar idea by equating crypto with kids, creating an app for kids to invest in cryptocurrency, but after hundreds of faxes with random ideas and assosiations... Every good thing this man made was either bought or created by random chance, not by his intelligence or capacity
@hartthorn
Жыл бұрын
I got to see it in the theaters, and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Seeing it all play out on the big screen and forced to keep it's pace rather than the temptation of pausing on stream was pretty exhilarating. As for the movie I saw something more in, on a similar theme but a VERY different brand: I still champion the Eternals as a mythological takedown of Capitalism and Neoliberals. In that movie, the Celestials embody the central myth of Capitalism: the Myth of Neverending Growth. Profits can just keep getting larger, every year, forever. And the Eternals embody the Neoliberal's place within Capitalism. They view themselves as the benevolent shepherd, never realizing until it's too late that they are leading their flock to slaughter. And the climax is a damning condemnation of the "compromise" answers. There is no pacifying Capitalism. You must snuff it out at it's source.
@thatcarlchick7655
Жыл бұрын
Oh wow, I like that analysis!
@Bea-rq1uf
Жыл бұрын
i absolutely loved watching a billionaire's house burn down haha
@marcussabom2696
Жыл бұрын
Dumb yet rich tech billionaires often have such overlapping characteristics, that this movie could have been lampooning any of them, Musk just happens to be the most famous of them.
@JessieShadowhold
Жыл бұрын
I did love the absolute SHIT out of gGass Onion. The script isn't as tight as the first one, but it's ability to hit nearly EVERY thematic point of the first while making each point radically different than the first is kinda amazing honestly
@a_real_one2000
Жыл бұрын
Had the same thought when miles was talkin about disrupting norms. I was like He is just describing how capitalism continues. At the end of the day all he does is shift himself in position to get more power/control over everyone. I really enjoyed the glass onion cuz it’s really layered with details & you see it more on repeat viewings Great breakdown analysis on class I mean glass onion
@hakkesho12
Жыл бұрын
Critiques like these are so necessary! Elon Musk is the epitome of “something small that, honestly, most people were kinda tired of anyway”, so drawing comparisons between him and Miles are easy. What’s less comfortable about that train of thought is applying the same comparison to society at large. True “disruption” would mean addressing and fixing systemic problems, but it’s so easy to instead fixate on the public figures who benefit from the status quo as opposed to the corrupt system itself. Also, preach. Every revolution needs a black woman who’s ready to burn it all to the ground 👏🏾🤣
@jnyerere
Жыл бұрын
In the first part of the movie I actually saw Miles as a stand-in for the tech billionaire that backstabbed to get to where he is. Hence, Mark Zuckerberg came to mind. But as the movie went along, I saw more of the Apartheid Trustfund Baby come out of the Miles character. Of course the message of Anti-Capitalism was very obvious from the very beginning of the film.
@edj8008
Жыл бұрын
Agatha Christy often gave mrs Marple Someone new to work together with. After watching glass onion I watched a lot of mrs Marple and Poirot. The knives out mysteries are not only politics, it's really good mysteries. The politics makes them better but they would be good just as stories.
@Katwind
Жыл бұрын
At first view I thought it was dunking on meritocracy, because what was hidden in plain sight was the knowledge of Miles Bron being an idiot. It really was in plain sight, but because he is a succesful billonaire, everyone called him an excentric genius instead. And he isn't even that good at convincing others, people just assume he is right. I thought that was the point of the movie, that the perception of a person gets so skewed because we want to believe that if he gets so powerful he must deserve it somehow, which in this instance couldn't be farther from the truth. Well, I could be right and this is an accurate interpretation, but the argument against capitalism is still better. Thank you for such an interesting analysis.
@alexandersmith7061
Жыл бұрын
One interesting thing that you didn’t mention is that each of the shitheads embody a different aspect of society that benefits from capitalism: -Science inventing things just to be covered (as mentioned before the conclusion) -White privilege -The Patriarchy -Politicians
@jacque5599
Жыл бұрын
Not enough or any people talking about the ant capitalist message in Free Guy
@jujutaylor2186
Жыл бұрын
Another interesting analysis..I enjoy taking your "classes " 😊 thanks for giving me something to think about
@kyrajager907
Жыл бұрын
Excellent analysis! Thank you. Learned a lot! :)
@bertjerome7883
Жыл бұрын
I thought it was crazy how someone could literally impersonate the person that they've known for 20+ years and not notice one discrepancy. They weren't really friends. Sadly, Andi reaped what she sowed... she made the wrong folks rich.
@dodobarthel2249
Жыл бұрын
Some did realize that she was acting weird though. They just didn't conclude that she was actually her twin...
@animeotaku307
Жыл бұрын
@@dodobarthel2249Considering that they alienated her by lying at the trial, they probably figured that her weirdness was because of that.
@michaelholtke4445
Жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed the movie, and I very much appreciate your analysis of some of its themes.
@stealahb
Жыл бұрын
let's take a moment to inbreathiate this great video!
@PoeticProse7
Жыл бұрын
La'Ron, your videos make me a better writer and your perspectives are incredibly insightful! Did you know that the chakras on the others is partially shown and make insane Easter eggs? Birdie's is Muladhara or the sacral chakra of survivalist and core strength, but Miles was stupid enough to show it linked with orange when it should be red. We glimpse Whiskey's as being the green chakra, called Anahata which is the heart chakra. Andi was assigned violet which is Ajna or the third eye of intuition and mental acuity. And the governor is shown to have yellow which is Manipura or the power chakra. We don't see any other's but if I had to guess I would think that Lionel's would be Swadhistana the orange creativity chakra and Blanc's would be the blue throat Vishuddha which governs truth and communication. This level of detail in a movie makes it so very rewatchable!
@gonesnake2337
Жыл бұрын
La'Ron cuts to the chase
@JosefinaQB
Жыл бұрын
please, what about capitalism being called out in The Menu- like, its the whole movie! its my favorite movie. of all time.
@KillerOfWhales
Жыл бұрын
Honestly I kind of thought this part of the criticism was obviously fundamental to the movie. The system being burned down is capitalism, and Miles Bron is the embodiment of it. Wild that so many commentators and as you mention capitalist new outlets completely gloss over that core part of the critique.
@emilyrln
Жыл бұрын
Excellent analysis! Is it any wonder that many people failed to see the systemic critique and focused instead on the individual? Miles is a bad apple, but _surely_ that rot hasn't spread to the whole orchard…
@cheezbiscuit4140
Жыл бұрын
I am not convinced that the Elon Musk parody was accidental.
@LikeTheProphet
Жыл бұрын
I watched glass onion with several people during Christmas. Living in the NL, many of us are US expats, but we are mostly from all over. Something I thought was really interesting in the reaction of the group was that those of us who were familiar with The Industry(tm) and the kind of people who work in it (aka, Los Angeles’ specific brand of capitalism) enjoyed the film very much and all gathered more or less what you explained. However, the people in our group who were European found the film boring, because they felt the characters were too “over the top,” and they didn’t quite understand what the film was “getting at.” Im sure our experience isn’t universal, we’re only one group of friends after all. But it was a really fascinating experience to learn that it can truly be impossible to believe these kinds of people exist in real life without having actually met them. More so, though, what does it say about those of us who HAVE met these people, and it is so normal to us now that we can have a chuckle at their expense without thinking twice about just how grotesque it is that this level of capitalism exists at all?
@imanicartwright4463
Жыл бұрын
My favorite thing is the fact that the resolution is basically "ya know what? Go off sis ". Soooooooooo good
@loverrboyy2879
Жыл бұрын
I looovved glass onion The ending gave me so much JOY Jenell Monae was phenomenal
@odrium8502
Жыл бұрын
Loved the vid, thanks. Homework assignment not about Glass Onion: I absolutely love Colossal (2016 Anne Hathaway film) for the themes. It's . . . got problems, for sure. Solidly a C+. But it's a film that tackles toxic masculinity, domestic abuse, and male entitlement through a Hallmark satire that turns into a Kaiju film. It takes such a huge swing that I can't fault it for not perfectly threading that many needles. Big disparity btw critic and audience ratings on this one.
@RaineStormFlood
Жыл бұрын
I've watched Glass Onion six times so far and every time I see something new, another detail or new way of looking at the events. Love your analysis!
@thenameiswater2921
Жыл бұрын
I literally stood up and clapped in my own living room at the film. Fucking amazing.
@tedrex8959
Жыл бұрын
Do you mind terribly if I ask you, (and by extension anybody else who would care to answer) do you believe that American's, of all types, are more prone to believe that they can make it because of the myth of the American dream and is that belief is fading in younger generations? Sadly, from distance and through age it seems to have become a nightmare for the gig economy generations.
@marceltheory
Жыл бұрын
Being that I am considered Gen Z I would say it is more common to see someone of my age group recognizing or coming to understand the American myth is a scam and no longer a viable option. We have singlehandly seen so many American disasters happen in our lifetime and see our parents and grandparents struggle to obtain the American scam and burnout with very little to show that we have collectively sought out other alternatives whether socialism, communism, or even anarchism or literally anything else other than capitalism. But that is not to say there are not people who believe they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps but it is easier now to see when capitalism rears its ugly head people wake up to the myth of the American dream.
@eminakostic3406
Жыл бұрын
Personally i would say yes. Im a first generation american so i live in 2 worlds so to speak: american and my own original nation. Americans are not necessarily stupid. (I know yoire not saying this, bear w me i have a point) They seem that way from the outside. When youre looking at them from say europe many things are easier explained as stupidity than what it is: propaganda. People here are fed a million different things constantly. The ads never ever stop. Theyre in the media on the radio on the billboards in the library EVERYWHERE. It suffuses every part of the american life. And many of rhose ads try to sell the american dream. Buy this ford. American made! And feel more american. Look at this american billionare "made all his money from a garage can you believe it??" No he didnt. Thats a lie. But at this point, how do you what is a lie and whats not? I think many ppl here just gave up on trying to figure it out. Easier to go with whatever the first guy said and move on. I hope that explains things? At least from my perspective.
@marceltheory
Жыл бұрын
@@eminakostic3406 I absolutely agree and would take it a step further by saying it’s easier to believe the propaganda when there is very little to no time to actually breakdown and access the propaganda being fed to you when you have to work to access your basic needs and when all you do is work who wants or has the time to think about what is real when your are burned out from work just trying to make sure you have your basic needs met. So it is easier to go along with the American myth!
@eminakostic3406
Жыл бұрын
@@marceltheory thats something I should have mentioned: in addition to constant barrage of propoganda is the permeating exhaustion of 90% of people here. What is the saying? We are all one missed paycheck from homelessness? Not to mention the deliberate shaming of people who are at or below the poverty line. The "no one wants to work/ theyre all lazy/ leeches on society" line combined with the new "side hustle/stay on your grind" mentality gives people the double whammy of feeling both like they dont have time to do all this work AND like they need to do More Work. Cogs in the corporate wheel.
@alarcon99
Жыл бұрын
As a first generation myself, it is evident by the desperate measures that immigrants take to come to this country that the American Dream or at least the possibility of achieving it still lives; specially when you compare the ability of achieving that dream for those immigrant in the USA versus in their own countries. And I will say this; the key for survival of the USA is those immigrants and their single minded focus in achieving that dream because they (fortunately or unfortunately) do not realize the reality of how every day it becomes harder what with the lack of social programs, safety nets, unions, living wages and protections. It’s truly a toxic mindset that benefits the USA greatly.
@marceltheory
Жыл бұрын
I would like to answer the second question. If you have seen the Amazon Prime movie "Nanny" Anna Diop is playing an immigrant women who comes to America and tries to save money by working as a nanny for a well off white couple in modern America. In the film her main goal was to save money to send back to her son but also to be able to bring him to live with her in America but throughout the film we see how Americans treat immigrants just because they can with late payment or not paying them at all for the work they have done. Now the film has a lot going on that I do not want to spoil if it hasn't been seen but in all I checked rotten tomatoes reviews and critics loved it but the audience score was really really low like really low! So I check the reviews and it was review bombed because "nothing happened". I find that very telling as her mission was to save money to bring her son to America yet the whole time we see(her name in the film is "Aisha")--the nanny take care of the child as her own and work day in and out yet get mistreated and not paid for her work. This led me to believe that many people are accustomed to exploitation and free labor so much that a story telling just that is nothing happening to many people. I found the movie really telling about capitalism and the way many people treat immigrants and their labor.
@packman2321
Жыл бұрын
I loved Glass Onion. I went in knowing a couple of the twists and was pleasantly surprised with how I still over-estimated Miles. Movie I read more into despite other people seeing cool stuff: I ended up reading Encanto as a critique on the medical model of disability and a representation of invisible disability and the disabled family identity in a particular context. Mirabel's lack of power constructs a hideable, but not avoidable lack of power and social stigma around her, but tellingly this is only because of social structures surrounding that lack. Her father and her grandmother both appear to lack powers, but because Alma has the role as the family's head no similar reading of her occurs. At the same time in Mirabel's context her lack of powers has her read as fragile and problematic to the family and stigmatises her amongst those members of the community that know about her situation. With the family role we can pull from Kenzaburō Ōe, who talks about the way his son's health problems influenced the way his family was perceived and perceived themselves, sticking the stigma to the family. In Encanto we see how Mirabel's failure to get powers changes the Madrigals from 'the family that all have incredible powers' to the family who 'might have incredible powers' creating massive amounts of anxiety when Antonio's turn to get powers arrives and causing the family to reconceptualise itself around Mirabel (her using the nursery full time and also presenting the risk of 'more children like her'). I'm really glad that movie avoided being about Mirabel trying to get powers since it's so rare to have any analogue for disability that deals with these kinds of traumas and role shifts around disability without also being about the relatively simplistic message of 'it's okay to be you.' Encanto probably managed this because it's not doing this intentionally but the fact that Mirabel has learnt this before the plot begins but still retains little features like not wanting to tell the local kids that she doesn't have powers is excellent. The overall message ends up more 'this system which creates and reinforces these stigmas is broken and it always has been' and then providing a better one moving forwards which incorporates Mirabel not as an anomaly but as a valuable person who's lack of magical powers is a feature recognised along with the rest of her, not something she has to give up or 'fix' to be special (and in a lot of ways she ends up mirroring Alma as a woman without powers who nevertheless holds the rest of the family together and gives them their identity.)
@YumLemmingKebabs
Жыл бұрын
I figured Mirabel's gift was the Encanto itself. Like... She was the renewal of its power and the eventual replacement for Abuella as the emotional foundation of the family.
@katherinealvarez9216
Жыл бұрын
I did notice the reference to Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos as well.
@MrBaskins2010
Жыл бұрын
if you close your eyes whenever Ed Norton (miles) speaks in the film; he sounds like gary vee if he ran out of coke. this movie is visually stunning asides from hints of bad CGI but idgaf. loved the original, didnt think the sequel could be better but it was. the comedic timing was A1
@Ebrahim_17
Жыл бұрын
Gonna check this show out thanks to you ❤️
@alarcon99
Жыл бұрын
This comment is for the comment section because I love spending as much time reading everyone’s brilliant feedback as I do watching the video. The quote “Genius is 1% inspiration 99% perspiration “ is attributed to Edison as supporting evidence of his genius. But Edison was simply the Musk of his day, stealing or buying what he could and eliminating the rest. If the quote were to be modified to reflect the reality of producing an innovative idea, I feel the line would have to include what percentage does having resources and privileges represent in having a product that can make someone be considered “a genius”. What percentage would that be? 1% inspiration 20% perspiration 79% money ?😂
@Desaki65
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely fantastic essay as always! I saw the Elon thing as a veneer to really dig into how individuals can - and often will - put aside their instincts in order to secure their positions/status/bags. Now I need to rewatch, and check it out from the viewpoint you presented. (Also because this cast is amazing and now you've given me a reason to dig in again. 💗)
@lkriticos7619
Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed Glass Onion as a good bit of dumb fun. It felt like the parts of Agatha Christie I enjoyed.
@Boahemaa
Жыл бұрын
Seen it twice already. I thought it was captivating. Definitely timely as a social commentary. I did not like the idea that the model was just really silly and shallow that is why she was engaging in cultural appropriation, comparing herself to Harriet Tubman, or using sweat shops. It excused her real world harm compared to the other "disruptors" as if celebrities do not harm society as much as politicians, scientists or misogynist influencers.
@YumLemmingKebabs
Жыл бұрын
I don't think it excused it. She still did just as much harm as if she had known what she was doing. Someone that ignorant and incurious is arguably more dangerous than a genuinely nasty person because they can't tell when they're misusing their power. And she still made several bad choices regardless.
@shivernaut9884
Жыл бұрын
The pacing though 😓
@parttimenerd3706
Жыл бұрын
This has been the most comprehensive and insightful take I've seen on this awesome movie. Instantly subscribed. Now I'm off to watch your other videos
@benquinneyiii7941
Жыл бұрын
Lincoln Flying Fortress Liberator Mitchell
@Emileigggggh
28 күн бұрын
This was great! I have nothing smart or funny to comment but I enjoyed this 👍
@mandipandi303
8 ай бұрын
Glass Onion's message is really great. I love both the films so far. There are so many reasons that I loathe Ronald Reagan, and his lies about Capitalism that have destroyed the US' view of attaining and the distribution of wealth are definitely one of them. I think Marta Cabrera being ambiguously a BIPOC to some people was intentional. She wouldn't be labled as BIPOC according to the US government, yet Republicans use people of her same heritage as a claim that someone in the GOP is BIPOC. I'm in the same boat. My grandmother faced racism because she was medium skin-toned and "didn't pass as white" (she'll be 94 in 2024), when she technically WAS white. Her parents immigrated from the Azore Islands. Some people tell me I am BIPOC, and I have to be like, no, I'm not. I had a bus driver (who himself was Pakistani) spend like half an hour trying to convince me I was BIPOC. The conversation started because he- I shit you not- told me that because of my name, he wasn't looking for a white person to pick up, and was surprised that I was white. Just ?!?!?!?
@shivernaut9884
Жыл бұрын
Isn't any examination of billionaires kind of automatically an examination of capitalism
@kensvideos1
Жыл бұрын
New Sub, In "Murder on the Orient Express" Poirot must realise that Justice is a Democratic institution not one prescribed by individuals, governments, or even by God.
@Just_One_Tree
Жыл бұрын
I didn’t do either assignment but hopefully I’ll get some points for participation 😁
@Uriel238
Жыл бұрын
My understanding of true disruption is that it can't be controlled. The internet, for example. Right now, we have communication monopolies trying to control access, which only drives communities to set up their own servers. The government tries to regulate social media, which only drives new social media platforms underground. They want to regulate data encryption, which only drives encryption medthods that don't look like encryption or have multiple keys which unlock different data. AI art is likely going to disrupt intellectual property industries, possibly forcing a much needed reformation of content copyright law. Disney may try to suppress AI art, but again that will only drive it underground. Then there's the race for AGI (AI that can read instructions and operate a servo to assemble your flat-packed furniture and then make you coffee.) The first billionaire to make AGI that can control swarms of killer robots could hold the whole world hostage, but that may also lead to faulty AGI that is not perfectly obedient to its human masters.
@RichardHannay
Жыл бұрын
I would compare Benoit Blanc and Ace Attorney, where a guy solves murders with the help of a young female companion whose mystery revolves around
@ClockFink
Жыл бұрын
I was in the camp that didn’t see the white liberalism message till it was pointed out to me (I praised it as a fun and well made film from go, but confess I thought it was saying less than Knives Out). Big ups to Vivian Strange for first challenging me to look deeper at this one. As for things where I saw something different, while not a film, the Pied Piper of Hamelin. I have only recently learned a lot of people read it as “beware strange offers” or even just “beware strangers”, which is wild to hear as in my mind it clearly reads as “Honor your contracts”.
@MrDXRamirez
Жыл бұрын
Very good critique. But the other side of capitalism is the working class capitalism exploits. People in the working class who never get credit for the innovations they make and all innovations historically are created by labor. In essence, capitalism never created a single innovation in its entire history since the 1600s. Life is not capitalism. To the contrary, labor is life. A simple example illustrates this. The man who invented the vacuum cleaner in the early 1900s was hired by a department store to clean the rugs of the department store’s main entrance in a city. A high foot traffic area indeed. It was work that became so exploitative that when the sweeper looked up at a ceiling fan to get cooled he got the idea from that fan to make a floor machine that sucks dirt up. Hoover stole the idea to sell it. Miles and Elon Musk are no different than Hoover. Capitalism depends on a working class which is why there is always a working class and a class society and a State to repress the working class when workers become too agitated or angry they revolt. Anyone can become a capitalist. Yes, true. But not without the exploitation of labor. People confuse capitalism with marketing. Of course, one can get the initial capital to start a business either through inheritance or through borrowing the capital against your own collateral a bank would require. But it is the area of employment, or production, where people work that capitalism does the exploiting. People tend to not give themselves the credit of what they do at work. Some talks about what the machines do and not what they do or what the machines do to them in the factories is how distant labor and the means of production it once owned have become has created a form of alienation. The goose that lays the golden egg is labor. We enrich companies and corporations and governments with our labor-power is too revolutionary an idea for American who seem to be learning slowly this lesson is a positive step for the working class. Workers have to free themselves from capitalism by taking possession of the innovations and technology, science, etc. away from capitalists is a process of self-emancipation, really would be therapeutic for Americans. Control, indeed. The modern form of social control in Capitalist America is Behavior Modification and with the pharmaceutical industry controlling evolution at the biological and genetic level that began with the modifications of seeds by Monsanto into our food and evolved into controlling pathogens in creating more dangerous strains of a viruses that started with COVID, than Omicron and the population taking booster shots over and again for the purpose of selling vaccines is a process that has taken hostage, captured, or conquered or controls (whichever word you prefer to use) the governments own monitors of public health the CDC and the FDA in a Grand Social Experiment. Good work my friend, nice to see a younger generation become educated about capitalism and subsequent to that system a social system that works for the working class to finally end their social status as a working class. We all want to own things and be comfortable and in America labor is productive enough to do this but in a classless society.
@JessieShadowhold
Жыл бұрын
Love this analysis! My only nitpick with the movie (not your analysis) that I'd love to hear more about is that Klear would absolutely still be an extremely viable fuel source for power plants because a fuel source that emits Hydrogen as a BYPRODUCT would be a MIRACLE. You could burn the fuel and harvest the byproduct for more fuel! Literally the WORST place to use it is in a home, and that makes dumb capitalism guy even more obviously dumb in a fun way.
@victoriastanton576
Жыл бұрын
I loved the film, and found this video a perfect accompaniment to it. Thank you for sharing it!
@Uriel238
Жыл бұрын
I'd argue that capitalism innovates (or directs innovation) towards what makes more money, and for every improvement to vulcanized rubber for automotive tires, we get dozens methods to influence government to pull money from social programs towards subsidizing corporate interests and resources that are not yet acknowledged that can be burned for profit.
@Lycandros
Жыл бұрын
Yarr, Content Loved the "Glass Onion", have seen others say that it wasn't as good as "Knives Out" or was bad and I just can't understand that perspective. A Trilogy I have recently finished call "The Scholomance Series" by Naomi Novik did an amazing job with the capitalism allegory I think. It's tied up with a system of magic based on energy build up through labor, as well as school system very allegorical to the US school systems. It is a very enjoyable magical school series.
@jojoirish8523
Жыл бұрын
Spectacular video. Thank you. :)
@martaflorcremades1128
Жыл бұрын
And ellon musk will say it's his favourite movie.
@matthewlong3710
Жыл бұрын
Wow, really excellent analysis. Thank you.
@MrDXRamirez
Жыл бұрын
Who or what does the guy who says nothing but is part of the cast as not belonging but is there represent?
@Roseforthethorns
Жыл бұрын
I got the email notification and knew I had a video as a reward for surviving the work day- hell yeah La’Ron! I had so much fun watching this movie, and my brother and I have been talking about it nonstop for days.
@Roseforthethorns
Жыл бұрын
With that Doctor Who mention- Johnson does what Moffat thinks he does. Johnson crafts a solid mystery and then treats his audience like mostly competent adults there to have a good time and maybe think. Moffatt just makes things paradoxical and then ridicules the audience for trying to solve the mystery.
@littleblacksubmarie
Жыл бұрын
There is a high pitched noise that is driving me crazy
@hhhh9740
Жыл бұрын
8.8% of U.S adults are millionaires.
@sandenson
6 ай бұрын
FD Signifier sent me here. This is an excellent video.
@geekypeeples9013
Жыл бұрын
Just gave you a sub. Excellent channel
@fatcat1399
Жыл бұрын
Awesome 💜
@an8strengthkobold360
Жыл бұрын
He's talking about capitalism on KZitem quicky, say how it's hypocritical to make yourself look very smart.
@Readus101
Жыл бұрын
Oh, I'm prepared for the "I am very intelligent" crowd. TRUST ME! 😉
@phoney2627
Жыл бұрын
You criticize society yet you still participate in it... very interesting (/j just in case)
@verybored822
Жыл бұрын
@@phoney2627 it's extremely hard not to. By educating surely he is doing his part against it
@phoney2627
Жыл бұрын
@@verybored822 Did you notice the /j in my comment?
@filmunion8194
Жыл бұрын
Knives Out 3
@andreap9319
Жыл бұрын
LOVED THE VIDEO!
@Megarobotsquadron
Жыл бұрын
great take!
@Christina-jh3qp
Жыл бұрын
Hell Yeah
@cairneoleander8130
Жыл бұрын
I love your channel so much. If I ever get to invite you and yours to brunch, feel free to soapbox and/or geek out anytime about ANYTHING
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