pato!! congrats on your peaceful era 😌💞 so sad to hear that eileen was kinda a bummer! i think i'm going to watch it next week
@mirandanicole0307
8 ай бұрын
totally agree with your thoughts on Eileen at the beginning of the video!! felt like the characters were so two-dimensional and just wanted to be weird for shock value. love a plotless novel but its hard to read a plotless novel when the characters are flat
@MicahRion
8 ай бұрын
Always so excited when you post. Had a nice calm time listening to your recent reads :)
@casskrug
8 ай бұрын
ooooh i’ve been meaning to get to the argonauts but keep putting it off!! hearing you talk about it makes me want to bump it up on my list. i really enjoyed eileen as a book but i haven’t seen the movie yet!
@alsopato
8 ай бұрын
o sweet! ive been watching yr vids btw glad u made the jump to booktube! 🫶
@bibliosophie
8 ай бұрын
firstly, congratulations on being on the other side of a bunch of work + stress! secondly, i’m quite curious about the eileen movie. was talking just last night with someone about the fact that neither of us remembered the anne hathaway character being such a prevalent part of the book as she seems in the trailer, and just generally being confused as to how big the lipstick lesbian psychodrama might be in the film. but since i’m also suddenly a lot freer next week i may very well take myself to the movies
@alsopato
8 ай бұрын
looking forward to any thoughts although i dont think its super profound (not that it was trying to be)
@nikoolion
8 ай бұрын
I popped in here just to say that I really like the way you review books. Every aspect of it but mostly your choice of vocabulary! Loved the video, loved the recs, thanks✨
@drummerchikk101
8 ай бұрын
I didn’t read the book. I actually thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I liked that it was left open ended in the end. It was weird but I have read other Ottessa Moshfegh books so I understand that weird is her brand lol as far as the jump scares go, I didnt mind them because I guess it was there to imply her own suicidal ideations and inner monologue. I am open to the idea that they could have gone a different way about it but it didn’t ruin my experience. Because I did not read the book, the twist got me and I was at the edge of my seat.
@nathansnook
8 ай бұрын
will be doing Ross Gay and The Argonauts for 2024! bummed to hear that you rated Eileen so low bc i'm gonna start the book in about a week or two 😭
@alsopato
8 ай бұрын
time to expand and heal yr brain
@nathansnook
8 ай бұрын
@@alsopato yes master ✨🙇🏻
@Scott-md9nx
8 ай бұрын
The only movie I found better than the book was Revenant, the plot changes slightly but feels so much more important and the story has a much deserved finale in my opinion
@ssongpyeon
8 ай бұрын
congratulations pato on getting so much done!!! love that u get to have a nice breather at the end of the year. i hope u have a beautiful time in japan
@yenasung
8 ай бұрын
Wait wait there’s so much to unpack here in this great video about a lot of interesting topics but let me just focus on eileen. Eileen is my fav moshfegh and the movie reminded me that moshfegh is like the literary debbie downer party pooper american cynic always ready to turn the vibes straight towards bile vomit anxiety diarrhea 😂 and the biggest reaction i had to the movie is it may be the most new england thing ive seen. I had no expectations bc i don’t think much of “macbeth” and i knew anne hathaway would act her ass (or in this case, wig) off and she did and it was just not the tone i wanted. 🚨SPOILERS🚨 I debated the rest of the pm w my husband about pro/anti mrs polk bc to me she is what eileen is about, not eileen herself. Eileen is the cypher to the misogyny of this poopy world where the mrs polks have little to no choice but to get married to pigs and try to make the best of their lives as they know how. Im obvs pro mrs polk, im obvs anti child r@pe, and not saying this is exactly how the real world is. But such is the moshfeghian world. And i was and still am surprised when ppl talk about eileen they dont talk about mrs polk AT ALL when she is the entire point. Now im thinking if maybe moshfegh stories would be better as short stories a la claire keegan and tho she prob prefers to make her readers dwell in her disgust before she flips the switch on them, it may be more impactful as a really well crafted short story. I saw the movie in a theater w just me and my husband, and one big family. And when the movie was over they all erupted “that was fkn sht wtf ur never picking the movie again” to obvs the one girl who prob told her fam LETS GO SEE EILEEN ITLL BE FUN 😂
@alsopato
8 ай бұрын
thts a good point., even if i was doing spoilers i dont know if i wouldve mentioned mrs polk tht much 💭
@ameliareads589
8 ай бұрын
I've read four of Moshfegh's books and unfortunately the only one I really liked was MYORAR. So I decided not to continue reading her work. She has been a one-hit-wonder to me. Happy for you being happy!
@ImaniLove94
8 ай бұрын
Really eloquent review! I hope the ending changed your mind about Eileen!
@vuhkhyhg3334
8 ай бұрын
every time im watching your videos im thinking how i wanna b your friend 😮💨
@boobysr
8 ай бұрын
I only saw the movie. I thought it was slow in terms of character development. We don't really get anything about what blonde girl means to eileen. Is she just an escape, or a true love interest? Does she want to emulate her or impress her? Even if the answer is both, the movie doesn't depict it in any intriguing way. A noir should be intriguing at the very least...I thought it was too plain with no stakes. SPOILERS I don't mind open endings (the piano teacher, the mountain, nocturnal animals), but there should have been a enough of a satisfying character arc to justify it. There should be an overwhelming emotion clinging to the silence of the credits. When eileen ended i thought "ok", and that's not good...
@alsopato
8 ай бұрын
100% - it felt like a template at a lot of points, really hollow. agree w the end credits too haha
@robertmueller2023
8 ай бұрын
What's this petty blank check for, Eileen? Maybe the bad actors at SHN know?
@robertmueller2023
8 ай бұрын
Hi Eileen? Did you think I was going to trust you?
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