Pan's Labyrynth ..... its not a Fairy tale.
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Some people think it's an inspiring story about resilience and persistence towards one's dreams. But it's basically a story about textbook abuse and how pandering to the abuser ends up consuming you, erase your personality and turn you into his puppet.
The solo in the end is tragic, it is not a climax. Andrew started it to stick it to Fletcher but ended up pandering to him. Fletcher won. He now was his little trophy. Andrew is now a great drummer, for Fletcher to brag about, but sacrificed everything for it and he will die young, sad and alone.
Wait, did anyone not think that’s what it was?
Most people I know that saw the movie thought that.
Fight club. Haaands down
I know some people that had the sarcasm and satirical nature of Starship Troopers fly right over their heads.
Starship Troopers taught me one of the most important lessons I've ever learned: I am not immune to propaganda
Definitely understood that it was satire, but the idea of unifying to fight against a common enemy hits me in ways that I need to understand and account for
the idea of unifying to fight against a common enemy hits me
Organized cooperation is basically one of the human superpowers though, so it's hard to hold that against you.
I watched that movie when i was way too young and it was one of my favorite movies. I had no idea that it had any message besides cool bug fights. In hindsight, it's pretty weird that there are apparently adults who never see past that.
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It’s got to be The Matrix.
These red pill people view “liberals” as the Matrix they’re escaping…when the film explicitly says the opposite.
Do red people know that both of the writers are trans…?
They spell it out in plain words in the 4th movie too lol
To be fair, everything past the first movie is pretty ass.
They never read the article. Ever. Doesn’t matter if it’s the bible or playing Born in the USA at a rally.
Breakfast at Tiffany's did not paint Holly Golightly as a character to aspire to, yet generations of young women have emulated her since.
THANK YOU! She abandoned her kitty in the rain. Fuck that bitch
American Psycho
apparently there's communities that take Patrick Bateman as some kind of role model
Its hard to know if those people are serious because Bateman is also kind of a meme. Also, the book gets the point across better.
There's communities that see axe-murdering a colleague as cool and justified, so I'm not sure if they misunderstood one movie or rather life itself.
Princess Bride. Every single person I talk to says it's about true love but it's really the most important lesson is to never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
They committed one of the classic blunders!
No it isn't. Its a public health statement warning people about being "Mostly Dead".
Truthfully it is a revenge movie ... "Hello, my name is ..."
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I can speak from personal experience on this one: Taxi Driver (1976)
When I first watched it (admittedly I was only 13 or so at the time) I pretty much took it as a story about
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a socially-warped but well-meaning hero who stood up against the baddies and won, and saved the girl in the process.
Watching it a few years later, the true horror of it became clear to me, and the contemptible piece of shit Travis Bickle is was made obvious. I think I was just too young to get it, but I was also a huge De Niro fan and so, whatever his character was, I was ride or die with him.
Travis Bickle predicted incel mass shooters. People seem to think he was the cool antihero he thought himself to be, I often see his face in people's profile pics and on cringy self-aggrandising quote memes. He was a disgusting pig of a man and the film is not a celebration of anything he did. On the contrary.
Travis Bickle is an antihero, technically, but antiheroes do good through evil means or for evil reasons. It's hard to argue that Travis didn't ultimately do something good. But it's also clear that he could just as well have done something evil, like shoot up a pizza restaurant because of its supposed basement.
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Dune 1 and 2.
Moral of story: beware blind loyalty to messianic figures
Audience reaction: Paul is so cool and admirable, I hope he wins!
It's even more broad. The lesson is to not blindly trust charismatic leaders. The longer Dune story is about teaching humanity to think for themselves. Most people are far too easy to control.
If you continue to Dune Messiah, Paul talks some about all the destruction that he causes putting humanity on the "golden path". This is referring to that. He needs to create so much suffering that humanity stops blindly obeying leaders. Paul actually is too good of a person to give up the last of his humanity and turn into the worm God Emperor, so his son ends up having to do this instead.
Also - the allegory for oil dependency and the Middle East?? Went right past so many people I talked to
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