best way to describe it is it feels like it really understands your emotions and frame of mind, like listening to a really melancholic but good song
this movie will probably make your depression worse, because it’s just so absurdly melancholy, but it’s also beautiful and the more you watch it, the more it resonates with your soul. it makes you realize that when you’re in your mid to late 20’s, you need to stop being hard on yourself for not being super successful even when you see people around you succeeding, that you just gotta live and things can always be worse, and who knows what’s gonna happen in the future. you can get an opportunity and fail completely, but that’s okay because another may be right around the corner.
this is just a great melancholy look at a depressed man who is always having the world kick him down, but still doesn’t give up.
seriously if you’re going through depression, even if you’re keeping up a facade on here, watch it. I know all about trying to keep up a happy or funny facade even though I’m an incredibly depressed person. it’ll really resonate with your soul
Well put.
Adore this film and empathize heavily with the story of accepting sometimes you gotta let a ship sink. Also love the loop concept - snake eating its tail.
When I'm experiencing a heavy depressive bout I actually find it comforting to watch films like these. 'Synecdoche, New York' too.
Gotta watch this again. Need it now more than when I saw it in high school
Yeah it first came out during my sophomore year of college. Definitely hits differently now that I’m 27 and still don’t feel like I’ve started my life
Oh it’s coen bros? Watching rn then
not just that, but it’s been voted their best, and BBC ranked it as 11th best movie of the 21st century, making it higher ranked than even No Country for Old Men. this s*** is their masterpiece imo. the cast is also stacked. it’s perfect in literally every aspect, you’ll see. and even though it’s extremely melancholy, it’s still filled with the signature Cohen humor
Might be coens best work
it 100% is imo. and I’m a huge fan of all their films. it’s literally a perfect movie
Well put.
Adore this film and empathize heavily with the story of accepting sometimes you gotta let a ship sink. Also love the loop concept - snake eating its tail.
When I'm experiencing a heavy depressive bout I actually find it comforting to watch films like these. 'Synecdoche, New York' too.
yep, sometimes you just gotta accept you aren’t the person you wanna be, but not to give up hope either. sometimes it’s your fault but sometimes it isn’t.
also I relate heavily to the line “I’m tired. I thought I just needed a good nights rest.. but it’s more than that”
it 100% is imo. and I’m a huge fan of all their films. it’s literally a perfect movie
Hard facts
The John goodman road trip part
The dinner ‘do a song for us’ scene
The audition scene
Oscar
Such a deeply cathartic and real movie
Love moments like when he drives past his baby mothers city on the high way
Or
not telling the audition guy that he WAS in a duo and his partner died when being told ‘you’d work better in a group’ but just taking the rejection and packing up and leaving
I feel in 9/10 other movies those scenes would’ve gone differently but they feel so real for how cold and short moments feel
Also if you struggling with a passion or anything like that this film is classic
yep, sometimes you just gotta accept you aren’t the person you wanna be, but not to give up hope either. sometimes it’s your fault but sometimes it isn’t.
also I relate heavily to the line “I’m tired. I thought I just needed a good nights rest.. but it’s more than that”
100%.
Also, crazy you picked out that line lol. I literally sampled that the other day for something I'm working on. That line and his delivery hits like a ton of bricks.
Well put.
Adore this film and empathize heavily with the story of accepting sometimes you gotta let a ship sink. Also love the loop concept - snake eating its tail.
When I'm experiencing a heavy depressive bout I actually find it comforting to watch films like these. 'Synecdoche, New York' too.
Found this awesome letterboxd list for movies with that feeling
Llewyn and Synecdoche are on there and soo many others coded by colour. Been going through the list and found a lot of gems
Found this awesome letterboxd list for movies with that feeling
https://boxd.it/2cApa
Llewyn and Synecdoche are on there and soo many others coded by colour. Been going through the list and found a lot of gems
Thanks for sharing
One of my least favorite Coens but sounds like a good time for a revisit. Saw it in the cinema and it felt like the end of a second golden era for them because I'm f***ing obsessed with that No Country/Burn After Reading/Serious Man/True Grit clutch
Quarter life crisis
don’t knock that s***, it’s a serious problem for a lot of people. it’s that feeling when you realize you really aren’t a kid anymore and you haven’t lived up to what you imagined earlier in your life, or you haven’t lived up to expectations yet. you just feel like you haven’t done s*** and are panicking about how you’re gonna catch up. a lot of times you’re always comparing yourself to peers and feeling envious and depressed.
its also the panicked feeling that your life is starting to fly by, you realize you’re about to be 30 when you feel like you were a kid just a few years ago. it’s the name of the anxiety you feel becoming a real adult.
this s*** is very real man and it silently eats away at a ton of people who don’t address that s*** with themselves. it’s a major factor in a lot of depression and suicide