Mac Wit Da Cheese

3y

Do you like any of his other stuff besides Grand Budapest?

internet buddy

3y

I’m a Charlie Kaufman stan
Whatever Wes and Roman were trying to do was done better in Synecdoche NY

Block Muteson

3y

You mean 8 1/2

ghosting

3y

copied this from somewhere else, absolutely insane scene

The climactic balcony scene between Jason Schwartzman and Margot Robbie is absolutely stunning. It takes place between two characters, both taking a break from playing two other characters. They discuss a scene they had together that got cut, their discussion serves the purpose of depicting the scene, and it works to staggering effect.

It's one of the greatest flexes I've ever seen a filmmaker pull off. Wes manages to break the fourth wall of the story he's telling, only to pull us back into that very story and give us an emotional close to one of the characters' arcs. That character then returns to his play and our movie, and we understand he's learned something. More than that, we choose to buy the story despite the overt artifice, it's comforting and it makes sense. It feels at once like a triumph of storytelling and a celebration of its very power.

Stories make sense of our world, even when it's a world within a world within a world. The labyrinthian form of Asteroid City doesn't just feel like a choice of form, it's like an experiment that dares to prove that a sincere and earnestly told story can cut through any layer of artifice and make it your heart, because that's what makes us human. I don't know if that's exactly what Asteroid City is "about", but I love that it made me think about it.

deleteduser2863

3y

And with that, I one-up you

I filmed the ending sequence on my 2nd viewing so I can rewatch it & decipher every word

internet buddy

3y

This styliscally is nothing like some 60s Italian movie but nice try

proper

3y

oh you do this too? bout to do the same when k get home

Grok

3y

French dispatch better of his recent works
But this was solid

Block Muteson

3y

I want you to think about why you're wrong and what all three of these movies share. You have 24 hours

internet buddy

3y

Visually this is nothing like Fellini

Block Muteson

3y

I want you to think about why you're wrong and what all three of these movies share. You have 24 hours

ghosting

3y

copied this from somewhere else, absolutely insane scene

The climactic balcony scene between Jason Schwartzman and Margot Robbie is absolutely stunning. It takes place between two characters, both taking a break from playing two other characters. They discuss a scene they had together that got cut, their discussion serves the purpose of depicting the scene, and it works to staggering effect.

It's one of the greatest flexes I've ever seen a filmmaker pull off. Wes manages to break the fourth wall of the story he's telling, only to pull us back into that very story and give us an emotional close to one of the characters' arcs. That character then returns to his play and our movie, and we understand he's learned something. More than that, we choose to buy the story despite the overt artifice, it's comforting and it makes sense. It feels at once like a triumph of storytelling and a celebration of its very power.

Stories make sense of our world, even when it's a world within a world within a world. The labyrinthian form of Asteroid City doesn't just feel like a choice of form, it's like an experiment that dares to prove that a sincere and earnestly told story can cut through any layer of artifice and make it your heart, because that's what makes us human. I don't know if that's exactly what Asteroid City is "about", but I love that it made me think about it.

Block Muteson

3y

I thought it was him making his quarantine movie while also commenting on him making it and what he's went through. Like the A story is America in a time of crisis and worry about the future and what not and the B story is like, I'm only human and this is about me and how I process things. He's the workaholic director and the distant artist and the reclusive writer and he's also part of this community even though he feels so alien and driven to create to keep himself together.

The broad strokes or what I got

proper

3y

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just got to this part in the reddit thread

ngl i like the suicide theory (even if it might not technically work) cause i want to kms

ghosting

3y

interesting theory fasho

dont even think its that far fetched either but I would need a rewatch to know for sure

proper

3y

might have to rewatch w my friend next week glad i did first watch alone tho cause

BVL

3y

watching this with a girl on saturday. Whats the post movie talk going to be like you think?

proper

3y

something like this