Excelente

Pretty good! I mean, I have a Karstin video on my birthday. So, yeah, it’s pretty good!

Just watched Uncut Gems for the first time Light as air

It's alright, a little stressed out. My psych prof is a total wanker and it got me heated this morning. But I don't plan on letting that chump ruin my day. One of my favorite KZfaqrs dropped a video a minute ago, so things are looking up I'd say! Thanks for asking Karsten, how you doin?

Pretty great

leydi w The square aspect ratio makes it feel so cramped!

Yeah, my God I was, please tell him you have to go home!! It was suffocating 😢

door frames... more like windshield

@@RotchildFrancoisJr it also makes the frames look like one of the paintings, isolated lonely sad claustrophobic or one of those other things you said

The sound design achieved this too in my opinion. The sound of the windshield wipers, the wind, the uncomfortable interruptions throughout dialogue. All of it added to the sense of confinement in a beautifully and creepy way

It was actually your own nightmare.

Perfectly describing my experience

Ouch haha

Like y’a pfp g 👀

@@StrawberryFeildsforNever Ay, mi corazón

@@StrawberryFeildsforNever thanks

but there's a dead guy, you don't see him but you know, without this knowledge, just the picture wouldn't be sad

sameeeee it felt like it was never gonna end lol

Me too. I'm not one to shy watching artsy, deep, cryptic movies but this one is almost unbearable. I know there are hidden meaning in small details but there are also tons within the movie that I think is unecessary and it just made the movie sooool long.

sim sim SIM!

yo same i was not about it. like i picked up on it i understand its a complex movie w a lot to put together ... but i dont care... i am tired and will not watch again

Kinda hurts that this is such a common reaction (me included) which it catered towards making it slightly more palatable... Which I've never said about a film before.

Ooooooh!

Sort of reminds me of how i watched high school musical as a kid and idealized that growing up and went to high school and it was the most excruciating years of my life instead

same

When I watched the trailer for the movie I automatically thought of suicide, then I went and read the book and thought "oh, it's about a break up" and then in the ending I was "oh, this indeed was about suicide"

Well, it can mean both things actually. It can mean the the janitor is thinking if ending things. And in the literal sense as Lucy mentioned she wanted to end things, meaning breakup with Jake. But the 2nd meaning is also very dark. We know Jake is fantasizing about Lucy but even in his dreams or fantasizes, the girl wants to end things with him. And that is so much sad when you re-watch it. Even in his fantasies, he can't control the thoughts of the girl as she wants end things with him and thus it means that even though she is a part of him but she also has her own thoughts and identify. She is so fully formed that Jake, even in his mind, has given her a separate 'voice'.

@@amanjaiswal9389 yeah, totally, it's a double meaning, and a way to deceive the viewer with the title, I saw it mostly as the character of Jake reflecting on his life, regrets, choices and insecurities, it really hit me close xd, how he could perceive himself as smart but in a condescending way, his view on relationshis and people in general, how Jake couldn't maintain an active social life and the guilt of never accomplishing something meaningful, and never living up to his or what he thought were other people's expectations

Same

I quote this ALL THE TIME and it’s so fitting here lmao

Anytime people starts talking about time I think about that song lol

*rizd

Why did I read it in my head in the same Kadenz and tone as the original 💀

Wow

I can. I’ve been losing hope in life ngl. I keep going tho, I don’t know why but I just feel like I should even though nothing gets better.

Meditation may help you, but it'll take practice

i struggle with maladaptive daydreaming too and i find it really helps to try grounding yourself in this reality through things like meditation and hobbies :)

You said it well. This film is a horrifying reflection on choosing maladaptive daydreaming above existing grounded in a discomforting reality. Won't get into the weeds, but I've spent the past several years of my life imagining some other, more attractive existence. As the years compound, it gets worse... becomes cyclical. You'll have regrets for the years lost. You'll almost forget that most people live lives, instead of imagining them. You'll maybe fall behind on responsibilities, connections, ambitions. And, that will only cause you to sink further into the idealistic, chronically distracting fantasies. It becomes too tragic to think that dream world is unobtainable to you, since it can feel so close. I can't imagine what decades of this would do... but the janitor certainly represents that missed opportunity. If I had any advice, it would be to latch onto any HOPE. Even if it feels naïve sometimes. And, how do you do that? Stay active, or get active. Can't find fulfilling work? Volunteer. Too depressed to go out that day? Message a friend you can trust. Go for a short walk around the block if at all possible. Probably stay away from weed. And, try to get on a regular sleeping schedule. Just some thoughts.

ever played omori?

oh I stopped watching with headphones like 30 minutes in, it was unbearable lol

Watching this on a Tv screen I could barely hear the sound design. With just constant soft wind blowing noises filling up the silence, but that in itself basically acted as silence. Making it so all the scenes where character weren’t talking extremely uncomfortable. This movie was soemthing else.

omg yes. the odd gasping/breathing sound effect to intensify the scenes, then random cries from a baby in the distance, some jet ? or planes flying above, and a distant emergency siren- those were the ones i caught

STRONGLY agree. Silent, dark room + HiFi Headphones + the repeating exhale/ wind combo had me checking if someone else was in the room.

@@tigermendez6323 yoooo I didm't hear those weird sound effects even though I was on headphones but during the last quarter I was constantly checking if there was someone in the room as well that's crazy

Oooooh, nice! Didn't notice that

Good point about the clown. Jake seemed to have an affinity for clowns. He said at one point the Tulsi Town jingle always made him emotional. There was a Tulsi Town bag in the old Jake's pick up truck. And there's a clown doll or puppet in his bedroom. I was wondering why the girl started off looking like Ronald McDonald's sister. Makes sense.

Did you watch the movie? They make it pretty clear that the movie is inside of Jakes head. The first 10-15 minutes of them showing the old janitor and the Oklahoma dance scene gives it away that it’s not about her

I think since the girl is made up by jake he can manipulate her since he has control of it since it’s a dream or a figment of his imagination

Couldn’t stop thinking of Fleabag, but the interruptions in that were for way different reasons.

Except that, near the end of the film he repeatedly asked her what she was thinking. He could no longer hear her because she was becoming independent from him. Now that's a strange scenario...

Its a movie about how inceldom will make you rope and kill yourself. When even imaginary girls reject you then it never began for you.

You should read the whole book, it's pretty great!

I enjoyed how confusing it was tbh. It was fun trying to figure it out but honestly I had to look up "I'm Thinking of Ending Things' explained" videos after watching it to really get it 😅

Not a good sign for a movie

Connor O'Reilly Says who? Is a poem that’s initially confusing a bad poem? I don’t think art needs to be immediately clear or even immediately enjoyable. Sure, many people prefer to consume and move on, but that doesn’t mean that’s the best way to do things.

Even reading a summary or watching an analytical video is a substitute for one’s own patience and analysis, for conversation. So they aren’t necessary, just a way to quicken the digestion of dense material.

please

wait he actually is on letterboxd now what

Princess and the pauper is top tier next to the My Scene Barbie franchise

What have you done

If Princess and the Papuer doesn't top the list and 12 dancing princesses isn't close behind then Karsten is cancelled.

same here

Me too I couldn't keep going it was hurting my head.

yeah same, but honestly at that point I just went with the flow of the film, and by the end I loved how extremely weird it made me feel😅

It took me three days to watch it

same, but it was fun trying to figure it out lol

the way I didn’t notice until I read your comment 🤯

@@ezra6094 lmao same

I’m so proud of myself for noticing the first time it happened haha

and not only in the school, constantly in the movie she changes accesories, color, hairstyles

I noticed that when Watching it for the second time- how it was bright orange and then became purple, yellow and eventually grayish blue sort of color..

Penis?

Even the first time, I was just fascinated and, even after thinking it was boring at the start, the changes in the characters, the odd details that sprung up every now and then, made me want to keep watching. Even after my first viewing, I liked this movie.

Yeah definitely, I almost always give movies that I like/appreciate in an artistic manner a second viewing, so. I can try to pick up in every little thing the director/cinematographer want us to pick up on, but THIS fucking movie, man...it was WELL worth it. 100%. It honestly almost felt like I was watching an entirelh different movie altogether! It was an amazing experience for me.

@@Ragnaroswar yeah I liked it the first time I watched it too, only I found it very confusing and thought the ending was not so great. The second time I watched it it resonated with me a lot more and I thought the ending was really powerful

Jared Hernandez I loved how I sat there for a whole hour thinking of what I saw and coming up with my own explanations!

Me too!! So well done, god i loved this film haha

i thought i was seeing things

What, when did that happen? I need to watch it again

@@OptikOfficial just from remembering I think its pretty soon after they finally get back in the car when leaving the house, I could be wrong though 😁

@@OptikOfficial Off the top of my head I want to say it was towards the end of her monologue critiquing the film 'A Woman Under the Influence'

I heard cuties wasn’t that bad tho

I HATE people that HATE other people. I get a lot of HATE comments on my amazing videos and I HATE it. Please don't spread HATE. Do I have to HATE you too, dear mas

Luke Donovan check the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, I think you’ll see that most people don’t accept sexualizing children in a film.

@@jennatandy6272 TBF i imagine about 2% of people actually saw it, lots of people will write a negative review just to feel part of something. Apparently the trailer presented the movie very poorly. I mean it's based off the directors actual childhood, these fucked up shit happen in real life, look at american child beauty pageants

@@jennatandy6272 imagine thinking rotten tomatoes is a reliable source of showing how good a movie is

Technically hypothermia killed him 😂😂

Its a movie about how inceldom will make you rope and kill yourself.

I think it was moreso his dreams that killed him. Loneliness is bearable for someone who accepts it, but he simply couldn't, dreaming constantly of finding artistic or scientific success and above all love, and in doing so spent his life in unfulfilled misery

Getting married doesn't mean anything. Hell, 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, these are horrible odds, yet people keep gambling. Having a partner is different from signing a piece of paper.

Wait, what? How do you know that

@@gabrielborjas7923 Beneath the paintings on the basement's wall you can see Blakelock's name. The ones that actually have Jake's signature are just an attempt at copying them, pretty much like everything in Jake's life tbh, I feel like he projects other people's success onto himself because of how mediocre he is, it's really sad. At least that's my interpretation of it.

@@bernardolima3788 I felt this too but you put it into words better than I could.

@@gemsbyjackie5479 That's probably my favorite aspect about the movie, in the book Jake is kinda of a genius and that's why he can't connect with others, on the other hand, the film portrays Jake as an average person, which is a lot more effective and scary imo since most of us are condemned to mediocrity too.

​@@bernardolima3788 I agree, I think he's also fantasizing about being a genius as to find a reason for why he's so alone. They also talk about how mothers are blamed when their kids turn out "bad", and these two intertwine when the mom keeps going on about how he was such a genius when he was a child. He's desperately trying to find something to blame. I feel like "Lucy" going into the basement, seeing his mediocre paintings along with his work uniform, and also her going against his freudian view was also like a breaking point for him and the reason this was his last fantasy before ending things, realising the harsh reality of life and that no one else is to blame for his mediocracy and how his life turned out.

Your life is an existential masterpiece.

@@seanmatthewking Is that some sort of pickup line?

@@seanmatthewking yeah ok creeper

oh my god ahahaha

Its a movie about how inceldom will make you rope and kill yourself.

bruh me too

lol same, I got it all wrong

well a lot of these people either studied film or philosophy or psychology at uni. so they have a background and are familiar with this type of thinking. it’s nearly impossible to pull an analysis out of thin air with no prior experience looking at symbols or themes. don’t feel dumb, just keep learning and thinking critically!

It was like dreaming. No idea whats goin on but it kinda makes sense if you dont think too hard. Give yourself more credit, you understood it but didnt form it into words. Also im 3 years in the future!! Muwahaha

Honestly the movie was unnecessarily complicated.

Funny, it convinced me to not watch it.

cinemonika and karsten in one place what a wonderful world

Having just watched it, I totally agree. About a third of the way through (expecting it to be an existential romp a la Kaufman) I actually exclaimed out loud (to myself, for I live alone, but was it to myself, and did I say it or was it my fantasy avatar??) ‘Oh, this is a horror film!’ It also reminded me more of Lynch at his horroriest (thinking Inland Empire probs the scariest thing I’ve ever seen) than of anything Kaufman. I have no problem with that at all.

Watched the film for the first time last night. Today I thought about this and then started wondering if this was intentional in the casting. I bet it was.

should I read the book if I’ve already seen the film??

Blue and purple yes! It’s an entirely different experience. When I first watched the film, I thought it was going to be scarier.

Watching the movie I kept thinking "Man, MC is a great actress!" But I could never put a finger on why her performance was so amazing.

toni collette, too!

Thewlis and Plemons are fantastic as well!

I feel like you would like Alan Resnicks work. Look him up! You won’t regret it, (well, you will deeply regret it but you won’t.)

Yeah. Similar vibes. I get that.

because they are both stories about the imaginations of a person who was about to die

It’s actually creepy how similar they are, both are the dying delusions of a lonely man who’s life was shaped by stories and media because he couldn’t get over his own demons and make human connections, so they’re constantly trying to live out things that can never exist.

That was probably him coming to terms with things

It seems comforting but imho its one of the most depressing parts of the movie. Throughout the film he makes reference time and time again to how so much of what we experience is just fabrications of our mind, as a coping mechanism to make his fantasies seem more grounded. So in the end he is unable to let go of his ambitions and dreams and refuses to face his lonely, meaningless death to the very end, deceiving himself with one last "it all ends happily ever after" to try and grasp some small semblance of purpose from his life, turning his back on true, final acceptance and lucidity.

can you explain the ice cream reference to me?

The movie is filled with things such as subtle change of clothing which your brain will unconsciously pick up on even if you don't notice it and it makes you feel uneasy like something is off but you don't know what xd my friend who is a very sensitive person found it too off putting and also couldn't watch it before nothing even had really happened

You summed up basically my exact experience better than I could

matti tatti also I noticed that there wasn’t music playing in the background most of the time and it was just them talking and the wind. We’re not used to hearing or seeing the type of stuff we saw/heard in this movie. It was great

yess I feel you. I also stopped for a minute after like 30 minutes in, but then kept going because I really wanted to watch Karsten’s review afterwards and it was so worth it!

Me with “Anomalisa”

Exactly what I was thinking. Why do you think old Jake has these fantasies in the first place? It reminds me of the scene in Inception where Ken Watanabe talks about living to become an old man, only full of regret.

I think a big part of jake ending up like he did is his own self conciousness. He is so insecure of himself so in his fantasy he is portrayed as a bad partner (and also in the dance scene, he thinks of himself as disgusting and evil) but when the girl speaks to the janitor at the end of the movie he seems very kind. Idk if i'm making sense here but i agree with you, i think jake ended up like he did because of thinking so low of himself, it's all about the circumstances

@@DasRaetsel Because he is lonely and has no one else in his life anymore. I'd like to assume that he's been having these for an extremely long time with how the mother is portrayed, keeping him trapped in his self destructive mentality, which is real at the very least from Jake's perspective. And I think this movie displays what would happen if Leonardo DiCaprio didn't trust Ken Watanabe at all and decided to not follow through with trying to get his kids back, leaving him hollow and empty (although I don't think he would kill himself.)

yeah i agree that the movie portrays the hell life can become. watching it i couldn’t help but feel angry at kaufman, that he’d take such a cynical view to life, until i realized jake and “young woman’s” stories can be warnings instead of prophecies, that it truly is up to the watcher to decide to go down that path of self pity and cynicism and nihilism.

exactly! this is a self reflection of someone with so much regret and insecurity that it tips the scales into depression, especially in the old age when you know life has passed you by. it's scary, but we all have a piece of this kind of darkness in us. however what gives meaning to human life is mostly relationships, as cliché as it may sound. jake seems like a man who spent his entire life lonely and feeling isolated and to me his story feels like a warning rather than a cynical constatation of the world and society. it doesn't have to be this way.

Why do I feel like I'm going to end exactly like this? Relatively intelligent, dreaming of a life where I could've been someone, until I realise at the end that I wasted it by never really achieving anything. I also never felt more related to a fictional character than the main character in Synecdoche.

Jake wanted to be Lucy. Quantum physicist, artist, poet, intelligent, had a girlfriend. But even she wanted to end things with Jake. Even his dream wanted to leave him and he was trying to convince it to stay, trying not to face reality. He gave up on himself i guess.

it's represented by these unanswered calls she keeps on ignoring. it's his self-destructive side that she won't address, because she's a parasitic figment of his imagination which "wants" to keep on consuming him. this part of his self-hood (ipseity) doesn't want to acknowledge his impending demise. note how his remembered/imagined parents - the other part of his subconsciousness - INSIST that she takes the call, even explicitly stating it could be an emergency: - You should take it. We won't think it rude. - No, it's OK. It's not important. - You don't know. It might be. It's a blizzard out there. - She might be stranded. - It's OK. which would be rather weird in real life, because there's absolutely no reason why she wouldn't pick up. but they are the parts of his imagination that represent the memory of real (if difficult) love he'd received in his life. whereas she represents fictional love, which provides him with validation he - an underachiever - is longing for. "Like that's my purpose in all this, in life. To approve of Jake, to keep him going. She's smart, she's talented, she's sensitive. She can do this, she knows about that, she made this, she cares about that" - it's her thoughts (talking about herself in third person, of course) right before the camera cuts to him taking his senile father to the bathroom. he prefers love that validates him over love that has to be returned.

piggers

I'm thinking of POGGERS things.

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haha funny original joke

You’re a physicist You’re a poet You study degenerate diseases You’re a painter You’re a film critic

He knows all the musicals because the kids put on display. What does that mean? I think there are these hints throughout the movie but to say we were supposed to know from the beginning is an exaggeration.

*Spoiler Below* : ..... In the book, it’s a twist ending because we find out literally they are the same person... the narrator/janitor. She tells him I want to end things and so he does, resulting in taking his own life. Imo I think she represents not only a character for the janitor to contextually visualize for fantasy and/or romantic hopeless longing, but also to represent the cluelessness or innocence one has when looking back on their past and/or past traumas. Shit, even in the book, it’s noted he has schizophrenia and even the movie adds that clue with the one line the mother says with the Tinnitus and the Yule Log. I believe in the film it’s also exhibited in the dad with his ‘forehead band-aid’, him always looking confusedly up and rubbing his head, and the eventual dementia he has. I think Karsten missed that analysis too imo because it isn’t necessarily about the young woman’s escape, I believe; it’s more of his own wanting to escape and his innocence/“unknowningness” of furthermore wanting to escape his reality and the choices he made... I think the fantasy is more of a “what if”, perhaps, that gets wrapped into existential horror and fantasy because life is full and complex of the warping of the dream, the reality, and the in-between in all angles and sides of our existence. I think that’s why people do have higher power beliefs because something has to be out there in human life despite our existence having moments or periods that can be dreary, or redundant, and/or harsh (especially (probably from an existential or even awareness level) when it feels human life doesn’t necessarily have to be. Great film, greater book.

Luca laurin exactly. Not to mention that maybe he was an admirer of musical theatre in his younger days? And assuming from his dad’s patronizing of Visual Art/General Art in the dinner scene, I think that represents his suppression of the true art he maybe wanted to express. Not to mention, stereotypically, families who farm seem to be very traditional and conservative so Visual Art? Maybe... but Theatre?? Oh hell no, “too gay”. Even the quote of Freud and the couple trying to assert that they have no qualms about homosexuality make me feel as if maybe he’s homosexual himself? Or on the spectrum and rustling with his liking for men? Especially since we see him express his own thoughts as female (but I think thematically speaking that showcases how we are all one in the same on a wider scale than what the specific main character is going through) Not saying you have to be gay to be involved, appreciate, or like Musical Theatre, but 1) everything in this film and book has a meaning even when it seems meaningless and 2) in my own experience, I’ve seen men battle with those confines of sexuality in terms of what does it mean to be a man in theatre but also with men struggling with being involved with entertainment in general and ALSO possibly being a closeted gay man or actually being a closeted gay man (I.e. Rumors of most of the golden age male actors like Marlon Brando or James Dean, Rumors of John Travolta and Tom Cruise, Rumors of possible Gay Rappers like P Diddy, Young Thug, or Tyler the Creator. Not to mention true and real happenstance with Kevin Spacey (🤢), Ezra Miller, Bodybuilder Bob Paris, Anderson Cooper, Ellen Degeneres, Robin Roberts, Ricky Martin, George Michael, etc. etc. etc..) So I personally think, from two shots in the movie (the 80s hallway scenes), that he enjoyed musical theatre in his younger days but was ashamed of it in a way and had no real access to displaying that passion he had for it, so movies (and science because all things are creative of human invention and human discovery) were the next escape.

Yes, exactly how I interpreted the movie as well. The confusion, the musical Memories but can’t place face and names and the distorted timelines felt so frighteningly how I would imagine Alzheimer’s feels like ☹️

Brilliant, you’ve helped me clarify a thought! I too thought that old Jake had Alzheimer’s. Most interpretations have the Lucy character merely as a representation of the ‘dream girl(s)’ he couldn’t attain in real life, but I wondered why so much was from her perspective. Also, it allows Jake to see unpleasant things he’s repressed from another point of view (his discomfort with his mother’s timidity/ignorance: etc., dad’s ugly toes just for e.g . As well as the true revelations of his lack of genus - i.e. the rubbish paintings buried in the basement). The other thing that bothered me was the getting naked bit - at the time of watching it seemed he was ripping his clothes of as if he was too hot, as someone with extreme hypothermia might. Perhaps lost (in his mind) and confused he’d been sitting in that truck in the snow for hours or even days?? Anyway, more food for thought, thanks!

What do you mean? Like the musician The Caretaker?

palbo4 I mean the six and a half hour music series (everywhere at the end of time).

@@ivancorredera4241 that's what I thought you meant! I've been so curious about Everywhere at the End of Time but I've been too intimidated to listen to it. You make me want to even more

palbo4 it’s quite depressing if you understand the context. The artist spent three years utilizing old retro ball music, distorting it and remixing to craft a music piece that is meant to demonstrate the effects of dementia, slowly not being able to remember certain memories, ending in your character slowly dissolving into a husk, an empty shell unable to remember the past. I wonder if Kaufman listened to it.

@@ivancorredera4241 yeah, that sounds devastating and extremely unique. Really does sound like it has similar themes to those movies, I feel like I have to listen to this. Do you have to listen to the whole thing in one sitting or is it still effective if you listen to just certain parts of it at a time?

I've been saying this in other videos and on other social media sites, and finally someone else says it!

I was think the same thing!! I have a severe maladaptive daydreaming problem and I see some similarities.

This!!!!! The sudden turn for violence it takes in the end!! The way the 'young women' and the mother share their weird laughing styles and if you've read the book you can tell that the young women starts acting more and more like who Jake actually is rather than who Jake thinks the young women is supposed to

Yes!

I don't think it was advertised as a horror at all. I feel like it was advertised as another quirky indie drama. I was surprised at how scary I found the film honestly, but I agree it was hilarious in parts too.

I definitely agree

@@ZachBobBob if you watch the first trailer that Netflix released, there's clearly a horror aspect to it.

Ste Gabriel yeah, the ticking with David Thewis and Toni Colette’s most odd moments seems to try to advertise more of a horror vibe

@@gabrielborjas7923 Mmm the last half of the trailer definitely has a horror/thriller vibe to it with the music and toni's cackling but the first half in my mind has a weird quirky vibe to it more then a scary one. I don't know personally I just wasn't expecting something scary going into this

Can you explain it? I'm not quite understand :(

@@geniusonyeo the movie jaws back in the day caused a 'shark panic' where people suddenly thought sharks were these super dangerous swimmer killing machines and i think more sharks were killed so i guess marco wants to say that this movie vilified mental illness and made it look bad like that though i don't think i agree

@@Fuckyourselfgoogle i think it's more just an inside joke; a youtuber (YourMovieSucks) did a video where he mentioned how dumb it was that trailer and DVD cover featured reviews often compared scary movies to Jaws

wfd87 yeah I was just about to comment. He did that I’m his frozen review!

@@wfd87 There are 2 types of people

I totally agree also that video you got on your channel is really cool!

@@JordanAfifi hey, thank you.

Yes! I couldn't help but think about it while I was watching the movie haha. Though (if he gets to read our comments) you should know the whole project is 6 hours long, but it's totally worth it

yessss, I was thinking about it while watching the whole movie

Its a movie about how inceldom will make you rope and kill yourself. When even imaginary girls reject you then it never began for you.

If I hadn't known that the novel was from two years after Philip Seymour Hoffman died, I would have been sure the character of Jack was written for him exactly.

Honestly Jesse Plemons does look a lot like PSH. Similar eyes, build and demeanor in performances. I know he gets compared to Matt Damon (Meth Damon and Fat Damon were some of his nicknames during Breaking Bad), but he is comparable to PSH in my mind.

@@rsfilmdiscussionchannel4168 Jesse Plemons played as PSH's son in The Master

@@scarletrodriguez9468 Oh yeah he did. Perfect casting. If they do a PSH biopic or just have him appear in a film, Jesse should play him.

dont expect it to be too similar lol - its a charlie kaufman adaptation

Travis Lathangue lol, I’ll check it out this weekend and hope for the best

One of my favorite movies so far this year watched it 3xs watch it till the end credits are over for the full effect!

Nah he was an incel because he was a manlet and mentalcel

he was lonely, and that made him unhappy. being a good janitor doesn't exactly solve that problem.

Congratulations, thanks for suggesting this to him! 🎊😍

Now that you’ve mentioned it, this film does remind me of Tarkovsky’s "Mirror".

Wow. Just wow.

Honestly, that was my take on it as well. One can never know if they're entirely right about a piece like this, but reading your comment at least let's me know I wasn't alone in my analysis of it. I think you put it more eloquently than I could, though 🙂

I thought that too when jake's mother mentioned whispers in her head.

Stargirl I was starting to think that when Lucy saw their paintings with ‘jake’ signed on them! And was sorta susp of it ever since they arrived to the house we saw the janitor leave some point at the beginning of the movie

@@ellllllllllllllka yeah I do think there was some under tones and references to it. Maybe since the events of the film was in the janitors head, the line about the mother I mentioned could be mirroring how he feels. I think the charaters could represent the voices in the janitors head and he may be the one with the illness. But that's just my take anyway.

i totally agree, maybe i understood the movie wrong (also i've never heard of the book until now) but i thought the whole movie was about her in a dream-like state where she was zoned out a lot of the time. like when she's standing in the doorway and all of a sudden jake and his parents are telling her to eat because the food is ready. and when she's walking down the stairs like 10 times, it's just her forgetting that she's already done it. this also ties into the mom and dad as they repeat themselves a lot. also, with the aging thing, it's her feeling like n time is passing at all when in reality years/decades are passing. idk though i havent seen anyone else agree but i guess its up to interpretation

It is. Someone stated he has DID and someone has stated his has schizophrenia. But I’ve only seen that in reviews from people who read the book. Haven’t read the book yet, but makes sense. But he does have severe depression though... I believe that is very evident in the film as well as the book.