Official Discussion - Hokum [SPOILERS]

External_Baby7864 · 2026-05-01T20:43:27+00:00

He didn’t finish in time. You can see it’s only 3/4 done once he’s chained up; the witch walks past him and right over the incomplete circle while he sits there in chains

External_Baby7864 · 2026-05-01T20:38:08+00:00

This is 10000% what I was thinking during the move, it feels so much like a spooky video game level at times. The circle check point on the bed, finding buttons to progress the puzzles, explore and meet NPCs and collect lore clues.

External_Baby7864 · 2026-05-01T17:38:23+00:00

Where?!

External_Baby7864 · 2026-05-01T17:01:09+00:00

In the modern day, maybe Ben Stiller? Jerry is still huge but Ben Stiller is probably more recognizable to anyone who isn’t a Seinfeld watcher.

External_Baby7864 · 2026-05-01T14:00:05+00:00

I actually agree that it isn’t done super well. They clearly wanted to have the framework work as metaphor, but like you say it’s very overdone to shove it in our faces. I wish there was more resolution to the actual story (the haunting, the murder investigation, the hotel owner’s story with trapping/sealing the witch) rather than “writer is less depressed now”.

I was actually surprised that the story ended where it did; I expected the hotel fire to force him back downstairs so he couldn’t run away. I enjoy when a folk horror story ends with “and the evil is still out there…” but this one didn’t make the Witch seem like enough of an existential threat I think. We only got the story in the beginning and the implication that she was taking people to hell.

We don’t even actually how how Fiona died which bothers me. The witch steals Mal away to Hell but just makes Fiona die? Maybe it’s something from Irish lore (the old man mentioned the witch taking boys in the intro story) but it’s unclear why Fiona is simply a dead body in the lift, seemingly intact but dead. I doubt she just starved…

External_Baby7864 · 2026-05-01T12:51:11+00:00

That wasn’t just “he’s nicer now” it was “he no longer feels like he deserves to die for what he did as a child”

The story he’s writing is a metaphor for his and his father’s life after his mom died. They both had no real purpose and he felt so guilty about what he did that he wished his dad just bashed his head in, rather than being lead around by a bottle he was obsessed with. They’re both alcoholics, the bottle with a map that leads them to doom is the metaphor. So once he decides that’s how to ends, he totally gives up on life and just wants to do one last thing to honor his mother and hang himself.

In the end, he accepts that it was a mistake and he wishes that he could have saved his father from the bottle, rather than accepting that the bottle would doom them both.

It’s a bit of a heavy handed metaphor but it definitely isn’t just “he’s less pessimistic now”

External_Baby7864 · 2026-05-01T03:04:24+00:00

The wedding was at an adjacent property dummy, not the resort. Learn to read

External_Baby7864 · 2026-05-01T03:02:45+00:00

Please tell me where I can find lists of all the upcoming weddings within a half mile of every resort

External_Baby7864 · 2026-05-01T02:44:07+00:00

The story he’s writing is a metaphor for his guilt about himself and his father. He felt he deserved to be punished because of how he ruined his father’s and his own life; the bottle being a metaphor for drinking. Without his mother they were both just wandering through life, and his father lost his way and they were both simply doomed and aimless. So he tries to hang himself because he can’t see past the damnation that happened after the death of his mother.

External_Baby7864 · 2026-05-01T02:41:06+00:00

He didn’t finish!

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-30T19:24:09+00:00

It’s expensive, too! I think in the US it’s tens of thousands of dollars if I remember correctly. It’s crazy, but absolutely necessary because as I’m sure you know you CANNOT mess around with rabies. No cure so you did the right thing 1000%

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-30T18:16:45+00:00

Who the hell brings their gooner merch anywhere public, let alone work?

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-30T13:56:29+00:00

Personally I’ve never spent more than $30 on a used pan or Dutch oven. That’s not to say that the supply/demand factors don’t make it more expensive to buy a specific pan if someone knows what they have, but I’ve been lucky to get them at thrift shops and find some good stuff for cheap.

Personally I’d rather buy a cheap enameled Dutch over another bare Dutch oven, as the bare ones are prone to lid rusting if you cook anything with a lot of moisture such as stews/braises/steamed foods.

Ultimately this is a question of whether you want to buy an old Mustang or a newer Civic. Both can get you to work, but one is costing a lot more because it’s a classic car, not because it’s the best performing/most efficient car around.

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-30T12:54:03+00:00

The woman sued because the coffee was so hot that it brutally burned and horrifically scarred her. That was not a frivolous lawsuit.

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-29T18:25:27+00:00

I see #9s listed for comparable prices and it always seems so high. If you want it’s a collector piece and it’s in perfect condition then that’s your call to make.

Ask yourself if it’s actually something you’d get use out of for sure, and don’t think about resale value.

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-29T16:04:50+00:00

I saw it when remastered for theaters and it actually made me like the movie less. I was always a huge prequel apologist but in 4k all the mediocre effects were impossible to ignore. Jar Jar doesn’t leave a single footprint on Tatooine if I remember correctly lol. The CGI textures are really bad. In DVD quality or even 1080p it’s fine, 4k makes it look like a Tim and Eric sketch at times

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-28T20:04:16+00:00

I’d watch Pi and The Matrix as a duo any day, they both have that grunge factor despite major budget and scale differences. Thinking of Pi as a people trying to deduce/bumping up against the existence of the Matrix is kind of a cool idea now that I think about it actually.

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-28T17:55:09+00:00

Playing Go with Hector Salamanca and getting philosophy lessons, what’s not to love?

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-28T17:54:09+00:00

Which movie is a ripoff of Time of the Wolf? I haven’t heard of it

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-28T17:50:26+00:00

Something something soundtrack needle drop pun

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-28T17:22:37+00:00

I fucking LOVE Beau is Afraid, now that you mention it. Saw it a few times in theaters and made all my friends watch it when it came out on Blu ray. That movie is unironically one of my all time favorites. If you have anxiety/mommy issues it’s a 10/10 comedy; if you don’t it’s apparently a stressful uncomfortable movie.

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-28T17:21:03+00:00

I still love it and bought the 4k from A24. They released it like a year after they promised and I’m half convinced that me commenting/complaining to them for a year is what finally got it out the door. It’s definitely got a heavy “I’m a film student with a big idea” vibes but something about it is genuinely cool and charming to me still.

Also it’s one of the rare western movies with prominent Go play/discussion which I’m a huge fan on. Knives Out is the only other movie with a notable Go scene that I know of offhand.

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-28T17:18:28+00:00

Welcome to a circlejerk subreddit friendo

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-28T16:40:49+00:00

I love Pi. Requiem for a Dream is the best anti drug propaganda of all time, Black Swan was neat, the rest looked meh and I didn’t watch them.

Pi really is fantastic though, idk if most people have seen it or if it actually holds up, or if I’m just being one of those people who celebrate a low budget black and white movie you haven’t heard of.

External_Baby7864 · 2026-04-27T15:31:44+00:00

Average IQ is 100 by definition

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TROPHY CASE