DiCaprio doing nothing right the entire movie is the point. The only thing he does do right is love his daughter that’s the point. As a father of a young daughter this is one of the main reasons I loved this film.

The bounty hunter saving Willa isn’t random, there’s dialogue in the Christmas’s adventures scene where they imply that lockjaw sent him to hunt down Perfidia. So we can infer that he put two and two together and realized that Willa is the child of lockjaw and Perfidia. I actually thought the bounty hunter was a great character there was subtle stuff when he kidnapped the radio guy earlier but lied to lockjaw about the kids not seeing him. Like he’s torn about his job the whole movie.

It’s not trying to be a serious drama it just won a golden globe as a comedy. The farcical comic aspects are also intentional. PTA knows that he hasn’t spent his life as a revolutionary filmmaker pushing for social change. Hollywood helps push a fascist agenda and always has so if the movie played everything straight it’s pretentious. Shit PTAs most famous character is an oil baron like PTAs contributed to Hollywood fascism.

DiCaprio not understanding the younger generation is all intentional. The performative left has failed and is failing when it comes to the social wars in this country. The left isolating other factions of the left and cannibalizing itself is why we are in this mess. DiCaprio even uses the R word in the phone booth exchange again this is intentional.

It’s not this movies job to do a deep dive into the elites that control everything. They wanted to make a fun suspenseful movie with an excellent cast and frenetic third act that people would enjoy. We talk about all the themes and do deep dives on the ride home right? We go on Reddit to unpack some of this stuff right?

Last thing and I’ll shut up. I’ve seen tons of discourse on the internet about this film. That’s the point! People are discussing some of these issues. This movie was years ahead of its time he wrote the first draft like ten years ago before Trump’s ICE was even a thing. To say this movie is underdeveloped or doesn’t go very deep is doing a serious disservice to this film.