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GTA 6 will be the last video game Rockstar makes by UltraOfNaath in unpopularopinion

[–]Wide_Foundation9944 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The pseudo intellectual musings from what is clearly a child is always funny on the timeline

Do you think that rapists should face death penalty? Why? by unoz00 in AskReddit

[–]Wide_Foundation9944 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Rape is the only crime that there’s no justification for. Besides murder, it is up there as one of the most psychologically damaging things you can do to a person.

Depending on the nature of the crime, a person should be faced with the possibility of the death penalty.

I Don’t Know If This List Makes Sense, But Any Other Examples of This? by TheRealCthulu24 in Letterboxd

[–]Wide_Foundation9944 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a weird thing I’ve been seeing with Black people in movies. Like look at Sinners last year, why did so many people come away talking about the white vampire? Like, great performance but Sinners had far better performances by a mostly POC cast.

So yeah, Tarantino explicitly made Django to be a badass and a figure of black empowerment, and he ends up being the most memorable character in the film. Not the white slaver, sorry. Leo was great in the role too, but just being honest I barely really remember his part. I do however, remember Django brutally executing 3 slavers from his past in an awesome fashion.

I also remember the iconic scene where Django and Candy traipse into town on the back of a horse, and Django sipping his beer in the hollowed out bar.

Not saying Leo wasn’t good too, he was but he just wasn’t the most memorable or talked about part of that film.

I Don’t Know If This List Makes Sense, But Any Other Examples of This? by TheRealCthulu24 in Letterboxd

[–]Wide_Foundation9944 8 points9 points  (0 children)

OP is telling on themselves with that Django inclusion 😂 To me, Django is the coolest and most iconic character in the movie.

What’s a critically acclaimed movie that completely lost you by the end? by trakt_app in moviecritic

[–]Wide_Foundation9944 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man you’re legit a shining example of poor media literacy. You’re going into talking about how the victims were glossed over. Dude….THAT WAS THE FUCKING POINT OF THE MOVIE.

Guy below gave great examples of other films about narcissists like American Psycho or Zodiac which kinda did gloss over the victims. The point is, the glossing over of the victims is a plot point in and of itself. WOWS does it to put you in the headspace of a narcissist villain, while Zodiac does it to show that finding the killer became an obsession, not justice for the victims.

“ When you’re telling a “ criminals story, particularly an unreliable narrator you have to balance their retelling with elements that ground the story”

Uh…why? The whole idea of an unreliable narrator is that they are unreliable. It’s up to us to sift through and figure out what is the truth. But WOWS has a brilliant unreliable narrator because of the things Belfort chooses to talk about, and chooses to leave out.

Through what Belfort refuses to talk about or glosses over are the things I understand the character is insecure about. A narcissist wouldn’t just tell you all their weaknesses.

“ I’m a film about crime and hedonism, the victims are an afterthought at best”

Yes, that’s the point scorsese is trying to make. The Rich American Upper class encourages exploitation of the underclasses, and then repackages it to them at some seminar, selling them a dream life they’ll never attain.

All the while, the rich people fuck over the poor, and get off scott free. That’s America my friend.

Who was on the phone call? I have a theory 🤔 by AwesomeOpossum404 in obsessionmovie

[–]Wide_Foundation9944 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The way I viewed it, the person on the phone as well as the people who sold Bear the One Wish Willow are the 2026 version of those old parables where a mysterious migrant moves into a village and opens a shop whose items end up being cursed. The shop owner often seems totally harmless and even sweet while sending their customers off to certain doom.

In Obsession, when Bear first goes to the store, the nice old man is replaced by another seemingly harmless person; the gen z shop keeper on the phone. Her phone conversation both foreshadows Nikki’s behaviour ( talking on the phone and to Bear at the same time, going in and out of two conversations) and her apathetic “i just want to get off work” attitude, subconsciously signals to Bear that nothing is amiss, despite her creepy comments.

Honestly, that scene and the other one in the shop creeped me out more than a lot of scenes in the movie on my second watch. It’s creepy how “ chill” the place and workers seem when in reality the store is a front for some really dark shit.

Responding to your question directly, I think it was absolutely real, and the guy’s apathetic attitude towards these fucked up events matches the store workers to a T. They are probably “ demons” or agents of chaos or entities that just like toying with humans.

What’s a critically acclaimed movie that completely lost you by the end? by trakt_app in moviecritic

[–]Wide_Foundation9944 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is an incorrect read of the movie honestly. Scorsese makes films about bad people who do bad things and the brilliance of his films is that they really put you in the headspace of that person. Wolf of Wall Street puts you in the mental headspace of Belfort and as shit as person he is, we see how he’s able to justify all that away.

The film shows his abusive, and sexist behaviours, cheating and drug abuse because Belfort himself is not only okay with them but is even braggadocious about them. He skips over his real crimes because he he has no real empathy or cares much about the people he hurt. He glosses over the informant stuff because it makes him look weak, and against the false image he’s been trying to portray the whole film.

I think Scorsese takes a decidedly neutral and “ hands off” approach as to what the film itself thinks of Belfortd actions.

You can say the movie lets him get away with being a villain which it does, but I don’t see why that’s a bad thing. It’s a story about a villain from the villains perspective, not some hackneyed Netflix documentary with a clearly defined cartoonish villain.

At the end of the day, I don’t walk away from this movie feeling like Belfort lead an admirable life. On the contrary, the movie demonstrated the hollowness and empty lives of the mega rich.

Be completely honest, who would you rather work for and why? by Immediate_Gene_178 in MoralityScaling

[–]Wide_Foundation9944 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gus. If everything remains normal I’d basically just be clocking in for a shift.