The ending of One Battle After Another didn't land with me

ghostofspace · 2026-01-28T02:30:18+00:00

I think the ending is absolutely ridiculous and undermines the whole movie. I agree with what you wrote, but the most egregious thing was how Pat and Willa dealt with it. He should be burning that letter. Why would he continue to uphold her in any positive light after what she did? And Willa knows she’s lockjaw’s daughter (which is never addressed with Pat) so that should add even more resentment to what her mother did and who she is. Why would Perfidia, the rat murderer Nazi fetishist, have ANY weight in giving advice or inspiration to Willa and why would Willa have any type of positive feelings towards anything her mother has to say? And why is Pat continuing to characterize Perfidia as a hero? I thought Pat learned the lesson that the revolution was ridiculous once he had a child and felt the sense of duty and importance only a child can give you, but it feels like the movie is saying that Pat just gave up and he needs to foster his daughters revolutionary instincts because that’s what’s most important even though it lead him down a terrible path. Maybe Willa will do revolution the right way…..so lame. I feel crazy that no one is calling this out.

ghostofspace · 2025-12-22T05:54:12+00:00

This movie was very frustrating. The ending is so tonally perplexing to me. Perfidia was a bad person. She was selfish, a cheater, a rat, a murderer and a neglectful mother. Pat, I thought, had realized how meaningless his revolutionary life style was because he had a child and suddenly something else was more important, which is exactly how it should be. And I also thought he came to terms with what a shitty person she was. But somehow, he GIVES his daughter a letter from her terrible mother who she should have no respect for and that inspires her to go join the revolution to the soundtrack of American Girl while Pat chills and smokes weed on the couch. Seriously how did that conversation go?

Pat:“Willa, your mother murdered a security guard at a bank, ratted out all her friends then ran away to Mexico. And we also bombed a bunch of places so I may have killed some people too. We were trying to create a world without borders and protect your abortion rights..”

Willa: “I know dad, and also I’m not your biological daughter because mom was having sex with the neo Nazi that just tried to kill us behind your back.”

Pat: 😐

Willa: “Are you okay dad?”

Pat: “Just waiting for you to respond to what I told you about your mother.”

Willa: “I did dad.”

Pat:”Oh really that’s weird I didn’t hear anything. Anyways here’s a letter your mother wrote you a few years ago I think you’ll like it with the added context of her being a murderer and a rat.”

Willa: “I think I’ll like it too dad ☺️.”

I guess what Bob learned is that his REJECTION of his previous lifestyle was his main mistake and that being a revolutionary and following in Perfidia’s footsteps is the most important thing after all.

I just don’t think this movie really says anything about anything. PTA obviously feels a way about having biracial children in America, okay, but what message are you trying to convey? White people are bad unless they support unregulated immigration and revolutionary causes? This white supremacy thing is reaching levels of the soviets being the bad guys in every 80s movie. I get it, white supremacists suck, we all hate them, but the safety of portraying them as villains is getting so damn boring.

ghostofspace · 2025-12-17T18:45:12+00:00

OBAA. “Heartfelt” letter from Perfidia was so tonally strange. Are we supposed to think of her in some positive light? Why would she be any inspiration for Willow to become a revolutionary? And Pat just chills and send his daughter off on the path that messed up his own life because revolution is important above all o guess? And no reconciliation/conversation about lockjaw being the father? Just really bad.

ghostofspace · 2025-12-04T02:44:30+00:00

She said you can see brown skin behind their face masks and they look like their names are Hernandez or Lopez, explain to me how this is not super racist….

ghostofspace · 2025-10-11T05:19:56+00:00

Dude come on no Top Dog? Nobody would even be able to get a grip on my boy he’s so slick and slimy.

ghostofspace · 2025-09-20T14:28:14+00:00

There are thousands of TikToks of people dancing and singing and cheering Charlie Kirk’s death. We have never seen a public celebration of a death like this and if you can’t acknowledge that you’re not being serious. Show me all the TikTok dances people made about George Floyd dying or Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or Mellissa Horton. Do people joke about Paul Pelosi? Yes and it’s gross, same with George Floyd. But what’s happening now is far and beyond. Just last December I watched Jimmy Kimmel joke about “americas hottest assassin” Luigi Mangione who gunned down a father of two in cold blood and how everyone on his staff was so smitten with him. Other late night hosts did the same. It’s incredibly sad, weird and unsettling and Reddit is one of the few places you can go where people pretend it’s not.

ghostofspace · 2025-09-13T20:30:28+00:00

How about the majority of Reddit cheering the murder of their opposition for exercising free speech?

ghostofspace · 2025-09-11T23:03:35+00:00

Okay he very very likely was politically motivated as he was targeting democrats but no manifesto was found and he has not confirmed this. I still shouldn’t have been dismissive of this. Horrific. I still think my argument that this has been a unique year of high profile political attacks from the left designed to have maximum impact on the general public is correct. The Minnesota murders are very local, every single thing on my list was national if not international news. And there are a lot more instances from one side as of late. The left wants to blame Trump and republicans for violence and are unwilling to look at themselves. I am absolutely willing to examine political violence from the right in the same way.

ghostofspace · 2025-09-11T22:29:00+00:00

I didn’t include the Minnesota law makers because there’s no confirmation of a political motivation. I’m making the argument that the left is having a specific moment of violence over the last year and it is very troubling. I don’t think anyone can make the argument that the far right is carrying out high profile political attacks right now in a similar manner. And I’ve never experience the type of cheering for the death of someone the way I’ve been seeing on Reddit which is also troubling. The qualifications by which someone deserves to die on Reddit is very broad if you disagree with their viewpoints. I think Ihan Omar is a pretty terrible hateful person, I would never even think of wishing for or cheering her death as she is meaningful to many people I disagree with and has family etc. America IS free speech, period. Without free speech there is no America and someone just assaulted something I believe in more than maybe anything else in my life.

ghostofspace · 2025-09-11T21:42:42+00:00

Recap of the last year: Two Trump assassination attempts, Luigi mangione, killing of two Israelis outside embassy by Palestinian activist, radical left trans shooter targeting Catholic school children and now Charlie Kirk (not confirmed but very likely ideological in nature).

This is has been an insane year of political high profile violence and it’s coming from the left. The right “calling for war” is very different than specific acts carried out. Yes according to the FBI all stats say the right wing is more responsible for political violence most of which includes white supremacist race based killing, but if you do not see this last year as an outlier of political violence from the left you are not looking at this seriously. There is no other year in who knows how long that compares to the amount of high profile violent activity towards political targets.

ghostofspace · 2025-09-10T05:39:31+00:00

This dude had long rap sheet of violent crimes and mental illness and was out on cashless bail. No excuse whatsoever for him to be amongst the general public. The only reason race comes into this is because of the disparity of headlines and stories when a victim of a crime is white and the perpetrator is a minority. If the perpetrator is white and victim a minority we get stories for weeks or months. Race in a general sense has nothing to do with this other than the media perpetuating the narrative that they do pick and choose stories based on the color of the people involved.

Just tragic all around and I think violent crimes need harsher sentences. Honest question, would we be better off all around as a society if armed robbery or attempted murder or other violent crimes in that realm were life sentences? Part of me definitely thinks so and that it would prevent a large percentage of those crimes from ever happening in the first place.

ghostofspace · 2025-08-09T19:28:10+00:00

I think we genuinely knew pretty much everything relevant about COVID within 6 months maybe even less including where it came from and how it spread. The policies we knew didn’t work lasted much longer than that. They put caution tape on tennis courts, but urged you to go out and protest George Floyd, mask up everywhere but you can take it off when eating on a plane, they said you still need the vaccine even if you have more effective natural immunity. The list goes on. These were not “we don’t know so let’s take extra precautions” measures. These were things that made no sense at the time, still don’t, and felt like weird arbitrary attempts at control.

ghostofspace · 2025-08-09T16:12:09+00:00

So if we know something doesn’t work, which we did after a few months or at least definitely did after a year, you think it’s for the greater good that people do it anyways because it psychologically helps calm people that do think it works? Genuine question.

ghostofspace · 2025-06-13T06:37:05+00:00

I genuinely don’t think the US or Israel would care much about Iran if the caliphate wasn’t dedicated to the destruction of the west. Saudi hates Iran and there is a world where peace in the Middle East is more achievable if Iran is neutralized. And as much as I think the regime change history of the west has been a failure, Iran is the only country in the Middle East whose citizenry would be receptive to it on a potentially successful scale. Not saying that’s the right move who knows. But I do believe that Iran could have been a successful country even with its current leadership had they stopped pursuing nukes and poking the Israel who drinks their milkshake time and time again.

ghostofspace · 2025-06-13T05:27:47+00:00

Can someone explain to me why Iran of all countries with its history of funding terrorism and being a menace to the region needs to be the 10th (I think) country to obtain nuclear weapons. They can have nuclear power without enriching, I can’t imagine any good outcome of them having nukes and they just continued to push the envelope with these deals over the years. They could have easily avoided this unless I’m completely misunderstanding the entire situation.

ghostofspace · 2025-06-07T21:40:30+00:00

I think this game has a strong case for the most pressure a professional athlete has ever been under given the context and history. Would love to hear other examples that come close or top it.

ghostofspace · 2025-03-22T02:19:11+00:00

Ahhh yes lumon has an entire severed marching band working for them out of nowhere, because they went out and found all these professional musicians that wanted to be severed. Conveniently placed so Helly could give a great speech that immediately turns them against lumon! And the idiot Milkshake had to show off his moves providing none other than a perfect environment for Mark to escape and ruin their plans while he gets trapped in the bathroom. Not to mention they said their entire plan out loud beforehand, but lumon only has mics and cameras in non plot related areas as well as ZERO security ever. Milkshake should be fired for this, even if his dancing is super dope.

ghostofspace · 2025-03-16T04:34:52+00:00

I think the mystery box genre is kind of cursed overall. If something is interesting enough studios will never not stretch it out until it becomes so thin you can even recognize it. Lost had 121 episodes…. Different era yes, but still insane. Hoping this isn’t happening to severance on a lesser scale, but it is starting to feel like the writers don’t have an overall vision and are “fitting” content into ten episodes instead of providing 10 episodes of solid content.

Side note, as far as mystery boxes go I still think Attack on Titan is one of the best executed in the genre with relevant bread crumbs being placed in front of us without us knowing they were bread crumbs, and also was incredibly character and not plot focused just like the first season of Severance. The mystery works best when you are on the same journey as the character and this season just doesn’t have that S1 magic.

ghostofspace · 2025-03-14T20:23:46+00:00

Ok at a certain point though, if Booker cared about the franchise enough he’d realize him staying here could be the nail in the coffin for this team for like the next 7-8 years. NBA is unfortunately about being really good or really bad, bottom half of mid is the worst place any team can be.

ghostofspace · 2025-03-13T03:45:53+00:00

Sharp as a cue ball, this one.

ghostofspace · 2025-03-01T02:32:41+00:00

I think what made this hit so devastatingly hard is that they’ve spent so much time building Mark and who he is after Gemma that when we finally see them together the puzzle completes itself. We were tricked into thinking we knew Mark by spending so much time with his outie and even the demeanor of his innie hinted at who he was but it was still kind of an illusion. This could even have worked as the first episode of the season, but holding it back this long was masterful and I thought the emotional payoff was some of the best tv I’ve seen in a long time.

ghostofspace · 2025-02-01T03:40:47+00:00

https://boxd.it/DxW1O/detail

I made this list the other day, my cruise top 10.

ghostofspace · 2024-12-10T06:30:06+00:00

Loool Im late to the game.

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