I think I’m gonna dive into my own recap a bit more and say that’s this movie is now a personal favorite of mine, and it’s rare I find those these days…
I also don’t understand how it won so many awards, because most people’s taste is not like mine (not saying mine is better, just different), so even though I love this movie, I still feel like people I would suggest it to would be like
I’ve read some things on Reddit that were like “if you been through those things or at a certain stage in life then it hits different”, and that’s how I feel, but I also don’t want to be pretentious as to act like you don’t “get it” because your not mature or something….
It does hit for me though…my take:
Man, that feeling that the world, my state, my city is just fukked up is tough at my age. It’s weird to have all these hopes and dreams and just feel like shyt is falling apart everywhere.
We were just all kids and now we all have kids and teens and something is just off.
So when they talk about those feelings, that it’s all your fault, that if you just did a few things different you would’ve been so much better, that you’re the worse version of yourself…that means alot
And to see a visual representation of no matter what you ended up in life, even rich and famous, it wouldve been hard, because the world is hard…
And I feel like the bagel for the daughter…I really feel like that represented suicide. Because a lot of our young people really feel that way…like man wtf is all this about. It all means nothing. So we just do whatever the f we want, feel nothing, connect on the internet and see and do everything there is to see and do, and eveything is pointless. Notice the new generation kills themselves at rates never seen before…
And the fighting back with love speech. I felt that. Man I’ve seen riots in my city, black men hating black women and vice versa on social media, gangs, racism, democrats vs republicans, Russia vs US, LGBTQ vs politicians, I mean everyone hates everyone. And growing up we didn’t have the internet to rally our “people” and hate in such mass…
But that speech about man everyone is really just scared and how deep our issues really are (as a person who goes to therapy), that shyt really hit me.
I do feel this movie was a campy way to really push some deep shyt. I read somewhere that someone said the last 30 min was like therapy for them, and that’s how I felt - but I know I wouldn’t have felt that 10 years ago, or before I actually went to therapy or actually started questioning my existence, choices, society and own mortality…
Just my take…
I resonate with every part of your review from beginning to end.
fight scene happened.
