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Yeah what surprises me is the complete lack of stakes now. They’re aiming for a big ‘How will she get out of this one’, but in reality it’s a ‘get out of what, exactly?’ We’ve seen the Vice President as an extremely competent defender of national interests, cut-throat and willing to do anything to advance US policy. And she replaces a President who wasn’t strong enough to survive news that a subordinate did something wrong.
And the Ambassador herself isn’t a paragon of morality, she isn’t defending some absolute truth or anything for the viewer to latch on to. So the most that can happen is some petty retribution from the new President, which would mean, what? That she and her husband are exiled and never get to practice the profession again, and have to find other jobs?
With the British cooling on her, it seems like the world of foreign affairs doesn’t require her services anymore, and I feel the same watching the story unfold.
Your second scenario is definitely the most elegant. Time had passed and he had gotten closure. He accepted his current life and current self. Earlier in the movie he was telling Oscar that he was “never any good. Carolyn tried to teach me, but…” Well, eventually, it seems that he learned on his own. The song, as well as dealing with life.
<blockquote>Doyle's death was stupid (and perhaps even unnecessary as it didn't really affect the plot)</blockquote>
The movie does that a lot, killing off characters just to get them out of the way of the plot. Doyle, Romily, Brand Sr, hell, even Murphy eventually (I have my kids here, you can just leave, Dad, I am of no use to you or the story anymore).
Not only that he left his daughter, but absolutely nobody cared about him. Some random intern’s reverence, yes, but other than that, his entire family (his grandsons and granddaughters) didn’t care about him at all and showed no interest in connecting with him. As if the only person in the room was Murphy, his daughter. The movie does this a lot. The hand waving away at the unconfortable plot points that actually matter.
The entire ending is so difficult to watch, showing him not having a place in the new world (why?) and needing him to leave to be with ‘his own kind’ on an empty planet, without having any motivation (like love or attraction) for Anne Hathaway.
So sum up, he goes halfway across the universe, all he does is miss his daughter all the time and regret leaving, he comes back, he sees her for 5 minutes and he’s just ok to leave. His transformation is absurd. He comes back after probably a few years in space (to him) and he suddenly acts like a retired pensioner.
Maybe even Reindeer Games (2000).
It’s so unexpected to read replies from the future, considering probably 80% of this board is stuck in the past (in the form of comments from 9+ years ago in the imdb forum days).
I was reading this thread naturally feeling like I’m in a museum as usual, and you suddenly mention The Northman and rip me out of the past. It was like being abruptly awakened from a dream.
It was real, but there was one quick shot where it did seem like it was CGI (when it looks at Shane in the barn at the end of that sequence).
I’m sitting here, nine years into the future, laughing my ass off at this exchange. Pure gold.
“Near the height of his fame as a VJ, a few mainstream columnists, including the Village Voice’s Michael Musto, discovered some porn videos Simon Rex had made for easy cash as an 18-year-old living with his girlfriend and her child. Later distributed as “Young, Hard, and Solo” among other titles (they were solo masturbation scenes, if you want to get technical), they all stemmed from just “two video sessions for gay-porn impresario Brad Posey” Rex had made. At the time, he was a handsome guy with a big dick who needed money, and porn videos were things you found in the backrooms of video stores, not images anyone could pull up on a device in their pocket with a few key strokes. Why wouldn’t he? Of course, that didn’t stop rags from referring to him as “ex-gay porn star Simon Rex” for years to come.”
From: https://uproxx.com/movies/simon-rex-interview-red-rocket-porn/
Well, turns out you were right. It’s been nominated for Best Picture today.
Edit: And many others (directing + all the actors).
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