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moakley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

That’s the worst climax ever.

It’s supposed to be the turning point of the story, where the conflict is resolved.

You’re saying the actual story is this old man who’s barely in the movie realizing that life sucks. And this point in the story, where literally nothing happens on screen, is the resolution of the conflict of him not exactly realizing that life sucks.

Ugh. That’s not complex or deep. It’s oblique and pretentious.

The definition of a climax is “the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.”

That scene is obviously not intense or exciting. It’s only the most important part of this hidden plotline that’s even more off-screen than Llewelyn’s death since it only takes place in the mind of a character who’s barely in the movie, who has no agency and no part of the actual events shown on screen.

It’s insufferable. The things you’re saying (which I was already aware of, to be clear) make the movie worse, not better.

Even if I was super into this extremely boring theme, it doesn’t preclude the rest of the movie from containing a well-told story. And even if I went into the movie convinced that the Coens are geniuses and ready to forgive every other thing, voiceover exposition talking about symbolism-laden dreams is always going to be lazy writing.

I won’t watch it again. I’m not trying to reevaluate it. I didn’t miss anything. I just don’t think it’s any good.

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