I didn’t expect these movies to have anything in common thematically

spoiler

but they’re both literally about moon guys making life real sad

Also, both had an immersion breaking moment when someone I know from podcasting showed up halfway through the film.

And they’re both great! Highly recommend to everyone here. I’m sure mostly everyone here has seen I Saw the TV Glow but Bugonia is another Lanthimos banger.

  • deathtoreddit@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    then you’ll find that Bugonia also has some heavy handed political themes and a lot of similar 1 to 1 drama. I felt like Bugonia was a very Nietszche movie: it talks about domination, taking control of situations, endless cycles of human suffering, hopeless utopias, the slave-master dialectic, genealogy of morals (literally they do talk about genealogy influencing morals). But I also get the sense that it doesn’t necessarily endorse that framework, because the situation that makes that framework apply is pretty ridiculous and is kinda played for laughs.

    Yep, I guess he nailed it down the substance of the original movie, Save the Green Planet, which he made Bugonia a remake of.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago
      spoilers for both movies

      I watched Save the Green Planet now and you’re right, that part was lifted 1 to 1. I honestly think that they both kinda sucked at delivering those messages because the villain just went on monologues explaining them, instead of using the story as a means to deliver the message. Save the Green Planet at least had the whole sequence where the Andromedans’ sculpting of life on earth was depicted little by little; Bugonia instead had Emma Stone ranting about this supposed history (before it was clear that she actually was an alien) with no visuals, which was not as entertaining.

      I think Bugonia improved on every other aspect, though. Almost all the characters in the original movie felt a little flat and the tragedy was overplayed.