Watching The Movie “Kinds of Kindness” Wtf Is This?

n3ck3ntry8bort0rgasm on 13/12/2024 - 01:08
Last edited 13/12/2024 - 16:54

approaching the end of my 3 months of DP for the price of 1 month. left it too long though and only watched a few movies now 1 month left.
so thought I would watch this new release to get my value.

I liked The Lobster.
I couldn’t fully understand The killing of sacred deer.

but I can’t make any sense of this new one.
I can take a bad movie but this is just.. what? ”what is this” from TikTok 😭

it’s like I’m not watching people. it’s like the actors are acting bad on purpose. the dialogue is not natural. it’s like the actor was just threatened before going on camera. is this the whole point? that it’s meta? that it’s self aware making fun at movies and what they represent?

I get some movies that separate one movie in a few stories but this is a very weird experience I don’t feel much of anything and the only good thing I can say pretty much is “things are happening”. how they use the same actors in each of the 3 parts makes it even more difficult.

maybe this is the intention. things are just happening and we try to attach symbolism to it. but it’s just that meaningless symbolism. maybe using the same actors in each of the 3 story has some meaning, but I cannot understand it at all.

I’m 2 hours in though so I think I can make it another 45 mins to the end. but with not any progress.

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  • MS Paint on 13/12/2024 - 06:35
    +22

    You accidentally clicked on ozbargain. You must have been after www.dear_diary.com.au/random_shite

    • Crow K on 13/12/2024 - 09:00
      +1

      I think we are seeing the effects of parasocial relationships that "the next gen" is growing up with.

      These sort of "huh what" sort of comments were usually directed at the person sitting next to you on the couch when you watch things. But if you don't have one of those and you're two thirds into a weird movie, slide the phone out, log in and "hey what is going ON with this guys??"

      The sorts of people who say "put the fries in the bag bro" on here didn't learn that phrase playing pool down at the pub with their mates.

      • n3ck3ntry8bort0rgasm on 13/12/2024 - 16:19

        playing pool down at the pub with their mates.

        uh yeah well you are right about that. not going down to the pub to play "pool" with their mates.

    • Protractor on 13/12/2024 - 09:58
      +1

      This is why age verification is long overdue.

    • rumblytangara on 13/12/2024 - 11:02
      +2

      Well, it fits in with the subforum of "entertainment" as long as the comments are sufficiently sarcastic :)

      And also- adding posting space before HeWhoKnows pipes up with some irrelevant tripe to hang off the first comment.

      • n3ck3ntry8bort0rgasm on 13/12/2024 - 16:21

        Well, it fits in with the subforum of "entertainment"

        I chose that tag because I thought entertainment was for discussing movies.

      • brendanm on 13/12/2024 - 18:19
        +2

        Scotty should put a new feature in that bans him from posting under the first comment, as a Christmas present to everyone.

  • samyall on 13/12/2024 - 07:35

    I heard once that movies are a bit like dreams - you are intensely in them at the time but as time passes they become more of a feeling with the details lost. If that is true then Kinds of Kindness was a serious fever dream.

    I think it was about love and the things we do for the ones we love but that is more of the feeling it left with me than anything.

    I am a Lanthimos fan but I thought Poor Things was much better than Kinds of Kindness so watch that if you can.

  • caboose on 13/12/2024 - 08:10
    +1

    Loved Kinds of Kindness, although I would say it is a bit long. My favourite thing about Lathinmos films is learning about absurdities which are normal and mundane in the film's world and, that includes the unnatural acting and reactions - Kinds of Kindness has triple the opportunities for this.

    I never try to look for too much meaning to any movie because they don't always have to mean anything.

    • n3ck3ntry8bort0rgasm on 13/12/2024 - 16:25

      learning about absurdities which are normal and mundane in the film's world

      the officer unfairly shooting someone in the hand and then proceeding to suck and lick the blood out is normal and mundane? I found it to be extreme to just be extreme. the symbolism (meaningless from me because I am probably seeing it only one way) is something like officer thought that was the best way to "say sorry and beg forgiveness"?? or some kind of statement about the officers mental state. honestly I thought it was more confusing than it was artistic?

      • caboose on 17/12/2024 - 09:21

        Haha yeah that was very funny to me, quite the absurd moment.

        At the risk of analyzing too much a movie that doesn't demand to be analyzed, the world they inhabit is bizarre enough that an extreme action is required for others to decide the police officer has had a mental break. Naturally it's funny because once you get to a certain point of emotions it goes beyond horror or fear and into comedy (this happens a lot in Tarantino movies for example).

        I dunno not telling you how to watch movies, but maybe you would have enjoyed it more if you thought of it as a comedy and not question the purpose of every moment.

  • dogboy on 13/12/2024 - 09:56
    +3

    ”what is this” from TikTok

    What the hell does this mean?

  • spackbace on 13/12/2024 - 11:17
    +2

    approaching the end of my 3 months of DP for the price of 1 month.

    Ahh, you mean Disney+…

    I’m 2 hours in though so I think I can make it another 45 mins to the end.

    Tell me you have nothing better to do without telling me you have nothing better to do

    • n3ck3ntry8bort0rgasm on 13/12/2024 - 16:26

      Tell me you have nothing better to do without telling me you have nothing better to do

      I did say I can sit through almost anything. EXCEPT the movie I was watching for 10 mins before that which was about a woman with a giant wart on her waist that ended up becoming a mutated baby's head that started talking to her. I had to cut that shxt off.

      • spackbace on 13/12/2024 - 16:28

        I had to cut that shxt off.

        So did she

        • n3ck3ntry8bort0rgasm on 13/12/2024 - 16:30

          oh you watched it too. 😅

          yes I stopped it right at that scene where she starts trying to remove it.

  • Lunarboogie on 13/12/2024 - 13:13

    I literally never laughed louder than I did watching this movie, especially the scene where the Woody Harrison character is venting his spleen as the yacht hits choppy waters. The last hour though was an indulgence. If you paused it at 1.45, it would be a must watch.

    • n3ck3ntry8bort0rgasm on 13/12/2024 - 16:28

      https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22408160/
      I don't think woody harrilson is in this movie.

      • Lunarboogie on 14/12/2024 - 06:29

        You're right. I apologise, I was referring to Triangle of Sadness which came out a couple years ago, similarly absurd and whimsical.

        In saying that, I've also seen Kinds of Kindness and while I didn't laugh as much or at all, it was enormously engrossing. Not something I'd recommended to everybody but still a sumptuous yet provocative watch for anyone interested in wading into existentialist voyeurism.

  • brendanm on 13/12/2024 - 15:00

    I liked it, way better than "superhero shit no. 562".

    • n3ck3ntry8bort0rgasm on 13/12/2024 - 16:30

      you liked it!? ok. well clearly you and jimothy can see and pick up many more subtle things about symbolism and find meaning in things that I just cannot see no matter how hard I try.

      I watched Killing of sacred deer a 2nd time, understood some of it. but the parts I didn't understand were so powerful and disconnecting that my understanding was still very incomplete and more of confusion.

      • brendanm on 13/12/2024 - 17:04
        +1

        I also liked killing of a sacred deer. I like things which at least attempt to make people think about what they've watched. At least something that isn't just the same regurgitated slop over and over again.

  • follow on 13/12/2024 - 17:13

    after watching poor things, I'll never watch another from that director.

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