Jinnistan wrote:

I still think some of it - the, um, digital stuff - is unnecessarily gratuitous, typical of some recent tendencies to confuse the morbid with profundity (ie Joker).  But as I mentioned in my review, it's McDonaugh's best.

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Your issue probably could have manifested in a lot of different ways, but I think something shocking and desperate and seemingly pointlessly destructive  is needed to illustrate Colms despair. Being that I took the film as being about him likely scapegoating Farrell for his disatisfaction in life, and since over the course of the film it becomes clear to him that playing his fiddle is not going to be his salvation either, his disfigurement isnt to me so much gratuitously violent as it is the externalization of his self loathing. It has to be something that seems shockingly disproportionate. It has to be something that handicaps him from continuing with his fiddle. He has to essential taunt Farrell with what he's done, as if his old friends dullness was ever really the problem in the first place.

Is it an absurdity in a mostly sober faced film, and maybe tonally off? Sure. But I liked that this element pushes what was brewing up inside of him into the realm of almost surreal horror. There is something screaming under the surface of this film, and this action is the valve that lets it out

Ive made the horrible mistake of getting bogged down watching the 14 hour long La Flor, as it's leaving Mubi soon, meaning I have watched anything else for three days, and I'm probably not going to get it finished before it disappears.

It's not easy finding 14 hours to spare, I tell you.

I'm guessing your prompts were "Classic Hollywood Wax Manniquins" and "Cat Torture at a Best Western".

crumbsroom wrote:

The first two were 'Burt Young makes babies with robot'

I guess the AI interpreted 'Burt Young' as "Young Burt Reynolds'?

Jinnistan wrote:

crumbsroom wrote:

The kinds of conspiracy Qanon folks who believe in crisis actors and think Walt Disney and Adolf Hitler look similar enough to most likely be the same person are really going have a tough time with all of this technology. 

I should start seeding the theory of the global autistic cabal.  Instant million likes and subscribes.

For me, one of the most distressing elements about AI and deep fakes slowly taking root over the last couple of years, is it is happening during a time when observable and obvious truth was already becoming hard to prove to a large segment of the population. People are deeply hungry to be deceived. They demand a the reality that the want to be true. These kinds of images muddying up the process of getting to what is actually true and what is clearly false is a disaster waiting to happen. It's going to pump even more oxygen into the sealed off bubbles everyone lives in. People will never have to come out into the real world again. And considering how nihilistic world affairs and politics have become, you may even start to get legitimate arguments that reality was never that important to begin with. It's horrifying to think about.
 

Wu Tang Clan Pool Party

From the maniacal grin, it's clearly ODB. (R.I.P.)

R.I.P. ODB (and the pigeons he killed so he could eat them).