No one ever does “Iris” by Goo Goo Dolls at Karaoke. You can’t be ironic about it, and the level of emotional intensity it would bring is simply too much to be contained within the social remit of Karaoke. It has a sort of holiness about it which people know not to transgress
One Battle After Another uses its first act to contextualize its world and the forces behind its conflict before introducing the film’s hero because her life is shaped by those forces. It’s an incredible application of the Marxist theory of historical materialism. What a picture.