A close friend once told me he listened to the audio book of Blood Meridian and thought it was extremely surreal and avant guard, only to learn his audiobook player had a "random" feature for chapters and that it had switched on.
If I had to hazard a guess? Most of Gen Z has spent their entire adult lives in a job market where recruiters lie their way through multiple interviews for a job that isn't actually hiring, which makes it pretty galling that they also get mad at you for drinking a latte
call me woke but it’s weird how ppl expect lesbians to consume every piece of queer media even if it doesn’t appeal to them but no one else is expected or asked to support lesbian media
I think Nolan’s been fixated on the ways lies and delusions kill the world and the self since Memento, which makes it so fascinating to me that he seemed largely disinterested in Batman’s psyche. probably because he was too fixated on bigger institutional lies in the wake of 9/11
this is like when i went to see project hail mary and the michael jackson movie was playing next door so there were like all the dramatic scenes like grace is dying rocky is dying and then meanwhile you could hear “heE-hEE!!!” in the distance