After watching Swiss Army Man and noticing it was made by the same company that put out one of my new all time favorites, Midsommar, I decided to check their catalog and every single movie I've seen by them, other than Tusk which wasn't a bad movie, has been absolutely fantastic.

The VVitch, Swiss Army Man, Hereditary, Midsommar, The Green Room, The Disaster Artist & Moonlight. All great films.

Haven't seen Green Room but f yeah the others are great

Do you **** with Lanthimos?

I heartily recommend Green Room

Haven't seen any of his movies.

You should watch Green Room though. It's one of the gems from Netflix I try to get people to watch. That and Trash Fire.

Well I guess I'm finally watching There Will Be Blood. It's a movie I knew I'd watch eventually so I never went out of my way to find out the plot to so I don't actually know anything about what it's about besides there being the famous villain with the coin toss and apparently it's almost three hours long so I guess I'm in for a journey. High hopes.

You're thinking of No Country for Old Men, but enjoy, it's epic.

GOD DAMN IT

Yeah but okay. I'll be drunk enough to watch two movies tonight. Let's get this done.

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I'm an hour in and everyone who has ever worked a job or had a boss or acknowledged the work ethic and how it integrates with society needs to see this movie and maybe grab a pitchfork.

You know around 1:25:00 of There Will Be Blood is about as existentially important a discussion as I've ever heard. "Are you an angry man, Henry? Are you envious? Do you get envious?" The main character sees life as a zero sum game where he sees his fellow man as enemies to be beaten, whereas his newly found brother has failed so much that whether he ever felt like that to begin with it's been beaten out of him and he just doesn't care.

I think ultimately this is me. I am not a humble person. I do not naturally wish for the betterment of my fellow man for the sake of the human race. I'm a vain, arrogant ****. I generally think I'm smarter than anyone in the room with me, largely because this tends to be true, but even if it happened to not be true I'd still want to believe it and see any rival as someone to be bettered. I just get used to being surrounded by stupid people because they are endless.

But my basic nature is not one who tries and succeeds. I want to watch movies and listen to music and play video games and experience life as if it were a silver platter for me to take appetizers from at my leisure. But I still see myself as a superior. But the life of an eater of appetizers necessitates losing all of the contests of strength and intelligence that my core demands of me and so I find myself caught at the bottom with a delectable in my mouth not knowing how to feel about the situation because I don't want to be low but I also don't want to live the non-bacchanalian existence of someone who sacrifices for the sake of domination over others.

And so I sit here getting used to having no status over others that my ego demands while also realizing that my desire for simplicity is as much about a desire for pleasure as it is a desire to be free from my true self as an arrogant wannabe aristocrat.

And it's not even pretending to not want status for me either. I truly don't remember what it feels like to want something more. I've felt nothingness for so long that I can't even remember what it feels like to want something. Anything.

There Will be Blood was excellent and I'm sure I'll be looking up analysis cause of course but now it's on to No Country for Old Men. This is a more seriously excessive movie night for me than usual.