u/GentlemanTwain

Did anyone else instantly think of Mario's puppet show when the twist in Digger happened?

Basically at the end of Act 1 they reveal that the main story of the film is a futuristic stage play that satirizes an in-universe historical event. A lot of people's hangups with the film come from Innaratu giving himself an "out" in that the play is supposed to be way too on the nose and stupid so discordant elements are referred to as poetic licence or hack writing by Tom Cruise's character and others making the play-within-a-film. (Similar to how the footnotes explain some of the historical innacuracies in the puppet show. The formation of O.N.A.N. filtered through a parody of a parody.)

Ton Cruise shouting accusing the director of using shallow irony and sarcasm to hide from the horrifying events the play was based on also felt very Jest. Same with the 11 minutes into the future framing.

Think this idea of filtering historical events through the art of the time rather than explaining the boring historical facts is a weirdly underutilized method of conveying exposition. It tells you about how these events are viewed in the world of the story and the people who made the art. You guys have any other examples of a piece of media doing that?

https://preview.redd.it/poqxab2uw5mh1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c6bd111ec305e50d0634a6a2745354dbd528819

I went crazy with them at the start, bookmarking every time a year was mentioned to figure out the timeline. (I was happy to be only one year off.) But now I'm mainly just using one for my place in the story and one for my place in the footnotes.

See a lot of people using a ton of them though so I'm curious what you guys are using them for?

I get that she can only move laterally and is sort of strapped to a motorized chair at her desk that travels along an electrified rail. But what exactly does it mean she can "only move laterally?" Do they mean she's like, T-posing and needs to pivot herself to grab things? That it's a standard desk and it just moves her back and forth in front of it like a typewriter?

She's such a minor character that I'm having trouble even finding info online.

I vividly remember a scene where a killer wants to talk to a blonde girl, so the team moniters their phone call while they chat. The killer asks the girl "what's your favorite color?" She says "Blue" and the killer, disappointed, says "How... Ordinary."

Anyone else remember this?

Also when googling it Gemini piped in saying that the Boston Reaper says "Blue" to Hotch as part of some kind game but I'm starting to think that's a hallucination since I can't remember that and can't find the scene it's describing anywhere. (Thanks Gemini :D)

It's for a really dumb project about the color blue and I'm collecting clips from movies and TV that mention the color.