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I expected aliens in Arrival not anexistential crisis

As a kid I thought he was just the “villain critic”

But later, he comes across as someone who has simply long since forgotten what it means to truly love something

Every time I see people talk about this movie, it feels like half the audience got a completely different message from the other half.

Some people idolize Tyler Durden.

And I’m pretty sure the movie is warning you not to.

At first, the film feels like a typical crime thriller but at some point, you realize there’s no “plot armor” here at all, and after that, the tension shifts dramatically

When I was younger, I mostly remembered the visuals

Watching it now feels completely different

The whole movie has this weird uncomfortable feeling that hits way harder as an adult

Not even because it’s shocking

Just because the ending leaves you with this heavy feeling that doesn’t go away immediately

Se7en was probably the first movie that did that to me

I randomly noticed this on a rewatch.

Almost every character looks tense or emotionally exhausted for the entire movie.

And now I can’t unsee it.

I avoided this movie for years because people hyped it up so much

I thought there was no way it could live up to that reputation

Turns out it somehow did

The older I get, the less I see this movie the same way.

When I first watched it, I thought Summer was the problem.

Now it feels more like Tom created an idealized version of her in his head.

I love endings that don’t explain everything directly

That’s the part of the movie that always stuck with me.

He already feels “off” almost immediately.

But at the same time, every step deeper into that world makes him even worse.

Every time I see people talk about this movie, the comments are completely split.

Some think he pushed Andrew to greatness.

Others think he completely destroyed him as a person.

I thought it was just a running joke at first.

But the longer the movie goes on, the weirder it gets.

The movie talks about humanity, science, survival and space.
But emotionally it always felt much smaller and more personal to me

Oliver Reed died right in the middle of filming, and some of his scenes hadn’t been shot yet, so the filmmakers had to use early computer graphics and editing techniques to finish the film, for the year 2000, this was quite unusual and expensive