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Originally posted by Halien4Life
yeah, the ending was like...
I rolled my eyes a bit, but eh...
great movie nonetheless.  |
The ending is perfect! Like legit.
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Originally posted by Flanders
the fact that her being featured isn't a good thing has gone right over your heads  |
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Originally posted by Flanders
the movie uses mostly music that's dated now When he showed the daughter going through a Gaga phase it was to show how kids have those fleeting but intense fascinations of stars like that, and then he showed her as a woman who was beginning to come of age when she had left that silly phase behind at the end of the movie.
If a ~rebellious unattractive girl with dyed hair in her embarrassingly defiant teen years being presented as the typical gags stan(and when having outgrown this phase to become a normal person, is no longer a gags stan) is a good thing, then slay I guess?  |
And this is total rubbish. The film was shot in real-time with no foreknowledge of what Gagz her career trajectory would be. The popular music featured is meant to be a cross-section of what was on or at the forefront of the cultural radar at a given point in time as the years progressed.
The point of Gaga being featured was not a retrospective reflection on the fleeting nature of fame or embarrassment of adolescent phases; it's meant to be a time capsule of "hey, this is what the kids were listening to at this specific point in time" in much the same way as the Oops! reference at the beginning.
How or why you would conclude this was filmed at the time and included in the final cut as some sort of retroactive criticism or indictment is beyond me cuz I don't see any basis that would serve to support that particular reading (that Linklater intended those references to serve that intended purpose) of those scenes in context.
If her inclusion serves to underscore how she ended up being a 2009-2010 fad then that is just incidental to the reality of the situation; her career trajectory would be what it was regardless of whether or not any reference or allusion had been made. It's like trying to argue that the Soulja Boy reference is bad for him cuz it shows that he was a 1-2 hit wonder.
All the reference does is serve as a testament (however minor you want to call it) to her cultural significance in the course of those 2 years... which isn't making her any worse for wear or putting her in lesser standing than if they had decided to reference Single Ladies or sth instead.
they take up SO much space. if you're sitting in a full restaurant with dozens of people and just one american family, they're still the people you're gonna hear the loudest 
Spanish people and Latinos are way LOUDER
