Looked at outside its feelgood exterior this terrific film can also be looked at as a metaphor for aboriginal dispossession, except with a different outcome! The Kerrigans are the Aborigines living their mundane lives until a greater power with a big plan comes along and wants to shove them off their land ... How's the serenity?

I can't believe you missed the strongly implied ending that only 2 other people here in the comments caught: dude is suicidal and kills himself after he leaves the alley. The whole movie is 100% leading up to it and many clues given. Both Albert Grossman character and the John Goodman character tell him he should get back together with or "join" his old partner and he actually verbally agrees. Everything in his life has gone wrong; he is out of money and places to sleep. Joining the merchant Marine was his last option "to just exist" but then even that screws up and becomes unattainable. So he goes down to the club one last time, sings his last "farewell" song and says "that's all I've got". Bob dylan coming on after him and the guy beating him up are just cherries on top (insult to injury). Last thing he says to his assailant is another "goodbye" (in French this time... the third goodbye in the last scene) and this is the first time he kind of laughs in the whole movie, cuz he is relieved it will all be over soon. He leaves the alley and jumps off the bridge... no way on earth he "gets his life together and moves on". Many other hints and clues the movie gives us... but these are just the most obvious. Come on people... they couldn't make it much more obvious.

I need to rewatch this movie. I watched it when I was too depressed to even analyze it. I definitely got the impression of depression though especially from his body language. "In love with his own depression." Yep, that was me. It does give your life a sense of meaning in a weird way.

This video deserves more views. I really like your editing and crisp audio - although I do wish you had closed captions enabled.

This is one of my all time favorite movies, laugh out loud funny and feel good. Such an underrated gem. ❤from South Africa

The "Obviously fire" bit was really clever

young actor in the still looks like a fat Jordie Barrett :)

Pure cinematic gold. Blows my mind they filmed in less than 11 days

My all time favorite low budget movie. I still recommend it to friends who need some cheer!

I WOULD LIKE TO GET LOST AND MEET A GUY LIKE HIM, HE IS ADORABLE!

Part of me wanted Chalmers to say something along the lines of "I saw you leave the kitchen, Seymour." 😂😂

I like how skinner runs through the fire to escape

2:47 STEAMED HAMS....EH 🔥🔥🗣🗣

I think the last/first scene’s dialogue plays into this theory. The man in black says “We’re leaving this cesspool. You can have it”, basically saying your life is a cesspool of misery that you’re stuck in but we regular folks don’t have to be. Then as he watches the taxi drive away, rather than feel sorry for himself as he usually does he salutes the man despite the physical pain he inflicted and cheerily says “Au Revoir”. This could mean that he is saying goodbye to the troubles of being a folk musician or his own toxic mindset. Or, according to your theory, it could be the literal translation “Until we meet again”, saying that he knows he’ll repeat the cycle again. I might be reading way to much into it though.

Just watched the movie I think for the ending I could see it as one artist goes in when the other one failed, or since llywen tried to make is life on track a bit, and is inspired by Dave van ronk in real life Bob Dylan enjoyed van ronks cover of house of the rising sun, so maybe even after the movie is done llywen would find hope in music becuase of Dylan himself

Steamed hams but this is the 600th comment 😩

Great big ball of widdley, wobbly timey ), wimey stuff!

Wonderful insight. Happy to hear from someone who loved the film as much as I did. Can’t believe this didn’t come from a book. Wtg, PTA

Great video mate i love this film i just ordered it on criterion collection. I have written about this film and the themes in a film project i wrote about directors that included Coen Brothers films

Tell him he's dreaming!

All things considered Skinner still holds his own

You have to love the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 on EF. It's a God among lenses. I shot an entire feature film on one (currently on Amazon prime.😁)

"Did you just call me a liar?" "No, I said obviously fire!" HOW COULD I NEVER THINK OF THAT IN YEARS😱

The most likely answer would be closed loop theory. Basically that means traveling back in time can't alter the future because the past has been traveled too already. that means as time moves forward even the future hasn't happened yet the time traveler would have already went back in time and the events would be played out before the future happened. So when someone goes back in time they are playing out the events as they are supposed to happen. Time can't be altered since the multiple timelines would be playing out simultaneously even though they began at different times. This theory means there are no time loops or paradoxes. But that makes things more complicated because of the explanation in the first doctor strange. Professor Hulk explained time travel one way while mordo explained it another way. Mordo was most likely right as far as the mcu is concerned because there were several types of paradoxes displayed throughout the mcu. The introduction of the tva makes it further complicated.

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Appreciating the small things I guess is the take home message of the film. The bit with the overhead projector in the shed always cracks me up 😂

Amazing work! But you missed the most important line of them all: "That rug really tied the room together" First the dude says it in the first bowling alley scene, then Walter repeats it at the end of the scene, then the dude repeats it at least twice, once when he meets the big Lebowski, and once when he is passing out after being drugged by Jackie Treehorn.

The writers of this show should take the example of the writers of cobra kai .

Would everyone stop saying G.D.? It's disrespectful and wrong!

What don't you like Denis' films?

That was wonderful! Thank you so much.

You should probably watch the movie The Chase and redo this whole thing....

The chase is on KZbin all the time it's easy to watch ⌚

I think you missed the whole deal on Bonnie and Clyde maybe it's because

Um... not the army, the merchant marine. and also the guy is not a Marine, as his jacket says Army. This is astute though

Such a fun and informative review. Great work!

I disagree with you regarding Korra. There are redeeming qualities to Korra’s story and world building. I agree with you regarding the live action. Live action remakes are a fool’s errand, always destined to fail. The live action remakes trend needs to end. The fact that they couldn’t even get color contacts for the actors to appear more like the characters is really stupid.

Hey, I really hope you see this comment... Man... I finally found someone who scratched my itch. The "It happened because it happened" part is exactly why I hate some causal loop stories. Some people may think it's "Thought provoking", but maybe what they don't realize is it's just the pinnacle of lazy writing. Because honestly... wouldn't it be MORE "Thought provoking" if the writer explicitly weaved together the reasons of HOW such a thing has "Already happened".... WITHOUT LEAVING OBVIOUS plot holes? the easiest thing to do in ANY fiction, is to break reality, especially in such a way. If done right, the world can become believable, like magic and dragons, some things don't need to be explained, because the viewer can plausibly find an answer, or he just believes this is how the world is. But when you're talking about a "Time Loop", where LITERALLY THE MAIN POINT IS TO USE OUR BRAINS to understand the story, if it's just inherently flawed... Then what's even the point of the story? Where is the effort? That's just lazy, and unsatisfying. One of my other issues is somehow such writing is praised for being super clever... But I fu**ing bet you, that if you ask the writers of these shows, and they physically can't lie, they'd say they too don't understand it. That's what grinds my gears... if the writer doesn't even comprehend it. What's even the FFFFFFFFing point? To me, I think the movie (Predestination) is the best guide of "What Not To DO in your causal loop story".

Let's not forget that The Dude and Walter were based upon real people the Coen's knew. And the scene with Larry's homework was based upon a real incident. To me that fact makes this film very special to me.

EXCELLENT video, thank you!

I guess you've never heard of Attack on Titan. closed time loop is the ONLY time travel model other than multiverses, that makes sense, and unlike the multiverse model where nothing has any consequences, closed loop is the only one that both makes sense and has consequences, and that's probably why all the best time travel stories are closed time loop. Also you just don't even get the loop, no paradox could happen because no paradox has ever happened. You can't kill your grandfather because your grandfather was never killed. Nobody is tailoring these events, the universe does not allow paradoxes to happen because that's how it works. Why are there no 4 sided triangles? Why are there no perpetual motion machines? Is our universe secretly writing a script so nobody could ever invent free energy? No it can't happen because free energy is paradoxical, it is against the laws of nature. And for the same reason, paradoxes cannot happen with time travel, simple as that. Look at your examples buddy, Futurama? The Simpsons? What did you expect? Are these supposed to be serious stories in the first place?

You can find little big man ever so often

You can find Missouri brakes on KZbin movies every once in awhile

Tbf the animated series got a 19/20 on the ratings so it’d make sense. That 1 point can be seen throughout the series.

Steamed hams... Errr..

It's just a combination of The Cohen Brothers, Seinfeld and Cheech and Chong, the plot is irrelevent, the situations, the characters and the dialogue are what it's all about.

I'm gonna have to disagree strongly. You're saying causal paradoxes are 'lazy' because.. what, it removes the characters' agency? Maybe when done incredibly poorly, like with the Dr Who example which is just a thinly veiled deus ex machine that had to be closed. What about something like Deponia Doomsday; where Rufus experiences multiple forms of time loops. One of which he time travels to the past, then inadvertantly sets up a carnival to contain the tools he'll need in a future visit (that we already experienced). He didn't do this by choice. Perhaps as a comedy it's poking fun at the trope? But it's far from a plot hole, kind of the opposite imo. What about Alan Wake? The characters never time travel themselves, but the magical effects of the lake works through time... meaning all three major parties using the lake's power have written each other into existence. Alan Wake wrote about Tom, Tom wrote about Alan, Alan wrote about the band, which wrote about Tom again and the very antagonist of the story. Yes, it happens because it happens because it happens. But that's the fucking point. It's what makes it interesting and thought provoking. Everything has to have an origin... but in these scenarios they sometimes don't, and that's baffling. When used as a deus ex machine I guess it can be """"lazy"""", but literally any trope is "bad" when it's done poorly. That doesn't negate the trope's potential to be incredible interesting when written right. I think you're just being biased from bad experiences with the trope and are hung up on the "it doesn't make sense" part. Dude, it's time travel, it's never going to make sense. I'd even argue that causal paradoxes are the only form of time travel fiction that _do_ make any form of logical sense.

Thanks for breakin it down! Fascinating to hear a PTA scene deconstructed like this.There are countless creative decisions with blocking that bring the magic to life!

I’m using this method for my time travel novel and I think I’ve made it work perfectly. It’s all about execution. And just because you think something is “contrived” doesn’t mean you’re objectively right or that everyone agrees with you. Or even most people. I think it’s the coolest time travel method in storytelling but I don’t go around trying to convince people to think the way I do, or act like I’m 100% correct. But then it seems like my ego isn’t quite as puffed up as yours is.

It isn’t a plot hole. A plot hole is an inconsistency in the narrative. Something having unrealistic science isn’t the same as a plot hole. The grandfather paradox is a plot hole, because it’s a blatant self contradiction. The multiverse isn’t a plot hole but it does lead to a whole heap of other issues, like all consequence being lost, as there can always be other versions of the same characters out there that get different endings.