Funny Pages: A24 Tells On Itself

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[@lavs8696]

the ending of this movie is absolutely hilarious. when he gets beat up and called a "fucking creep" then it has him hobble to his job on Christmas just to seek shelter. completely flips the script on the typical coming of age movie, so good

[@MrBooone]

really dumb ending if you ask me

[@clanofclams2720]

​@@MrBooonegood thing no one did

[@fanboyberries39movies40]

Saw this at Cannes and I can safely say you could actively feel the sweatiness

[@turost3034]

i took it as robert being traumatized by the opening scene. he seems to have been uncomfortable with the situation but also very close with the teacher leading to a hellscape of guilt and mixed feelings at his death. him dropping out and diving head first into being a professional comic i took as honoring the teachers wish for him and i assumed he was lashing out at miles and his family because of this trauma. he dives deeper and deeper into this negative spiral only to have it severely negatively effect himself and those around him, only at the final scene does he seem to find insight and be able to grieve. what do you think? i like your analysis though it was quite different

[@superninjapirate19]

Love underground comics, so this is a must watch for me.

[@cheddies]

Just finished watching it and absolutely loved the film

[@Pipporemba]

I love this film so much, I've watched it twice during one transatlantic flight. And then again with a friend at home.

[@warlockofwordschannel7901]

Hello, 911? Someone's having a smug overdose...

[@Quaquadaqu]

Lol!

[@phosphorescenceking6114]

Funny Pages was my favorite movie of 2022 for sure. It hits the most, it's dangerously uncomfortable to sit through, and I'm a huge fan of Scott McCloud and his observations on the melding of comics or any other art form as a medium and as a highly competitive and difficult career path. I think what makes this hit so much more for me than stuff like Aftersun, other than it's relatability, is the self-telling cynicism that comes from how much you can feel the tropes that would lead to a happy ending cliched outcome, and how even the characters get wrapped up in the expectation of these tropes when they should know better.

[@achrafmaaden6263]

I didn't like this movie , but one thing I can say is , it failed with soul.

[@chillimayo2661]

Someone buy this man a mic stand

[@anniehow70]

Just watched this. Appreciate the review, but I really think reading self-referentiality in this film is a stretch. The film's references to comics are very specific and grounded in reality. There's no hidden meaning here. Image Comics, Tales of the Beanworld - these are all real publishers and intellectual properties. The movie even features the art of Peter Bagge, Johnny Ryan, and Rick Altergott, all established cartoonists known for gross-out humor that explores themes of arrested development, small-town life, and subcultural losers. It's a very specific curation of work that lends to the culture depicted in the film. These references aren't about filmmaking - Owen is very much part of fringe comics culture as well as indie films, and it seems like you are reading extra-diegetic metaphors to supplement your lack of familiarity of comics culture? Rather than a broad metaphor on artmaking, he provides a window into a fading underground comics scene. The main character's obsession with Image Comics isn't a commentary on A24 and the gritty quality of film; it's about his desire for something real and authentic, without having lived the required experience to discern what authenticity is. So Image comics gives him an illusion of legitimacy, while fetishizing Wallace's mental illness as something 'authentic', because he hasn't had much experiences outside of suburbia and cannot register how broken of a man he is. He also thinks creepy comics made for old men to masturbate to is 'subversive' - he fails to see that his art teacher was grooming him. He's so fixated on the idea of growing up and being a rebel he can't see that the people he chooses to be around are creeps and losers. He is condescending to Miles because Miles is as naive as he is - Miles has the same delusions of authenticity, and thinks the lack of skill and failure has 'soul' - essentially he uses Wallace to lord his own authenticity over Miles. This story isn't a statement about art, it's a time capsule of 90s culture, where alternative comics represented a certain kind of underdog bunker mentality that equated being an angsty loser as a more authentic counterpoint to mainstream. That world is long gone, and not vogue now (instead we have A24, the internet, and what K-Hole called 'mass-indie'). The coming-of-age structure runs parallel to the references to this fading culture.... It's a disillusioned take on that culture; anti-nostalgic.

[@whoisspencer]

Bruh got the OG PS3

[@mitchcapps6021]

Really insightful interaction with the movie.

[@noam4you]

love Funny Pages.

[@eewahnah]

You have to check out The African Desperate, another great art people film, a great one this 2022

[@moeezS]

Can't wait to watch this, just reminds me of one my faves American Splendor.

[@bobleponge9150]

I enjoyed it, but I wanted more of an ending

[@epictom3423]

yeah alright i might

[@afonsolucas2219]

I was gonna give it a skip, but since you're recommending-- Guess I'll give it a chance.

[@ozy667]

does miles die? it seemed superficial, but there was too much blood. fun movie.

[@TaylorJWilliams]

I think it’s probably just over-the-top violence to match the subject - the movie becomes the kind of cartoon Robert would draw. It would be funny if they did kill Miles in canon though

[@MrBooone]

This was such an odd movie, personally I'm more of a "I like movies" guy myself

[@oskarcreegan2566]

Fine ugh

[@lukasribin4168]

Ego..

[@SpettroFamily]

Wow Taylor - i'm shocked by your review and your language skills 😮

[@jsammo6528]

You don’t have to show us the mic as in you don’t have to show us the mic.

[@ozy667]

oh wow, the hipster milenial liked an a24 movie, who would have thought?

[@videoestres]

Are millennials still the current generation? because it seems to me that it's been a long time since I've heard someone say millennial to another person as an insult