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>Single crazy bird lady is a hard worker, but she's a disgusting slob with no social grace.
>Gets passed over for a promotion by the douchebag frat bro boss, despite working there for many years.
>Audience feels understandably sorry for her, despite the fact she's too stupid to realize that working like a dog for years with no social tact is not how you get promoted in the corporate world.
>So on and so, on, she and her douchebag boss survive a plane crash to a corporate meeting and are stranded on an island
>After some shenanigans, she decides to avoid being rescued so that she can stay on the island with douchebag boss, who she seems to both disdain and yet obsessively lust over.
>Douchebag's innocent, loving fiance, along with another innocent guy launch a search party and encounter the lady. Lady is jealous of the fiance, and ends up killing her and the other innocent guy off a cliff
>Moral high ground completely lost at this point, if it wasn't earlier by avoiding resuce.
>So on and so forth, the twist ends up being there's some huge unoccupied mansion that the lady knew about. The douchebag boss, who I'd hardly even call a douchebag at this point, is rightfully enraged at the lady for murdering his fiance and keeping him on the island, he stumbles on the house and tries to kill the lady.
>He fails, ends up killed by her.
>Lady ends up escaping the island to a hero's welcome back home, and a big corporate promotion.

The end.

So yeah, it ends with her basically saying something like, "no one will send help, you have to help yourself," which I guess entails being entirely psychopathic and hurting innocent people? It seemed like it was supposed to be a "yeah, you go girl!" kinda story, but when you end up more of an asshole than the mean-spirited boss you're supposed to hate, it kind of falls flat. At least the douchebag boss didn't kill anyone, and in fact saved the crazy lady from falling at one point.
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Patriarchy made her do it
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>>217768572
there is no thought to be applied to morality beyond being rich and ungrateful is the worst thing you can be. whatever lindas moral failings are, she is poor and thus the hero
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>>217768572
>the twist ends up being there's some huge unoccupied mansion that the lady knew about.

Fucking what? Explain this. So was it implied she's been secretly living in the mansion during the times she's left her boss alone and she was full of shit about knowing how to survive? Was the mansion derelict and abandoned or was it a fully loaded vacation home belonging to a mutual acquaintance? I only ask because the whole mansion thing is apparently some big revelation in the movie. The rescue team and him finding his murdered fiancee would be enough to trigger him to attack her. So what was the point of there being a mansion?
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>>217768749
>So what was the point of there being a mansion?
That she immediately found an incredibly useful survival resource and didn't tell the guy because she liked having him at her mercy in a straw hut
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>>217768749
Yes and no. The movie does portray her as being a legitimate survivalist with true survival skills. It sets that up early on with photos of her camping trips and obsession over the Survivor show. But the mansion was a modern, functional, fully stocked beach house, just unoccupied by what she presumed to be a "Wall Street bigshot" or something to that effect. She doesn't seem to spend most her time at the mansion, but she did secure provisions there, including a knife and food, so that does seem to also negate the whole point of being a survivalist, and yeah I cannot really understand the point of including it, unless the point was just to make you hate the woman even more.
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>>217768848
>woman finds an actual island mansion but chooses to live like a dirty third worlder because she love/hates her boss?

Can't tell if insanely unbelievable because a woman is choosing a more difficult route that involves work and effort, or if actually incredibly realistically portraying the awful decision-making and reasoning of women. Either way, Raimi's had pic related living rent free in his head since MoM and decided to make an entire film just for her. What other directors besides Vince Gilligan are huge simps to actresses like this?
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Female lead? Wont watch
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It's a take on le wimmen must be by themselves so they need a man who was really a good guy.

Because she's a woman, she is the only one who gets away with it. Cliche plot all over again.

I don't know how women who watch this and think it's a good thing. Obviously, it's "because he's a man, he's useless" scenario. Most movies are unrealistic anyway.
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>>217768950
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>>217768572
It's genuinely difficult to tell how much you're supposed to hate her, I can't gauge Raimi's authorial intent
Because if you think for one second the answer is "a lot" but maybe they're going for like a foid Patrick Bateman where girls watch and go "SHE DID LITERALLY NOTHING WRONG"
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>>217768935
>Either way, Raimi's had pic related living rent free in his head since MoM and decided to make an entire film just for her.
But he also had her fuck a black guy in that movie? I see.
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>No help is coming, so you better start saving yourself.
The point at the end was that you can't rely on others and have to make things happen for yourself. Her golfing at the end makes it really obvious. This is a woman that spent 7 years at the company holding out for a promotion that was promised to her, but when the time comes the new boss gives it to his golfing buddy that had only been there for 6 months. The golfing buddy was assertive and willing to step on people to get ahead (passing off her work as his own). She was a meek loser that let people belittle and bully her. She learned that it isn't good enough to be highly competent at what you do. You need to be cut throat. Literally in her case.
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>>217768950
>woman is stronk and hard working while man bad and is a lazy lout
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>>217768572
>becomes a villain and wins without any second thought that she might be a bad person

Yeah I read the plot summary and it turned me off ever watching it.
I know villain protagonists are the hot thing since Breaking Bad but man I am so sick of it.
I appreciate Dunk and Egg for how earnest the protagonist is after years of shitheads.
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>>217769017
I can't imagine that anyone has ever read any image formatted like that
And no, I don't care what the topic of said image is
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>>217769027
Oh no, it's retarded.
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There’s no deep meaning. It’s a horror movie meant to shock you like a haunted house ride. Just enjoy the scares and move on
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>>217768973
You're supposed to dislike all of the characters. The only character that wasn't a piece of shit was the fiancee.
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>crazy bitch is crazy
What is moral about it? She's fucking insane. She killed her husband and killed her boss's wife, the innocent guy helping her, and her boss. And she got away with all of it.
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>>217769071
Her husband was abusive
So was her boss
So was society
She's like The Joker
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>>217769106
No, she is not, at all. She sucked. I pirated this movie and I still am owed a refund for wasting my time on this girl power fantasy tale.
They (Hollywood) did the same thing with that movie about a man trying to kill his dumb wife in a hot air balloon after a robbery gone bad or something.
It was a such a shit movie, great opportunity wasted.
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>>217769106
Joker is a lot more sympathetic.
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>>217769183
you are retarded
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>>217768572
>So yeah, it ends with her basically saying something like, "no one will send help, you have to help yourself," which I guess entails being entirely psychopathic and hurting innocent people? It seemed like it was supposed to be a "yeah, you go girl!" kinda story, but when you end up more of an asshole than the mean-spirited boss you're supposed to hate, it kind of falls flat. At least the douchebag boss didn't kill anyone, and in fact saved the crazy lady from falling at one point.
that's the literal meaning yes, but the more metaphorical meaning is that you have to take power for yourself rather than beg for it

the crazy bird lady is an asshole too but that's what makes her win in the end, embracing her inner asshole to become the boss
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>>217768674
OK
Wont watch then
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Is this another Barbie situation with copers claiming the film is not feminist at all?
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>>217769600
It just isn't feminist. You could tell the exact same story with a man in the role. You would just have to take out the parts where she wants to fuck the boss.
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>>217769017
Jesus christ, the pixels.
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>>217768973
I chose to interpret it as Raimi subverting the audience’s expectations of it being a movie about a girlboss smashing the patriarchy. She becomes way worse than the douchebag boss and she might’ve been worse from the beginning, she pretty much murdered her husband
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>>217769723
bunch of phonefags, remove the 's'. I can read it just fine on my computer.
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>>217768572
sneed help
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>>217769653
So why wasnt the lead male and the boss female then?
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>YOU DON'T WANT STRONG FEMALE LEAD!
And women dont want smug male lead who wears makeup and tight and revealing clothing for his own show
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Imagine watching jewish media and expecting morals
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Why does Rachel McAdams look like Katie Holmes on the poster?
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>>217770727
I expect DOUBLE morals
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>>217768572
I think if we killed anyone who enjoyed this movie we'd have a better civilization
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If its not a feminist film, then explain the soiboy geek out simping
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>>217768572
thanks for the summary, not gonna watch it
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>>217769015
This. He knew how to play the game and rub shoulders, she knew how to survive on the island. On the mainland he was the king, but here in the middle of nowhere she uses her knowledge and cunning to get the most out of the situation. Very basic structure, why OP sucks dick again?
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wonder if Raimi is in The Files.
the man used to be solid. there was no simping as late as Drag Me To Hell. something got to Sam
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>>217768572
It's more girlboss bullshit for the femcels.

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