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an alternate universe to me.

And I think sometimes that could feel like a cop out where the movie doesn't abide by earthly mechanics.

And so really anything goes, but watching it again, that contributed to the hopeful energy that I felt where I was like, this couldn't exist here.

And when they're getting really deep into like,

you know, Isaac Gonzalez recounting Marxist praxis.

There's part of me that's like, man, this would be awesome if current society allowed these type of dialogues to happen in the middle of a regular conversation, which is why it landed for me.

I was kind of swimming in it at times, but I think that's a feature, not a bug.

I was going to say, we haven't brought up Pinky Ring Guy yet.

Really, the only moment where I didn't connect with these characters is when I kind of wanted them to go a step further.

And that maybe is in line with my personal politics more than the movies.

But like, Christy's assistant, for example, she is clearly brimming with anger, but doesn't

go past the threshold.

And maybe part of that is her whiteness in the movie.

And I think Boots is saying something about race implicitly throughout the film.

But there's moments where I thought that he was holding back a little bit.

on what these characters could actually do.

It's as anti-capitalist as it can be in the studio system.