More I see it as poking fun at the knowability of anything. In Coen bro movies the people who think they know the most often know the least. "They found the solution to everything, I mean everything: politics, economics, sociology, morality. Its all written down in this book called 'Kapital'. That's right, Kapital, with a K." He doesn't say things that are wrong about the studio, and nor did the writers really get anything hugely wrong in their reading group (more of a arguing group), but the Coens find humor in the idea that they and he view the world as a solved system. Then, this perfect system for explaining the world crumbles in the face of Manx's rather simpler capitalist system: don't badmouth the person who pays your checks or I will hit you in the face.
I don't know, the whole bit with the submarine and Channing Tatum bring a spy the whole time felt like the real story. Like we just got a tiny sliver of whatever the fuck was happening there.
The entire plot of the movie is nothing. Which is pretty on par for Coen Bros. The kidnapping was pointless, The reading group got arrested immediately, capitalism persists, the difference between defense contractors and movie studio execs is a much finer line than you'd expect. Kinda has some Disco Elysium, but if you were a dumb actor instead of a depressed cop.
More I see it as poking fun at the knowability of anything. In Coen bro movies the people who think they know the most often know the least. "They found the solution to everything, I mean everything: politics, economics, sociology, morality. Its all written down in this book called 'Kapital'. That's right, Kapital, with a K." He doesn't say things that are wrong about the studio, and nor did the writers really get anything hugely wrong in their reading group (more of a arguing group), but the Coens find humor in the idea that they and he view the world as a solved system. Then, this perfect system for explaining the world crumbles in the face of Manx's rather simpler capitalist system: don't badmouth the person who pays your checks or I will hit you in the face.
I don't know, the whole bit with the submarine and Channing Tatum bring a spy the whole time felt like the real story. Like we just got a tiny sliver of whatever the fuck was happening there.
A homosexual spy no less
The entire plot of the movie is nothing. Which is pretty on par for Coen Bros. The kidnapping was pointless, The reading group got arrested immediately, capitalism persists, the difference between defense contractors and movie studio execs is a much finer line than you'd expect. Kinda has some Disco Elysium, but if you were a dumb actor instead of a depressed cop.
"What did we learn? Not to do it again I suppose. Though fuck if I know what we actually did."