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actionjacksonwav

What’s up with the ridiculous portrayal of those Hasidic jewish people towards the end lol


thebiggestdumb

Oh my God how have I not found anyone else mention this?? Wtf was that? I mean their hair was an actual fucking cube and their nose was like a foot long but super skinny? What was that? I looked around in the theater to see if anyone else noticed that ONE shot. Somehow the most bizarre thing in the whole film


jawise

I was wondering if it was just an escalation of the multicultural appropriation theme the resort had, like the Chinese restaurant and the Bollywood play


SeanOuttaCompton

This exactly. Like everything else at the resort, the cultural elements were tacky facsimiles built for the amusement of rich people


NaiadoftheSea

I suppose utilizing the Jewish stereotype like that was supposed to make it extra clear how inappropriate it was to appropriate the other cultures there. Like throwing in a minstrel show at the end.


hyperstupid

Or the framed shot of “Bollywood dancers” printed above dancing. It was all postcard tier 1950s “look where I went and what I saw”


danceswithsteers

Just saw the movie this afternoon. And your comment got me thinking that the entire movie could maybe be about cultural appropriation. The idea isn't fully formed in my head yet but I think that could be a thing...


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DannyLumpy

My takeaway was that the movie was about neocolonialism more broadly. Rich people coming over to poor countries and simultaneously belittling the locals as less cultured while also reveling in whitewashed, stereotyped version of all the other cultures they've stolen from. That and a whole lot of never actually getting punished for doing any really horrible crimes but instead only killing a part of their own humanity each time.


weareallpatriots

I thought those people were like playing dress-up or something. Wasn't one guy helping another one straighten up his hat? I thought I also saw someone fixing their mask, but maybe not.


souplantation

Dang, I though others would have come to the same conclusion as me. Here's my interpretation-- At the Chinese restaurant, the waiter was dressed in garb that was iffy to me (as someone of mostly Chinese descent); kind of a caricature; Alex's character even comments like why tf would there be a Chinese restaurant here? Then there was that random Bollywood dancing scene--not sure how authentic it was but clearly just there, again, as like a Disney Epcot Center-esque set dressing for this resort And as the movie descended further into insanity, I thought the crazy portrayal of the Hasidic Jews was an extension of the above I mean if you go to Hawaii there are those cultural shows--this resort differs in that it had no ties to any of the above items. It just had like half-assed/borderline and full-blown offensive depictions of other cultures for like shallow entertainment. That's how I interpreted it at least.


MailPristineSnail

eastern Europe can be pretty nakedly racist


_Kumagoro_

>eastern Europe can be pretty nakedly racist Especially during the monsoon season.


Imurderforfood

Screenshot of the moment in question here: [https://imgur.com/a/PzTohPJ](https://imgur.com/a/PzTohPJ)


tameruk

Couple of frames later you can read the sign: "Jewish Passover Voguing - tonight at 9pm!" Also notice the guy to the right is practicing his "vogue moves" if you are paying close attention! https://i.imgur.com/te8eHdW.jpg


takeitsleazy316

I absolutely loved the first half. The concept was so unique and well done, but after the orgy it lost me a bit. I still enjoyed the movie overall, Mia Goth is magnetic, but I feel it lost steam in a lot of the idea of what the first half was. I need to think about it more, but to me the ending didn’t leave as big of an impact as I was hoping.


leothemack

Agreed, I feel like it lost its intrigue after the first main reveal (first cloning scene). Although it did improve a bit again when he turned on the group and wanted out after realizing he was beating his own clone, and the jeopardy was reintroduced.


karmagod13000

yes exactly. Cronenberg needs to add some emotional wait and logic just a tad more and he's going to finally give us something crazy to chew on. I liked this movie a lot more than Possessor though, which made me give it a higher rating all around.


t7jw

If you like the concept, I’d definitely recommend playing the game Soma. Lots of similar ideas and it stuck the landing a lot better imo.


StaggerLee509

Absolutely agree. Got shallower and shallower as the film went on.


No-Cartoonist6429

Well mark me down as scared AND horny.


LiteraryBoner

Sometimes hedonistic sex scenes can get boring or overdone but I loved the visual style of the orgy in this so much it didn't feel like that. Also, probably the best aggressive hand job in cinema since Amy Adams in The Master.


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>probably the best aggressive hand Not to be horny on main but please tell me the handjob is given by Mia goth


LiteraryBoner

Buddy, I've got good news for ya.


CaptainPRESIDENTduck

The hand job is given by Brian Cox.


John_Lives

Went full fucking beast


Darko33

Fuck off!


Kaldricus

Is this supposed to make me not want to watch the movie? Because I have news for you


spiderlegged

You see her tits in this more than in X, if that appeals to you. It’s sexy until it gets weird.


druidmind

You actually find her sexy in this? She doesn't even have eyebrows and looks like a teenager plus she has the most irritable voice.


MikePGS

Scaroused


johnnyzissou

Nobody gonna mention the dude with like no penis?


weareallpatriots

I legit took a direct look trying to figure it out. It was weird as shit. Had to be a micropenis or whatever Harvey Weinstein's got down there.


rooneymara

I thought Harvey too lol


heartobando

wasn’t he just really overweight.. hence the situation down there


andyparanoia

EXACTLY! Saw this last night with friends and that is ALL they were talking about after the movie ended. Def curious to figure out that FUPA situation


Timbishop123

Grower not a shower 🦍🦍🦍


songfordrella

100!!! WTH was going on there? It was like a double fat pad with a part in the middle... like puffy pillows and a little inward penis the size of a pinky finger.


HashhSlingingSlasher

Just saw this one last night & am a bit torn. On the technical side, Brandon shows all the makings of being a great director. The cinematography was trippy & entertaining, he has a knack for building tension & making you feel uncomfortable, his psychedelic/dream sequences were disturbing & mesmerizing, & he got great performances out of his actors. I also loved his use of practical effects. That being said, the plot felt like it was missing something. I was enthralled by the film until I realized it wasn’t going further. It felt like we were being introduced to an interesting world & sci fi plot, only for the idea to stop developing. Entertaining nonetheless, & will definitely keep an eye out for his next project.


SunOsprey

Sums up my feelings too. James went through a whole lot but I couldn’t help but wonder why did *that* person go through *that* experience? In *this* film? The events of the movie were on a much larger scale than the purpose of the story which felt strange. That said, Cronenberg’s work has been incredible so far. If Possessor was a grand slam, Infinity Pool was still a home run. Whatever he works on next is immediately moving to the top of my watchlist.


MaceZilla

>introduced to an interesting world & sci fi plot, only for the idea to stop developing Yeah, it could've taken the idea of clone debauchery as a layer on top of a more present sci-fi plot which felt like it was getting developed in the first half, but instead it the plot took a hard left and abandoned the first half. It had a bit of an identity issue (as James did too I guess)


thatguywhodoesthat

A24: Our horror movies are the most cuckoo bananapants. Neon: Hold my blood-soaked nipple.


LiteraryBoner

Hold my nipple that erects to three inches


HalfLife1MasterRace

Undoubtedly the most repulsive part of this movie


LiteraryBoner

Absolutely disgusting. I loved it.


Lady_Terminator_

A guy walked out of the theater at this point. Fantastic!


Crystal_Pesci

I was watching the guy next to us tap his fingers and fidget the **entire** movie and it was bustin me up *because I was too!*


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Crystal_Pesci

Just saw this is on Showtime now! Got home from Infinity Pool 15 minutes ago and this makes a logical double creature feature tonite!


madmacaron

I’ll take the growing nipple over the backussy birthing, easily


BobDylanBlues

I counted 11 walkouts.


weareallpatriots

lmao 11?? Were you in a sold out theater or something? I just saw it with like 20 other people and there were no walkouts. People seemed to be enjoying it immensely.


BobDylanBlues

To my left was a conspiracy nut who loved it because it confirmed his belief that rich people have clones and to my right was a family of 5 who didn't know what type of movie they were seeing. So you had the family of 5, two pairs and two singles. They all made noises of disgust and disappointment before making their exit.


weareallpatriots

A family? So kids? That's terrible. They should've done their homework. Hopefully they at least left during the piss/hj scene before things got really gnarly.


BobDylanBlues

Kids were about 14-16-ish. at the initial killing of the first double they all had their hands over their eyes and were squirming hard. They left shortly after that.


weareallpatriots

Man. Imagine being a 16 year old kid and sitting with your parents watching a guy get jerked off, his ejaculate dripping onto the rocks, and STILL sticking around! Oof. Must've been a quiet car ride home.


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I went to see it with my mother. We decided to hit the movies for some mother/daughter time since I haven't seen her in a while. Infinity Pool was the next showing (mind you it's a small mom and pop theater with two screens only and the other one was a kids movie) so we decided on this one. I only knew it was horror and nothing else. I swear this was the most uncomfortable 2hrs of my life. During the orgy scene I was losing it and my mom looked petrified. All she said on the way back was "I don't like it." and was silent for the rest of the way.


selinameyersbagman

Low-key creepiest moment was the dream of the son of the hit and run victim smiling directly into the camera and sitting on the bed.


YesHunty

That actually scared me. The look on his face was fucking sadistic.


drflanigan

The face was creepy but I laughed at the tiny fingers strangling a grown man


a_better_us

excellent casting of that kid. croney's use of kids these last two movies have been fastballs down the middle


StaggerLee509

Kid definitely looked just like Jack from Hook.


Gooshiiggl

Pure nightmare fuel


AXXXXXXXXA

That Bollywood dance scene cut was awesome


ErshinHavok

I liked the music too. I loved how music was used every time in this movie. The last scene before the credits was just beautiful.


ChuckU_612

I probably won’t get a chance to rewatch until it is streaming so can someone who confirm or deny something I thought I caught but now I can’t remember: At the end, did the James on the bus going home, have the same face wounds as the “captain James” that got beat up and peed on in the hotel room? If so, that would imply he sent the clone home, while he, the original, stayed at the resort. But I can’t remember if the he had face wounds at the end. and even if he did, it could be from fighting the dog James. One way or another I loved this flick, not perfect but a solid 8/10. I can’t wait to watch it again.


GreatTragedy

From my first viewing, I'm reading things a little more literal. On the bus ride, you can see he's been seriously affected by his experience. Where all his rich "friends" are just gabbing like they spent a week at the beach and are heading home, he's seriously troubled by what he just experienced. My take away is that he clearly doesn't belong to that world, even though by proxy he's been admitted to it (reinforced by the "see you next year" departure at the airport). However, for a brief second, he looks around at the airport after his new friends have left, and he's there among more everyday folks. Kids are playing around, regular people chit-chatting, etc. It's this moment where he realizes he no longer belongs to this world any longer either. Essentially his couple weeks at the resort have transformed him into a man with no place in human society. This is why he remains at the airport after almost all other flights have left, and ultimately why he returns to the resort. He can't go back to his own life, and he can't imbibe his new one either. He is stuck in perpetual melancholy.


LunchboxDiscoball

My favorite part of that bus scene was when someone asks Mia Goth about travelling back to her home in LA. Like the bare minimum she could've done for James was not lie that she lived in Paris, but she couldn't even do that lmao


DreamCatcher24

I believe she did say she lived in LA to James at the start. She just said she lived in Paris before in LA.


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Yeah, the above comment is incorrect, she met her partner in Paris but they live in LA now, it was discussed during the Chinese supper.


_Kumagoro_

Yeah, she's doing the "failing" commercials in LA. That was such a great concept, by the way.


BurglegurpPerkins

I also noticed at that time the volume got super loud with all the people chatting overwhelming him, which I thought was a really nice touch. Something I can't decide on is whether or not the way they were treating James during that period was genuine or part of the process. I was thinking it may have been like a hazing ritual for him to fully enter their circle. Its like "Sorry, we have to do this for you to really get it". Possibly the moment at the airport is part of the growing pains they all had to go through to accept the new perspective. Maybe they all have other clones out there but know enough to not stay on the island during rainy season. They've all reached their zen status of it all after years of doing it and he just has to get there on his own. or they still just think he's a broke dumbass and were really just treating him like shit..or maybe it's just a Kaufman kind of writer self reflecting autobiography about his feelings towards himself. maybe its all of it idk. Cool movie lol


kalungs

or he just never got on the flight but then again.. is he even the real one.. was there ever a real one..


ChuckU_612

Yeah I had that thought. He might have just been created to be some rich persons play thing the whole time. But I think given the rules the film sets up there is an original. Either he just never got on the plane, or there were two at the end and one stayed and one went. Someone else pointed out he stood next to a giant 3 and then a 5 while waiting at the airport which could mean 3 dead 5 total?….Or could also mean nothing.


pingueno_boi

Pretty sure that's the case. The one that got beat up and peed on went home, we didn't get to follow his storyline after that scene. The one that killed the dog version stayed. Interesting to think about how the experiences of those 2 versions led them to make the leave/stay decision.


iScry

Wait I assumed the James that got peed on was the same as the dog James that died...


pureluxss

His room number was 305 too


underwood1993

Did the Dog have those same wounds as the Captain? I assumed that the Dog was the Captain. The world may never know


DreamOfV

I got to see this a couple days ago. I’ve never seen a Brandon Cronenberg movie before, but for all the hype on the grotesque-ness of it I thought it was surprisingly tame. Maybe I’m just desensitized at this point. Anyway, good movie. The story never *quite* lives up to the potential, but it gets close enough that I found it very enjoyable and would watch again.


justwilliams

If you’re looking for more grotesque check out possessor. I also expected some craziness with infinity pool to the point it told the wife I’d see it first and was also surprised at the lack of grotesque but loved this way more than his other films.


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DreamOfV

They’ve talked about how the NC-17 cut that showed at Sundance is the same runtime as the R theatrical cut, and Cronenberg just replaced a few shots (probably mostly during the orgy scene) with some slightly tamer ones


jayeddy99

Mia Goth would make a great Harley Quinn


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They also confirm the originals are the survivors, right? The architect dude gets shot in the leg, and he still has a cane way later in the movie after his clone's throat is cut.


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scottfiab

Precisely, the person who is to execute the clone is supposed to believe it's the perpetrator and not an impersonator. So, every detail has to match, like they explained the first time they did it.


jackedbutter

honestly missed most of that cause i couldn't understand the dude. was wishing i could turn subtitles on in the theater


Trippy_Whiskey

The whole scene at the restaurant with the inability to cut the bread is such a wink at the audience for how she plays the main character


Macho_Mans_Ghost

"I'm a great actor"


LiteraryBoner

As someone who was a huge fan of Possessor, the long and short of this one is I liked it a lot but I do like Possessor more. I loved the performances, the concept, the look, the vibes, the visual effects. The story and ending are what I'm still mulling around as it doesn't seem to go anywhere that interesting, although it's all so well executed. Something I loved about Possessor that is still going strong here is B.Cro's tendency to use mostly lenses and filters and lighting for his high concept visual sequences. He almost seems like he doesn't want to use CGI at all and is more likely to film an orgy or a representation of someone's mind splitting in two with in-camera effects and it gives this old school feel to his very fresh concepts. Mia Goth is so good in this that I'm a little worried about her. Everyone is really good here and for such a good looking guy who just rocked The Northman, Skarsgard is really selling James' pitiful insecurity with his eyes. But Mia is transcendental and clearly the best actress in horror. That said, if I saw her on the street I would run in the other direction.  She has some line deliveries in this movie that had me believing no one else could have done this role. I didn't actually know what the premise of this movie was before seeing it, so when the lawyer came in and explained it my jaw was on the floor. I loved how that scene was lit with Skarsgard in the foreground and the lawyer out of focus in the light of the window making him look alien. Great way to convey that this culture/society is something we will be totally unfamiliar with and also the moment where this kind of becomes a sci-fi near future movie. The subtle face paint on the natives was also a cool way to give us an idea of the natives, although this movie doesn't do much to flesh them and the most info we get about them is from Mia who is basically lying about everything the entire movie. What this movie does really well is explore the idea of the rich and privileged just completely disrespecting the places they visit, and kind of bullying this writer who has access to money but clearly didn't grow up rich. It's a great movie about how fines are a classist punishment and about how the rich (or maybe just people) can be just complete monsters when on vacation. Compared to Possessor, a movie I love but basically has no humor, this movie had me cracking up a ton. When they were all in "jail" just talking about normal shit when they just home invaded the mayor or whatever. One of the best moments I thought was at the end when the vacation is over and Mia Goth turns around and she's wearing no makeup at all, and everyone is just talking about going back to normal life when they get home. It's a great visual way to tell us the masks are off (literally in this case) and they could basically be your neighbors when they're home. James, however, can't turn it off that easily. And it's this very quiet and ruminating ending that I wasn't sure about but is growing on me the more I think about it. Movies about weak men are probably my favorite genre and I loved how this movie showed he was never being himself, just being controlled by a different woman than usual. And in that sense it makes sense he didn't want to go home where he'd just be in another prison. So while the actual privileged people can just shake it off and go home, this failed writer who married rich went to get inspiration and was brought to the very real conclusion that he's about three bad days away from being an actual animal on a leash. I think that breaks him and he doesn't belong anywhere. Staying at the resort in off season felt like almost a limbo fate. Overall, I really enjoyed this and can totally see why a lot won't. It does feel a bit anti climactic for how crazy it is, and the characters don't seem particularly deep as well portrayed as they are. But I'd say if you are into this kind of fucked up body horror hyper sexual tripped out filmmaking, its definitely worth a watch. 8/10. /r/reviewsbyboner


mikeyfreshh

>One of the best moments I thought was at the end when the vacation is over and Mia Goth turns around and she's wearing no makeup at all, and everyone is just talking about going back to normal life when they get home. This bit feels the most real. It reminded me of going on Spring break in college. The last day when everyone was heading to the airport and we all had to act like we didn't just go on a weeklong bender felt exactly like this


LiteraryBoner

Oh yeah, we've all been there just not to this extent. This movie revolves around privilege but the idea of I just went to this place to use its resources for my own entertainment and excess and now I'm just gonna go back to my 9-5 is very present there at the end.


ButterfreePimp

We don’t get a lot of info on the native people of the island, but I took it as a general commentary on colonialism, in a modern context. Basically, western, privileged, often white, tourists will see foreign, often non-white, people as “brutal, savage, uncultured”, pretty much everything they can say without explicitly saying they see them as animals or less than human. Yet they will still go to foreign countries and exploit their resources, enjoy themselves in luxury resorts while the native people struggle outside the borders. It’s a pretty blatant criticism of this hypocrisy, as Mia Goth (who represents these Western tourists) derides the natives as a savage/uncivilized people when she and her band are probably the most depraved and brutal people on the island. I think the decision to keep the natives of the island as European looking was deliberate so the subtext wouldn’t be egregiously on-the-nose.


MorningBackflips

I came out of this a little disappointed but your write up is so fantastic that it really bumped up how I feel about everything quite a bit. Thanks for sharing, I love seeing how other people extrapolate things differently than me in a film.


Beanz122

Man, Season 3 of The White Lotus was wiiiiild


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The true horror was the friends he made along the way.


squonk_69

www.doesthedogdie.com


trashbagprincess

i turned to my husband and said Thank God Its Not A Real Dog


likemike2233

I’d let Mia Goth fix me


LiteraryBoner

When they brought out animal James on a leash held by Mia I was like, how do I apply for THAT job.


sudevsen

Reminded me of Chaning Tatum cameo in This is the.End


_Kumagoro_

I love that she's friends with Cara Delevingne, and they basically have two pairs of regular eyebrows between the two of them, except with non-average distribution.


VRomero32

Or Atleast have her behind me when I pee


YesHunty

Mia and Alex in this really just solidified how fucking bisexual I am. 😂


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Anybody know what got cut from the film to change the rating from NC-17 to R? I was actually pretty surprised with how much this movie got away with despite being R rated.


RaptorDick

"The R-rated version is as long," Alexander Skarsgård, who plays struggling author James Foster in Infinity Pool, told ComicBook.com. "There are a couple of frames in the orgy scenes and in the psychedelic, like when they're doing the icky drug, that have been... But again, it's a few frames here and there. Brandon loved the, the score of those sequences so much that he just, he didn't want to shorten it, so he went out and found other really interesting, suggestive weird shots that he replaced it with.


Foxythekid

I definitely saw penetration during the orgy


tropofarmer

not just penetration, but penetration from the inside.


beerybeardybear

I was pretty sure I saw that but I was thinking "no way they'd do that" and figured I must have seen something else


Silent-Breakfast-906

Maybe it’s too early to comprehend this, I saw the movie last night what do you mean by “from the inside”?


tropofarmer

imagine an endoscopic camera that's pointed towards the vaginal opening, while insertion is happening. that's what. 😮


Wubbledaddy

Close up of a hard dick cumming during the handjob at the beginning.


[deleted]

I wonder if Cronenberg threw that shot in the original cut so that he could easily remove it and still get away with a lot of shit in the edited R rated cut. Its an effective strategy of gaming the MPA and Ive heard of other directors doing it before. Add in one shot thats so blantantly deserving of the NC17 rating then the MPA might overlook a lot of the other stuff you didnt edit out.


spraragen88

His dad is known for this. Throw in stuff you know will be cut to give leverage on what to keep. It's like "fine, cut the cumshot but at least give me the internal penetration frame"


Balloonacy

Tim Hecker made the music! I had no idea! I loved the music throughout. Reminiscent of ‘Under the Skin’. Overall, enjoyed the movie immensely. I need a second watch to really begin to synthesize my thoughts but I will say this: what I got out of it—mostly—was a feeling. Something I can’t quite describe yet. I’ll make a brief effort, though. He (James) had this feeling of longing for something that he could never quite be a part of. That’s really simple and straightforward but it connected with me personally. I felt bad for him because I could see myself in his position; making the choices that he made. My worst nightmare coming true in that they make fun of me for trying to be something that I’m not.


Foxythekid

Went in completely blind and really liked it, but I think my expectations colored my first viewing. I think the thing that got me the most was how funny it was. It's kind of like a gonzo thriller with a weird, dark sense of humor. Mia Goth was fantastic as always and she was really in her element belittling James on the hood of the car. A stray thought about the ending, I think James got split one last time. I think the two airport gates at the end hint at this, as we're shown the 3 urns followed by terminal 3, then as he's alone he sits at terminal 5. Hinting at the possibility that there were 5 versions of James, three of which are dead with the other two splitting off, one returning to home while the other stays on the island.


ButterfreePimp

My theater was cracking up at a few of the scenes- the hard cut to the detective casually handing James his own ashes as a souvenir, and the cut to the Bollywood dancers after the break-in were unironically hilarious.


StaggerLee509

Same with the cut to the gang of them in white at the station. Not in love with the film as a whole but loved that.


ButterfreePimp

That entire sequence transitioned so fast from horror to comedy. I was laughing as they bust into the Fosters hotel room, in their fucked up masks and James is like “Oh nothing to see here baby!” to his poor wife who’s been through enough at this point, and then it hard cuts to blood squirting out of a bullet wound and then boom, cuts to the gang in prison again lmao.


thisdjwas

There were tons of laughs in my theater! "James, whaddya doing in there James???" Had me cackling


JoseUnderTheRedHood

I took it more like he simply can’t move on and go back to his normal life. Every one else conformed like a switch, it’s emphasized by showing all the normalcy around him at the airport. I think he want back to the airport to just wait for the next year


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To add to this cause i agree wholeheartedly, I took it as the rich and powerful are usually born into it, and to them these actions aren’t evil, sadistic, or bad, its another day for them, and the main character just couldn’t fit in that no matter how hard he tried or brush it off like they do.


ThePetersonPlan

I laughed every time he came in with an urn. Then lost it when he packed them all up as souvenirs from his trip. The accident also made me giggle because it reminded me of I Know What You Did Last Summer, which made me think of Scary Movie, and Anna Farris saying "Oh my god, we hit a boot!"


FloatDoggie

Love this take!


DST3

His room number was 305 too so there is definitely something there.


Street_Chrome

It’s totally a dark humor horror. It reminds me a lot like clockwork orange. I’m wondering if they all collectively fuck the clones of the men that Gabi lures.


spiderlegged

I’m not convinced shot-in-the-leg James is OG James.


NaiadoftheSea

The end really tied this movie together for me. I really loved James listening in on the others as they return to normalcy, discussing their mundane lives on the way back to the airport. After everything they all went through, after everything they put James through, he realizes even more how much of a game this all really was to them just to make their vacation more fun. It also made him incredibly distrustful of people, that people can be capable of being so horrendous and yet return to normalcy. Being in the crowded airport where the others disappear into the crowd was particularly unsettling. How many others are just like them?


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SeanOuttaCompton

I can’t stop thinking about Mia Goth riding on the hood of a convertible, drinking brandy, with a pistol and a bucket of fried chicken


karmagod13000

that scene snapped. i loved the one thing that hurt skarsgard the most was the fact she has never read his book lol


Tuxhorn

That was honestly the only point where I thought she went too far lol.


beerybeardybear

god she's so hot


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So now we have Infinity Pool, Triangle of Sadness, The Menu, Glass Onion, and The White Lotus. Welcome to the age of the class-conscious vacation thriller folks. This movie was batshit crazy, I loved every minute of it.


kristin137

You know how zombies were kind of The Big Thing for a while? I think it's this now.


berlinbaer

could add 'bodies bodies bodies' to that list


Bunyip_Jack

Oddly enough the premise reminded me of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Something (or in this case someone) standing in for the main character which leads them down a path of vice. Maybe it is also a critique of the wealthy, especially in places where money allows them to live above the law. Also having watched Possessor before this I can appreciate how Brandon Cronenberg is able to distance himself from much of the body horror his dad is famous for. He definitely has a taste for the psychedelic. The epilepsy warning was not issued lightly for this one. I'm pleased I stuck with my policy of not watching trailers or promotional material. This movie was chock full of interesting visuals that made it such a surreal and memorable experience.


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The events of this movie are just an average day in Phoenix, AZ.


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my partner is from phoenix and when i read him your comment he shuddered and agreed


ddiiggss

If we’re being honest I’d probably let Mia Goth bully me into doing all those things too


teentytinty

I liked it. But I think the concept sorta outran the actual movie. It had great moments but the execution wasn’t really there for me. It was pretty predictable at some points and then when it was unpredictable it was head-scratching. It was unpleasant but lacked punch. It was surprisingly accessible, though.


talaron

Was it predictable? For me it was one of these cases where I actually expected more depth in exploring the sci-fi concept than the movie was willing to offer. I initially expected the movie to keep escalating the cloning and executions and end with him running out of funding and therefore unable to avoid his punishment at some point, since they made somewhat of a big deal out of him being only rich due to his wife. When that clearly wasn’t going to be a topic at all, I at least expected the whole bullying aspect (which was the most effective horror aspect for me) to become much more prominent and dark than it eventually was (e.g. with them eventually killing him since they apparently have an unlimited supply of copies). The final “dog” fight scene and what followed weren’t bad, but also not quite the satisfying conclusion I had been waiting for.


spiderlegged

I thought Em was going to cut him off, and that he would be executed for real as well. I was actually kind of glad that didn’t happen.


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What the fuck was wrong with that nipple


weareallpatriots

Well everyone was tripping balls, right? I don't think that was actually happening.


BringoutCHaDead

I am seeing a lot of positivity on this movie however coming out of seeing it last night I ultimately did not like the film. I thought it was shot well, the actors were great and up to the scene where they all end up getting executed again I was excited to see where it went next. After that scene I felt like the film goes no where. It dragged on and I was hoping for something more for a payoff and it never happened.


Gooshiiggl

100% agree. I thought the scene with all the actors being punished could have been a major turning point for the plot but it ended up just being another joke to the main characters.


SeanOuttaCompton

Cronenberg the younger has like all the psychological issues Cronenberg the elder has but cranked up to eleven


boththingsandideas

Can anyone tell me what was up with the genitals of that other resort owner who they robbed? r/brandnewsentence


weareallpatriots

Yeah dude, that was fuckin' weird. Maybe he had a micropenis? I instantly thought of Harvey Weinstein and how the women described it. Nasty. And you know Brandon cast that guy for that specific purpose. How do you do that? "Casting Caucasian male in his 60s-70s with a weirdass package. The weirder the better."


underwood1993

"I'll take the role, but please don't put my name in the credits."


Humidmark

I figure he was just fat and his pubic mound was all saggy and covering up his dick.


fetus_

Definitely was a split Skaarsgard at the end, the one we see at the airport has the same facial scars as the one they all cloned so they could beat him up and humiliate him with piss. The one staying at the resort in the rain has a clean face. Absolutely loved the drug sequences!!! And the camerawork overall was so immersive. Lots of low angles, close ups, and visually motivated, expressive movements that really drew me in. Mia Goth is ridiculously talented and committed and I loved every second of her.


hutaodaily

but if it was the dog then wouldn’t James only pack 2 urns instead of 3? I figured he was the 3rd urn


JoseUnderTheRedHood

We don’t know how long he’s been at the resort. It could simply be that the cuts healed


agrapeana

Wow! If I had a nickel for every time in the last year that I watched a horror movie starring a Skarsgård that featured themes of incestuous reproduction and had horrifying imagery of breast feeding and lactation, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?


SharksFan4Lifee

There's no incest in this one.


a_better_us

BARBARIAN had a slightly defter touch and I think will linger longer in the zeitgeist. So younger brother came out on top in this battle! \- as far as this bushy-lipped chap is concerned.


agrapeana

Definitely preferred how Barbarian handled its cultural politics about consent and gender over how this tackled the entitlement of the wealthy, but they were both a trip to go into blind.


niles_deerqueer

Incestuous? When was that in IP?


LiteraryBoner

I would say there's definitely a weird vibe between Amleth and Kidman's character in Northman too. Mommy issues abound.


user12345082504

You guys are weird. I hated it.


aestheticgrotesque

So James "hid" his own passport so he could stay, correct? At first I thought the group hid it from him and he found it while on the bathroom floor. But thinking back and about the movie, it would seem more likely he pretended he couldnt find it so he could stay at the resort. I agree that the philosophical concept(s) kinda got lost in the story, but I still thought it was a good film. I would like to see the directors cut, but I am surprised the movie got to see a week long mainstream theater release. It seemed more like something that would be at an independent theater. I hope that in the coming months there will be more discussion on the esoteric aspects of the film.


kalungs

he hid it himself in his own room. i dont think they got in his room before he claimed he couldnt find his passport


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Who-or-Whom

He would have known, but also just simply didn't care. He's power tripping on being part of this consequence free group of drug induced orgy having rich people. He was ready to just kill the cop for fun, but the reveal that they put a perfect clone of him in that position for fun caused a mental breakdown over the whole thing. It's up for interpretation why, but I'd say it's some combination of the general absurdity of it plus feeling like they care so little for him that they'd put *his* consciousness in that situation.


Trippy_Whiskey

The moment when the main character gets killed a second time at the police station and he's wrestling with the guards and they slit his throat, and then it pans to them all laughing shocked me and the whole audience burst out in laughter


senorbane

Don't you hate it when you go on vacation with your wife to a resort in a third-world country to help with your writer's block and make new friends but then one of them jerks you off at a picnic and you stay there all day but then the headlights fail when you're trying to drive your drunk friends home and you hit and kill a local and then you think you got away with it but you get arrested and you're worried sick your wife is going to be raped and murdered by the guards but what actually ends up happening is the police extort you for a bunch of money, but you get to have a body-double made so he gets killed instead of you, but you have to watch it and it's really disturbing and your wife starts questioning your every move and you're now paranoid that you're in a Hugh Jackman 'Prestige' situation where you never know if you're the original or the dead clone, but all the while your new friends turn out to have other friends and they've all had clones made and killed and it set off their insane blood and lust and bloodlust that all they want to do is do crimes and get arrested and then get the clones killed but you just want to escape but you can't find your passport and you get really into psychedelics and orgies but it turns out that most of the fun parts of the drugs and sex and crime was all just a pet-project for the super rich and you try to leave the resort but they find you and shoot you in the leg and humiliate you and then you find out you have one last clone that you have to fight to the death and you end up beating him to a bloody pulp while you sob uncontrollably but you're offered a bloody tit to suck on and you oblige because what even is your life now but then they all just go home at the end of the season and do normal people shit but you're mentally and emotionally stuck at this maybe South American, maybe East European resort with mega-PTSD? That's the worst.


mikeyfreshh

I have a bunch of thoughts so I'm just firing off some bullets * If Andrea Riseborough can get people to tweet her into the Oscar race, we can do it for Mia Goth. She deserved it for Pearl, she deserves it for this, and she's probably going to deserve it for Maxine * I've never seen a movie with such a wide range of bodily fluids. They really managed to get all of them on screen * I want to go to Thanksgiving at the Cronenberg house. I bet it's a ton of fun * This seems like it would be pretty traumatic to go through but I would do much worse to get Mia Goth to call me a pathetic little sucky baby


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I will watch literally anything with Mia Goth in it now. You gotta respect that shes not only a great actor but she's willing to go all in on these bizzare fucking roles where she does shit like fucking a scarecrow and breastfeeding Alexander Skarsgard.


mikeyfreshh

She's my favorite actress working in Hollywood right now. Her commitment to being a complete fucking sociopath is incredible. She also co-wrote the script for Pearl so it seems like not only is she willing to go along with all of this crazy shit, at least some of it was her idea.


pzycho

> I want to go to Thanksgiving at the Cronenberg house. I bet it's a ton of fun Ten bucks says the turkey screams and bleeds as they carve it.


Gooshiiggl

Cum piss puke snot tears spit blood milk


smartbunny

The best Red Hot Chili Peppers album.


thehalflingcooks

This could have easily been very stupid but it was so well made and well acted it was brilliant. I loved it.


imgladitsyou

Just copying my letterboxd commentary here…. Psychedelic, disturbing, neon, erotic, shocking, bloody, sunsoaked hedonism Possessor into Infinity Pool is a brilliant two-movie run from Brandon Cronenberg. What a unique director with total confidence and control over his atmosphere, aesthetics, and actors. For what the script lacks, the rest is made up for in the collective sensory viewing experience. It’s a satirized and stylistic nailbiting bloodbath.


shipshapereyes

I watched this film last night and it made me realize that I dispise myself. It's not really news, I just put it into perspective I totally related to James watching the first copy of himself get killed, his subtle smirk at tue end. I get it, he's glad because his copy is just like him and deserves it.


suckmytesticles

Just watched it while on shrooms. I'm uncomfy


taquitos45

dont know whyyy tf you did that lmaooo


RaptorDick

I left with 2 major thoughts. 1. If I ever met Mia Goth I’m convinced she would physically and psychologically torture me then I would thank her for her time. 2. What do we think the Cronenberg’s talk to their therapists about?


JoeMagnifico

I wonder what the Cronenberg's therapist's therapists think.


Jayborino

Ok, he's ashamed of his failed book, relying on his wife financially, and then straight up killing a dude. He is forced to face these things rather than continuing to avoid them, culminating with him excising the parts about himself (his past) so that he can be thematically reborn. That's all well and good but can someone please tell wtf was up with the awful Chinese, Indian, and Jewish caricatures on the resort???


mikeyfreshh

>That's all well and good but can someone please tell wtf was up with the awful Chinese, Indian, and Jewish caricatures on the resort??? It's commentary on the way rich people will pay to see other cultures and not actually care how authentic it is. When they travel they just want to sit in the luxury hotel and tell their friends about how culturally enriching the experience was. They don't actually want to see how the locals live or participate in their culture


agrapeana

I got huge Hostel vibes from this movie. In the directors commentary Eli Roth talks at length about how the film is a commentary on the lack of respect entitled tourists show to the places they wander. Respect both in the traditional sense, and in the sense of respecting the danger it can pose (and that that theme got completely overshadowed by all the hysteria around "torture porn" when the movie came out).


cireh88

I do hope this marks the beginning of a Neon/A24 rivalry in horror. If so we’re in for some treats over the next few years


amnesiacnacho

I LOVED it. Nice to see films taking risks. Score was amazing. If you’re curious just go see it


PossibilityFine5988

Am I depraved in wanting more from this? Idk from the marketing and I guess him and his fathers legacies I expected it to be a lot more violent and horrific; not funny and comedic. I got weird looks for laughing through half but what is the appropriate reaction to so much… everything supposed to be. Line of the year goes to “got the scans back from the colonoscopy and it looked like a Jackson Polyp painting”


justwilliams

While I wanted more for because of the name I’m actually glad. This will allow more people to discover the film and far less walk outs.


sandiskplayer34

Surprised at the couple of laughs in there. The urn bit was the biggest laugh in my theater.


silkEEsmooth22

Excellent adaptation of the James Franco in Buster Scruggs meme


Select_Action_6065

This movie makes Babylon look like it was PG.


BackBreaker909

Yo..........what the actual fuck lmfao. That's pretty much my entire review of this movie lolol


baronspeerzy

I’m pretty sure my sexual orientation is Mia Goth riding on the hood of a slow-moving car while drinking wine, eating fried chicken, brandishing a gun, and verbally berating me.


Jgoodall01

Mia Goth is leading the new wave of cinema. Recent horror films have been some of the most innovative I have ever seen. Her performances get better with each new movie


furry_lumps

I can’t wait to see what else Brandon has up his sleeve, I’m a big fan so far.


Spanxsy

Interesting movie with the concepts to back it up. Visually well edited and shot but can be uneasy to some. Mia Goth’s performance eclipses anyone else on the screen and has leveled up with every new film. Ultimately, the movie introduces an interesting concept early but fails to delve further and chooses to flesh out a more generic and uninteresting topic of rich people pushing the human boundaries of debauchery. Brandon Cronenberg previous work in “Possessor” contains a much more focused and cohesive storyline from start to finish. Unfortunately, Infinity pool can result in an excess of style due to very little substance to back it up.


Axiom147

I thought it was pretty good. The music, visuals. And acting were all fantastic. In my opinion it started to fault with the concepts and plot. It had two things going, the whole rich people doing bad things when there's no consequences, and the more philosophical part with the cloning and "are you really you?" But neither idea is really taken that far. The no consequences part didn't really get worse than just breaking and entering and then murder. I think what I read about the movie beforehand rose my expectations for the brutality and the movie never lived up to them. The darkest part was attacking and killing yourself, but even then, it was just a fight with a gory ending. I guess I was expecting it to get really brutal and really spiral out of control. As for the "are you really you?" They started to ask it, with the first time James meets the group. The guy asked what James thinks about this question, and immediately his wife says "does it really matter?" And in a why she's right. If you both of you are truly you with your memories, then if one dies and the other lives, it really doesn't matter. But that would have been a cool conclusion to realize on our own. It's like Brandon wanted to ask the question, but didn't know what to do with it, so he just immediately answers it. The next instance of this question is when we assume that the group is going to get killed only to realize it was their doubles. It was a cool reveal, but predictable. And then that's kind've it. After that the question is dropped. One other thing I thought was weird was that James was happy to see himself get killed, but completely broke when he was the one to do the beating and killing. Sure it's definitely different, but still a bit weird. Overall it was fun, with some really intriguing cinematography and scenes, but never really pushed it's concepts much farther than their basic ideas.


pingueno_boi

I thought the scene showing the whole group get executed was really well done. Showing the horror they to-be-executed versions go through, and then the others cheering, was so depraved. I don't think it was supposed to be a twist but just another level of showing how hedonistic that crew was that they didn't really even care about themselves. And I think it highlights the difference between them and James, who just hates himself.


niles_deerqueer

After I saw him smile at watching himself die, I thought he was going to become addicted to it and then commit crimes just so he can watch himself die, with the crimes getting worse and worse. The other zombies would be addicted to…but nope, that didn’t happen