Been two years. Do you like it now?
>>214769015I’d have to rewatch it but it didn’t do much for me at the time. Slick and polished it being Fincher, but bland, generic, and uninvolving. Most memorable things were him eating a McMuffin strangely and the excessive Smiths music
>>214769015I loved it day 1
I'd like a hitman please, the sloppier the better.
>>214769015Yeah I like it but I think it's about hubris he fucks up all the time and is punished because he decided to partake in such an evil activity it not only hurts him but the one he loved. I think that's the point of the movie his girl is facially scarred to shit and was beaten half to death because he wanted to be a cool assassin. I think it's a cautionary tale. Not to mention he invokes crowley esc philosophy in the beginning.
>>214769015It was okay, but quite forgettable desu.
>>214769015i liked it then. i should rewatch it.
>>214769015I liked it when it was new
>>214769015>Been two years.it hasn't.
boring
>>214769015It's one of the best films of the 2020s so far>It's amazing how physically exhausting it can be to do nothing.
>>214769015>been 2 yearsFassbender is still a rapist, Fincher is still a hack
>>214769015It ain't no shot caller
>>214769487It's also not howls magic moving castle
>>214769015All of his internal dialog >I have survived in this demanding field because I am conscientious in my choices and dedicated to this craft all of his actions >FUCK UP AFTER FUCK UP AFTER FUCK UP AFTER FUCK UP AFTER FUCK UP
>>214769015>le ebin killer with a garage full of guns and fake plates in every city of the world OMG HE'S DOING YOGA BEFORE SHOOTING
>>214769110You have already had 2 films.
The beginning was good but I fell asleep and don’t remember anything after that.
>>214769209Are those mats enough to protect the spine?
>>214769015I like it, saw it last year. It's not masterpiece, but it's enjoyable
Is the pipeline from lawyer to operator really possible? Sicario also has the same origin.
>>214769178this
>>214770926Yeah
I don't like the weird overlays when he's texting or ordering shit on fucking Amazon. It could've been good but Netflix is gonna Netflix
>>214769015I love it. Saw it in theaters, and rewatched it this year.
>>214769015no it was soooooo bad>>214771868that was a fincher choice and thats obvious dumbfuck
The storage units are proof that homelessness could end in a year.
>>214769015fucking hell it's been 2 years already? feels like 8 months
>>214769015Very middle of the road Fincher for me. Which isnt that bad because he doesnt have that many bad films. Also>profissional killer tilda swinton and random floridian bodybuilder couldnt kill a single defendeless girl alonelel wtf
(214772520)Journal Entry #01September twenty forth twenty sixth year of the twenty first century"The ceiling of their minds is the mobile doll system. And it all comes round once again. May I interest you in a share of my fresh international bread bakery?"
>>214769015My thoughts on The Killer:David Fincher’s The Killer at first appears to be an exercise in cool detachment: a professional assassin narrates his code of survival, cloaking his existence in mantras of efficienc, "stick to the plan, anticipate, don’t improvise." Yet, as in so much of Fincher’s work, the very control the protagonist clings to is revealed as both impossible and self-destructive. What emerges beneath the surface is a film not about mastery, but about the fragility of the structures, personal, ideological, societal, that sustain it.The Killer is defined by alienation. He lives in transient spaces, consumes mass-produced food, and repeats empty phrases as though they could guarantee security. This is not merely the portrait of a sociopathic hitman, but of late capitalist subjectivity itself: the reduction of human experience to efficiency, consumption, and work discipline. His soundtrack of The Smiths, heard obsessively through earbuds, further underscores this condition. Melancholy and alienation are turned into lifestyle accessories, music commodified into background noise for murder. Fincher makes this contradiction explicit: the very act of listening to songs of despair and longing while enforcing a life of repression mirrors the way consumer culture transforms critique into product.
>>214772520They were interrogating her for his location.
>>214772704The rupture comes when the “system” fails. A job goes wrong, consequences become personal, and the Killer is forced to improvise, the very act he had forbidden. Yet his revenge quest is not revolutionary but restorative. He eliminates those who betrayed him, punishes those who disrupted the system, and in doing so, reasserts his fragile equilibrium. The narrative resembles, in this sense, the structure of the classical Hollywood thriller, in which chaos is introduced only to be contained. But the containment here is uneasy, almost mocking: the Killer’s return to his partner, his reassertion of discipline, feels less like resolution than repression renewed.What makes The Killer especially resonant is the way it implicates the audience. We admire his precision, his method, even his irony, much as Jeffries in Rear Window drew us into his voyeurism. We are made complicit in the very detachment the film critiques. And yet Fincher never allows comfort: the violence is abrupt, messy, unglamorous, the Killer’s voice-over increasingly revealed as hollow self-deception. In the climactic encounter with Tilda Swinton’s character, an eloquent embodiment of professional cynicism. We glimpse the film’s deepest truth: that the assassin’s morality is indistinguishable from the pragmatic amorality of the corporate world. Both obey the same law: survival, efficiency, profit.
>>214772732Like much of Fincher’s work, The Killer is finally about the bankruptcy of control in a society that fetishizes it. Its protagonist clings to routine as to a lifeline, but the more rigorously he imposes order, the more fragile it becomes. The ending offers only a precarious equilibrium: the Killer survives, but nothing is resolved. Beneath the neat restoration lies the chaos of human vulnerability and the violence of a system that demands repression, conformity, and endless repetition. To watch The Killer is to recognize not a world alien to us, but one uncomfortably close: a mirror held up to the way we, too, internalize the codes of a culture that trains us to kill empathy, follow procedure, and call it survival.
>>214771868what else can you do if you set a movie in the modern day. this is one of the biggest problems facing filmmakers, nobody has figured out how to make that shit cinematic.
>>214772704>>214772732>>214772751Nice — just needs more 'emdash.'
>>214772917Ari Aster already solved it in the most obvious way. Point the camera at the fucking screen.
>>214773065he did it even worse. those zoom conferences on the big screen gave me a headache.
>>214772520>gone girl, reddit club and button over the social network and zodiacbased retard
>>214773015I wrote that piece for Cineaste Magazine.
>>214769015first act was kino, it goes to shit after
>>214773470>the reddit network Most overrated movie maybe ever
>>214769015Him setting up the kill was great. Downhill from there. Ends up forgettable.
>>214769015Times when you acted like the K_.ller?
I can't believe it's almost going to be 2 years since this movie releasedIt feels like it was released last year
>>214773859I went to McDonalds. A good enough place to grab 10g of protein for a euro.
>>214769015>nowBitch I've always recognised this film as kino
>>214769061fpbpIt was just okay. Judging by the cast and Fincher I thought it was going to be amazing but its was just bland. I feel no need to rewatch it and barely remember anything about it.
>>214769061The Smiths music always makes me laugh
>>214773580Subscribing now.
>>214774004Think of how much better the film would’ve been if it was just two hours of the killer binging McMuffins to Meat is Murder
Didn't need to kill the cab guy, fuck him
>>214775211Wow. This killer fella sounds like a real jerk
>>214769015Why is this guy still unknown in the west despite inspiring spike from cowboy bebop, fist of the north star, one piece and countless other series
>>214769015complete trash flick
>>214769015I always liked it.
What the fuck do you mean it's been 2 years, it came out this year didn't it?
>>214776050bro...
>>214769015It's a solid 9/10 movie. The problem is most people these days have such low attention spans that if something crazy isn't happening on screen every second or hundreds of ghey pop culture references made then they can't watch a movie. It's the impacts of the capeshit era
