So Kinds Of Kindness was a pretty crazy film. The three stories connect thematically and there is a hidden meaning for the character of RMF. I breakdown the whole of Yorgos Lanthimos' latest film.
Did anyone else pick up on the eating disorder themes throughout all three stories? To me they were very obvious. Weight gain and weight loss was mentioned several times throughout
Gaining control over somebody by telling the person what to eat and not to eat is a theme I think. Same as telling somebody who they can or can not sleep with and whether or not to have babies. Also bi-sexual relations and sex and intimacy as a way to bind or reward someone is a theme. It is through giving rules for eating, sexual relations, reproduction that religions form comunities and strengen the love, dedication and surrender of the people. This dedication leads people to do horrible things, when they think it is asked from them.
@@thedavidjscott_it's a movie about crazy people, everyone was crazy in this movie. Crazy people do all kinds of weird things with food, refuse to eat or eat too much or eat weird things or in weird ways
I certainly noticed how many scenes there were with food and drinking - preparing food, talk of being hungry and refusing to eat. I didn't pick up on the weighing of people although did wonder why this was incorporated here and there, and at the same time, did notice conversations regarding weight loss and weight gain.
I found the scene where Plemons explains to Hong Chau that her husband and his wife are not who they appear to be hilarious. Her expression during this scene said it all.
Certainly, overlapping themes reappear in all three stories. Relationships of subservience between employee and employer, husband and wife, and cult leader and follower show how power controls individuals in numerous ways, and how we WANT/NEED that control to define us. All the characters loss their sense of self and needed "the other" to realize them. A wonderfully sad fable of human nature in an authoritarian world. Bravo!!!
@@Heavilybased its an absurd film, its not supposed to make any sense. people apparentely watch such movies just for the sake of their absurdity. after it ended i felt that thats the most absurd movie ive ever seen, wanted to laugh and also many times during it
@@dreamthedream8929 idk if it’s worth arguing with you because you keep saying the same things over & over like a broken record. But the video we’re commenting on explained the connecting themes pretty well although I don’t think you’d care to watch it or examine the themes
Even though I was like 'WTF is going on?' for like every scene of the film, it was somehow engaging to me and watched the whole film and I am not even that deep of a cinephile. 😭
Saw it on The Fourth Of July and I thought the insane sound design had random muted thud sounds throughout the movie just like the cat walking across a piano and the ominous moans and chants...Turns out it was fireworks continously going off outside. When I went to the parking lot there were the most fireworks that I have ever seen going off at once. Every single direction I looked there were HUGE explosions. It was very surreal and hilarious! The whole experience was fantastic.
I find the RMF character to be the connecting tissue of the entire narrative... as in, the entire film is RMF's fever dream, or a "bardo", however, the film has no physical evidence to suggest this, as there is no independent scene with RMF, RMF is always interacting with the main players of each narrative and he doesn't speak at all, if I remember correctly. It's as if your seeing all this take place inside RMF, and he does find satisfaction by the end when in the post credit scene he eats a sandwich. The film does open with RMF driving listening to Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by Eurythmics and ends with RMF awake, eating a sandwich...
@@halahalahala2015 You can say he is awaken from eternal sleep...the film does play with visual motifs of crashed cars, hospitals, hotels, self inflicting wounds (hesitation wounds?)...I feel this film has so many connections to the literary world of JG Ballard and the last three films of Luis Bunuel ("The discreet charm of the bourgeois", "The phantom of liberty" and "that obscure object of desire") the characters are not inhibited by their desires and act upon their ID, there is a certain atavism that makes this film very humanistic ...from personal experience, there are people who behave likes these characters...so its, kinda of funny, but also tragic, as the unawareness of their actions leads to their tragic existence, but in dark absurdist manner.
Yes! I can go deeper into this and ofc there are other things going on. but generally I saw the First story as the story where we see RMF’s Death, the second is this transitory fever dream of ,what I imagine, is the passing from this life to the afterlife/whTever. The 3rd story is us seeing that process being interrupted anyway and he’s resurrected/awakened
In the 2nd Act, Jesse was a kind husband to Emma before she went missing. When Emma came back, she remembers Jesse’s kindess to her and she’s willing to go above and beyond to return the kindness. She’s even willing to defend him to her father, Willem who called him a monster. And not to mention carve herself up for Jesse. Just like in her dream where dogs and people switched places, Emma’s kindness to her absuive husband showed parallel to people being kind to dogs. Dogs are only kind to people feeding them, and people are kind to dogs for love, company, and loyalty. Emma treated her husband like a confused and lost dog, hoped that if she continued to feed him, he’ll love her again. The whole movie is about the destructive kind of kindness in the Workplaces, Relationships, and Religions.
I absolutely loved the movie and me and my friend went and were literally the only 2 people in the entire theatre. it was an amazing experience to witness this triptych of insanity. It's very much about devotion for the fear of change, and im sure that can be rephrased and mean the same thing in a lot of ways. This was the best movie ive seen in a long time, and I really had no idea what was coming next because it was so absurd from beginning to end
It truly was insane, movie filled with all sorts of crazy people. The kinds that the police has to deal with all the time. Probably the most nonsensical movie that I have ever seen
There were two couples in the theater with me when the movie started, one of the couples split about 2/3 of the way through. I loved it. I enjoyed it more than Pretty Things. My favorite Yorgos Lanthimos movie is still, and may always be, Dogtooth. Check it out if you haven't yet.
What about the beginning of the film where RMF gets his picture taken as proof that his shirt is not stained but it is stained at the end of the film when he eats a sandwich. Thoughts?
It was “bad embroidery” that caused her to misread the initials on RMF’s shirt, causing Raymond to question her eyesight. She had to send Raymond the pic to show him the low quality embroidery, establishing his extreme level of scrutiny and conditional approval, at least that’s how I read it.
He had been brought back to life. Its a uniform, and a new day, not a timeloop. What I want to know is why were the stories in the order they were? RMF is killed in episode one, is a pilot in episode two, and dead again in episode 3. Wouldnt the more logical order be 2-1-3? ie, living, killed, brought back to life? also, jesus?
Some people obviously hate it, but i found this movie to be the most ‘romantic’ Yorgos Lanthimos movie. The acts of ‘kindness’ that someone can go through to prove your love. Also love how it is deeply cynical, and how the endings of each stories can snap you back into reality after watching it, reminds me on how infatuating toxic relationships can be, and how easy it is to be lost in such toxic relationships. Most of his films, the watchers feels like alien at the beginning of the movie, and slowly understanding the world he crafted and becoming citizen of yorgos’ world at the end of the movie. But in this movie, I feel like watching aliens throughout the movie, but in the process learn what it means to be human, and I find something beautiful in that, and I cant get this movie out of my mind.
It's been a very long time since a movie has had such an impact on me. I saw it days ago and continually think of how scenes pieced together. The movie is really long, but I'd totally watch it again. It kept me on my toes and even made me laugh at how absurd it was. Would recommend!
Some people say the stories portray the relationship we have with faith. The overbearing boss that controls every aspect of Robert's life could be viewed as a god. The husband doesn't recognize his wife until she sacrifices her life for him (Jesus was more popular after death too). And then there's the third one which may be more about institutions.
I completely agree. It’s very biblical in the sense that in each story, there is a God who demands a sacrifice from the main character to prove their love. Raymond’s request was mild compared to God instructing Abraham to cut the throat of his son to prove his faith. This is an element in many religions: give up the self to get to the promised land. Keep in mind that I’m a Catholic who believes in all this stuff, but it’s undeniably a factor in religion. The director seems to be saying that it is a fundamental part of human nature to want to give over freedom to find peace, or maybe that there is a kind of freedom in subservience, a freedom from having to make decisions all the time and freedom from responsibility.
I absolutely loved the three stories. Although feel I need to re watch it a couple more times for all the bits I missed! Brilliant acting, superb colours and locations not to mention the stunning properties used throughout. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the next surprise! Emma Stone's performance was utterly mesmerizing. She contorts her face into many expressions and can look beautiful and scary at the same time.
Just watched. U think the whole idea of this movie is to feel confused after with no understanding where reality is, like after gaslighting or abusive relationships...
Brilliant film and brilliant interpretation. Thank you for stopping my head from spinning and allowing me to more fully enjoy what I feel is quite genius filmmaking - which we could use more of!
I love Yorgos and his way of storytelling and characters. It just shows how you can add bizarre concepts with original storyteling , like Ari Aster for example ❤
First film= killing sacred deer vibes Second film = lobster vibes (how far will you go to prove to someone who abuses you and beats u up that u still love them) Third film =alps 2011 vibes (cult or group going around trying to find the next messiah who will raise people from the dead). This film is cornucopia of lanthimos films same as French dispatch for Wes Anderson. If French dispatch was Wes Anderson most Wes anderson-y… this is the same for YORGOS and if ur on Vibe with it it’s amazing if ur not….. sorry.
the question i have is why does every yt commentator is saying the relationships are toxic. the trick is they WANT to be controlled. like, i kept thinking when robert stole the rmf dude from the hospital that he's investigating what's going on with the whole scheme, but it turned out he just wanted to get back under the wing of his boss. i feel the director's main theme, just like in poor things, is religion. it's the controlling relationship with god all the characters crave, and they all fear freedom the most.
Hi! First of all, your analysis of the film dives deep into what is offered on the screen. A lot of your thoughts match with mine, beside the meaning of R.M.F. - For me he is the one kind of a man who is willing to give up EVERYTHING for a change in his life. He is willing and brave enough to die, because of the believe and knowledge of universal life circuit, that is carried by life itself, as long his decisions are made by himself ( individuality ). In the 2nd story R.M.F. flies - he is the allies of liz - who had the change of personal change within an life-threatening event. R.M.F. Is on her side, the side of the ones who are connected more to their self, then their ego, which is force for all pattern based relationships. In the last episode R.M.F. becomes the reward for his courage in story one. Life is a miracle and full of wonders. He was willing to die, because of the faith in the force of life, and now he becomes a second chance, living a normal life eating burgers, behaving relaxed with what life offers him.
He's kind of a weird guy, Yorgos. Some influence from David Lynch in here. Great performances. I love Emily's funny little face...The Dio song, Rainbow in the Dark, was a definite highlight...Listen to the first two Dio albums. They're fantastic. 🤘
Thank you very much for your very informative breakdown of KOK. I’ve just watched it in the cinema and thought it was very good. I find it difficult to concentrate on films sometimes, but this one kept me gripped until the end and really forced me to think. Although the final segment did leave me scratching my head, your video has pieced together the final pieces of the puzzle. Bravo sir! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Love the analysis and interpretation! I also thought RMF connected to the title in a bit of an absurd way, as he's either receiving or offering kindness in each story (dying per his request, delivering the rescued Liz and being brought back to life).
This film is definitely not a bad film. And I don’t mind understanding it. There more things I refuse understanding like the wars in the 21st century and the developed democratic enlightened world not having balls to stop that. However I fully buy in the explanation around needing abuse and harassment to be happy, well for some people. The film is the reflection of the world which has clearly gone mad recently. Well, I need to pause watching Yorgos’ films. There is enough madness around here on planet. And certainly, thank you very much for your review. It did help me and my husband mapping up things out to what we have seen…just got back home from the movies. BTW, in our small provincial town in the middle of the Netherlands no-one has left during the screening… it’s a university town, that’s why must be
they marketed this movie as a fun experience playing the song Sweet Dream are made of this (song usually used for Xmen movies) with modern day, flashy cars etc. so when I started watching the movie I had this notion subconsciously, thinking maybe Yorgos exploring something else ?
What was RMF picking up from the dafoes house in the beginning? Why did he have to die? What threat did he pose? Is he lifes simple joys? This movie was crazy, really could be about anything.
This film is like doing a rosarch test in a fever dream. I think thays why so many people see so many themes, because they are so broad and not defined. Im not even halfway through and i pulled this video up to watch after...actually i did it 8 minutes in 😂
Film 3 brings to light so much of what is emerging in the Pentecostal Church with Robert Morris and Zachary King and Mike Bickle’s victims being blamed for the abuse perpetrated upon them
I loved this movie. I feel like audiences have been coddled for far too long with simple narratives, cliches, happy endings, and tropes. If people are upset by the movie, THATS A GOOD THING! It shows that the film is doing something different and doing so for the sake of art, not just entertainment.
I saw this a few days ago and felt exactly the same. Also, all throughout the film I was analysing everything, because I felt like nothing was done by accident, everything was done on purpose. Every camera angle, color theme, set design, everything. This is a movie for people who LOVE FILM AND FILMMAKING. Exceptional
@@Overproof9106this was a movie about crazy people, everyone in the movie was crazy. The kinds of people that the police has to deal with all the time
I agree! His movies are not created for lazy, narrow-minded thinkers. He enjoys entertaining those who enjoy working their minds at a higher level to understand the esoteric.
Thanks so much. I have never seen any of this guys movies and had no idea what was happening yet I couldn't stop watching it. Its a long movie so that says a lot. I agree with your Analysis, and now I can go to bed knowing what I just watched.
Great breakdown I loved this movie I found it very unique and interesting Yorgos Lanthimos is a director to keep an eye on I liked poor things more though
as much as i love some of his works this was torture. if a movie is so much into symbolic language you have to uncover and analize it becomes exhausting quite fast.
Why would you exhaust your mind? Simply watch the movie and then analyze, with this kind of films most things are up for interpretation. I think people are used to all the answers and themes needs to be explained within the art, specially with movies. Sometimes having to put more thought into something it's okay and more meaningful. Film can be symbolic, absurd and cryptic too, there's Lynch, there's Kauffman, even Kubrick. Train your mind.
@@yvesmaker people work in different ways. i prefer logic-it can be absurd like the favourite or lobbster but still needs a story you can follow. thats why i also don't like lynch and others who work in the same way. I can't enjoy a movie when i don't know what the heck is going on. It's like a puzzle you can't solve cauze of many missing pieces. frustrating. life is frustrating enough. don't need to frustrate me more with depressive absurdity.
Saw this yesterday and found it interesting and quite enjoyable. I can’t say the same about Poor Things though. The amount of sex scenes was overpowering with often zero enhancement to the story.
A lot of sex in this movie as well, there was a sex priest and then friends watching sex movie they made. Basically it was important to have sex in all three of those movies
How can RMF be in control of his own FATE when he is getting run over TWICE? But, your explanations of the three segments make sense. I felt a little dizzy trying to figure things our myself. So Thank You. For ME though, a complex plot with a tight and tidy tie-it-all-together conclusion is best ( see The Lawnmower Man). These ACTORS are AMAZING. And I just love Emma Stone dancing. 💃
I do not know if these are random connections or if they can actually relate: 1. The first story of death and a third act of resurrection that even imply a messiah (Is he trying to mock the story of Christ as an objective because of absurdity? 3 acts, 3 days until the resurrection, the first act of death? an omniscient figure among the 3 identifying with an acronym RMF that we don't know what means but maybe imitating that Christ was also related to an acronym INRI?. Also, the ubiquitous theme of misinterpreted/misguided kindness, each related to some kind of selflessness motivated by love. That would also be a critique. RMF allows to be killed almost as in Jesus with Pontious ¡and for money¡. These are random thoughts since I can't remember the whole Christian story and do not know what is symbolism or nonsensical absurdity in the movie e.g. What Raymond considered art in the first act beyond the fact that they were tokens of approval (was it a reference to something? why choose Ana Karenina? Is it some sort of reference? ......... well any thoughts?
Daniel never actually consumes human flesh. He says he fed Liz' finger to the cat, adding to Liz the reasoning that her finger was "disgusting". Her liver just sits on the floor, not being eaten at all. I have heard the theory that this involves fairy lore, as you aren't supposed to eat any of their food, and the cat stops being hostile to Liz after eating the finger.
When Daniel is on patrol with his partner and shoots the drunk guy, he starts licking the wound and trying to drink the blood out, while you’re right about the finger I think this was the more revealing scene.
@TheDrakGP I don't know how you didn't manage to get what I mean, it's really not that complicated of a comment. 12 others seemed to get it, so I'm sure you can.
I didn't much like "Poor Things" but I do like "The Lobster" and" Killing of a Sacred Dear." "Kinds of Kindness" gets back what I liked about his previous films (Before "Poor Things") and while at first it confused me, as I have more time to think about it I steadily like it more and more and I'm glad I saw it.
although the cast was full of amazing actors, a lot of the performances felt kinda stiff. It might just be how YL likes to add a surreal feeling to dialogue (like Wes Anderson) Was still very entertained tho lol
My take on this is that the first story was intriguing and mysterious as it is still the moment we try to figure out what is going on and what movie we are watching, when the second story begins it’s like a fresh air with a more grounded story, character look more « human » it’s more simple but as the story unfold we get to see crazy stuff and it was actually fun with the ending leaving you in a humor type a feeling like « it’s a prank! » , if I would sit up and leave the theater at that time I would tell my buds man that was a fuckep up movie pretty interesting experience, but then the third story begins and to me it has really bad rythm, the excitement you get from the second story ending, dogs world credit etc to a slow pace story where you try to figure out again what’s going on and ultimately I found it so EMPTY I started to get bored and was questioning my presence in the theater, no rythme, constent change in what the movie tell us, over all WE GOT TROLLED OVER AND OVER during the last story, and to me the real thing that made me sick was the constent sex and blood imagery pushed on us when the story is not interesting, to end on a complete empty ending. VERY DISAPOINTING. Seriously with the two first story I had expcetations considering it’s a CULT story, so bad honestly. We got trolled boys.
Despite some reviews I liked this movie, the three stories had a common thread of seeking validation, and being subservient. The director was right to use the composer from Poor Things.
That wasn’t the messiah, it was Ruth’s twin sister. She killed herself so the prophecy could be fulfilled. The sister saved Emily from being stuck in the drain by cutting her hair in the dream. She killed herself, which not only would’ve fulfilled the prophecy, but probably would’ve “saved” Emily by being re-accepted into the cult, too. (Similar to the first story where he killed the guy in the car accident to be welcomed back)
I liked the explanation by Reddit guy for RMF initials, in conjunction, or combined, with the directors vague explanation. LOL at the bottom of Reddit post,,, becuz I thought from the opening scenes it stood for Real Muther Fucker. ALSO RMF only listening to Eurythmic’s ‘Sweet Dreams’,, coincidence? I think not - the lyrics sum up the movie perfectly.
Can anyone comment on why all the side characters and supporting characters in the middle Cop film happened to be black people? It was very prominent to me but i cant understand if there is something deeper about it?
I think you nailed this perfectly. I also felt the the main theme are abusive relationships. The only problem with this movie is a delivery. It is stern, not fun to watch, and some scenes are completely unnecessary... and by that I don't mean the animal cruelty but rather for example - measuring of a gap between tits? I know that Yorgos is all about being absurd and surreal but some things just felt exploitative.
I think this is a first draft quality discussion on the film and I would suggest anyone interested in unraveling this film to look at themes of control, the human paradoxical relationship with it (and those who exercise and seek it) and philosophy.
Interesting ideas about a subpar movie. Only wrong with your description is the part about cannibalism but he never ate his wife's finger, he says the cat ate it, or her liver.
Kinds of Kindness was much better and deeper than Poor things. I am shocked that although you understand it so well to make a video about it you still didn't enjoy it as much
So Kinds Of Kindness was a pretty crazy film. The three stories connect thematically and there is a hidden meaning for the character of RMF. I breakdown the whole of Yorgos Lanthimos' latest film.
Did anyone else pick up on the eating disorder themes throughout all three stories? To me they were very obvious. Weight gain and weight loss was mentioned several times throughout
Yes, a lot of talk of being hungry and no one ever eating
Yes. It was like dinner with my mom and grandma 😂
Gaining control over somebody by telling the person what to eat and not to eat is a theme I think. Same as telling somebody who they can or can not sleep with and whether or not to have babies. Also bi-sexual relations and sex and intimacy as a way to bind or reward someone is a theme.
It is through giving rules for eating, sexual relations, reproduction that religions form comunities and strengen the love, dedication and surrender of the people. This dedication leads people to do horrible things, when they think it is asked from them.
@@thedavidjscott_it's a movie about crazy people, everyone was crazy in this movie. Crazy people do all kinds of weird things with food, refuse to eat or eat too much or eat weird things or in weird ways
I certainly noticed how many scenes there were with food and drinking - preparing food, talk of being hungry and refusing to eat. I didn't pick up on the weighing of people although did wonder why this was incorporated here and there, and at the same time, did notice conversations regarding weight loss and weight gain.
I found Jesse Plemons hilarious in a few scenes. The look he gives his wife after she plays the wrong song is gold.😂
truly, i was dumbfounded the entire movie but the nerve he had as the husband was hilariously insane.
I found the scene where Plemons explains to Hong Chau that her husband and his wife are not who they appear to be hilarious. Her expression during this scene said it all.
I laughed at that scene lol. The face he made got me good 😂
Certainly, overlapping themes reappear in all three stories. Relationships of subservience between employee and employer, husband and wife, and cult leader and follower show how power controls individuals in numerous ways, and how we WANT/NEED that control to define us. All the characters loss their sense of self and needed "the other" to realize them. A wonderfully sad fable of human nature in an authoritarian world. Bravo!!!
Me and my two buddies randomly picked this movie without research and we were lost to say the least
It's a movie about crazy people, everyone in the movie was crazy
It’s absurdists idiotic crap
@@dreamthedream8929that’s reducing it a bit too much. There’s much more this film is saying than “crazy people do crazy things”
@@Heavilybased its an absurd film, its not supposed to make any sense. people apparentely watch such movies just for the sake of their absurdity. after it ended i felt that thats the most absurd movie ive ever seen, wanted to laugh and also many times during it
@@dreamthedream8929 idk if it’s worth arguing with you because you keep saying the same things over & over like a broken record. But the video we’re commenting on explained the connecting themes pretty well although I don’t think you’d care to watch it or examine the themes
How bout that score! The single piano notes and the huge choir... I loved it!
It really caught me off guard and I loved it for that!
Reminded me a LOT of the music in eyes wide shut
Check out my music then I can make that score easy
The choir were singing single words like NO, it was very fitting with the film
@@jonathanvais1326 yes and Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Even though I was like 'WTF is going on?' for like every scene of the film, it was somehow engaging to me and watched the whole film and I am not even that deep of a cinephile. 😭
Saw it on The Fourth Of July and I thought the insane sound design had random muted thud sounds throughout the movie just like the cat walking across a piano and the ominous moans and chants...Turns out it was fireworks continously going off outside. When I went to the parking lot there were the most fireworks that I have ever seen going off at once. Every single direction I looked there were HUGE explosions. It was very surreal and hilarious! The whole experience was fantastic.
So 3 black mirror episodes in 1 movie
Exactly what I thought
I find the RMF character to be the connecting tissue of the entire narrative... as in, the entire film is RMF's fever dream, or a "bardo", however, the film has no physical evidence to suggest this, as there is no independent scene with RMF, RMF is always interacting with the main players of each narrative and he doesn't speak at all, if I remember correctly. It's as if your seeing all this take place inside RMF, and he does find satisfaction by the end when in the post credit scene he eats a sandwich. The film does open with RMF driving listening to Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
by Eurythmics and ends with RMF awake, eating a sandwich...
He was killed in the first part and resurrected in the third🤷🏻♀️
R.M.F is the audience, in my opinion
@@halahalahala2015 You can say he is awaken from eternal sleep...the film does play with visual motifs of crashed cars, hospitals, hotels, self inflicting wounds (hesitation wounds?)...I feel this film has so many connections to the literary world of JG Ballard and the last three films of Luis Bunuel ("The discreet charm of the bourgeois", "The phantom of liberty" and "that obscure object of desire") the characters are not inhibited by their desires and act upon their ID, there is a certain atavism that makes this film very humanistic ...from personal experience, there are people who behave likes these characters...so its, kinda of funny, but also tragic, as the unawareness of their actions leads to their tragic existence, but in dark absurdist manner.
Yes! I can go deeper into this and ofc there are other things going on. but generally I saw the First story as the story where we see RMF’s Death, the second is this transitory fever dream of ,what I imagine, is the passing from this life to the afterlife/whTever. The 3rd story is us seeing that process being interrupted anyway and he’s resurrected/awakened
@@halahalahala2015 then...what do you make of his appearance in the second story?
In the 2nd Act, Jesse was a kind husband to Emma before she went missing. When Emma came back, she remembers Jesse’s kindess to her and she’s willing to go above and beyond to return the kindness. She’s even willing to defend him to her father, Willem who called him a monster. And not to mention carve herself up for Jesse.
Just like in her dream where dogs and people switched places, Emma’s kindness to her absuive husband showed parallel to people being kind to dogs. Dogs are only kind to people feeding them, and people are kind to dogs for love, company, and loyalty. Emma treated her husband like a confused and lost dog, hoped that if she continued to feed him, he’ll love her again.
The whole movie is about the destructive kind of kindness in the Workplaces, Relationships, and Religions.
Dogs don̈t only love who is feeding them
I absolutely loved the movie and me and my friend went and were literally the only 2 people in the entire theatre. it was an amazing experience to witness this triptych of insanity. It's very much about devotion for the fear of change, and im sure that can be rephrased and mean the same thing in a lot of ways. This was the best movie ive seen in a long time, and I really had no idea what was coming next because it was so absurd from beginning to end
It truly was insane, movie filled with all sorts of crazy people. The kinds that the police has to deal with all the time. Probably the most nonsensical movie that I have ever seen
Just saw this an hour or so ago, 70% of the nowhere near sold out theater left by mid 3 story. I loved every second of it.
Thats a shame. Yeah we had barely anyone in our screening.
went today, loved the 1st story, got me hooked but story 2 and 3 were ok . 2nd was just fucking crazy lol
There were two couples in the theater with me when the movie started, one of the couples split about 2/3 of the way through. I loved it. I enjoyed it more than Pretty Things. My favorite Yorgos Lanthimos movie is still, and may always be, Dogtooth. Check it out if you haven't yet.
Really? have you seen "The Lawnmower Man'. Way ahead of it's time. If you want R M F. Now, I'm watching Maximum Overdrive.
@@CortexVideos same..
What about the beginning of the film where RMF gets his picture taken as proof that his shirt is not stained but it is stained at the end of the film when he eats a sandwich. Thoughts?
Good point
I’m pretty sure at the beginning it wasn’t about stained but ironed
It was “bad embroidery” that caused her to misread the initials on RMF’s shirt, causing Raymond to question her eyesight. She had to send Raymond the pic to show him the low quality embroidery, establishing his extreme level of scrutiny and conditional approval, at least that’s how I read it.
RMF was photographed because Vivian initially greeted reading BMF
He had been brought back to life. Its a uniform, and a new day, not a timeloop. What I want to know is why were the stories in the order they were? RMF is killed in episode one, is a pilot in episode two, and dead again in episode 3. Wouldnt the more logical order be 2-1-3? ie, living, killed, brought back to life? also, jesus?
Some people obviously hate it, but i found this movie to be the most ‘romantic’ Yorgos Lanthimos movie. The acts of ‘kindness’ that someone can go through to prove your love. Also love how it is deeply cynical, and how the endings of each stories can snap you back into reality after watching it, reminds me on how infatuating toxic relationships can be, and how easy it is to be lost in such toxic relationships. Most of his films, the watchers feels like alien at the beginning of the movie, and slowly understanding the world he crafted and becoming citizen of yorgos’ world at the end of the movie. But in this movie, I feel like watching aliens throughout the movie, but in the process learn what it means to be human, and I find something beautiful in that, and I cant get this movie out of my mind.
Karsten is that you
@@kidcaldwell Lol I thought the same thing.
@@lockekappa500 bro posted the script to his review 😭
It's been a very long time since a movie has had such an impact on me. I saw it days ago and continually think of how scenes pieced together. The movie is really long, but I'd totally watch it again. It kept me on my toes and even made me laugh at how absurd it was. Would recommend!
you are stunning 😍
Some people say the stories portray the relationship we have with faith. The overbearing boss that controls every aspect of Robert's life could be viewed as a god. The husband doesn't recognize his wife until she sacrifices her life for him (Jesus was more popular after death too). And then there's the third one which may be more about institutions.
This is the best explanation I've seen, it also fits nicely with the kindness element.
I completely agree. It’s very biblical in the sense that in each story, there is a God who demands a sacrifice from the main character to prove their love. Raymond’s request was mild compared to God instructing Abraham to cut the throat of his son to prove his faith. This is an element in many religions: give up the self to get to the promised land. Keep in mind that I’m a Catholic who believes in all this stuff, but it’s undeniably a factor in religion. The director seems to be saying that it is a fundamental part of human nature to want to give over freedom to find peace, or maybe that there is a kind of freedom in subservience, a freedom from having to make decisions all the time and freedom from responsibility.
I absolutely loved the three stories. Although feel I need to re watch it a couple more times for all the bits I missed! Brilliant acting, superb colours and locations not to mention the stunning properties used throughout. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the next surprise! Emma Stone's performance was utterly mesmerizing. She contorts her face into many expressions and can look beautiful and scary at the same time.
Just watched. U think the whole idea of this movie is to feel confused after with no understanding where reality is, like after gaslighting or abusive relationships...
Brilliant film and brilliant interpretation. Thank you for stopping my head from spinning and allowing me to more fully enjoy what I feel is quite genius filmmaking - which we could use more of!
I love Yorgos and his way of storytelling and characters. It just shows how you can add bizarre concepts with original storyteling , like Ari Aster for example ❤
The most wtf moment: daniel shoots a suspect and licks the wound like a ravenous cannibal!!
First film= killing sacred deer vibes
Second film = lobster vibes (how far will you go to prove to someone who abuses you and beats u up that u still love them)
Third film =alps 2011 vibes (cult or group going around trying to find the next messiah who will raise people from the dead).
This film is cornucopia of lanthimos films same as French dispatch for Wes Anderson. If French dispatch was Wes Anderson most Wes anderson-y… this is the same for YORGOS and if ur on Vibe with it it’s amazing if ur not….. sorry.
the question i have is why does every yt commentator is saying the relationships are toxic. the trick is they WANT to be controlled. like, i kept thinking when robert stole the rmf dude from the hospital that he's investigating what's going on with the whole scheme, but it turned out he just wanted to get back under the wing of his boss.
i feel the director's main theme, just like in poor things, is religion. it's the controlling relationship with god all the characters crave, and they all fear freedom the most.
Hi! First of all, your analysis of the film dives deep into what is offered on the screen. A lot of your thoughts match with mine, beside the meaning of R.M.F. - For me he is the one kind of a man who is willing to give up EVERYTHING for a change in his life. He is willing and brave enough to die, because of the believe and knowledge of universal life circuit, that is carried by life itself, as long his decisions are made by himself ( individuality ). In the 2nd story R.M.F. flies - he is the allies of liz - who had the change of personal change within an life-threatening event. R.M.F. Is on her side, the side of the ones who are connected more to their self, then their ego, which is force for all pattern based relationships. In the last episode R.M.F. becomes the reward for his courage in story one. Life is a miracle and full of wonders. He was willing to die, because of the faith in the force of life, and now he becomes a second chance, living a normal life eating burgers, behaving relaxed with what life offers him.
He's kind of a weird guy, Yorgos. Some influence from David Lynch in here. Great performances. I love Emily's funny little face...The Dio song, Rainbow in the Dark, was a definite highlight...Listen to the first two Dio albums. They're fantastic. 🤘
I didnt understand anything about this movie but it was crazy
Thank you very much for your very informative breakdown of KOK. I’ve just watched it in the cinema and thought it was very good. I find it difficult to concentrate on films sometimes, but this one kept me gripped until the end and really forced me to think. Although the final segment did leave me scratching my head, your video has pieced together the final pieces of the puzzle. Bravo sir! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Love the analysis and interpretation! I also thought RMF connected to the title in a bit of an absurd way, as he's either receiving or offering kindness in each story (dying per his request, delivering the rescued Liz and being brought back to life).
This was an unexpected suprise form Cortex ! Great work as always
Thanks man, hope you enjoyed it!
How can someone not like it? It's amazing. I was totally invested.
This was one of the most creative films I’ve ever watched. Loved every second.
Such a good breakdown!! Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
This film is definitely not a bad film. And I don’t mind understanding it. There more things I refuse understanding like the wars in the 21st century and the developed democratic enlightened world not having balls to stop that. However I fully buy in the explanation around needing abuse and harassment to be happy, well for some people. The film is the reflection of the world which has clearly gone mad recently. Well, I need to pause watching Yorgos’ films. There is enough madness around here on planet. And certainly, thank you very much for your review. It did help me and my husband mapping up things out to what we have seen…just got back home from the movies. BTW, in our small provincial town in the middle of the Netherlands no-one has left during the screening… it’s a university town, that’s why must be
they marketed this movie as a fun experience playing the song Sweet Dream are made of this (song usually used for Xmen movies) with modern day, flashy cars etc. so when I started watching the movie I had this notion subconsciously, thinking maybe Yorgos exploring something else ?
What was RMF picking up from the dafoes house in the beginning? Why did he have to die? What threat did he pose? Is he lifes simple joys? This movie was crazy, really could be about anything.
Kinds of kindness was a really weird film BUT...I couldn't stop watching it. I won't be surprised if the film gets a few Oscar nods.
This film is like doing a rosarch test in a fever dream. I think thays why so many people see so many themes, because they are so broad and not defined. Im not even halfway through and i pulled this video up to watch after...actually i did it 8 minutes in 😂
Film 3 brings to light so much of what is emerging in the Pentecostal Church with Robert Morris and Zachary King and Mike Bickle’s victims being blamed for the abuse perpetrated upon them
Maybe the true R.M.F is the real motherf*cking friends we made along the way?
Excellent analysis
Thank you Taras
I loved this movie. I feel like audiences have been coddled for far too long with simple narratives, cliches, happy endings, and tropes. If people are upset by the movie, THATS A GOOD THING! It shows that the film is doing something different and doing so for the sake of art, not just entertainment.
I saw this a few days ago and felt exactly the same. Also, all throughout the film I was analysing everything, because I felt like nothing was done by accident, everything was done on purpose. Every camera angle, color theme, set design, everything.
This is a movie for people who LOVE FILM AND FILMMAKING.
Exceptional
@@Overproof9106this was a movie about crazy people, everyone in the movie was crazy. The kinds of people that the police has to deal with all the time
I agree! His movies are not created for lazy, narrow-minded thinkers. He enjoys entertaining those who enjoy working their minds at a higher level to understand the esoteric.
Three hours of pure boredom
Appreciate your input
Thanks so much. I have never seen any of this guys movies and had no idea what was happening yet I couldn't stop watching it. Its a long movie so that says a lot. I agree with your Analysis, and now I can go to bed knowing what I just watched.
I watched it alone so was so glad to google and see. Everyone's comments.
Wish I had seen this before the movie,thsnks
I liked it a lot more than Poor Things, which I loved, but struggles with a big slump. This is closer to his earlier work
Great breakdown I loved this movie I found it very unique and interesting Yorgos Lanthimos is a director to keep an eye on I liked poor things more though
Glad you enjoyed it! I agree.
as much as i love some of his works this was torture. if a movie is so much into symbolic language you have to uncover and analize it becomes exhausting quite fast.
agree
Yes it was so exhausting
Why would you exhaust your mind? Simply watch the movie and then analyze, with this kind of films most things are up for interpretation. I think people are used to all the answers and themes needs to be explained within the art, specially with movies. Sometimes having to put more thought into something it's okay and more meaningful. Film can be symbolic, absurd and cryptic too, there's Lynch, there's Kauffman, even Kubrick. Train your mind.
@@yvesmaker people work in different ways. i prefer logic-it can be absurd like the favourite or lobbster but still needs a story you can follow. thats why i also don't like lynch and others who work in the same way. I can't enjoy a movie when i don't know what the heck is going on. It's like a puzzle you can't solve cauze of many missing pieces. frustrating. life is frustrating enough. don't need to frustrate me more with depressive absurdity.
U guys are no fun lol
The tears in ruth’s eyes when she is killed tell me its “god” looking down on us and saddened that we just cant get it right.
thanks for review
Saw this yesterday and found it interesting and quite enjoyable. I can’t say the same about Poor Things though. The amount of sex scenes was overpowering with often zero enhancement to the story.
A lot of sex in this movie as well, there was a sex priest and then friends watching sex movie they made. Basically it was important to have sex in all three of those movies
Thanks for not explaining anything but just narrating the plot.. Poor video..
This is a very good film once you dive into the themes behind it
How can RMF be in control of his own FATE when he is getting run over TWICE? But, your explanations of the three segments make sense. I felt a little dizzy trying to figure things our myself. So Thank You. For ME though, a complex plot with a tight and tidy tie-it-all-together conclusion is best ( see The Lawnmower Man). These ACTORS are AMAZING. And I just love Emma Stone dancing. 💃
I do not know if these are random connections or if they can actually relate: 1. The first story of death and a third act of resurrection that even imply a messiah (Is he trying to mock the story of Christ as an objective because of absurdity? 3 acts, 3 days until the resurrection, the first act of death? an omniscient figure among the 3 identifying with an acronym RMF that we don't know what means but maybe imitating that Christ was also related to an acronym INRI?. Also, the ubiquitous theme of misinterpreted/misguided kindness, each related to some kind of selflessness motivated by love. That would also be a critique. RMF allows to be killed almost as in Jesus with Pontious ¡and for money¡. These are random thoughts since I can't remember the whole Christian story and do not know what is symbolism or nonsensical absurdity in the movie e.g. What Raymond considered art in the first act beyond the fact that they were tokens of approval (was it a reference to something? why choose Ana Karenina? Is it some sort of reference? ......... well any thoughts?
Thank you
everyone kept thinking about eggs why tho??
Daniel never actually consumes human flesh. He says he fed Liz' finger to the cat, adding to Liz the reasoning that her finger was "disgusting". Her liver just sits on the floor, not being eaten at all. I have heard the theory that this involves fairy lore, as you aren't supposed to eat any of their food, and the cat stops being hostile to Liz after eating the finger.
When Daniel is on patrol with his partner and shoots the drunk guy, he starts licking the wound and trying to drink the blood out, while you’re right about the finger I think this was the more revealing scene.
Yes there are few myths and folk stories in Greece you could find similar_not the same- themes
I won't except this. There has to be more to it
RMF = Yorgos's flim production company
I feel like a bad person for finding the ending to story 3 incredibly funny
My screening was pretty full, but a lot of "wtf"s by the end of the film. I really enjoyed it, it reminded me of Killing of a Scared Deer.
Koasd is one of my all time faves! But I hated this 😂
Plemons' and Stone's characters in Act 1 both had the initials R.F.
It’s all about obsession. Obsession is bad. Who knew.
Great analysis. How long did this take you?
This whole film was such a vibe.
Much like TENET, I feel that you don't need to fully understand it to fully enjoy it.
Much like TENET ? What are you on bro
@TheDrakGP I don't know how you didn't manage to get what I mean, it's really not that complicated of a comment. 12 others seemed to get it, so I'm sure you can.
@@The12thDimension. explain it then
@@TheDrakGPhe’s basically saying watching “kind of kindness” and “tenet” are entertaining but couldn’t understand what he was seeing
@@jaytexaz ok but comparing this movie to TENET is crazy to me
I didn't much like "Poor Things" but I do like "The Lobster" and" Killing of a Sacred Dear." "Kinds of Kindness" gets back what I liked about his previous films (Before "Poor Things") and while at first it confused me, as I have more time to think about it I steadily like it more and more and I'm glad I saw it.
Just when i thought Jesse plemons wasn't going to play a police officer again.... second story continues the streak
Great video!
This movie was so good but very confusing. Definitely has a lot of layers for sure
although the cast was full of amazing actors, a lot of the performances felt kinda stiff. It might just be how YL likes to add a surreal feeling to dialogue (like Wes Anderson)
Was still very entertained tho lol
The Doppleganger aspect of the second story reminded me of Possession (1981)
I think all the characters are the same in all three and this might be just one film but in anthology form ?
What's RMF❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️❓️
My take on this is that the first story was intriguing and mysterious as it is still the moment we try to figure out what is going on and what movie we are watching, when the second story begins it’s like a fresh air with a more grounded story, character look more « human » it’s more simple but as the story unfold we get to see crazy stuff and it was actually fun with the ending leaving you in a humor type a feeling like « it’s a prank! » , if I would sit up and leave the theater at that time I would tell my buds man that was a fuckep up movie pretty interesting experience, but then the third story begins and to me it has really bad rythm, the excitement you get from the second story ending, dogs world credit etc to a slow pace story where you try to figure out again what’s going on and ultimately I found it so EMPTY I started to get bored and was questioning my presence in the theater, no rythme, constent change in what the movie tell us, over all WE GOT TROLLED OVER AND OVER during the last story, and to me the real thing that made me sick was the constent sex and blood imagery pushed on us when the story is not interesting, to end on a complete empty ending. VERY DISAPOINTING. Seriously with the two first story I had expcetations considering it’s a CULT story, so bad honestly. We got trolled boys.
The sex is good
Despite some reviews I liked this movie, the three stories had a common thread of seeking validation, and being subservient. The director was right to use the composer from Poor Things.
Why is it called a comedy ??? Because stipid things happen during the dark creepy stuff?
I do not agree with the Part 2 analysis...
Can u explain that thing about the messiah killing herself in the empty pool and showing up in a dream, what was that about
That wasn’t the messiah, it was Ruth’s twin sister. She killed herself so the prophecy could be fulfilled.
The sister saved Emily from being stuck in the drain by cutting her hair in the dream. She killed herself, which not only would’ve fulfilled the prophecy, but probably would’ve “saved” Emily by being re-accepted into the cult, too. (Similar to the first story where he killed the guy in the car accident to be welcomed back)
I liked the explanation by Reddit guy for RMF initials, in conjunction, or combined, with the directors vague explanation. LOL at the bottom of Reddit post,,, becuz I thought from the opening scenes it stood for Real Muther Fucker. ALSO RMF only listening to Eurythmic’s ‘Sweet Dreams’,, coincidence? I think not - the lyrics sum up the movie perfectly.
I’m tried to watching this, it just wasn’t sticking. I’m a film buff and have seen some wild and crazy sh1t but I just couldn’t get behind this one.
movie was shit. acting was top notch. it was intellectual masturbation at best, artistically it felt short .
Gave me Black Mirror Vibes
Can anyone comment on why all the side characters and supporting characters in the middle Cop film happened to be black people? It was very prominent to me but i cant understand if there is something deeper about it?
This movie gave me twilight zone cops
It's ok it kinda of just physical type of film like watching a documentary on a serial killer
This movie was fantastic!!!!!
I think you nailed this perfectly. I also felt the the main theme are abusive relationships. The only problem with this movie is a delivery. It is stern, not fun to watch, and some scenes are completely unnecessary... and by that I don't mean the animal cruelty but rather for example - measuring of a gap between tits? I know that Yorgos is all about being absurd and surreal but some things just felt exploitative.
I think this is a first draft quality discussion on the film and I would suggest anyone interested in unraveling this film to look at themes of control, the human paradoxical relationship with it (and those who exercise and seek it) and philosophy.
Interesting ideas about a subpar movie. Only wrong with your description is the part about cannibalism but he never ate his wife's finger, he says the cat ate it, or her liver.
The cannibalism in the story is when it's implied that the wife ate her colleagues on the island
Willem Dafoe is terrifying
No lie This have been my life for the last 10 years. Only I have like 100 more storties to ad.
You identify with Master or Servant or Cult? RMF
Thanks for the explanation. I had to pee at the end of 2 and missed the reveal. Bummer.
hold it in next time
@@YarrBr0 your mom
Is «cull» a dialect version of «cult»?
Loved it
Is this an AI?
Kinds of Kindness was much better and deeper than Poor things. I am shocked that although you understand it so well to make a video about it you still didn't enjoy it as much
Got smacked and watched this…..def fucked me up
What a terrible film. Far too far into symbolism and hidden ideas.
Great acting, awful storylines.