Infinity Pool (2023)
7/10
Trippy is a good word for it
12 October 2023
People sitting there calling this the worst movie ever, stop it. If thusbisnthr worst thing you've seen, you haven't watched anything. It's not the best either. It's not exactly new or trying boldly go where no movie has gone before.

I imagine it has to be really rough trying to make a name for yourself when you got a dad that is as prolific as our dude here. Sure he learned a lot from his dad, but he wants to do his own thing. Who doesn't want to be outside if someone's shadow?

I don't get people wanting everything handed to them. Movies, especially artistic pictures, the real art that is cinema, has something to say. The director and writer got their ideas, and yet we as viewers are bringing our own baggage in with us. That's why movies can be so subjective. Not everyone likes peanut butter with their chocolate.

When this film came out, I feel that we as the majority, are tired of the state of affairs. The entitled people with money that can get away with things just because they have the money to make it go away. Not really a way to stop people from doing something if there is no real penalty. The rich waste stupid amounts on privilege, and that means everything that goes with it.

This movie just shows us a natural progression of how our ego can be manipulated when we feel so starved for recognition. How easy of a target we all are if someone is paying attention and wants to take advantage of you. Everyone has something that can get to them, we are all weak in our own ways.

This movie looks at someone who is basically an outsider, a normal dude who married into money, and he can't help but wonder if he is a sell out or hack. Did he get to where he is because of who he knew? That is always the case. Then you have the rich folk at this resort. They are all dead inside, because you have to be to be rich. Taking advantage of people and treating them horrible would bother normal folk.

The rich are always looking for the next bug adventure. The next taboo thing they can get away with. That's what this movie is. Watching the rich just dragging their butt all over anyone and everyone because they can pay a small fine and go back to being horrible people.

Actions have consequences. The whole trip, it's pretty trippy. You can see how easily Ike can be corrupted. Just a little here, a little bit there. What is it like to taste and experience that kind of power? Surely it's what a god would feel like. Untouchable by normal man. It's all a mediation in excess and a story as old as time.

It's really not hard to gleen meaning from a picture. You just have to pay attention to what you saw, and think about it. Most don't want to think and want to be spoon fed something, then complain when everything is alike. Brain meats need to be used my dudes.
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