monster does not exist

Jedidiah 2022-03-26 09:01:09

First, from a scientific point of view, monsters do not exist, and robots do not exist.
Then, look at the plot and characters.
Plot: The heroine Gloria moved from a small town to New York to develop, but could not find a suitable job. She met Tim, who had a successful career and was a little busy, and moved in with him. The heroine was busy with so-called friends all day. Or girlfriends and other people wasting time and not seriously looking for something to do. Tim disliked it and proposed to break up and drive her away.
Gloria had nowhere to go, so she went back to live in her parents' vacant old house in a small town, and met Oscar, a classmate from elementary school. In this case, Oscar's parents died, and she broke up with a girlfriend who had children and ran a business by herself. It was a big small town bar. Both his parents and his uncle left a big house for him. Through the favorable environment of the bar, the two hit it off. Oscar gave Gloria a job as a bartender, and kept sending his uncle's Old furniture, Gloria just balances the depressed mood of being rejected by Tim because she can't find a job in New York. The two often have no guests at the bar or drink beer after get off work (Blue Ribbon beer, the advertisement is a bit direct) to chat to relieve the boredom, Sometimes I get drunk and dizzy. Gloria found that Oscar has two friends. One is Joel, who is quiet and soft-spoken. No taboos, a history of drug use and the habit of masturbating in the toilet sometimes.
One morning, Tim called Gloria to tell Gloria that there was a strange natural disaster in South Korea, and then Gloria found out that she was the monster that caused the natural disaster in Seoul, and told Oscar, Joel, and Garth about it, so they Writing in Korean through the monster expressed no malice, and reassured the Korean people that one day, Ge took the initiative to give himself to Joel, and the next day, Oscar seemed to have noticed Ge was sleeping with Joel, had an unusual attitude towards Gloria, and put Gas Gloria's vices and privacy were proclaimed aloud to Gloria. Push Garth away. At this time, Tim came back to recover Gloria, apologized and asked the two to return to New York together. Oscar used all his strength, hoping to keep Gloria and drive Tim away. Moved but still said to leave Oscar. Oscar was hit hard and used his monster ability to kill innocent Korean people to show his anger. Gloria struggled to stop and took Oscar and threw him 9,000 miles away to protect the Korean people.
Character 1: Gloria, Oscar's primary school classmate, childhood friends play together and go to school together, Oscar has always liked and secretly in love with Gloria, a handwork assigned by the teacher, Gloria made Korean buildings and related facilities , Oscar saw from Gloria's handwork her desire to get out of the wonderful world, but he had no ability to keep her, so he took advantage of the sudden strong wind to deliberately destroy her handicraft, hoping to dispel it. Her desire to go out, she didn't expect that Gloria had seen it all. At this time, the two of them happened to be hit by a lightning bolt (probably a small lightning bolt, so they didn't die), and the two of them turned into monster models and fell down. (The picture shows), in fact, both of them received mild injuries to their brains, forming the outline of a toy monster in their subconscious. The monster outline of the aftermath of electric shock in childhood, and at this time some natural disasters happened in Korea, they just stamped their own subconscious aftereffects, thinking that everything was caused by the two of them.
Character 2: Oscar, who has had a crush on Gloria for many years without success. In addition, his parents and relatives have left one after another, which leads to frequent drunkenness, drug use, masturbation, and taciturnity, resulting in multiple personalities, one for each person: Joe Er, quiet, gentle, eager to get Gloria, which is relatively close to his true self before he was beaten when he was young; Personality 2: Garth, no taboo, drug use, masturbation, all kinds of vices, this is by After all kinds of blows and tortures, the mental breakdown is self-harm and self-abuse; Personality 3: Oscar, humorous and handsome, with excellent personality, do everything possible to help Gloria, and show the best and most beautiful side to Gloria, I hope Being able to win the hearts and minds of beauties with this is also his most fake side. In other words, Oscar, Joel, and Gass, the three are actually one person.
After Gloria and Oscar (the three personalities working together) temporarily stopped what they thought was a monster to abuse the city, Joel, the personality one, won Gloria's heart and promised him (actually just to solve the physiological needs) ), Oscar of the third personality was furious, because he believed that only the third personality should get the beauty, which is also the purpose of his efforts to play the third personality. Since the first personality can win the heart of Gloria, why did he not take the initiative to confess when he was young , and then let his secret love torment him for so many years, what kind of torture is this, how can he not get angry, so he drove away personality 2 Gas, and let personality 3 (the most fake self, also his favorite self) follow Personality 1 stays together, hoping that both personalities can get Gloria at the same time. But it didn't work out, Gloria ruthlessly destroyed his personality three, and also left him one by one.
In the end she walked into the bar and heard the Korean waiter talking about the robot, which actually implied that although she solved all of Oscar's personality problems, her own personality problems were not solved, so she still heard what the waiter said It's a robot thing, not a natural disaster thing, so she can only show a wry smile, which makes people laugh and cry.
The subject matter and ideas of the whole film are very good, but the monsters are so well shot that many people think that this is a Bumpman prank. But take a closer look, there are still many things worth taking a closer look at, which is quite interesting.

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Colossal quotes

  • Gloria: Keep it cool. These people are looking at us.

    Oscar: [looks at the women at the next table] Hi. She's the monster; I'm the robot.

  • Oscar: So, you don't remember anything we talked about last night, huh?

    Gloria: I got really melodramatic, didn't I?