I didn’t see this yet but the fact that 2 of them were obscene bullies to the point of one making an entire family have to move because their target’s life was ruined, and the other locked a kid in a closet and let the community do an entire search party to find the disabled kid she’d willfully harmed…and were sitting around LAUGHING at their little bad behaviors WITH OTHERS, naan a care in the world?

It just… adds a layer of unspoken menace TO the actual reveal that may be the one check they got about the potential for repercussions against the fucked shit some folks laugh off doing.

It sounds like the director got that across without people even recognizing he did.

Imagine a former bully having it revealed the week before his wedding that he was marrying a former bullied who stopped just short of murdering all of her bullies…and decided to go do the work on herself instead. Whatever unspoken power balance seemed at play in the relationship would shift because he’d know… he was someone she’d have shot dead that day. & that she’d chosen that reveal in direct response to him and his friend bragging about having been buckshot to the face teens their earlier lives. That’s a paradigm shift that makes sense of the smack in the trailer that left him terrified.

Many of today’s men couldn’t do it. Marry her in the end. Because another unspoken aspect seemingly demanded of “relationships” these days is men picking marriage partners they can bully.

Fuck… Now I Gotta see it.

We were ALL radicalized to even Be underground in the late 80s 90s. One way or another. Frankly. Case in point? Laramie. Where that shit happened vs where it could have to any of us, just for being different where we came from…was a motherfucking reality, no matter what the difference engine you were about, was.

Why the fuck you think everybody ran to NYC? There was a literal circuit, damn near underground railroad style, per genre peppered across the chunk of America I came up in… that emptied in nyc.

To be fair, I remember the movie frame I first saw him in . It was his Back inna dress shirt.. couldn’t name the movie if my…lol. I think it was expendable 3 or 4(? Iono) . THERE WAS …hearty appreciation. But like nothing…gratuitous. until the stabbing arrow thing endeared me and all. But now discovering that he’s even more of a nutter ( keep it clean, ladies) than Momoa… I’m just…happy 🀣. Still not horny [clarification πŸ”]…but~ happy.