NOBODY - Full Length Reaction!
Added 2025-08-25 16:00:15 +0000 UTCHere's the full length reaction to Nobody, the winner of this month's spinning wheel! This was such a fun watch! The action sequences are great, and the movie is paced really well. It was such a great balance of action, drama, and humor. Enjoy!
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Yeah, the music was an unexpected all-star for this film. Great songs in-and-of-themselves, and perfectly used to match the scenes on-screen. I love the reversal of the usual hero/villain characterization: Normally in an action movie with an aging protagonist, the hero wants "out", while the villain loves being a villain. Here we see that Hutch GOT out and he desperately wants to get back in. Whereas Yulian apparently just wants to run a nightclub, but can't escape the society. I think my favorite gimmick was when Hutch kept trying to explain his life story, but his audience kept dying halfway through. Believe it or not, the Obshchak is a real thing, but it's not quite a single giant pile of money. Rather it's an organization/common fund/agreement between organized crime groups, to settle conflicts and also have resources when they need them. _______________________________________________________ The thing is, when I first saw this film I was waiting for it to be revealed that everything (Or at least a large part) was happening only in Hutch's head. That he’d imagined it all, or possibly was suffering from advanced delusions and hallucinations. The film has been described as a revenge-fantasy for all the middle-class men fed up with their boring lives, and I thought that that was what it was in the movie, too. A violent fantasy. I started thinking this when Hutch has his first conversation with his brother, who is in hiding from the government and only communicates over a radio system Hutch has set up in his office at work. The setup is just...weird. From a technical perspective the radio itself makes no sense, Hutch doesn’t use a microphone and doesn’t activate any transmitter when speaking, it really seems like his brother is just magically hearing everything he says. From a story perspective his brother seems way too knowledgeable when talking about what Hutch is going through, as if he is a witness to what’s happened or at least heard it all first-hand. I thought that this was a fantasy that Hutch had constructed, an exciting secret life so that even when he’s at his boring day job he can pretend he’s actually talking to spies. Maybe his brother really was a secret agent of some sort but had died and this is how Hutch is at peace with it, still “talking to him”. After the first action sequence, where Hutch beats up a bunch of drunk assholes about to assault a woman on a bus, it’s Hutch’s brother who tells him that they’re connected to the Russian mob and sends him to get info from knowledge broker contacts and things spin up into a big revenge thriller. And if his brother -- the mysterious voice on the radio -- isn’t real, then maybe everything that his brother lead him to isn’t real, either. I thought that the instigating bus fight itself was probably real, but that it ended there because the drunken assholes were just drunken assholes. Nobody came looking to get revenge for them, but because Hutch is so desperate for excitement (And desperate to satisfy his violent urges, the movie is very clear that he wants to hurt people) he concocted this mental storyline so it could keep going. So he has his “brother” tell him these guys are connected to the Russian mob, and then “the Russians” come after him at his home, so he has to go to war with the whole organization. I spent the entire back half of the movie waiting for this reveal, and trying to parse out which sections were real and which weren’t. Wondering what his family was seeing/hearing when he imagined himself fighting off a home invasion, and how many random bystanders were being assaulted while he played out his adventure. Until we got to the end of the movie, and it turns out it was all real. His brother shows up in person to save his life, his former government contacts pull strings to get him out of trouble with the police, it’s apparently all true. I was quite surprised at the lack of a twist.
JBK405
2025-08-28 02:33:02 +0000 UTCHey Addie! I'm so glad you got a chance to see this movie, & sooner rather than later, since Nobody 2 just came out. It was stated prettty clearly early on, but you didn't catch it, I guess. When Hutch came home from the bus fight, & Becca was cleaning his wounds, Hutch says "It's just like old times", implying she's taken care of his wounds before, many times. She's fully aware of how he used to be, but since he decided to become domesticated, he wasn't the same person that she fell in love with, & they slowly grew apart. They were still partners, but I think his habit of not being on top of getting the garbage out on time was a way of showing us that his heart wasn't in doing household chores, the domestic life wasn't holding his attention like he thought it might. He yearned to use his hard-earned skills again. Then, when he was about to leave to take down the Russians, he said to Becca he was gonna leave her "blind, for the last time", meaning they'd been in this type of situation many times. She stayed with him through the rougher times & was very supportive of him, but must've been happy when he said he wanted to settle down & quit the service. It's gonna be fun to see where their dynamic goes in the sequel!💖🍷
LaserLamb
2025-08-26 09:57:08 +0000 UTCKinda weird to see Bob Odenkirk as an action star. I still think of him from his sketch comedy show with David Cross--Mr. Show. And of course Saul Goodman, which is still sorta comedic but in serious circumstances.
Joe Blankenship
2025-08-26 03:00:36 +0000 UTC
