- 18 Sep 2024 06:25
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Also I watched the Lady Gaga movie. An ex took me to it. It was alright, I'm secure enough in my masculinity to be like, "Eh, could have seen a worse movie that night." Overall saccharine, but hey you get to listen to Lady Gaga songs on a theater stereo system. Musician biopics are almost universally awful and you're going there for the sound, not the writing.
I would encourage watching it because her extremely supportive father keeps popping up in the film and he has zero personality besides, "I'm about to go to work." For no reason, all of his friends from the office show up to their home every morning to have coffee and talk about how they've gotta get to work! Work is starting soon, we gotta get there! No joke, it's literally his only character trait and it's fucking hilarious. There are zero scenes where Gaga's father doesn't have his office blazer held between his two forefingers slung over his shoulder with a coffee mug in the other hand to stress how he's getting ready for work. He shows up to the award show where her abusive boyfriend is drunk and ruins her award ceremony, with all of his work friends from the office who were apparently important enough to warrant free tickets at an extremely exclusive event, and he beats the guy up while holding his blazer over one shoulder. It's almost like he's beating the guy up for making him late for work. Did I mention he's going to work? Because that's the place he's going.
Like, it's apparently 9 PM at a professional production and he's still getting ready to go to work. I fucking loved every scene with him and his crew of Middle Aged Guys About to go to Work. He's at Point A (not work) and he absolutely must be at Point B (work). And boy, let me tell you, he needs to be at Point B. Pronto! Stat! Ahora!
"Hey Tony, stop supporting your daughter's dreams! We're gonna be late for work!" It was that hamfisted, and my ex got pissed at me for laughing at it. It is never explained what his job is, only that he's in the process of going there. Is he a surgeon? Does he work at a vague Business Office? Nobody knows, but he has to be there. I know this sounds ridiculous and a strange thing to focus on in a film, and that's why I loved it. This man just wants to go to work, goddammit. He's checking his watch nonstop and going, "Uh oh, I should be at work now!" It is an absolutely befuddling choice for the motivation of a character, and millions were spent to realize this. I love it.
When we had drinks after she stomped my foot (playfully) for saying, "I want an entire movie where the universe is somehow working to stop this man from getting to work. What does he do? Why is he so committed to going there? I want to know, nobody has ever had as much desire to go to work as Lady Gaga's dad!
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