The Lithuanian diesel crisis of 1973
Claire is quite highbrow in her interests. Lottie is fully paid-up member of the peanut gallery. I think “NFTeens” starring Paul Dano and Zendaya may fall right in the middle of their Venn diagram.
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Perhaps a FIRE related accident? Just as a random example, of course.
In NFTeens, the characters trade ZitCoin.
Like I said: a rohypnol and bus ticket to Budapest kind of accident.
Lithuania is now having an EU created accident that caused a Kalinin Krisis.
The last serious movies I watched were “Andre Rublev” and “Empire of Dirt”. I wouldn’t say I enjoyed these films, but they were tremendously interesting in a certain way.
I don’t know that I would have seen them in a theater. Dune was fun, though! I saw that in IMAX. BIG sound! Lots of sand and worms. Also, flappy wing planes and space scotland.
When it comes to theater-going I’m strictly lowbrow.
Claire hasn’t yet learned that the only reason to see a documentary in the movie theater is to impress someone important. It’s the coffee table book of films
What does she mean by G7 and G8? Is she talking G8 as in the G8 nations? What does murdering the annoying bus person have to do with the G8?
Row G, seats 7 and 8. Apparently this theater has assigned seating
Oh okay. Makes sense.
Let’s hope Lottie’s caffeine shield will help her don’t fall asleep during the movie. Also… Claire’s dreams boy kinda remember a more fashionable Glenn…
Hmm, Lottie never has figured out what flaming-hot surprises come in the Little Claire package, has she?
Nope, the only one knowing that was Colm. I wonder what is Colm doing, but I’m kinda surprised/relieved that Claire’s dream boy is nothing like him.
Sonny actually suggested at the end of “Simple Soul” that Claire was the firebug, but the other boys rejected it. (The girls weren’t there at the time.)
They really should listen to Sonny more often.
Is it just me or does Claire’s dream guy look like a younger, more polished and put-together version of Glym? Also do we know if the Lithuanian Diesel Crisis of 1973 had a role in the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union?
If it did, it took a while.
Here in the Benighted States, back in the early 80s, we had the “Captive Nations” movement. One form that it took was people Hyde-Parking (which is not really otherwise a thing here), howling “Free Estonia! Free Latvia! Free Lithuania!”. Passersby thought it was samples of new brands of instant coffee.
Also, is that actor Toby Jones in the seat behind Claire and Dream Guy?
If NFTeens is in between Lottie and Claire’s tastes I’m going to guess that it’s directed by the Safdie Brothers.
Sounds about right.
I hope all Uncut Gems fans are familiar with the unused theme tune one of the bit part actors wrote for the movie, it’s very catchy
https://twitter.com/josh_benny/status/1217961302401933314?lang=en
Do they do the Safdie Dance?
Unfeasible Sadness 2: Not Having A Gas
Milan Kundera? Showing your age, John. Plus… more than a tad creepy now. Stick to a safe magic realist like Zadie Smith maybe? Not sure.
That guy in row F looks ver familiar but I can’t place him. Also, is Claire going to eat all of the mystery snack in the stripy container, or is she just holding it to free up Lottie for expansive gestures (or to sleep)?
I was assuming that “mystery snack” was popcorn.
But now that the identity of the snack has been called into question, can we ever *really* be sure what the mystery snack is? (Yes. Yes, we can.)
Also, we see in the final panel that Charlotte has some popcorn in her hand, so the mystery snack is being shared.
I’m not so sure it’s popcorn. Those lumps look a little too large, but maybe I am being put off by the scale of Claire and Lottie.
Also, my monitor resolution wasn’t high enough to see anything in Lottie’s hands. It looked as if she was counting off the ways she could imagine the Bus Nuisance having an accident. Or otherwise doing the trick with your fingers that is supposed to stop you falling asleep (it doesn’t work for me).
It’s popcorn.
How do you have time to monitor comments that are days old? DAYS! (that’s like years in internet time) While I am sure I don’t deserve it I feel incredibly flattered.
Also, I realised if I took the dimensions of the mystery snack and compared them to those of the phone in panel 3 I can see that it could actually be popcorn (yes, I used a digitiser). Unless of course Lottie is actually holding a Zambian tablet or phablet…
Actually my now ex- (but this isn’t the reason why she’s “ex-“) wife and I have differing preferences on the “right amount” of butter-oil on our popcorn. I prefer none, she likes lots. So, we compromised by having the popcorn jerk fill the popcorn container half-way, pump away at the butter-oil until the kernels floated, then fill it the rest of the way dry. I would then start at the top and, once my hand came up from the container greasy, I’d hand the container off to her.
I tried to buy a ticket to see NFTeens, but they wouldn’t give me the actual ticket.