Tag: Jesse Plemons
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Bugonia and the Quiet Dread of Alienation: Lanthimos’s Latest Confronts the Fractured Self
Introduction: A Quiet, Thorny Conspiracy Bugonia, the latest offering from director Yorgos Lanthimos, arrives with the unsettling calm his films are known for. Rather than a high-octane thriller, the movie plunges into the texture of alienation—the sense that something essential is misaligned in our social fabric, and that the world’s surface hides something unfamiliar and…
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Bugonia and the Quiet Rage of Alienation in Lanthimos’s New Cinema
Introduction: A Contemplative Lunge into Isolation Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film, Bugonia, arrives with the blunt insistence of a question that haunts many viewers: what happens when the world around you stops making sense, and you are left to question yourself? With Jesse Plemons portraying Teddy, a conspiracy theorist navigating a grimy, suspicious landscape, the film…
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Bugonia and the Banality of Belief: Lanthimos’s Alienation Thriller
Overview: A Quiet Pulse of Unsettling Certainties Bugoni a, the latest project from writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos, arrives with the quiet menace that has come to define his catalog. Centered on Teddy, played with granite-willed restraint by Jesse Plemons, the film positions its audience at the edge of a conspiracy that refuses to present itself as…