Glen Powell is a star. Adria Arjona is a star. This movie is super entertaining. It just ends up being weird I guess.
It’s because of the whole diatribe he goes on while teaching his class at the end about “identity.” It was this weird thing given the movie opens with Mr. Gary giving a lesson on Nietzche and a student says she finds Nietzche is talking about risk taking and trying new things and stuff. And it’s lit you gotta love that kind of nod to Nietzche in a modern film. And then, as the opening scene sets the stage for the rest of the film, and while there is experimentation, in the end there is a theme and there’s a “thing” to really accept as base.
I suppose that identity is of great importance to people. It just like doesn’t end up actually working in the story. When the narration concludes with “I found a happy balance of Ron and Gary” my reaction is ‘boo.’
Most likely because of the fact that the movie did feature what could be called “Nietzchean” elements, what with the undercover work and the building of the characters out of passion for the task, the aggression of Ron, and the sort of crossing over the line with the flippin murders. But just cause they were goin’ Zarathustra Mode the whole movie doesn’t mean you get to proselytize at the end.
Identity is a circus act. It’s a shade of blue that never was and I know I stole that line but shit it’s so weird to end a movie like that by going this lame route emphasizing identity. The proper ending is going over and beyond the concept of being one thing or another, or even some kind of in between person.
Nah, children of light. Breathing in the air as the breath and the breather. Yahweh mothafucka.
p.s. that quote that I appropriated, “the missing shade of blue,” belongs to Hume. It’s kind of a trip because it I guess (according to Wikipedia) is hinting at the way the human mind can conceive of that which is beyond the sensory, like identity for example, so shit.
J.W. 