just saw asteroid city last night, pls explain the proposed significance of the kiss!!
answering this publicly hope thats ok! cant do a readmore im on mobile *****asteroid city spoilers below beware*****
i dont remember anyones names so this is gonna sound partly unhinged. okay so the edward norton playwright and jason schwartzman actor (not character, in the black and white parts) are lovers right. tbh i thought this was kind of a gag and forgot about it. but later we find out that the playwright died 6 months into the production. i didnt make the connection that THATās why the actor-jason has to suddenly leave the stage and freaks out backstage about how heās not sure heās Doing it right. hes not talking about acting!! because he himself is literally grieving his lover while heās playing a character whoās grieving his wife written by his lover so obviously itās too much!!! actor-jason is trying to find meaning in his death through his writing but there isnt any meaning in death [gerris drinkwater voice] which is what the play is trying to say anyway. he doesnt think heās performing grief right even in his own life!!! (and tbh itās the 50s so he wouldnt be able to perform grief publicly anyway!!!!) the play starts with a car accidentā¦ anyone would search for some hidden meaning there, some signā¦. so when he talks to margot robbie outside itās not really about finding the CHARACTERās motivations itās about the actor himself being able to process the playwrightās death! and adrien brody director was probably also dealing with that too (him and norton seemed to be good buddies) so the whole āsleeping backstageā thing gets a bit sadder maybe? maybe everyone else got this in the theatre and im just stupid lol but crazy making stuff to me!!! the whole story is about sublimated gay grief that cannot be expressed?!?!
the tweet that caught me onto this was here which posits that the playwrightās death was a suicide but i think thatās pretty stupid and unnecessary because the whole thing about the play asteroid city is that death is random and meaningless. im pretty sure thatās what the alien representsā a shocking and absurd event that isnt outright evil or menacing, not something anyone can predict or make sense of, itās just a thing that happens to you out of nowhere, it doesnt mean anything. heās a little black figure, heās death! giving and taking! aagh
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