Bugon....who? a tale of possible aliens
My brother says this has spoilers in it so if you haven't seen the movie and don't want to know what happens in it you shouldn't read this :(
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Ok, don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate movies. I just think the best picture nominees should be of a higher standard. Parasite was incredible. Arrival probably should have won best picture but lost to Moonlight, a movie I am told is very good but I have never watched but I swear it’s not because I’m racist. I have not been in the mood for that movie and also I regularly forget it exists. Every single thing I write sounds more racist than the last thing I wrote.
My obvious racism aside, I don’t think it’s fair to just put Emma Stone in a movie simply because it will then be nominated for best picture. She’s Oscar bait. She could be in a movie about lizard people attacking mars and they’d nominate it. They’d invent a new category to nominate it even harder if the lizard movie was in black and white.
Bugonia was largely fine. I like Jesse Plemons. The idea of people going insane and thinking successful people are aliens makes sense to me - it seems so unachievable it must be space magic. Shaving her hair felt unnecessary and just a tad sexist because really you think women get their power from their hair? But to get an Oscar you do have to bravely shave your head on film (I’m looking at you Anne Hathaway, Les Mis, 2012).
So she somehow manipulates these two dummies into taking her to her office. Note: other things happen in between the head shaving and the visit to the office they just aren’t worth mentioning.
Oh shit I forgot they also covered her body in antihistamine cream so she couldn’t send a distress signal to the Andromedans (space peeps). Something about the lunar eclipse is significant. I think it’s how space people can get into Earth’s orbit? I don’t care. Fuck space.
I am remembering a lot more about this movie now. I think they electrocute her a bunch because they think she has a higher pain tolerance because she’s a Andromaaeidlit or whatever.
The brother of Jesse Plemons dies somehow. I cannot confirm how. It definitely happens in the basement.
Jesse Plemons and Alien Anne Hathaway go to her office and she’s like go in that closet and it’ll transport you to planet Ajfalsdfkljf. And he’s like ya sure. But then his suicide vest explodes (forgot to mention, he was wearing a suicide vest).
Alien Anne Hathaway is knocked out and put in an ambulance and then she’s like absolutely fucking not, goes back to her office and goes into her closet (gross, probably filled with Jesse Plemon’s body parts) and then is transported to her mother ship (BIG REVEAL SHE IS AN ALIEN) where she and her colleagues all appear to be furries.
Honestly? 5/10, I did not hate it.