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Reddit threads, conspiracies, rabbit holes and pies in skies. Maybe we did start the fire? Yorgos Lanthimos’s third film in as many years is his most propulsive and kinetic despite operating on the smallest scale of them all. Much like this year’s “Eddington” and “One Battle After Another,” Lanthimos and writer Will Tracy seem to be mobilized by the painful absurdity of existence under modernity. When all around you seems to falter, there must be an answer to all of the madness. Aliens are a pretty good one.

A remake of “Save the Green Planet!,” Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 dark comedy, “Bugonia” takes the same premise and transposes it onto America 20 years later. The intervening generation between films is a boon to Lanthimos and Tracy’s project as the snowballing history and breakthrough developments in internet-assisted psychotic paranoia amp up the premise to an 11 and then some. Tracy’s script is timely enough, but it’s Lanthimos’ signature off-kilter directorial style that pushes “Bugonia” past being a movie “of its time” and into a movie that knows exactly what it means to live in this time.

“Bugonia” follows Teddy and Don Gatz (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis), two cousins who plan to kidnap Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), the high-profile CEO of Auxolith, a major pharmaceutical company that Teddy toils away for in a small town seemingly driven by the company’s profits and jobs. Why are they kidnapping her? Teddy believes her to be an alien.

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✍️: August Hammel (augusttheeighth)
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#sfsu #sfstate #bugonia #emmastone #yorgoslanthimos

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