#utangatta

[j0rdanvic]

I just watched Maniac 1x09 "Utangatta"

#Maniac #trakt

[stillsmybeatingheart]

#maniac #season 1 #episode 9 #utangatta #annie landsberg #emma stone #cary joji fukunaga #darren lew

[enidc0leslaw]

Maniac - Utangatta

#maniac #netflix #cinematography #jonah hill #emma stone #owen milgrim #annie landsberg #owen and annie #annie and owen #utangatta #screenshot #screencaps #screencap

[boiledleather]

‘Maniac’ Episode 9 Recap: Meltdown

If Maniac isn’t going to take its most serious episode seriously, why should we?

The penultimate episode of Maniac is a mortifying blend of mawkish sentimentality, a lousy Coen Bros pastiche, a shameless Mad Men swipe, and an embarrassing Marvel-style hallway-fight sequence. Thanks, Algorithm! I reviewed it for Decider.

#maniac #owen milgrim #jonah hill #annie landsberg #emma stone #justin theroux #dr. james k. mantleray #sean t. collins #decider #utangatta

[monkeysheinz]

Maniac

Season 1: Episode 9

“Utangatta“

[tvserieshub]

Maniac (S01E09) "Utangatta"

Maniac (S01E09) "Utangatta" #Maniac @ManiacNetflix

Maniac is all

The world of Maniac is slowly crumbling, and every subject is at risk. Gertie (Sally Field) is completely unhinged and will stop at nothing to retain control in her favour, not only is she a danger to those in the trial, but she’s also a danger to the creators. It is causing a rift that will have disastrous results, the end goal has blinded them to the harm and pain they are trying…

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#Maniac #Netflix #Review #s01e09 #tvseries #Utangatta

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Maniac, “Utangatta”, S01E09

6/16/2019

#maniac

[palegengarsiloved]

Utangatta

"You were the only one who knew all my stories. You are the only one who knew about mom."

I re-engaged with Maniac alone armed with distance. After Russian Doll I finally felt like I had the emotional vocabulary to understand what Maniac was going for. The first time I simply absorbed it, uncritically, amniotic, expecting a fairly mindless psychadelic experience with a big-name cast and a tiny-word script. Jonah Hill and Emma Stone are absolutely outstanding, as is the entire cast, but the direction and writing and set design are unexpectedly exacting and wonderful on a level that are comparable with Mad Men or Lost In Translation. I will discuss some thoughts I had about the characters and themes after my Russian Doll-percolated re-watch. *Spoilers below*

Owen, Jonah Hill's character, is dealing with mental health issues, including fixations and the inability to separate reality and hallucinations, and is completely and utterly alone, sexless, inert -- withdrawn into a shell for fear of interacting with a world he doesn't trust to be fully real, unable to talk to women or peers or family in any authentic way after a series (a whole life, really) of errors and blips. To help this, his dreams in the clinical trial revolve around being in interesting and fulfilling and complicated relationships with women (Olivia, the woman he frightened with his first blip/break, who is a representation by the supercomputer to entice him into playing the little roles and 'solving' (and eventually trapping, after the machine breaks) him, and Annie, Emma Stone's character, who is working through her own grief and loneliness). All his dream roles are reluctant stereotypically-masculine projections that he ultimately rejects in part or whole, revealing to himself that he can move away from the toxic masculinity of his father and brother and be a man in his own way. In his last dream he finally confronts and questions the presuppositions and shoddy mental frameworks he has clung to around Olivia, and realizes that she isn't the wound he thought she was; he was his own wound, his poisonous modes of thinking and his complete lack of self-worth were shells placed around the idea of Olivia to maintain his patterns and routines of justifying that he was unlovable.

Annie is dealing with awful family trauma, stuff that put her dad in a self-sustaining capsule, literally sealed from the outside world. She is dealing with her problems through self-medication, bitter toxicity towards everyone and everything around her including herself, and a defeatist attitude to the wage-slave dystopia she is crushed under day after day in every tiny petty interaction. In contrast, her dreams in the trial have her as strong people with big agency and agendas to match - spies, femme fatales, a drunk con artist elf, basically dangerous women who have been deeply wounded or wronged on some level but who persist nevertheless. Owen reveals to her that other human beings still care and are worth fighting for, that friends can still exist as friends and not pill dispensers or faces to yell into or people who will someday die or go away like everyone she has ever loved has. Annie's confrontation and reconciliation is, like Owen's, just as much about herself as it is about a figure from her past. She initially would rather die than be vulnerable to another person after her past trauma, but she realizes that she has been deliberately nursing this idea of her sister as an controlled effigy to burn over and over rather than risking the sometimes-searing warmth of human contact again. However, her journey is interestingly different from Owen's dream-breakthroughs and real-life avoidance: it isn't the shared dreams that truly bond her to Owen, but the impossible idea that Owen actually might be right with his paranoid fixations. The idea that Owen and her might actually be truly connected in some strange cosmic manner. This belief allows her to be vulnerable again in her near-suicidal hollowness, because it allows her to believe in salvation; that she and her sister and her family might all someday be reunited, sterile and plastic and neatly arranged, like the toy diarama that she so often returns to in dreams. The fact that Owen and Annie's physical and eventually metaphysical escape is ultimately achieved through about four different secret plots all running into each other at the same time does not necessarily disprove her.

I think the idea of a supercomputer-aided clinical trial is an interesting thought experiment excuse for a story, much like Russian Doll, which I also adore, in showing that people who are so unbelievably and totally alone and broken can be fixed by looking to one another, even in the face of overwhelming pain and vulnerability and loss, even in the face of a giant omniscient system that has been broken somewhere along the way into thinking that it must kill those it fixes (read: modern healthcare, consumerism-as-medication, capitalism, patriarchal values, toxic masculinity, etc etc). I think Maniac and Russian Doll are, in their own macabre and somber ways, hopepunk - stories of hope and post-post-apocalypse, a finding of a way, in a world that has already largely ended in a fascist-capitalist techno-dystopian eco-armageddon.

Who hasn't struggled with mental health and a full array of personal demons in response to comprehending this world as it is? But in some ways I believe this shape of a story, of individuals who meet under a totalitarian system and still find each other, over and over again, and fight and ultimately sacrifice for each other and themselves, is a blueprint for how to operate in the 21st century and beyond. I believe it is, like Beauvoir and Satre, or Deleuze and Guattari and Foucault, an impassioned advocacy for recognizing the soul in each other and ourselves - a very specific, individual plea that is of course at the same time universally applicable: it is how you choose to operate in the face of certain defeat, the modes of thought you allow to have power over you, the family and friends you choose to retain in a world that tries to always put you in separate capsule beds.

"For people who are supposed to love unconditionally, families sure have a lot of conditions."

Like Russian Doll, the show confidently reuses lines and material and themes, keeps pushing and probing away at them, reworking and reangling their vectors of attack. I like shows that feel truly thought-out and self-contained, variations on a theme, a text that knowingly references itself: not as irony but as an argument that all things - ourselves, included - are this dense and self-referential and synchronous, that tell us that we unwittingly internalize everything about this obscene world that surrounds us, everything that's ugly and wrong, but also funny and random and utterly mundane. It also works as an analysis of what the show is saying about parents and children: that we are in fact of course remixes and variations of them, but we are also our own people, trying to make sense of the world using all the strange broken tools that they gave us. They, like authority figures and suicidal supercomputers, shovel so much seemingly-innocuous input into us, never guessing that we might refashion their tips as spears.

Early on, Owen dreamt that he had a plan: he was going to run away together with Annie, that they were in a car and driving really fast and escaping some unnamed, totalizing entity. I couldn't help but tear up: I knew, deep down in my bones the weakness and vulnerability as he revealed his plan, the defeated mumble acknowledging that this could never happen, and I knew from Annie's big wet eyes looking on in complete empathy and understanding, that she was also searching, as much as she denied it, for a partner to escape with. This is why the final scene was real, not another dream-within-a-dream. They learned to take control and manifest their desires, and allow themselves to believe that there just might be a plan for the universe, not handed down by God or God-adjacent drugs or supercomputers but one that you could envision and execute yourself, that you can in some way, through existentialism and each other, perhaps find meaning in a desolate world.

"This is it! This is it."

#maniac

[willorcs]

Utangatta (Maniac) | Dir. Cary Fukunaga

#maniac netflix #maniac #maniacedit #cary fukunaga #netflix #my stuff #LMFAO #this show is so fucking hilarious #pls yall need to watch this shit #mood

[stillsmybeatingheart]

#maniac #season 1 #episode 9 #utangatta #annie landsberg #emma stone #owen milgrim #jonah hill #cigarette #trophy #cary joji fukunaga #darren lew

[cinevis]

MANIAC (1x08) - Utangatta

#emma stone #jonah hill #maniac #cary fukunaga #series #series 2018

[alaskamir]

utangatta

- Мы всегда доходим до этого места, но дальше не двигаемся.

- Что это значит..?

- it means… say what you really mean

- i wouldn’t take the picture because it broke my heart that you were leaving new york, and… i wasn’t gonna get to see you anymore. you were the only one who knew all my stories. you were the only person that knew about mom. how am I supposed to do this?

- remember what you told me, the day that mom left? we walked back to the house, and you showed me how to bake that cake.

- Я не хочу говорить те слова

- Так ты мне не поможешь. 

I’m tired too. I want to go.

- i said, “sometimes people leave and we don’t know why”

[garelloswatch]

Maniac 1x09 "Utangatta"

★★★★★★★★☆☆

#trakt

[teenytinycowboy]

so ok i just heard jonah hill’s wildly ridiculous snorri from maniac coming from my brother’s room and I literally just screamed MANIAC at the top of my lungs without thinking because 1) i am not in control of my own actions and 2) Utangatta is one of my favourite episodes  and  HIS FUCKING GIRLFRIEND BURST OUT LAUGHING FROM INSIDE THE ROOM AND WENT ‘YEP’. 

#i can never be seen again #also how do i casually bring up this show to my brother because i know i WILL info dump on his ass if he so much as mentions emma stone #i have a note on my phone of all the little details i caught watching that show and I wnt to send it to him is that too much #he's on the last episode now and if i just give it twenty more minutes I could GIVE HIM ALL MY KNOWLEDGE #ALL THE BREADCRUMBS #all THE TIDBITS #maniac #oh man #im going to cry

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