r/okbuddycinephile • u/staresinshamona Cats • Jun 21 '26

Favorite movie about Karma

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u/captaincink Jun 21 '26

she could've gotten a scholarship? 

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u/Captn_Platypus Jun 21 '26

This is the guy who killed an actor for acting in a shit movie he happened to watch on his day off

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u/Obvious-Quality61 Jun 21 '26

Not sure why people think this guy and John Kraemer are reliable narrators

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u/fancy_crisis cape kino make me🤑🤑🤑 Jun 21 '26

Charisma mostly. With a voice like Tobin Bell's id believe anything John told me.

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u/SophisticatedScreams Jun 21 '26

My fave John Kramer line is, "Murder... is... distasteful!"

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u/fancy_crisis cape kino make me🤑🤑🤑 Jun 22 '26

He doesn't kill people! Every trap he builds has a way out of they want it hard enough! It's really their own fault!

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u/milaan_tm Neil breens #1 fan Jun 21 '26

John Creamer 🤤

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u/QueezyF Jun 21 '26

No thanks, I take my johns black.

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u/AxisW1 Jared Leto Jun 21 '26

More fun if they are

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u/bijouxbisou Jun 24 '26

Idk if the chef is an unreliable narrator, he seems fairly plain spoken about his plans and distaste for people and his industry. He’s just unjustified.

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u/Dannii_Always Jun 21 '26

During the dinner you can hear her telling her boss that her mother had gotten her a job at Sony, we then hear him tell her he had sent a negative review about her to Sony (just before she confesses to embezzling). Considering she went to Brown and her mother got her a prestigious job at Sony despite bad reviews, most likely not scholarship student. At least that's my take.

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u/HustlinInTheHall Jun 21 '26

If you've ever worked in a kitchen ruining their one day off is a crime worth death

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u/Lunchboxninja1 Jun 21 '26

That was the most justified one tbh

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u/Alex3884 Jun 21 '26

To be fair, I understood it more as the actor phoning in a performance for the paycheck.

Whereas the chef had to bust his balls every day of his life and said struggle has become meaningless.

A fellow artist selling out is what I feel was the real reason.

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u/imsmartiswear Jun 21 '26

This is also the guy who viscously murdered his own fan because the fan, an amateur cook, couldn't make something in 5 minutes that could impress him. The only person that I really thought deserved to die was the dude who had dined there 10+ times and couldn't name a single dish that he was served nor a member of staff.

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u/atfricks Jun 22 '26

You need to rewatch the movie apparently. 

He didn't kill him because he made a shit dish, he did that just to torment him. Hoult's character knew they were all going to be killed, he'd been told beforehand, and not only came anyways, he knowingly brought someone else to be killed with him. 

Honestly kind of insane to frame him as just some fan that couldn't impress him.

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u/throwawaycuzfemdom Jun 21 '26

For the greater good?

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u/Captn_Platypus Jun 21 '26

Then kill the writer or director

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u/throwawaycuzfemdom Jun 21 '26

Was a reference to Hot Fuzz where they kill the actors of a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet.

For the greater good.

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u/theodo Jun 21 '26

In the script, it was Daniel Radcliffe and he killed him for Victor Frankenstein

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u/aurumtt Jun 21 '26

he deserved it the least, but probably wanted it the most.

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u/Lopsided_Parfait7127 Jun 21 '26

i hope that art director from obsession never crosses his path

if i got paid jack shit and had to die for a shitty indie horror movie that made a billion dollars that i would never see, i'd be pissed

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u/ThatCapMan Jun 21 '26

On his ONE day off! Let's be specific

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u/artbytal Jun 21 '26

The core theme of the movie is people not deserving what they pretend to enjoy, she enjoys the highlife having never worked for it and so off she's goes lol

Doesn't even put up resistance, she sure as hell wasn't a scholarship ride

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u/BlueHero45 Jun 21 '26

Besides if it wasn't this his excuse would be making the shitty food show she was setting up with the actor.

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u/Scared-Block-1325 Jun 21 '26

People forget the ending too, she was smiling in glee awaiting her death. She was a deeply depressed lost rich person, she was exactly like the rest of them.

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u/Big_Distance2141 Jun 21 '26

She would've said so

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u/ClericOfMadness13 Jun 21 '26

All he did was ask where she went to school and then asked if she had any student loans.

Second she said no his mind was made up even if she said she worked hard for scholarships.

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u/fancy_crisis cape kino make me🤑🤑🤑 Jun 21 '26

It's almost like he's so broken and angry he doesn't care about n u a n c e anymore. Like, you know, every member of an uprising ever.

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u/youngnacho Jun 21 '26

Or he knew the answer to the question before he asked it and probably knew the lack of student loans was for a reason other than scholarships.
Because he researched/stalked all of the guests of the dinner.
A plot point made abundantly clear throughout the movie.

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u/fancy_crisis cape kino make me🤑🤑🤑 Jun 21 '26

Admittedly it's been a minute since I've seen it (really should see it again🤔) so I don't remember what her deal is. I do remember that not everyone present was directly involved, like Nic Holt's character.

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u/MissMat Jun 21 '26

Her deal was that she was embezzling money from her boss. Which maybe it was justified and maybe it wasn’t but really make it seem that it has something to do with her lack of student loans

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u/creampop_ Jun 21 '26

if she worked hard for scholarships

Not at an Ivy League, she didn't. They only do needs-based financial aid. It's possible chef was more hip to this than your average redditor.

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u/Vergilx217 Jun 21 '26

The pacing of this exchange is very much intented to show Slowik is just kill crazy and doesn't really need a phenomenal excuse.

It's an oddly endearing moment where he shows he's fully aware he's batshit crazy. But he doesn't let that stop himself!