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<\/p>\nI am going to cross-link to this post primarily because it’s awesome and I want to be able to find it again later should the need arise.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll do this in the guise of some commentary on commentary…\u00c2\u00a0 How appropriate to the web.<\/p>\n
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I found the following commentary<\/a> on music in The Royal Tenenbaums<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 In a nutshell, it is awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 First, it generally accurately describes the complexity of the two main characters, Margot<\/a> and Richie<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Second, the author clearly has a greater understanding of the plot and the relationship of the music to the plot than I ever put together in spite of the fact that I loved the music enough to borrow the soundtrack from my then-girlfriend for an entire summer.<\/p>\n Third, reading this article completely changed my understanding of the movie as a whole.\u00c2\u00a0 Before reading this, I always felt like the movie was about Royal<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 However, after reading this, I realized this is not the case.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course Royal is a jerk, but he is also right about virtually everything he said.\u00c2\u00a0 He’s brutally, brutally honest, but almost always truthful (lacking in one significant instance, of course).\u00c2\u00a0 Though, his observations about the behavior of his family and children are, largely, dead-on.<\/p>\n I realized after reading this article that the movie is actually almost completely about Richie and Margot.\u00c2\u00a0 Their improper but inescapable affection for one another is the driving force in both of their lives.\u00c2\u00a0 It, essentially, destroyed their otherwise promising careers and life-trajectories.\u00c2\u00a0 Interestingly, a loss of love also virtually destroyed Chas<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 A lack of love growing up also had a poor effect on their neighbor, Eli Cash<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Seemingly, every character is struggling with a missing love or an unattainable affection.<\/p>\n I won’t try and recreate the article here, but it is masterful.\u00c2\u00a0 I am all the more a fan of this movie having read this article and having re-watched the movie. You should do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-music"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":49,"uagb_excerpt":"[…]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}