Minute 101 - We Put A Couple Of Rocks On A Bagel!

Minute 101 - We Put A Couple Of Rocks On A Bagel!

Two rocks. One clifftop. No music, no voices, no movement — just white and black text appearing over them in a universe where life never formed. Joy tells Evelyn that most universes are like this, actually. Evelyn says it's nice. Then Joy starts talking about how we spent most of our history certain the Earth was the center of everything, torturing and killing people who said otherwise, until we found out we orbit one sun out of trillions.After the montage of sixty-nine universes nearly broke us last week, this minute is the movie building in its own intermission — and we are deeply grateful for it. We get into how the Daniels genuinely feared audiences would be bored here, shot backup time-lapse footage of the sun moving behind the rocks as insurance, then cut it for being too energetic. We talk about the missing punctuation in the text and why it makes the whole thing feel like texting rather than dialogue. Kynan reads from William Steig's Sylvester and the Magic Pebble — a children's book Daniel Kwan has confirmed as a direct reference, about a donkey who turns himself into a pink rock and then slowly stops trying to be anything else — which is a genuinely upsetting thing to encounter in a picture book. And we sit with Evelyn's apology, which arrives shockingly early, and what she might really be apologizing for.Also: Michelle Yeoh is the reason there are no voices in this scene. It was her idea. Rocks speaking English would violate the rules of the universe.
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Minute 108 - We Put A Shave And A Haircut On A Bagel!

Minute 108 - We Put A Shave And A Haircut On A Bagel!

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Minute 107 - We Put The Last Temptation Of Evelyn On A Bagel!

Minute 107 - We Put The Last Temptation Of Evelyn On A Bagel!

Atrium Waymond finally finds the words — the only thing I do know is that we have to be kind — and then turns and aims it directly at his wife: please be kind, especially when we don't know what's goi...

30 Sep 52min

Minute 106 - We Put A Plea For Peace On A Bagel!

Minute 106 - We Put A Plea For Peace On A Bagel!

Two Waymonds. Two speeches. At the same time. In the Alpha Verse, a stabbed Waymond stands between Evelyn and a dozen armed jumpers — one of whom is holding an office desk phone as a weapon — asking i...

23 Sep 46min

Minute 105 - We Put Being Too Sweet On A Bagel!

Minute 105 - We Put Being Too Sweet On A Bagel!

Deirdre pauses at the door on her way out, shares a look with Evelyn, and staggers off looking like someone dropped a bomb on her. Waymond, still kneeling in front of his handcuffed wife, tells her he...

16 Sep 55min

Minute 104 - We Put Nothing Special On A Bagel!

Minute 104 - We Put Nothing Special On A Bagel!

Jobu is outside the laundromat window with a cigarette, grinning, telling Evelyn to come back to the bagel — and then to ignore it. But Evelyn can't stop watching Waymond whisper something into Deirdr...

9 Sep 46min

Minute 103 - We Put A Hard Time On A Bagel!

Minute 103 - We Put A Hard Time On A Bagel!

Jobu rises out of the rock universe and back into the Bagel Temple, and finally says the thing the whole movie has been building toward: she didn't build the bagel to destroy everything. She built it ...

2 Sep 58min

Minute 102 - We Put A Big F**king JOKE On A Bagel!

Minute 102 - We Put A Big F**king JOKE On A Bagel!

Two rocks on a clifftop, still no voices, still just text. Joy says every new discovery is a reminder — and Evelyn finishes it: we're all small and stupid. Then Joy wonders what discovery is coming ne...

26 Aug 50min

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