So what's the meaning of this movie? The fuck is the ending

So what's the meaning of this movie? The fuck is the ending

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Llewyn was too much of a faggot to actually make it. If he was less of a pretentious dick he would've been playing for the scout instead of getting his ass kicked by shadow Ed Harris

Having principles is being pretentious?

Being a homeless mooch to own the plebs is having principles?

It's better to sell out like a cuck right

enjoy being homeless then I guess

llewyn is a good performer but doesn’t have one artistic bone in his entire body. the coming era of folk musicians turning into singer-songwriters will crush him

You missed the point. He's a cynical prick. He thinks he has principles and believes that's why he can't make it, because they make his music inaccessible and commercially unappealing, but in the end he sees Bob Dylan performing onstage as he leaves the bar, who is an artist who did end up making it despite being principled and inaccessible. This contrasts Llewyn who is just a cynical bastard who sets himself up for failure.

Is that really it? How did you come to this conclusion?

Anybody else relates too much witn Llewyn and feels like a piece of shit for it?

>despite being principled and inaccessible.
Except Dylan was a total sellout who denounced the folk scene and all his old music as soon as he realized folk was dying and rock was where the money was. Dave Van Ronk who the story was based off was the better artist and not a sellout. Which is why Dylan stole songs from him. Dave Van Ronk isn't known but he is an artist with principles.

imagine believing this

How am I wrong? Except for the better artist part. He isn't better but his version of the song he stole is better. Everything else is true.

sixty years on and people still harp on about how dylan ”turned his back” on ”the folk scene” jfc
like who cares man, the dude was destined for bigger things than hootenannies in washington square park. van ronk wasn’t

That's the whole point though. Dylan's history is known as not authentic. He is famous because he sold out. Just like Peter Paul and Mary, and Justin Timberlake in the movie. The one guy who was authentic is unknown and never makes it. It's his life story.

There is no meaning. It's just a film about a bunch of unlikable assholes.

you learned nothing and went nowhere, just like the MC

Wait so the moral of the story was to sellout like the Please Mr Kennedy bit?

keep using that word if it makes you feel better, that's what the MC must have done until his miserable life ended

What would you call it?

”muh authenticity” isn’t a valid substitute for creativity and/or originality, it’s merely a cope; the last refuge of the artistically deluded

It doesn't matter your opinion. That's literally what the movie is about.

>The fuck is the ending

The ending is the same scene as the beginning, which we don't realize until we arrive at it.

This is, I think, to illustrate that this entire week of Llewyn's life that we've seen is more or less standard. That rather than moving forward or backward, he's in stasis, living an endless cycle week to week.

Now I'm sure the specifics of the film were unique to one week. But in the grander scheme, he probably spends every week going through the same general motions.

>Mooch off of a close friend
>Once in a while get a paying gig
>Because of his attitude, get in to a fight with the friend he's mooching off of.
>Couch surf with other friends or new acquaintances he meets.
>Get an opportunity that doesn't pay off
>Loathe himself and his lack of success
>Lash out
>Chill out and start playing again
>repeat

take it up with the Coens

He is in a time loop

please, then, explain what you mean with llewyn being ”authentic”
i feel like we’re talking about different things here

I don't even think Llewyn can be considered authentic, he just thinks he is.

The woman he flips his shit at in the bar is literally the only 100% honest and sincere folk act in the entire film.