TAR (Todd Field, October 7, 2022) Movie • Page 2

of course she's friends with Alec Baldwin,that was quite the jump scare lol

 

a film about empathy, and i have none

 

She mentions Hildur Guðnadóttir during the opening interview so my head canon is she cowrote the Joker score

 

i’m more interested in her emmy. do we think it was for a televised live performance or her doing the theme for a show/score for a limited series or something lol

 

I could see her doing the theme for like The White Lotus haha

I'm going with best revival for the Tony, I can see her doing an avant garde reimagining of West Side Story considering her relationship with Bernstein

 

I'd assume the Emmy would be for some live televised classical music special like Leonard Bernstein used to do.


Tony was for the Lydia Tár equivalent of Bruce Springsteen's Broadway performances

 

this was my idea but doing the score for a hbo show is more fun

 

my one complaint is i think i would have liked it a touch more if it ended on the scene of her under the waterfall with the deafening noise

 

without the Monster Hunter concert or just placing that scene after the Monster Hunter concert?

 

without

 

Yeah this was great. The middle meandered a bit, and I think that it could’ve ended at any moment in the third act (I personally think if it ended in her parents home to her crying to Lenny, that’d be a good bookend). need to rewatch it again soon

 

saw this yesterday, feels safe to conclude that even though there’s gonna be more highly-lauded films in the next couple months, this one will still be a hard one to supplant

 

found this tidbit on todd field's wiki lol, love it

 

enjoying these

 

Saw this on Saturday, went in pretty blind and was just floored. Incredible film, really smartly written. Love how Field doesn’t spell everything out for you, and instead lets the viewer fill in the gaps on what happened and what the actual fallout was.

 

SNL is definitely stealing this if she ends up hosting

 

The YouTube video was painful. Who would believe that?

 

The ambivalence is part of the point, but after sleeping on it the China sequence still leaves me with questions. Does the film feel like working on a video game in China is rock bottom, or is it supposed to be her return to form? If it is the latter, it is an interesting choice considering how little she actually suffered for her behavior.

I'm not the first person to have this observation, but Blanchett seems to be in that Daniel-Day Lewis and Meryl Streep level where they are essentially allowed to command the film. Field has said the part was written for her, do it would be interesting to know how much he tried to even interfere with her work. While she has those great moments and will probably get a lot of awards the other three women in her life feel much more real despite less screen time because they aren't given free reign.

Is classical music that popular that maestros take private jets? I assumed they were in Economy.

 

It's rock bottom for her because she's a pretentious snob

And I didn't realize at first but it's Mark Strong's jet she uses her rich friends to get stuff

 

Well yeah she says a line about having to pay for her own plane tickets but still I was surprised that even rich people act as benefactors for classical music like that. I assume they are fighting for leg room and arm rests like the rest of us.

She is certainly in love with herself but there is a line where she wants to hear the .mp3 version rather than the .wav file because that is how people actually listen to music nowadays, so she is at least aware of modern trends (although classical music fans seem like the LEAST likely people to listen to lossy files on their earbuds). Video game soundtracks have come so far that I would think that the cosmic punishment of working on one is coming about twenty years too late. Monster Hunter is so enormous in China that she could end up making even more money than she was before.

 

I think it's layered in a few ways that It's rock bottom for her ego but "happy" for her in that she's now entirely committed and dedicated to the music above anything else.

It's rock bottom in the sense that the people at the concert aren't there to see Lydia Tar, they're there to see Monster Hunter music and she's not the draw like she was. But I think it was done in the way it was (not really showing what she was really preparing for) to show that on a personal level she's content/happy/it doesn't matter anymore, with her coming to the realization that nothing other than the music matters when she's watching the Leonard Bernstein video

 

In one of the hallucinations/dreams there is a bruised Asian man among the women we have met. Who was he?

 

He's in an art piece on the wall of one of her apartments, I'm pretty sure

 

The Juilliard scene was so impressive without calling too much attention to itself. It was such a clash of generational values, couched in all the polite terms used in academia, until it gets just a little bit too prickly and the niceties are thrown out.