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fairandfatalasfair · 7 months

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Saw Dune part 2

It is... really obvious that this is a story that is suffering from having not bothered to set up the essential pieces of its worldbuilding, and also not having thought very much about how the pieces it did use are supposed to fit together...and as a result they made a story that never quite makes complete sense, and doesn't really engage that effectively with its themes, and the relationship dynamics fall flat.

And like... I get that the worldbuilding of Dune is very complicated and it's hard to fit all of those details in. But the result is a narrative that's not really grounded in cause and effect and instead is just grabbing for cool visuals and playing up the religious fanatic imagery, and I found it fell flat.

Like it's fine. And Chalamet continues to do a better job with the character than I was expecting. But the writing is just all over the place.

#Dune #Fatal Rambles #They didn't bother setting up the system of concubinage and the separate rigidly gendered power structures #so they can't have that complicated ''it is we who bear the name of concubine that history will call wives'' moment #which is not narratively essential but it is an interesting perspective and I missed it.#They don't really set up the economic and political importance of spice #(the idea of using it for navigation might have gotten a brief mention in the first movie but the spacing guild is narratively absent)#So his threat to blow up the spice rings hollow #the more so because the way they set it up...anyone can bomb the spice fields. All the families have atomics. Paul's not special.#I understand that the relationship between the spice; the worms; and the fremen is confusing #But I think they lost a lot of thematic depth by just cutting it out completely and it could have been summarised #in place of having Jessica deliver a didactic lecture on why Paul has to play the messiah #idk it didn't work for me #fatal rambling in the tags

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