Christopher Nolan reigns on a list of the most confusing movies of all time, according to data based on how often a film's title and "explained" is searched.
There are plenty of points in that movie where you're not expected to know exactly what layer you're operating in. So even barring the conclusion, questions like "Which characters were real?" and "When was anyone awake?" hang in the air.
Exactly, but some people are so used to not understanding things that they see that hanging question and figure that there is an answer but that they must have missed something, so they go ahead and google it to try to find the answer.
they see that hanging question and figure that there is an answer
There are definitely hints and suggestions presented - particularly in hindsight - that a given scene may have been a dream. And for people who don't want to watch the movie a dozen times while carefully rewinding between scenes and taking exhaustive notes, its nice to have a YouTube Personality lay it all out for you in an entertaining manner.
But there's also a commercialized hype angle to this, wherein YouTubers who even implicitly promote a movie can get kickbacks from studios looking to saturate the airwaves with name recognition. So just churning out ten minutes of schlock content with "THE REAL SECRET BEHIND BOSS BABY!!!" on top of a soy face splash screen gets you more views because you're coasting on some billion dollar studio's promotion budget. And once enough people figure this algorithmic shit out, the market becomes saturated with lazy crap takes on whatever keyword is trending.
Then we get a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy of Tim Pool / Ben Shapiro clones all just saying "BOSS BABY! BOSS BABY!" over and over again on their feeds, and their viewers echoing the opinions on Barstool Sports or Reddit until it shows up under every Google search, and then Wikipedia editors jumping on the bandwagon to get some clout by posting "The Boss Baby Mystery" subsection, and then this idiotic take becomes some kind of institutional understanding of media.
What starts out as a good natured conversation about the cryptic nature of a fun summer thriller becomes some obnoxious meme-tier rant by a bunch of chuds and blue checkmarks.
There are plenty of points in that movie where you're not expected to know exactly what layer you're operating in. So even barring the conclusion, questions like "Which characters were real?" and "When was anyone awake?" hang in the air.
Exactly, but some people are so used to not understanding things that they see that hanging question and figure that there is an answer but that they must have missed something, so they go ahead and google it to try to find the answer.
There are definitely hints and suggestions presented - particularly in hindsight - that a given scene may have been a dream. And for people who don't want to watch the movie a dozen times while carefully rewinding between scenes and taking exhaustive notes, its nice to have a YouTube Personality lay it all out for you in an entertaining manner.
But there's also a commercialized hype angle to this, wherein YouTubers who even implicitly promote a movie can get kickbacks from studios looking to saturate the airwaves with name recognition. So just churning out ten minutes of schlock content with "THE REAL SECRET BEHIND BOSS BABY!!!" on top of a soy face splash screen gets you more views because you're coasting on some billion dollar studio's promotion budget. And once enough people figure this algorithmic shit out, the market becomes saturated with lazy crap takes on whatever keyword is trending.
Then we get a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy of Tim Pool / Ben Shapiro clones all just saying "BOSS BABY! BOSS BABY!" over and over again on their feeds, and their viewers echoing the opinions on Barstool Sports or Reddit until it shows up under every Google search, and then Wikipedia editors jumping on the bandwagon to get some clout by posting "The Boss Baby Mystery" subsection, and then this idiotic take becomes some kind of institutional understanding of media.
What starts out as a good natured conversation about the cryptic nature of a fun summer thriller becomes some obnoxious meme-tier rant by a bunch of chuds and blue checkmarks.