Anyone else see this?

I ask because there's zero chance anybody I know irl would have seen this?

Any good takes?

I'm still trying to figure out my take. Bad part is it was too...boring...to watch twice. Good but...slow.

Anyway this entire world of cultured urban elite professional is so entirely alien that it was kind of awkward to watch. I don't even own a suit, I will never see a prestigious orchestra anywhere but YouTube. Even if I like classical music, which I do, these trappings make it clear it's not FOR ME.

the way these NPR rich libs are so just elite about something as raw as music. The scene where she had to help the disabled woman back in her chair and immediately went home to wash herself. They might work in passion for a profession but these people are sooo sterile.

It's attitude on cancel culture is something I'm still trying to work out. Lydia lecturing the zoomer student looked like something theys post on redscarepod. Then they slowly revealed that she was a groomer. I liked that. You wouldn't automatically put up your defense mechanisms, they convinced you she was a villain

  • supdog [e/em/eir,ey/em]
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    2 years ago

    ok well that was actually a vacation idea I was having.

    My family, we always went to like myrtle beach for vacation but what I want to do is go to a real city and sample the arts.

    I wouldn't fit in though.

    It's two fold. First there's the part with the suits. I'd feel completely out of place at a classical concert. (the movie also made me feel this way. Half the references Lydia made went over my head. Classical music itself is like this, pieces have allusions to other pieces)

    Then there's the part where I go back home to my job at the hillbilly shop and people say "so what'd you do on your vacation", oh yeah I went to see Mahler at the Met. I can't share it with anybody.

    Art is communicative and person-to-person. It's about sharing. Lydia's world is a highly highly gatekept garden of exclusions. She decides to impose auditions on a solo that didn't need auditions. Is she an artist or is she a gatekeeper?

    • Apolonio
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      9 months ago

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    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Lydia is a gatekeeper for sure, but I promise you you wouldn't feel out of place at like the NY Philharmonic. It's just normally dressed people. If you wear a suit to a concert it's kind of weird unless it's like opening night to an opera at the Met. The actual world of classical music wants more people to listen, it's actively trying to be accessible and easy for you to go to a concert and have a nice time. Nobody will think you're out of place, everybody will be happy you're there.