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The conversation was rambling, wide-ranging, with a number of tangents and misdirections.
This, too, is how it feels to watchMegalopolis.
Is it an allegory?
Is it a myth?
No … Is it a future history with a brief subplot about deep fakes?
Thats closer in line with the spirit of the film.
Really,Megalopolisisnt like most movies.
Sometimes Shia LaBeouf is just imposed over an American flag.
Its all valid but its not all straightforward.
So heres a brief(and yes, spoilery)attempt to explain everything that happens.
Well, anything, really.
No one seems to be able to see this but her, and this intrigues Julia.
She starts following him to get a better sense of his character.
This is only vaguely connected to his proposed utopia, mostly its just something hes thinking about alongside it.
Is building a neighborhood made out of shimmery gold goop a metaphor for a movie?
Julia starts working for Cesar in … some capacity.
The old are dying out; the young are taking over.
Let people with new, bigger, beautiful visions try something else for a change.
Cesar is briefly canceled.
What is Clodios beef with Cesar, exactly?
Its hard to say with certainty.
Lucky for Coppola, he has way more of the former than the latter.
Hes not bad at this, but hes not good at it either.
He attempts, in vain, to assassinate Cesar, tasking a child to shoot Cesar in the face.
Youd think Clodio might have tried something like this first before attempting to kill his cousin.
The shock of the conversation appears to kill Crassus … only he doesntactuallydie.
(Clodio survives, having only been shot in the ass.)
What path forward is there for a society embroiled in corruption and greed?
Having a baby on purpose or by accident, as Julia realizes shes pregnant with Cesars baby.
Cesar appears to agree to this, while still meeting up with Julia in secret.
One moment, Julia is like, Im pregnant!
Ten minutes later, she has a (fake-looking in wide shots) baby.
There are riots, public displays of violence.
He also watches Teresa having fun on Cesars moving walkways she would love the airport!
and his wifes joy seems to finally warm Frank up to Cesars ideas for Megalopolis.
Which, it turns out, already exists?
Maybe he was also making it all along?
Somehow he (Cesar and Coppola) figured all that out and we dont have to worry about it.
I love when there is a new neighborhood in my city so I stop rioting!
What exactly soothes the masses goes unmentioned.
There are no conversations about socialism or welfare; this is not that jot down of movie either.
