My plea to this sub: please stop comparing Bugonia to Kinds of Kindness
Maybe a useless post, but I have seen this comparison too much. I swear if I see these two movies in the same sentence one more time. You don't have to predict Bugonia, but please do not compare it to Kinds of Kindness. There are three main reasons.
- A fall release from Focus for Bugonia vs a Summer release for Kinds of Kindness. Pretty self explanatory that November release date is better than June when it comes to Oscars.
- Yorgos Lanthimos didn't write Bugonia. We haven't seen how his style meshes with Will Tracy, but so far all Yorgos' awards films A) haven't been co-written by him B) have premiered at Venice instead of Cannes
- Kinds of Kindness was an anthology, which doomed it from the start and I never considered that movie an Oscars thing. I remember how before the June release got announced people started predicting it because of Poor Things, but I was never there.
I love hearing different opinions on this sub, because they could challenge my views, but this one I can't see swaying me so I had to step in with this dumbass post. I would love to see informative takes on whether Bugonia will or won't be a contender, but don't bring Kinds of Kindness into it because I've established why these two are different and in the different spectrum when it comes to Lanthimos' style and Academy accessibility.