After_Hovercraft7822 t1_j27nky3 wrote
The painting sits exposed most of the time by default. When a threat is detected, the glass slams shut. This includes heat and anything that makes a loud noise, as a loud noise could hit a gunshot or explosion or something.
Miles arrogantly installs an override so he can drop the glass if he wants to. This way he can do things like play loud music or throw a party and not have glass between him and the painting.
As for avoiding glass on the ground, I see that they have shoes or are just walking around it. The glass isn’t everywhere, it’s just where the statues were smashed.
erst77 t1_j27wzos wrote
>The painting sits exposed most of the time by default. When a threat is detected, the glass slams shut. This includes heat and anything that makes a loud noise, as a loud noise could hit a gunshot or explosion or something.
The glass is continually shown covering and uncovering the eyes on the painting. It's a metaphor -- there's something covering our vision -- or is there? Or is it actually clear as glass even though we feel like there's something between us and the mystery?
comradejiang t1_j27zstm wrote
The mona lisa and the glass onion itself are the same thing - an anti-metaphor. Something people make deeper than it really is. The eyes in particular are something people focus on a lot, but in reality it’s simply a very well done portrait, archetypal of the sort of commissioned portraits by nobles in the Renaissance.
The fact that it’s even there is supposed to represent that Bron is tacky and doesn’t know anything about art, same reason the Rothko piece behind the dining table is upside down.
badstoic t1_j283gsk wrote
Oh that’s friggin brilliant about the Rothko good eye.
Bingleybingler t1_j285m82 wrote
He has the picture of him shirtless, which is basically Brad Pitts body from fight club with Nortons face. I do like how all the clues are in plain sight tho lol
MansfromDaVinci t1_j288z40 wrote
Rothko's get hung upside down at exhibitions rather often. A mondrian has been hanging upside down for 77 years. In a deeper sense modern art was adopted by Rockefeller and his cronies wholesale after Diego Riveria painted a mural that offended him on his building, the philistine had it smashed. Modern art was seen as vacous and inoffense 'free enterprise painting' which could be a commodity and status symbol without any inconvenient symbolism or meaning. It has since been heavily backed by the establishment, though deeply unpopular with the wider public. The CIA at the least destroyed the careers of critics and art lecturers to promote it.
Sonicfan42069666 t1_j28fjhx wrote
> though deeply unpopular with the wider public
Not sure what point you're making with this. Plenty of great art is unpopular in the time of its production. Widespread appreciation for the work of Van Gogh didn't happen until after his passing.
MansfromDaVinci t1_j28hzca wrote
Van Gogh never had a coven of spies and billionaires promoting his art. My point is there was little demand for it outside of as propaganda and a commodity but it was displayed everywhere and got loads of favourable criticism from complicit critics aswell as some dupes.
Blahkbustuh t1_j29gqrc wrote
This is my favorite fun fact and I don't talk about it much because it makes me feel like a tin foil nutter. What also motivated them was the Cold War and the abstract stuff seemed new and dynamic and befuddling to the communist world which was turning out heavy and somber "socialist realism" type art.
Alive_Ice7937 t1_j286h9z wrote
They must have been stoked when Musk so publicly confirmed the main theme of the film in the lead up to its release
BotSnifferOuter t1_j28i3vo wrote
Musk bad!
Alive_Ice7937 t1_j28qjk6 wrote
Burner shitposting accounts good?
polywha OP t1_j27nqck wrote
That 1st part makes sense. But the 2nd part, if you've ever worn flat open toe shoes like that before when glass smashes it's pretty difficult for it not to fly into your shoe or foot as well. I smashed a glass once while wearing flip flops and it got all over my feet
DeathByBamboo t1_j27x9hg wrote
Sometimes with movies you need to exercise your suspension of disbelief. This means, basically, that in order to enjoy movies, we sometimes overlook instances of the movie not following logical rules of the real world.
It would make the movie cumbersome and exhausting if they slowed it down to have realistic results of glass being all over the ground. In fact, the unrealness of it is highlighted when they slide cartoonishly across the floor as though the glass were ice.
Movies are rarely realistic, and ones that are more realistic tend to be slow and ponderous because life doesn't exist at an entertaining pace.
ryle_zerg t1_j288hzj wrote
With Rian Johnson movies, suspension of disbelief is basically a requirement.
BosomBosons t1_j27uds7 wrote
Also depends on the type of glass, some glass shatters in sharp shards, other glass shatters into more gravel like pieces.
ScamIam t1_j27v3we wrote
I thought all the “glass” was actually Klear? That’s why I assumed it functioned and broke differently than real glass
BennoDXB t1_j28ef94 wrote
The scientist and the mayor almost shit themselves with panic that the tiny little piece might have fallen when bron threw it. It doesnt seem likely that you can happily smash hundreds of pounds of it with no ramifications.
rawcane t1_j284c0p wrote
Oh was it? I didn't understand what the point of smashing all the glass was. In fact this would make the explosion more deadly. Need to watch again!
Orlando_the_Cat t1_j27t08y wrote
And especially when they all run out as the placd is exploding. There should have been glass flying EVERYWHERE.
KnitDontQuit t1_j27us7c wrote
And they all should have died in that explosion.
chrispy_t t1_j27tndy wrote
TBH it’s pretty hard to accumulate the billions of dollars needed for someone to own an island which takes away from the movie for me/s
Butch_Beth t1_j282zpd wrote
There aren't actually famous independent detectives in the real world, I found this hard to get over.
Scep_ti_x t1_j27uzom wrote
Just look how fast todays tech megabillionaires gained their wealth. When I was 20 nobody even knew Musk, Zuckerberg or Bezos...And Gates was at somewhat around 40 or 50 billions at that time. Today every second CEO of any medium Tech company has dozens of billions under his pillow.
FangornOthersCallMe t1_j27ur0h wrote
I think it’s just luck. If you look at the glass when Helen is running towards the Mona Lisa, there’s hardly any glass in the spots where her feet land despite being everywhere else.
blackbirdpie t1_j2862ua wrote
I was expecting this to be a plot point- where somehow Norton's shoes get stolen and he remains stuck on his little island surrounded by glass shards of his misspent fortune unable to walk out. Was left a bit disappointed that it was just smashing his stuff for the sake of it.
Butch_Beth t1_j282rwe wrote
This isn't a problem with the film, it's a cinema sin.
maxwellmaxen t1_j28bvcl wrote
it’s a movie.
bitesized314 t1_j28hoga wrote
I had a cup shatter on a counter and a shard got stuck in my hand and neck. I'm sure the chance is there that they could get glass in their eyes easily doing this. But it's a cool scene.
tylerc23 t1_j27xfbf wrote
It's everywhere when the Glass Onion explodes lol
PanchoVillasRevenge t1_j2833ik wrote
He has the glass open so he can look directly into its eyes, he says this in that scene
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