I just don’t think it really matters, it doesn’t even need to be a real timeline that matches up with actual s*** imo.

@sentient_sherm_bag you seen this yet croski

tbh i think the fact that the timeskip doesn't change anything about the setting at all is intentional

But it clearly does man what that's lowkey the point of the dojo scene

Leo looking like Cheech Marin right there.

The movie opened up at the U.S-Mexico border wall. That's late 2010's at earliest. That was the most obvious time marker in the entire film imo. Hard to overlook this when they didn't need to do it. @BVL noted recent gen iPhones cops had too

There was a lot of decisions i felt were there to avoid describing time period. Bob/Willa were stripped of modern technology to avoid placing the time, they never mentioned year even during the 16 year skip and i found the background details to be pretty neutral. Things updated because time indeed passed. I don't think PTA actually cares which is why its undefined beyond taking place around "modern era"

Bob also noted he was born in the 80's and i'd find it hard to believe he was in his 20's to start out

This goofy angle all the zoomers are hitting is something else

Shouts out them though they’re funny lol

nah i mean the like look of the movie

obv the timeskip is important to show that bob is useless and not a savior but i mean both pre and post skip looks the same and i think its intentional

100% but to describe it I feel like I’m seeing something I feel actually too old or separate to resonate with s*** now feels like mortality or something

The movie was modern day to me

I don't remember exactly how the opening looked and whether it was along the border wall of today but detainment camps like that have existed forever and I'm sure there were places along the border that looked like that prior to 2010

It's obviously not meant to be an exact representation of our reality and it's not at all important to the movie, but the approximate time periods are still very obvious

Dude i'm talking specifically about the border wall. It began construction in the late 2010's. Trump 1.0 era. Prior administrations largely did fencing. I can't imagine a director like PTA doing that without fully intending to lock it in near-modern era and beyond.

We didn't need to know the exact year because the film opens up at one of the most significant American time markers in recent history. Imo after the skip the timeframe doesn't really matter

The wall Trump and Biden admins built have a very unmistakable look to them. Its hard to argue around this

Sean Penn was channeling Vince McMahon in this s*** bro had me dying at times

He kinda felt like RFK Jr, but with prime time Mr. McMahon energy

First watch audience was laughing every two seconds like it was an Adam Sandler comedy

Second watch audience was laughing much less, but mostly at Leo’s lines

I think some people are severely missing the point of this film

It was me and like 4 other people hard to gauge but there were 4 or 5 shared laughs then me laughing on my own like 5 more times like I was the joker

One of the two sentences of the dojo scene is “16 years have passed but not much has changed”

Someone used the word setting wrong

Sure but you can use every other context clue to figure out the approximate time periods as evidenced by the clear effort made with the clothing, cars, technology, music etc. which all distinctly make it pretty clear when it takes place

And honestly I really don't think the border wall matters much at all, I think it looks like that because they filmed it there and because it makes for striking imagery. Ultimately it doesn't matter at all though and it's honestly pretty uninteresting lol

my imax screening was PACKED

Oh I feel you for sure. I never really felt “old” — I’m 31, but idk. Then a few years ago at work we had some really young university students filling summer positions and one day one of them was giving me a hard time for having “millennial humor” and I was like f*** idk what that means I’m officially old