The Nightmare Reality of: THE NEON DEMON | SYMBOLISM

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  • Опубликовано: 16 янв 2025

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  • @AdamOMcMurphy
    @AdamOMcMurphy 3 месяца назад +82

    It should be mentioned that the
    "Boyfriend" was aware that she was only 16 when he pursued her.

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  3 месяца назад +26

      Ok, yes! I totally forgot to mention that. When they’re sitting by the car he’s all nonchalant about her being 16/15. It doesn’t mention his age but I’m guessing he’s an adult. Predators, predators everywhere

    • @AdamOMcMurphy
      @AdamOMcMurphy 3 месяца назад +25

      @@jennasmovielobby He seemed the most "normal" character in the film, and he certainly wasn't framed as a predator. However I don't think they would have mentioned her age in front of him, unless they wanted the audience to be a little wary of him.
      I always thought that the meaning of the Mountain Lion in her hotel room was symbolic of her inviting danger into her world. Or rather predators were closing in.
      Good chann!

    • @MicahMicahel
      @MicahMicahel 2 месяца назад

      @@AdamOMcMurphy I thought the mountain lion was sort of a joke about what it's like to be a hot girl. Hot girls are usually hated by most other women and they hang out with guys. I knew a hot girl that had this problem of weird men with not ability to restrain themselves... I never saw this before but this was her life. She would have men pleasuring themselves looking at her.
      Very few women have this problem... and I hope very few men would act in such a way.
      the guy might have seemed like a normal person but he was kind of a weasel... no talent also.
      Part of what the movie was saying was he never once picked the right angle.
      His photos sucked. the right angle was the angle thresh film picked.
      He just did these hockey close ups.

  • @thetinycutie5166
    @thetinycutie5166 3 месяца назад +95

    I thought the scene with Gigi cutting Jessie out of her was Gigi unable to take the pressure/stress/reality of the modeling world and the pressure of being a beauty (natural of otherwise), like eating food that disagrees with you, it might be delicious in the moment but if you(r body) cant handle it, then its coming back up. Where as Sarah was determined enough about modeling to handle the reality and pressure of modeling, and therefore digest Jessie making Jessie part of her (through digestion and absorption).

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  3 месяца назад +5

      Agreed! And this goes along with how they were acting so differently towards Jesse. They both wanted to consume her but Gigi seemed so much more intimidated. Sarah was intimidated but in a more aggressive way.

    • @alen7480
      @alen7480 3 месяца назад +5

      I just want to add about the eye specifically that Gigi cannot stand the honesty (the eyes are windows to the soul) of what she is and was delusional, so she tried to swallow this truth, but ultimately couldn't. On the other hand Sarah is far more honest to herself, however unseemly she is. It was really just adding the symbolism about the eye itself, otherwise I think the OP nailed it.

  • @vivitv5597
    @vivitv5597 2 месяца назад +37

    I really love the scene where the girls ask Jessie if her lipstick color is "food or sex". The moment Jessie refuses Ruby's advances, she goes from sex to literally food. There's also a lot of references to witches/covens and the old tale that a maiden's blood keeps you young. Ruby is a witch that consumes blood and "release" the old one once Jessie is consumed. Sarah got Jessie's "thing" and was seen again by eating her whereas Gigi couldn't handle it cause she never actually had what it takes like Sarah, she was fake and her body "didn't know" what to do with it ?

  • @BelindaShort
    @BelindaShort 2 месяца назад +28

    It's also important to understand that narcissism isn't what's portrayed in popular anything really. It's a deep hatred of oneself and a need to show yourself as something else or something 'more'. Making it about your looks makes sense. You latch onto anything other's like about you.

    • @niathomas184
      @niathomas184 2 месяца назад +2

      Exactly people have a very surface level understanding of narcissism

  • @wernerhedgehog3627
    @wernerhedgehog3627 2 месяца назад +15

    Thanks for bringing this up. First thing I thought when I saw The Substance was The Neon Demon ploughed a similar furrow but more effectively. It’s a very sinister take on the pressures of the male gaze and slightly less on the nose.

  • @NyesBizarreCinema
    @NyesBizarreCinema 2 месяца назад +16

    I stayed away from seeing Neon Demon when it was first released because so many people dissed it. I finally saw it two years ago and loved it! It was so bizarre and cruel. Keanu Reeves was great playing a creep. 😂 I just can't believe the ending. Eyeball...I'll leave it at that😅

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  2 месяца назад +2

      SOOOOO many people hated this and I just did not understand why! I had no idea so many people even liked it as much as I did until I made this video lol! Which is why I make videos because I rarely find people as interested as you and I are lol

  • @maddyG7414
    @maddyG7414 3 месяца назад +32

    I’ve always been too chicken to watch this movie (and probably the substance as well) but it hit so hard when you mentioned the director describing the L.A entertainment industry as alien. I’ve been to L.A several times and I’ve always felt that it’s got a strange, otherworldly vibe, as if you’re existing in a bubble that’s far removed from the rest of Earth. Never knew how to explain it!

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  3 месяца назад +7

      I live here and I feel it 😭! You can just tell that everyone is sizing everyone else up. Even at just a normal restaurant things feel weird lol.

    • @AnchoringHighFrequency
      @AnchoringHighFrequency 2 месяца назад +4

      Hollywood… The wood of holly - used to cast spells. City of fallen angels. And they are shapeshifters… vampires.

    • @kristasweetleaf5695
      @kristasweetleaf5695 2 месяца назад

      ​@@AnchoringHighFrequency okay nutball

    • @junopierre2988
      @junopierre2988 Месяц назад +1

      I lived there and the energy was weird and dark: I’ve never felt that anywhere else

  • @CaulkMongler
    @CaulkMongler 3 месяца назад +28

    I see her being unable to digest her as “this isn’t something that we are really built to do, our bodies naturally fight against what we do to others (consume)” but they do it anyway bc the perceived benefits, it’s a cycle. Another point about the taxidermy feline in the last act, for me it throws back to the beginning when she finds the bobcat(?) in her room, it symbolizes how she will be removed of all life, the very thing that actually makes her herself but her image will be eaten and preserved as a decoration.

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  3 месяца назад +3

      “Eaten and preserved as decoration” YES!!! Perfect! I love that interpretation about the way we consume people, too!

  • @Charlotte-r1t8q
    @Charlotte-r1t8q 3 месяца назад +30

    enjoyed this thank you! Only thing I can think of for the plastic models bodies rejecting the natural is like an opposite take on how implants are sometimes rejected by the natural body

  • @byronvandersandt8077
    @byronvandersandt8077 2 месяца назад +9

    Ruby was envious of her youth while the others wanted her beauty. I feel like Gigi got sick because she was not a natural beauty and was therefore "unworthy". I also feel like it might have been a final jab at Gigi reminding her that she was unworthy of Jessie's beauty.

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  2 месяца назад +4

      “Unworthy of Jesse’s beauty” I like the way you worded that.

  • @rhiannondavis3512
    @rhiannondavis3512 3 месяца назад +26

    I thought that Gigi not being able to keep Jessie down was to show her lack of commitment and to show just how willing Sarah was to do everything she could to stay on top. Sarah was stronger and angrier where Gigi was just jealous and had a weak constitution. Plus it symbolizes them taking her beauty from her, Sarah wanted her beauty so she’d be the sun in winter again

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  3 месяца назад +2

      I can totally see this because the entire time Gigi seemed reluctant. Sarah was ready. It would make sense why they both seemed to respond to Jesse in the same way but also differently. If that makes sense.

  • @rebecca8866
    @rebecca8866 3 месяца назад +20

    Elle Fanning is so beautiful

  • @src3360
    @src3360 3 месяца назад +11

    I was a male model in the early 2000s in my late teens to 21. I was in miami with Irene Marie agency before Irene I was with a local agency in my city. It is not an easy business to be in. I never experienced anything too exploitive but I was told horror stories by several girls.
    I found this movies premise captured how dangerous the business really is. Modeling seems on the outside so edgy and cool with makeup, clothes, high fashion, seeing yourself in magazines, etc You dont see the darkside hiding behind the cameras and glitter until its sometimes to late. The ending with the "extra heavy flow" scene lost me, Im not getting the symbolism. I havent seen the substance yet but I want to!!

  • @lesliemartin3
    @lesliemartin3 2 месяца назад +3

    This is one of my favorite movies. Thank you so much for this

  • @michaelmayo
    @michaelmayo 3 месяца назад +7

    Yea! Neon Demon! Refin is one of the strangest directors working and "Neon Demon" is both unnervingly true and completely batshit at the same time. This is a dark fairy tale (Refin is very european, after all) where little red riding hood gets devoured by she-wolves and no one, but the top predators, live happily ever after. Great essay on a very underrated film.

  • @thegmanpaints
    @thegmanpaints 2 месяца назад +4

    I saw this in theaters on opening night because the marketing got to me and I was excited about it, but there was absolutely nobody in there but me.

  • @rdrfilmes
    @rdrfilmes 2 месяца назад +2

    Watched that masterpiece 4 years ago and I'm still obssessed with it. Love the mixture between the sunny LA, horror and fashion. 💙

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  2 месяца назад

      I was honestly surprised that so many people have watched it. I wonder if it has a little bit of a cult following

  • @TheCorporationLovesYou
    @TheCorporationLovesYou 2 месяца назад +1

    I think the one girl cutting Elle out of her exemplifies remorse for her actions whereas the other one who succeeds in the business is the one that’s more of a sociopath. The metaphor “she couldn’t stomachache” comes to mind.

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  2 месяца назад

      Yes! She looked tortured and regretful in that moment. So that makes sense

  • @brentmartin1981
    @brentmartin1981 2 месяца назад +2

    I literally love this film so much honestly. I have it on DVD and have shown it to several friends and they all have loved it. I think that there is a huge question as to what the demon actually is. Is it L.A.? Is it the demon of beauty and pride? Is it the part of ourselves that we are constantly trying to edit for other sot make ourselves seem more beautiful and alluring? When Sarah swallows the eye and sheds that tear I see it as her finally finding herself, beauty is in the "eye" of the beholder. The music, cinematography, acting and set design are all masterpieces honestly. Living in the 21st century is so bizarre because we all have the tools to edit our photos, put makeup over our imperfections, nip and tuck the things that we don't like about ourselves and constantly try to fit into society's definition of what beautiful actually means. This is without a doubt a cult classic and I am so happy that more people are appreciating it after 8 years.

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  Месяц назад +1

      “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”! Yes. This! I also wonder if it LA, the modeling industry, pride. I think that part is largely left to up to interpretation.

    • @brentmartin1981
      @brentmartin1981 Месяц назад

      @@jennasmovielobby Thats what I love so much about the film, it is this surrealist piece of art that allows its audience to take away whatever they want from it.

  • @seereadnhear
    @seereadnhear 3 месяца назад +8

    This was your best film essay my lady !!!! Bravo 👏🏻

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  3 месяца назад +3

      Wow! Thank you!!! 😊❤️❤️❤️

    • @seereadnhear
      @seereadnhear 3 месяца назад +2

      @@jennasmovielobby Always ‼️❤️❤️‼️

    • @TheMovieDawgs
      @TheMovieDawgs 3 месяца назад +3

      ❤ you are definitely a fresh breath of air!!!

  • @MK_1Ultra
    @MK_1Ultra 2 месяца назад

    Neon Demon was so good. The eating of the body parts was a great metaphor and when the eyeball rolled out...chilling. I think Jena did AMAZING

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  2 месяца назад

      It’s so good! I can’t believe people hated it when it first came out. Thank you for watching, love!! ❤️

  • @chrissyswoo
    @chrissyswoo 2 месяца назад +1

    I heard a theory somewhere the three women were witches, that they’d done this before, and the one who couldn’t consume her was unable to do so because she was new to the whole set up they had going on.

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  2 месяца назад

      With the moonlight scene it felt that way. Ritualistic sacrifice to be beautiful and successful. Like Elizabeth Bathory

  • @alxndria1
    @alxndria1 2 месяца назад +1

    I’m so glad I got to see this in the theater, it really felt like an experience.

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  2 месяца назад

      Me too!! I feel like trailers were slightly less “see all of the movie” back then too. So you didn’t really know what to expect, which was nice!

  • @Pupeyes
    @Pupeyes Месяц назад

    When the movie came out the critics panned it as a flashy movie with no substance. I was like, “What are y’all talking about?”
    Critics miss the point also many times. This movie absolutely rocks and the music is magical and trippy. Have an edible for a second watch. Trust me on that one

  • @Diana-fg2vy
    @Diana-fg2vy 3 месяца назад +7

    Jessie was probably the mostly good one .
    Her first cannibalism, the other 2 look like they've done this b4

  • @fernandoelbrat
    @fernandoelbrat 3 месяца назад +5

    One of my favorite films ❤

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  3 месяца назад +1

      Mine too! I was surprised to see how many liked this movie the way I do ☺️

  • @shivalishankersharma1562
    @shivalishankersharma1562 2 месяца назад +1

    I watched this movie when it came out and the visuals were so stunning….

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  2 месяца назад +1

      It’s soooo freaking pretty. Every scene is mesmerizing.

  • @rageagainstmyhairline5574
    @rageagainstmyhairline5574 2 месяца назад

    What a great video. The writing was excellent 👍
    Happy to sub and like and all that, and can’t wait to check out your other videos!

  • @balenxigaga5701
    @balenxigaga5701 3 месяца назад +6

    also the last mansion they filmed in si the same mansion Gaga filmed Pokerface omgggggg

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  3 месяца назад +1

      I didn’t know that!! I knew the mansion had history but not that specific thing! I love it!!

  • @elvia3068
    @elvia3068 2 месяца назад +1

    Im a fan of Keanu Reeves so Im for sure gonna look this movie up.

  • @DSh1105
    @DSh1105 3 месяца назад +1

    10:07 isn't there also a saying about lepards, like they never change their spots, I think that might play into Jessies character, like it is impossible to change fully no matter how hard you try.

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  3 месяца назад

      That’s a great point!! I didn’t catch that. Jesse was never going to change and she was always going to be eaten alive by the industry.

  • @richardbigham4138
    @richardbigham4138 2 месяца назад +1

    It definitely struck me as a bit on the nose with much of the occult symbolism you often hear about in hollywood and politcs as well, bizarro weird.

  • @ginapayne744
    @ginapayne744 2 месяца назад +1

    I couldn't remember the name of this movie, but it creeper me all the way out.

  • @Естьмнение-с3у
    @Естьмнение-с3у Месяц назад

    Спасибо за точный обзор.
    9.30 Скульптура. Подскажите, пожалуйста, отсылку. Спасибо.

  • @SyntheticGlamour
    @SyntheticGlamour 2 месяца назад +2

    gigi couldn't eat the eye because she was guilty & losing her mind about it. so sarah did because she's the real hero of the film'.
    I theorize ruby just straight up bled out some how from bathing in it, moon cycles??!
    also'' the "boyfriend" is actually just some guy she met first who wanted to take her pictures, I always wondered about the symbolism in that opening shoot. Why the blood? her agent also notes how his pictures are amateur, lol. So anyway, it's easy to ditch him because he wasn't her boyfriend, just the first person to take interest & exploit for their own weird m.o.
    -the desert sia moment flopped for me'.

    • @SyntheticGlamour
      @SyntheticGlamour 2 месяца назад

      OH' I think sarahs eyes change from brown to blue?! (or at least that would have been cool) symbolizing her absorbing her power.

  • @VeelouC
    @VeelouC 2 месяца назад +1

    I was thinking of the Neon Demon before and after watching the Substance! Same themes but sadly this film got overlooked and has gotten criticism because it's made by a man... which is so unfortunate and unfair to the points this film makes in its every aspect. Every now and again I read low rated reviews and I still haven't seen one that explains why they didn't like it or one that doesn't just completely misread everything in it.
    Gigi could not digest Jessie in my opinion because she felt guilty.

  • @niathomas184
    @niathomas184 2 месяца назад

    I absolutely loved this movie! Very accurate of you ask me.

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  2 месяца назад +1

      Oh yeah. Extreme accuracy. Diddy proved that things are very weird in Hollywood.

  • @avadarkness666
    @avadarkness666 Месяц назад

    The Neon Demon, The Black Swan and The Substance... get into it!! I love this flavor of female-centric horror cuz women are forced to be perfect and having to be perfect is literally fucking kills us.
    I've been Sarah. I've been Gigi.
    I've been Jesse. And now I'm Elisabeth Sparkle.
    Being beautiful pays the bills.
    When society and the entertainment industry doesn't view you as beautiful anymore, you starve. You die alone.

  • @RobHollanderMusic
    @RobHollanderMusic 2 месяца назад

    You missed the Illuminati angle, which becomes more relevant in light of the recent revelations concerning P. Diddy and and the L.A. freak-off scene. There's a moment in the film where a neon triangle (the triangle is an Illuminati symbol) - hence the "neon demon" - is shown just as Jesse undergoes her transformation into her shadow self.

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  2 месяца назад

      That's a good point. Especially with all of the P Diddy stuff being so relevant and many other things coming to light about Hollywoods dirty underbelly.

  • @SteveBueche1027
    @SteveBueche1027 2 месяца назад +1

    More true than you think.

  • @NOWTHATSWHATICALLANGST
    @NOWTHATSWHATICALLANGST 3 месяца назад +1

    I just thought it was meant to convey that the other girls will never have or be what jessie had or was no matter how hard they try or what they do.

    • @NOWTHATSWHATICALLANGST
      @NOWTHATSWHATICALLANGST 3 месяца назад

      I personally really enjoyed this movie. I feel like its very rare that a movie is able to communicate the animalistic competition that goes into "the industry", which is obviously a part of all corporate and money-based markets (so everything) while still being entertaining and fun to watch, i.e ultimately driving home the point that makes competition in these paycheck positions "fun". The crazy thing is that this story could and would play out the same in any industry where a new person with natural ability enters the arena, whether it was a hospital, an office, or even being a cashier at McDonalds- and I feel like that is the one disservice these "Hollywood is Bad" morality movies does to the audience. Unless you're the Jessie in the situation, the story can just feel very hyperbolic and fantastic, so that the assault she experiences and literal murder of her career and success seems simplified and part of the circle of life like a dog-eat-dog scenario, kill or be killed. That's why when the eye ball gets puked at the end I felt it was Jessie getting the last laugh- even though she was taken out by the other girls she still wasnt so easily beaten, and more importantly, she still had what the other girls wanted- which is why Sarah takes the undigested eyeball and swallows it. Because she still felt like she wasnt enough and didnt want to risk missing out on the chance to absorb Jessie or feeling like she defeated the competition; even in the most desperate form of eating a dead person's eyeball. Legend. Icon. Quality. Star.

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  3 месяца назад

      I can see this. Especially with Gigi. She literally had surgery done to achieve the beauty the Jesse already had.

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  3 месяца назад

      That’s so true. This type of jealous and competition can be seen in any industry. It can be seen in social circles, even. The eyeball did feel like Jesse had the last laugh!

  • @TheCorporationLovesYou
    @TheCorporationLovesYou 2 месяца назад

    My mom and I call it the triangle movie

  • @ms0824
    @ms0824 3 месяца назад +1

    Is the movie actually good?

    • @KawaiiStars
      @KawaiiStars 3 месяца назад +3

      I certainly enjoyed it, but some others have mixed reviews

    • @ms0824
      @ms0824 3 месяца назад +1

      @@KawaiiStars I'll check it out tonight.

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  3 месяца назад +4

      A lot of people thought it was pretentious. And I get that. I still liked it, though. lol

    • @ellebell9139
      @ellebell9139 3 месяца назад +2

      I saw it in theaters and thought it was brilliant and subtle

  • @billybatson3236
    @billybatson3236 2 месяца назад

    I liked the movie they are definitely witches that prey on the young and naive. Good watch

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  2 месяца назад

      Witches! That’s an interesting concept! Especially with the ritual weirdness at the end

  • @lanegeorgeton8266
    @lanegeorgeton8266 3 месяца назад

    It was interesting

  • @ASAFYY
    @ASAFYY 7 дней назад

    this movie is better then the substance

  • @edithobrien7118
    @edithobrien7118 3 месяца назад

    how about scary PUMA scene ?

  • @leac0071
    @leac0071 2 месяца назад

    They eat their own.

  • @duewhit310
    @duewhit310 3 месяца назад +1

    /hollywood
    Jena Malone's character was a ssssnnnneeeeakkkkkyyyyy bastage.

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  3 месяца назад

      She was the worst! How are you gonna protect her from predators in the industry only to become one 😭

  • @KaiiWinter-nw4vi
    @KaiiWinter-nw4vi 2 месяца назад

    None of those horses have DihTech IDs ,
    and they re named after DDP characters .
    #YouAreTheProblem

  • @ellebell9139
    @ellebell9139 3 месяца назад +2

    The film was vapid and empty and leaves room for doubt but looks beautiful with beautiful people:
    Aka modeling 😂

    • @jennasmovielobby
      @jennasmovielobby  3 месяца назад +2

      😂😂 Clocked it for what it is!

    • @MicahMicahel
      @MicahMicahel 2 месяца назад +1

      it's not vapid and empty. there is symbolic storytelling here. This is a deep movie.