If somebody has seen the movie "If I had legs I'd kick you" can you explain what the actual plot is... I started watching it cuz it sounded interesting cuz of Rose & it was apparently "dark comedy"...i nodded off TWICE...both times were post lunch so maybe that had to do something with it probably. Anyway I saw the whole thing and didn't understand what the hell the story was actually about. And where the hell does comedy come in this. I genuinely thought about this for DAYS...why idFk...just randomly....I saw this and weapons together and I loved it, this on the other hand bothered me so much i couldn't sleep for a while that night.
The whole point of the movie is to highlight how stressful and isolating parenting could be. Characters constantly brush off her pleas for help and then scold her for not doing better. Its a bit exaggerated and stylized but all to serve the central point. The movie is trying to make you feel how she feels
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Practical_Airline_36Mar 29, 2026
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Bro I saw the struggles of parenting in brightburn & We Need To Talk About Kevin it was pretty straightforward. Granted those genres & themes were completely different compared to this. Hell even in scary movies like Veronica, Us, Insidious & hereditary you can see the struggles of family....I just did not get that point...I don't get why it was made like that...?
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uwill1derMar 29, 2026
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After being displaced from her home, Rose Byrne struggles to shoulder the weight of both her personal and professional life.
This is not a comedy, despite what the Hollywood foreign press would have you believe
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Practical_Airline_36Mar 29, 2026
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Good to know.
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PhalexMar 29, 2026
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I haven't watched it. Because it just looks like a bunch of misery that wants you to feel miserable. Why would I want to watch that?
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Practical_Airline_36Mar 29, 2026
Because i was bored & have seen almost everything.
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Equivalent_Lunch_944Mar 29, 2026
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I’ve heard some people suggest that it’s in her response to having a failed pregnancy, and the guilt she feels about it. The tube in her daughter’s throat represents the umbilical cord and the reason you don’t see the daughter is that she was never born.
I think that reading makes sense but you can also just be see it as a stylized and sympathetic view to the anxieties and stresses of motherhood. So much is demanded of her and she fails to keep up and feels vilified and robbed of agency at every turn (then her husband who isn’t there for most of the movie drops in and fixes a major problem instantly, undermining her lived experience.)
It less about the plot and more about the feeling of being tossed around by life and getting no sympathy or respite.
The humor comes from how unsympathetic and cold the world and everyone in it is - Conan is supposed to be a therapist and help Rose, but is frequently just antagonistic. Kids are supposed to be uplifting but instead it’s Rose’s biggest tormentor.
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Late-Connection980Mar 29, 2026
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Same. Tried to watch it several times but it’s weird af and not in a good way
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