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VIDEO CLIPS/RACHEL's DEAL with the DEVIL/ THROWAWAY QUINN ???

posted 3 years ago by joi2049 (5500)
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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/white-lotus-departures-210152728.html

The White Lotus: Departures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcoDj5G8kZQ&t=242s

The White Lotus: Rachel Meets Olivia and Paula By the Pool (Season 1 Clip) | HBO

Olivia is reading NIETZSCHE in this scene.

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The girls also seem to have reached the right kind of a conclusion about RACHEL as well.

And Here's still another article that compares her choice to marry Shane as being like making a DEAL with the DEVIL:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/tv/the-white-lotus-saves-its-damning-verdict-on-rachel-until-the-last-moment/ar-AANnJDg?ocid=uxbndlbing

'My husband is nothing like me', her looks of horror attempt to convey to the “pleasant interchangeable players” which make up the hotel staff.

But the point which The White Lotus makes slowly but carefully is that she is just like him. The point is that she did marry him, and even a bout of turbulence on the honeymoon is not going to undo that. The Faustian Bargain was made the moment she met Shane, and complaining about it doesn't mean that she is willing to give up the poolside sun loungers and elephants made out of fluffy towels that breaking that bargain means relinquishing.

For Rachel, who rallies against being a trophy wife, surrendering the benefits that marrying wealthy affords her is too high a price to pay. Watching her dead-faced stare into the distance as they embrace at the departure gate is a reminder that the whole point about making a deal with the devil is that they can't be broken.

[–] joi2049 (5500) 3 years ago

Here's part of the conclusion of another article:

https://uproxx.com/tv/white-lotus-ending-finale/

Was The ‘The White Lotus’ Finale The Perfect Ending To A Limited Series?

White Lotus yet again shattered the myth of “likeability,” a forceful rebuke to every exec and studio note giver who has ever complained about there being “no one to root for.” None of these characters especially seemed like people you’d want to succeed or even necessarily to hang out with in real life ... But it didn’t matter. Because that never matters, really. We don’t need “heroes” for a story to be compelling, just characters, fully fleshed out and recognizable in both their triumphs and their failings.

And in the end, White gave the happy ending (a sort of bittersweet and ironic one) to its most initially throwaway character — Quinn, the 16-year-old dirtbag incel, such an afterthought to everyone around him that his own family forces him to sleep outside. Fred Hechinger so perfectly embodied “creepy brother” that he was basically a sight gag.

Does anyone else agree that there were NO CHARACTERS to ROOT for in the story???

What about BELINDA??? Wasn't she LIKEABLE??? If not why not??? Because she was too KIND to TANYA (who thanks her by crapping all over her business proposal that was also Tanya's idea in the first place)???

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