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non snowy yard
snowy house
larry enticer clad in denim from the neck down jumping an old yamaha snowmobile over a burning pallet
Joe's potato story is my all-time favorite monologue from any piece of media. The sheer weight of years of Tim's crimes seemingly, finally having caught up to him, and Mark and Greg finally feeling safe enough to speak against him... Only to have Joe come in and nonchalantly bring down their world. You can see it on Mark's face, he knows Tim is going to try and kill him when he gets out (which he does, the divers suit wasn't an accident), and on Greg's, after finally fully wrestling control of the show and breaking out of the destructive codependent relationship, suddenly it's all back to the way it was. And as the grim reality dawn's on Greg and Mark's sullen faces, Joe tells the most inane story about potatoes all the while completely oblivious to the abject horror surrounding him on all sides. And then his delivery, it's as if he has lived it and/or told it a thousand times, yet the sheer explosive joy he felt still as fresh as the first time. His sense of pride and accomplishment over bringing produce on an airplane, this unearned euthsiasm for the mundane, it's breathtaking. I think it's a microcosm of the whole On Cinema Universe, finding humor between the terror and banality of the liminal monstrosity that is Southern California.