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  "description": "Humanity is cooked and every once in a while a conspiracy proves to be true. Plemmons' Teddy is a worker bee for Stones' queen (who happens to be named Michelle). The workers are dying out and the dynamic is collapsing for reason the queen doesn't care to understand. Leave at 5:30pm, that'll solve the whole thing. Also, shoot a diversity training video while complaining about using the word too much. Teddy lives in a hollowed out rural town where his mom was destroyed by a medical study, his cousin is all he has left and the only contact he appears to have outside of the internet are his coworkers and a cop that molested him. You know, at your core, what the issue is, but you're trapped and your brain rots out looking for a conspiracy theory grander than what's right in front of you. Bugonia is darkly comedic and farcical and it toys with this dynamic of having multiple villains. On a macro level, Michelle is the villain here — exploiting workers, poisoning the community, throwing money around and knowing she's irreplaceable because of the economic hold on the place. On a micro level, Teddy's the clear villain in this particular vignette. His brain is rotted through from conspiracy theories, he manipulates Don and drags him into his plot and has a trail of bodies behind him as he fights to prove his particular conspiracy theory is the right one. And it is. This one time. Hilariously, depressingly true. Jesse Plemons shines . He's a welcome sight in everything he appears in, but he's inspired and unhinged here. Emma Stone is incredible, as she so often is and Aidan Delbis is touching and heartbreaking. It ends with a genocide triggered by what looks like a balloon popping. : I defy you not to laugh when Teddy's severed head hits Michelle square in the forehead.",
  "path": "/watching/movies/bugonia-2025",
  "publishedAt": "2025-12-08T14:40:00Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:sttgf52vkk46f6yuknvqxvgh/site.standard.publication/self",
  "tags": [
    "crime",
    "comedy",
    "drama"
  ],
  "title": "Bugonia"
}