Nobody (2021): The Less Edgy John Wick

It began with a kitty bracelet

Alexander Razin
5 min readMar 28, 2021
Source: Robert Ebert

A few days ago, after returning home from working my continuous shift from mid-day to mid-morning, my mother told me the local theatre would reopen. It’s been one year since my last movie theatre experience as I watched Pixar’s Onward, a tale of two elf brothers and a pair of legs.

At first, I was indifferent, but I yearned for a movie theatre outing as I enjoy sitting in a dark room for a few hours. So, on a hunch, I checked the website to see what movies were playing. Most of them were films you could see at home: Tom & Jerry, Raya and The Last Dragon, and Chaos Walking. A promotional poster of a bruised man getting punched by multiple fists in the face immediately caught my eye. At first, the poster read as a dark comedy about a man who stirs up trouble with the wrong people. So the poster sold me and I bought a ticket.

As I checked my emails for confirmation, I noticed an email labeled Nobody Saturday Showing. I opened it to see it’s from the manager informing me the showing I purchased a ticket is having technical difficulties and offered a free showing of the film in DFX. I emailed them back as soon as I could but received no response, so I called the cinema to know how to redeem my free showing. I told the person who answered the phone; I received an email for a free…

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Alexander Razin

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