tomfromthesnow
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Robert Pattinson plays Georges Duroy, a poor ex-soldier in 1890s Paris who rises to social power not through talent or intellect, but through his looks, charm, and manipulation of women.
He starts with nothing. no wealth, no education, no family name. and ends up among the Parisian elite by seducing a series of influential women (each connected to powerful men).
Pattinson’s Duroy is described as “beautiful” and “irresistible”. Every woman he meets — from servants to aristocrats — reacts first to his appearance.
The men around him often resent him for this. His rivals are older, balding, or plain — despite being smarter or wealthier.
→ “looks > status” dynamics: while status helps, the initial door opens because of physical appeal.
Multiple women interpret his silence or lack of empathy as “mystery” or “depth.”
That’s a psychological phenomenon often discussed in black pill analysis — the halo effect: good looks cause others to perceive intelligence, charm, and worth that aren’t actually demonstrated.
Georges’ looks and seductive power give him opportunities that other men — more moral or skilled — never receive. The film doesn’t hide this; it condemns it. But it also shows it as reality: that’s just how people respond to beauty and confidence.
He doesn’t earn power — he inherits it through seduction/looks.
He gets every woman he wants/needs to get power/money and just when you think he loses everything in the end he ends up marrying the daughter of his rival and gets all the money lmao. Fucked his wife then took his daughter and his money too. Brutal
Yes I had some help with gpt here but most of this is in my own words.
He starts with nothing. no wealth, no education, no family name. and ends up among the Parisian elite by seducing a series of influential women (each connected to powerful men).
Pattinson’s Duroy is described as “beautiful” and “irresistible”. Every woman he meets — from servants to aristocrats — reacts first to his appearance.
The men around him often resent him for this. His rivals are older, balding, or plain — despite being smarter or wealthier.
→ “looks > status” dynamics: while status helps, the initial door opens because of physical appeal.
Multiple women interpret his silence or lack of empathy as “mystery” or “depth.”
That’s a psychological phenomenon often discussed in black pill analysis — the halo effect: good looks cause others to perceive intelligence, charm, and worth that aren’t actually demonstrated.
Georges’ looks and seductive power give him opportunities that other men — more moral or skilled — never receive. The film doesn’t hide this; it condemns it. But it also shows it as reality: that’s just how people respond to beauty and confidence.
He doesn’t earn power — he inherits it through seduction/looks.
He gets every woman he wants/needs to get power/money and just when you think he loses everything in the end he ends up marrying the daughter of his rival and gets all the money lmao. Fucked his wife then took his daughter and his money too. Brutal
Yes I had some help with gpt here but most of this is in my own words.
