two additional thoughts to the first viewing:
# there is a split of the protagonist, that could be called postmodern: it's not anymore about the heavy-muscled but smart superhero, that we know very well from the mainstream cinema of the 80s and 90s, carried into the blockbusters of today. instead we get two different characters - Timothée Chalamet as the adolescent coming-of-ager thrown into this new world of (own) power (games), as our avatar of greatness without necessarily the physical…