Current Events > Ryan Gosling: The Incel Prophet

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Blue Valentine Sets the Stage

On the face of it Goslinga handsome, famous, and successful movie starmay seem an odd avatar to represent the face of a movement preoccupied with misogyny and embodied by personal failure. Yet Goslings film roles are a catalog of characters who exhibit all of the trademark characteristics of the socially isolated, alienated and emotionally stunted young men who comprise incel culture. The films Lars and the Real Girl, Blue Valentine, Drive, and Blade Runner 2049in particularstand out as films in which Goslings character is, if not a literal incel, then at the very least a spiritual one. It is surely also no coincidence that these films happen to represent some of Goslings most impressive performances. The last three, in particular, symbolize a kind of apotheosis of what we can perhaps describe as an emergent incel cinema.

Drive and the Real (Sexless) Hero

Goslings character, known only as The Driver is an emotionless and solitary individual without any real family or friends, save his mechanic. He is a man whose only real interest is driving, whether behind the wheel of a stunt vehicle, a race car, or while moonlighting as a getaway wheelman for criminal heists. This is his only real interest, that is, until he encounters his beautiful neighbor Irene and her young son, with whom he proceeds to develop a close and affectionate yet notably platonic relationship. This relationship is cut short, however, when Irenes ex-convict husband Benicio is released from prison.

Blade Runner 2049: The Apotheosis of Incel Cinema

What separates Goslings portrayal of the modern incel conditionwith its alienation, lovelessness and deep lonelinessfrom the reality of the same is the utter lack of misogyny contained in his performances. Even Blue Valentine, the film that comes the closest to presenting a potentially negative view of the female lead refuses to indulge in the simplistic and juvenile cheap-shots which would come naturally to the frequently pathologically resentful denizens of online incel forums. Instead, these films present the female lead, in spite of the obvious anguish her actions inflict on Goslings character, as a deeply conflicted and ultimately sympathetic figure.

Understanding Goslings performances as non-misogynistic depictions of the incel condition is a bit misleading, however. A better way to understand them, perhaps, are as post-misogynistic performances. It is an almost zen-like condition most acutely displayed in the Drivers strange, detached confidence. It is the kind of confidence that can only be acquired when one has ceased to desire; a thousand yard stare of the heart, if you will. This kind of detached heroism doesnt necessarily preclude the possibility of love and empathy, however. In fact, it seems somehow to heighten them, but not necessarily in the traditionally romantic way, as we can observe in Goslings most recent, and most complex film, Blade Runner 2049.

tl:dr- Ryan Gosling portrayed a lot of characters which the author feels were either literal or spiritual Incels.
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A lot of celebrities were incels. That's what drove them to success.
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The real chad is the guy who's hot but doesn't care about banging bitches anyway.
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XD. I totally forgot about the film Lars and the Real Girl. Yep that was an incel movie way before this incel thing got big.
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Damn he was good in 2049
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