TLDR 2012 movie Chronicle was black pilled as hell and the most brutal thing I’ve seen made in recent times.
3 kids discover a meteor, get superpowers, yada yada yada. The 3 kids are Steve (Michael B Jordan) sporty popular black guy, Matt (Alex Russell) weird pseudo intellectual stoner but who because he’s high tier normie and rich is still able to function in school and the main character turned ER type villain Andrew (Dane DeHaan) a weird autistic outcast who spends his time filming people, being beaten by his drunk father while his sick mother uses up all the money they have on her medical treatment and being bullied at school.
Here’s why Chronicle is black pilled.
Andrew and Matt are cousins but as high school approached Matt had distanced himself to protect his image. He still drives Andrew (who’s too autistic to drive) to school but hangs back or actively avoids Andrew in public.
Andrew is too terrified to really be anywhere at school. He eats alone at the top of the sports area, only being approached to be told he’s a creep.
Throughout the movie Andrew has no agency. People tell him what he’s going to do and completely ignore his own wishes. The party he’s forced to go to that will eventually lead to his developing superpowers and later his hERoism and death is a great example. Matt tells him they’re going to a party. Andrew repeatedly says “I DONT GO TO PARTIES. I DONT GO TO PARTIES. I DONT GO TO PARTIES” and Matt just says “okay, well when we go to the party…” Andrew goes to the party.
Despite being cousins and Matt being extremely wealthy, no help is given from Matt’s side of the family to Andrew’s impoverished household not even to help with medicine for the mother and the director’s cut is even more brutal than the official version. Matt’s mother has her birthday and Matt abandons Andrew and Steve to attend it, with Andrew not even invited because presumably the rich aunt doesn’t want her weird autistic nephew wandering around embarrassing her in front of her social crowd. This was cut from the official version but can be watched in the directors cut. I don’t know why it was cut because it is brutal and something a lot of autistics can relate to (not even being included in family gatherings).
Like Andrew, there’s a girl called Casey (Ashley Hinshaw) who spends her time filming people without their consent and is equally socially awkward. She actually briefly approaches Andrew at the barn party seeing his camera but immediately loses interest in him when he speaks. She then sees Matt and completely forgets Andrew is there, pivoting to him. Despite the fact that her and Matt seem to be friends who end up romantically involved with each other, she is not even aware that Andrew is his cousin at that time. When she is speaking to Matt later at the talent show she speaks about Andrew like he’s a child “oh your cousin’s so cute in his little suit”. Average tier Autistics are used to this being infantilised by people.
Andrew is only called to the meteor because of his camera. If he didn’t have the camera, he would never have even known it’s there because nobody would have bothered to get him. Again, we see how people treat Andrew like a child who has no agency. He doesn’t want to go into the cave the meteor made but the other 2 boys don’t care.
After Andrew uses his superpowers to win the talent show (again which he didn’t want to do but was made to do by people who know what’s in his best interests better than he does, something autistic people are only too used to) he briefly becomes high value and gets approached by an older girl Monica (played by Dane DeHaan’s real life wife Anna Wood) who flirts with him. Andrew has no clue what he’s doing but because he’s now high value from winning the talent show Monica ignores the awkwardness and drags him upstairs where he fails to perform and she publicly humiliates him making his situation worse now than it was with the bullying before his superpowers because now he’s a cancelled sexual freak rather than just the weird kid. I believe he vomits sperm from his mouth because of his powers. Regardless, in the rare instance autistic guys manage to get a girl through statusmaxxing it frequently goes horrifically wrong and frequently leads to him becoming a cancelled pariah. Andrew is now worse off as a cancelled sexual freak after ascending than he was specifically being an incel.
In a scene of peak autism Andrew finally defends himself from his father but doesn’t actually kill him despite that he could have taken up into the clouds and dropped him because Andrew is not yet ready to harm people. Andrew flees his house and flies into the sky where Steve chases him up and backs him into a corner telling him to come down back to the ground because it’s not safe. Andrew, backed into a corner and experiencing autistic sensory overload annd resenting being spoken to like a child by a boy his own age explodes and accidentally kills Steve (yes the black guy dies first lol).
Andrew now deteriorates and we end the movie with Andrew realizing it’s ovER. Andrew goes around Seattle killing people after the death of his mother although he doesn’t kill anyone that’s actually innocent in that he kills the thugs outside his house, accidentally kills a gas station attendant who chases him with a shotgun after he robs him, and then kills police in his spree. He attempts to kill Casey- the only attempted victim who isn’t trying to physically harm him- but fails to do so.
The most black pilled part of the movie is that when Andrew dies he is killed by Matt, his own cousin, who stabs him in the back with a statue to stop him killing the police who Andrew is attempting to kill after he became enraged when those same police officers shot Matt. The idea of the autistic kid being killed by his own family to protect strangers that were themselves harming not only Andrew but the family member that kills Andrew is something autistics can all imagine. We have probably all had our families rush to apologise on our behalf when we dare to stick up for ourselves- OR EVEN THEM- against other people.
Chronicle is the most brutally black pilled movie I’ve ever seen made in recent times. I think pretty much every autistic person can relate (I can also relate to another Dane DeHaan character- Jason Glanton in The Place Beyond the Pines who’s similar to Andrew but slightly less retarded).
Screenwriter Max Landis was cancelled and everybody else moved on to other things (the two surviving main characters, Matt and Casey, were played by actors who’s careers have now taken off for example) while the cancelling of Max Landis made Chronicle toxic to normies to generate a sequel too which is why there was never a sequel to Chronicle (the producers wanted to make a soy feminist sequel with three women developing the same superpowers but using it to improve the world rather than going ER- although one was apparently going to become infatuated with Matt and try to track him down).
The planned sequel, even though it was never made, ruins Chronicle for me because I know this based movie was made by people who were prepared to go soy to capitalize on a previously good movie. I still think Chronicle is black pilled but the normie sequel that was never made just ruins it to the people the original appealed to.
3 kids discover a meteor, get superpowers, yada yada yada. The 3 kids are Steve (Michael B Jordan) sporty popular black guy, Matt (Alex Russell) weird pseudo intellectual stoner but who because he’s high tier normie and rich is still able to function in school and the main character turned ER type villain Andrew (Dane DeHaan) a weird autistic outcast who spends his time filming people, being beaten by his drunk father while his sick mother uses up all the money they have on her medical treatment and being bullied at school.
Here’s why Chronicle is black pilled.
Andrew and Matt are cousins but as high school approached Matt had distanced himself to protect his image. He still drives Andrew (who’s too autistic to drive) to school but hangs back or actively avoids Andrew in public.
Andrew is too terrified to really be anywhere at school. He eats alone at the top of the sports area, only being approached to be told he’s a creep.
Throughout the movie Andrew has no agency. People tell him what he’s going to do and completely ignore his own wishes. The party he’s forced to go to that will eventually lead to his developing superpowers and later his hERoism and death is a great example. Matt tells him they’re going to a party. Andrew repeatedly says “I DONT GO TO PARTIES. I DONT GO TO PARTIES. I DONT GO TO PARTIES” and Matt just says “okay, well when we go to the party…” Andrew goes to the party.
Despite being cousins and Matt being extremely wealthy, no help is given from Matt’s side of the family to Andrew’s impoverished household not even to help with medicine for the mother and the director’s cut is even more brutal than the official version. Matt’s mother has her birthday and Matt abandons Andrew and Steve to attend it, with Andrew not even invited because presumably the rich aunt doesn’t want her weird autistic nephew wandering around embarrassing her in front of her social crowd. This was cut from the official version but can be watched in the directors cut. I don’t know why it was cut because it is brutal and something a lot of autistics can relate to (not even being included in family gatherings).
Like Andrew, there’s a girl called Casey (Ashley Hinshaw) who spends her time filming people without their consent and is equally socially awkward. She actually briefly approaches Andrew at the barn party seeing his camera but immediately loses interest in him when he speaks. She then sees Matt and completely forgets Andrew is there, pivoting to him. Despite the fact that her and Matt seem to be friends who end up romantically involved with each other, she is not even aware that Andrew is his cousin at that time. When she is speaking to Matt later at the talent show she speaks about Andrew like he’s a child “oh your cousin’s so cute in his little suit”. Average tier Autistics are used to this being infantilised by people.
Andrew is only called to the meteor because of his camera. If he didn’t have the camera, he would never have even known it’s there because nobody would have bothered to get him. Again, we see how people treat Andrew like a child who has no agency. He doesn’t want to go into the cave the meteor made but the other 2 boys don’t care.
After Andrew uses his superpowers to win the talent show (again which he didn’t want to do but was made to do by people who know what’s in his best interests better than he does, something autistic people are only too used to) he briefly becomes high value and gets approached by an older girl Monica (played by Dane DeHaan’s real life wife Anna Wood) who flirts with him. Andrew has no clue what he’s doing but because he’s now high value from winning the talent show Monica ignores the awkwardness and drags him upstairs where he fails to perform and she publicly humiliates him making his situation worse now than it was with the bullying before his superpowers because now he’s a cancelled sexual freak rather than just the weird kid. I believe he vomits sperm from his mouth because of his powers. Regardless, in the rare instance autistic guys manage to get a girl through statusmaxxing it frequently goes horrifically wrong and frequently leads to him becoming a cancelled pariah. Andrew is now worse off as a cancelled sexual freak after ascending than he was specifically being an incel.
In a scene of peak autism Andrew finally defends himself from his father but doesn’t actually kill him despite that he could have taken up into the clouds and dropped him because Andrew is not yet ready to harm people. Andrew flees his house and flies into the sky where Steve chases him up and backs him into a corner telling him to come down back to the ground because it’s not safe. Andrew, backed into a corner and experiencing autistic sensory overload annd resenting being spoken to like a child by a boy his own age explodes and accidentally kills Steve (yes the black guy dies first lol).
Andrew now deteriorates and we end the movie with Andrew realizing it’s ovER. Andrew goes around Seattle killing people after the death of his mother although he doesn’t kill anyone that’s actually innocent in that he kills the thugs outside his house, accidentally kills a gas station attendant who chases him with a shotgun after he robs him, and then kills police in his spree. He attempts to kill Casey- the only attempted victim who isn’t trying to physically harm him- but fails to do so.
The most black pilled part of the movie is that when Andrew dies he is killed by Matt, his own cousin, who stabs him in the back with a statue to stop him killing the police who Andrew is attempting to kill after he became enraged when those same police officers shot Matt. The idea of the autistic kid being killed by his own family to protect strangers that were themselves harming not only Andrew but the family member that kills Andrew is something autistics can all imagine. We have probably all had our families rush to apologise on our behalf when we dare to stick up for ourselves- OR EVEN THEM- against other people.
Chronicle is the most brutally black pilled movie I’ve ever seen made in recent times. I think pretty much every autistic person can relate (I can also relate to another Dane DeHaan character- Jason Glanton in The Place Beyond the Pines who’s similar to Andrew but slightly less retarded).
Screenwriter Max Landis was cancelled and everybody else moved on to other things (the two surviving main characters, Matt and Casey, were played by actors who’s careers have now taken off for example) while the cancelling of Max Landis made Chronicle toxic to normies to generate a sequel too which is why there was never a sequel to Chronicle (the producers wanted to make a soy feminist sequel with three women developing the same superpowers but using it to improve the world rather than going ER- although one was apparently going to become infatuated with Matt and try to track him down).
The planned sequel, even though it was never made, ruins Chronicle for me because I know this based movie was made by people who were prepared to go soy to capitalize on a previously good movie. I still think Chronicle is black pilled but the normie sequel that was never made just ruins it to the people the original appealed to.
