All-inclusive? I think so! Our most global word? Perhaps! A simple Twitter search reveals its usage by three wildly disparate sources: (1) Elon Musk, who recently so eloquently opined that “Zuck is a cuck” (2) users dunking on Ben Shapiro, whose 40-minute screed on his emasculation at the hands of the Barbie movie has been labeled a sort of ironic cucking in and of itself and (3) the subtitle of an NSFW video of a girl who’s hocking a major loogie at the camera. Urban Dictionary alone offers countless different pages of definitions for the word. ![]() The Biggest Cheating Scandals in Sports Movie History, Ranked Introducing the Zillennial Cult Comedy Cinematic Universe Some Movies Are Filled Exclusively With Jerks. Let us also not pretend that during the last several years, it has not become (for better or worse) something far more universal, its definition stretching from “insult for a man whose wife is cheating on him” to a sort of catchall for any spineless or subservient specimen. But let us not pretend that the word “cuck” itself, with its monosyllabic brevity and hard consonant punch, doesn’t rule. Sure, “cuck” has had a long and winding journey to its current moment in the cinematic spotlight, from Geoffrey Chaucer’s use of “cuckold” to cuck’s place as the insult du jour of myriad far-right trolls. (Side note: After being set for a September 15 release date, Challengers has now been postponed to 2024, no doubt for fear of an excess of Hollywood cucking.) ![]() That’s the aforementioned Past Lives, in which Greta Lee cucks John Magaro until they hug it out, and the upcoming Challengers, in which Zendaya appears to cuck Josh O’Connor and/or Mike Faist. Song and her husband, Justin Kuritzkes, have independently written (and in Song’s case, directed) two films centered almost exclusively on the act of cucking. Are they friends? Lovers? What’s going on here? To the audience, however, it’s remarkably clear: This man is getting cucked.Ĭuck cinema is having a mainstream moment. Over this image, in hushed tones other bar patrons try to suss out what the relationship of these three individuals might be. One of the men deep in conversation with the woman, the other sitting quietly off to the side, sipping his drink. Celine Song’s 2023 film, Past Lives, opens with a simple image: two men and a woman at a bar.
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