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tired of everyone on here reducing icepick joe down to haha funny stabby man

like i DO like the jokes and memes, don't get me wrong, but like

there's SO MUCH to his character and he really does tie into goncharov's main themes

like. we're told early on the he was put into a mental institution as a young man due to his breakdown and inconsolable grief at losing his older brother giorno (who was his only living family and basically a father figure to him!)

wherein he was mistreated and was HEAVILY IMPLIED to be scheduled for a lobotomy before he escaped. (in fact, some interpretations say he actually received and survived the lobotomy, citing his manner of speaking and his lack of impulse control. but that's a whole separate discussion because i can honestly see both sides)

and then he turns to a life of crime because that's basically the only option he had left, after being deprived of so many opportunities in his youth (and the fear of being caught and involuntarily institutionalized again)

and him eventually leaning into the role of "violent madman" that the world thrust onto him for showing signs of mental illness in a way that was nonviolent, but was loud and inconvenient and impossible for those around him to simply push away.

and him taking his rage out at the same world that not only killed his brother but forced him to undergo years of psychiatric abuse and basically dehumanization

(like seriously, how do SO MANY people miss the connection between him using an icepick as a weapon and the concept of an ICEPICK lobotomy)

which. yknow. ties heavily into the film's theme of people being pushed to society's margins and forced into a life of crime, instead of given the help they desperately needed

and then like.

his fucking death scene. he tries to put a stop to the cycle of senseless violence, taking the fall for andrey, telling michailov that *he* was the one who killed luciana

him kneeling down and allowing michailov to bash him through the skull with his very own icepick. it's more lobotomy symbolism; dying from the very thing he spent his whole life running from. further driving home the film's themes of repeating cycles and futility

and then, to drive it all home, that sacrifice didn't even end up stopping the cycle of violence! because andrey viewed joe as basically an older brother (mirroring joe and giorno) and tried to get revenge on michailov for killing joe.

like. come on.

plots or overrated. give me more stories that are just vibes.

people be like “andrey/goncharov are literal soulmates! a greek tragedy! they’re star-crossed, goncharov killing andrey was how they were meant to end up, but they loved each other throughout every betrayal and every gunshot!!” when katya and sofia and “the world wants you dead” “do you want me dead? “never” “then the world doesn’t want me dead” iS RGHT THERE

I know, I know, everyone talks about Goncharov's themes of overcoming your past, the cycle of violence, the Gay, etc. but I feel like the theme of seeking home needs to be talked about more too! I love how all the main characters are trying to find a new or an old home in different ways.

Let's start with Goncharov: he obviously wants to be the Big Tough Mafia Man (tm) and does his best to burn all his links to his past. And in the present, his home/marriage with Katya is falling apart, and he starts to find happiness with Andry. Regardless of whether you read Goncharov and Andry's love as romantic or platonoic, Goncharov accidently finds a home in his relationship with Andry yet still clings to his life with the Mafia and his "perfect" marriage to Katya. He rejects both his past and present homes.

And of course Andrey's whole thing throughout the film is running from his past. He's ashamed of what he's done and is afraid that he'll never be accepted or find a home anywhere. He has no one. Until he meets Goncharov. Then he slowly realizes throughout the movie that it might be possible to find love and a home. But of course he has to deal with the period-typical/internalized homophobia and the inherent tragedy in that Andrey knows nothing but to betray and destroy relationships and protect himself so that of course leads to an ending where he loses his home only after he had it within reach.

Next, Katya. I love the parallels between her and Andrey- both have regrets in their past that they are trying to escape from, both feel that they are unworthy of love or having a home, neither are sure they even know what home is. Katya obviously didn't have a happy childhood with her rich family that only cared about connections and politics and marriage. Katya doesn't want to return to her past. She's never had a home, and has no home to return to, and no idea of what home feels like.

Katya's arc is tied to Sophia's. Unlike other characters, Sophia does have a home that she loves, but she cannot return to. After the death of her parents, Sophia grew up in an orphanage and then when that burned to the ground it's implied she lived on the streets for a while. Her home has constantly been uprooted and destroyed, so her arc is figuring out where and with whom to make her new home. Sophia is afraid she'll find home and won't belong. She's afraid she'll never find a home where she'll feel true belonging and love, so she runs from love and home. This is what makes Sophia's offer to Katya to run away together so important. This is the moment where both Katya and Sophia realize that they can create "home" together, that it is possible to find home.

And I love how Sophia's home theme parallels Ice Pick Joe's! We never see Joe's parents- it's implied that his parents died when he was young and he was raised by his brother Giorno. Giorno was his entire family, his home. After Giorno's death and Joe's breakdown resulting in him being institutionalized, Joe loses his only home. Both Joe and Sophia lost homes that they long so, so much to return to, but never can. The difference is in how their stories end and it is so tragic to see how things could've been different.

Just... how these people come from such different homes or lack of homes and try to find new homes in such different ways and learning that home can be such different things arghahga I live for that sort of thing