Film Theory: Inside the Mind of Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)

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. The show Believe It or Not is capable of producing more than five episodes per year. It sucks at that traditional entertainment and, in case you missed the title's miniature opening joke. on the title screen we come back to continue talking about Rick and Morty because you know what I like, you guys clearly like it and we only have five of these this year so we might as well make them count. The fourth season is the second episode, the old one. and the seat was everything we love about this show, a perfect combination of cerebral existentialism and poop jokes, story drops and other excrement, and although we have already seen a variety of emotions from Rick Sanchez, from sad Rick, angry Rick, Boring Rick, Pickled Rick.

This episode managed to show us a new side of his personality and also allude to details of his past, which remains more elusive than a jheri and an immense amite. This episode in particular is worth talking about because the glimpses we get into Rick's psyche probably sets the pace for what we can expect from this character for the rest of the season while also helping to clear up a lot of misconceptions that I think people have about Rick as a character, so to summarize in the episode, Rick announces that he is going on a solo adventure.

I have a quick solo adventure to continue and this one will not be directed by Ron Howard. Summer reveals that he's actually going to poop and that Rick, believe it or not, is a shy killjoy flying to an idyllic location. isolated planet to poop on the porcelain throne of his dreams, but discovers that someone else has been visiting his Oval Office and sets out to kill him in case you missed this one. Rick tries to stop someone else from pooping in his toilet as a metaphor. For him, trying to keep other people away from his personal life, keeping them at a distance from anything that feels intimate, the obvious metaphor was pretty obvious, but he wanted to make sure we all started with the same baseline after a little bit. detective work, Rick.

He discovers the identity of the intruding killjoy, an alien office worker named Tony. Rick's plan to kill Tony changes once Rick discovers that Tony's wife is dead. Can I look at a photo of my wife while you kill me? She's dead and I'm not. He doesn't

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joining her. Rick undergoes a sudden and characteristic change of heart and leaves a fart bomb instead of directly killing Tony. Well, let's get back to that in the meantime. Tony can't seem to let go of the bathroom and invades Rick's private part. dominance once again here Tony proves he's no fool by explaining to Rick why he's the shy killjoy, you know a chai popping is Rick, it's a futile bid for control, you want to take the only part of life you really think you is yours and you want to protect it from a universe that takes what it wants, took my wife, clearly took something from you again, explaining that the reason Rick likes being the only person on the entire planet while he poops is because It's the only way he feels safe. and in control Rick knows that there are infinite planets, universes and realities and that everything that happens on them is chaotic and random, so having his special poop time is the only thing Rick can really control in the end, since his past and your future are so out of control. her hands is a frustration she's talked about in previous episodes, specifically in Beth's ABC season 3 episode, the universe is basically an animal, you know, smart people have a chance to rise to the top, they take reality to go for a walk, but they will never stop trying. will throw you and eventually it will, but here it becomes even clearer, so the episode escalates when Rick places Tony in a version of the matrix designed to create a celestial experience, the chemical is a global ventilator, it connects to any section of your brain you want. the whatever-you-have section, in other words, Rick gives Tony everything he could have ever wanted and an ideal existence and Tony's

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This is because Tony cannot accept his own happiness. He is scared and forced to be miserable. He sounds familiar. because that's exactly how Rick operates Rick is a man who can make a perfectly realized cinematic simulation of an islet of the sky, but the one thing he can't do and the only problem he can't solve is how to be happy. It's ironic that he is the smartest man. in the universe that he can turn into a pickle or travel to infinite realities but he's miserable and there's no way he can science his way out of it is something he actually addresses to Beth during season 3 am I worse ?

You're smart when I know nothing matters, the universe is yours and I've never known a universe that was interested in him, so finally Rick found Tony, someone who is as incapable of accepting happiness as Rick, unlike everyone else. In the simulation pods, Tony rejects a perfect life which simultaneously makes Rick feel more connected to Tony, but at the same time angers him, making a final attempt to get Tony out of his life. Rick attempts to pull off an epic prank by giving Tony a laxative only to discover that Tony died while he was alive. to the max Rick offers his condolences as a generous gift to his family while also denying that the two were ever friends.

Hey, Tony's father, this is 8 billion in your local currency and this is a boy who is a clone, a new son, he is not my friend. Rick mourns the loss of his not his friend Tony, sits in the bathroom causing the trap he had set. Another epic prank involving a thousand holograms of Rick pointing and laughing at him. Rick sits on the porcelain throne of him, the king of loneliness, the spectacle. This episode isn't exactly subtle with the metaphors and messages in it, but there's still a lot to discover. Fundamentally, this episode is about the ways in which Rick keeps the people around him at a distance.

The way Rick behaves now is fundamentally influenced by his past, just as Tony's life is influenced by the loss of his wife when Tony mentions that the loss causes a complete change of heart and Rick indicates that Tony's story It has struck a chord. Rick has also experienced great loss, which is what has caused them both to be shy killjoys now. Up until this point, the truth about Rick Sanchez's past has been the show's biggest mystery. Why was Rick out of Beth's life for so many years? Where is Beth's mother and what did Rick do to her?

We know, based on Beth's existence, that she must have existed. at some point, anyone who knows this show well will immediately go back to one of its most iconic episodes, season 3 episode 1,

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shank redemption, which was about showing knees and memories jumping on

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shank redemption rick dives into the memories to show us and a grumpy investigator the day a younger Rick Sanchez had two men watch his partner Diane tragically die, except Rick's leader tells us this isn't a real memory, it was just a totally made-up origin story, now Well, the souvenir itself can definitely be manufactured there.

It's a real-world science that allows us to theorize about whether it's actually that far from the truth. It turns out that humans are really bad at generating original ideas. In fact, many neuroscientists believe that new ideas don't even exist, but our brains do. They are constantly remixed, we hear, feel, smell or taste. Researchers at the University of Haifa discovered that when an original idea is formed, the brain uses an associative region, which is what we consider our creative thinking. However, what is interesting is that this associative part of the brain still fundamentally involves recombining ideas that are already stored within the brain, what we think of as generating new ideas, is actually simply remixing old ideas in new ways, this was confirmed by researchers from the Institute of Psychology at the University of Graz, Austria, who confirmed that having a new idea and remembering an old memory actually show similar activation patterns in the brain, that doesn't mean we can't remix ideas to generate things that are incredibly innovative , it just means that there is a good idea in Rick Shank Redemption. probability that Rick's fabricated memories are actually based on some real-world experiences, so let's look at that fabricated memory again.

Diane and Beth died by Rick's own hands. Another Rick visits him from a different timeline offering him the opportunity to be an excuse to skip God. Yo, who do you think you're a different kind of Rick? I guess we'll see how long that lasts. Rick rejects the offer. A bomb falls into the garage sent through the portal to kill his family. We can assume this was sent by the other Rick. put our Rick on the right path, quote, now we know that this is not what really happened to Diane, as Beth says in episode Rick's Potion number nine.

Do you think Grandpa Rick had anything to do with this? It's not fair to assume that summer, give me a break, he is a selfish, irresponsible ass and left my mother, her real man supports her Worman, so while the false memory may not be how it actually happened in a symbolic sense , shows us that Rick blames himself and his war. for cutting Diane and Beth out of his life, well it's exciting to imagine this being caused by sci-fi shenanigans, the reality here is probably more mundane and less infuriating because Rick Dan died in his life because Rick went out of his way to be the La better scientific mind took her away in the process.

He lost his relationship with the only thing that could bring him true happiness. His family. He realized long ago that the greatest thing he had ever created. There are many other analysis channels and articles. Those who have tried to diagnose Rick with some type of mental disorder often settle on diagnoses like narcissistic personality disorder or antisocial personality disorder, but this episode shows that we can eliminate both diagnoses immediately, even though Rick sees himself as the most intelligent person in the galaxy and seems to lack empathy, he does not actually have a narcissistic personality disorder, in fact, he has suppressed his empathy, probably because he himself considers it toxic, as we saw in the episode, rest and relaxation, for As much as Rick hates him, he cares about his grandson.

So much so that even the seemingly hateful toxic version of Rick is willing to abandon his destructive quest to save Morty, are you okay? Likewise, Rick does not suffer from antisocial personality disorder or psychopathy, which is characterized by a complete lack of remorse for all your actions now, although it may not seem like it at first glance, Rick constantly experiences remorse throughout the series, to To begin with, his alcoholism alone is clearly self-medication to cope with the feelings of existential loss and unhappiness in the old man in the seat who attempts to correct Tony by extending a well-intentioned offer of kindness to his father.

Rick is even willing to put Morty's life above his own, as we see in a moment where Morty wastes his time stabilizing the caller and Rick takes off his collar to give Morty a way out of a situation of certain death, okay, be good, Morty know better than me are not actions of a narcissist or psychopath, so how do we explain Rick's clear and intentional acts of cruelty towards Tony if Rick is so desperate for a friend and actually is not a good psychopath, it is actually very easy, much more mundane and tremendously sad, anger, hostility, lashing out at those who are closest to us, all are common, but little is said about the symptoms of depression that come from our Our own feelings of being inadequate, those of us who are depressed often hurt those closest to them because deep down they believe they do not deserve love or happiness.

Their hostility alienates other people, thus confirming their own feelings of inadequacy. There have also been a number of reports about the fact that we are more aggressive towards the people we love because they are the ones in the greatest position to hurt us. Taking these ideas and applying them to Rick, it becomes clear why he reserves the cruelest of his insults. to his grandchildren when it comes to Jerry Rick barely expresses more than a little annoyance when it comes to people. Rick actually hates, he's content with killing him without insulting him, even letting him have the last laugh, dr.

Ben Zev of the University of Haifa points out in his book The Subtlety of Emotions that another reason for hurting those closest to us is the desire for more dependence and attention. Could Rick's cruelty actually be an attempt to get attention? Well, his catchphrase is "I love a job." done what we're told means I'm in a lot of pain please help me so yeah I'd say we're barking up the right tree so when Rick sets up elaborately cruel pranks to play on Tony what he's really saying is pay attention to me because secretly, that's what I really want.

Tony understands that cry for help and soSo much so, he is his friend and interestingly enough, there is a final twist here because when you apply this same logic to his family members, we arrive at Rick's favorite co-star is Summer and if you look at what actually happens in the episodes, he has a lot sense: it's summer who joins Rick to fix it and beat the devil. It's Summer who goes native in her Mad Max adventures and Rick the Man sees the stone to the point where Rick specifically compliments her on her creative use of his drink to win, It's Summer who recognizes Little Rick's downward spiral in big trouble and little Sanchez, thanks kids, you figured it out right, summer did, it's the reason she's the safe one when it comes to Morty's mine blowers and yet we have some of the worst insults in store for her, get out of here in the summer, you ruined the season 4 premiere.

Rick actively excludes her permission even though she is undoubtedly smarter and more capable than Morty, she even saved Rick's life on multiple occasions, and so did Tony. he can't kill her, he can't get rid of her in his life, so he actively undervalues ​​her and insults her, tries to push her away and keep her at a distance, but summer stays, he lets it pass, he recognizes what his grandfather is really doing and is able to answer that summer has been playing a more active role in many episodes that have come out over the last season and a half, so perhaps with Rick forced to face more emotional hang-ups, summer will end up being the key to unlocking it all. , only time will tell if that's just a

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