Hozier - Dinner & Diatribes (Official Video)

Gonna tell my kids this was The Menu (2022)

Title: "Dinner & Diatribes" Me and my dyslexia: "Dinner & Diabetes"

If I had a nickel for every time i’ve seen Anya Taylor Joy playing a girl not acting as expected at a dinner full of fancy people and trying to escape the crazy host, just to end up the film with a human s’more, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

Me: “I think I am straight” Joy: “nope” Me: “oh I think I might be lesbian” Hozier: “wrong again”

Hozier: only has a mustache Me: I've never seen this man before in my life

people not recognizing Hozier with a moustache is the equivalent of Dr. Doofenshmirtz not recognizing Perry without his hat

Okay, so in the beginning he eats a burnt marshmallow but his teeth are already dirty from the previous ones. Since setting yourself on fire means being in love (in this video), roasting a marshmallow over that fire and enjoying it means that you enjoy watching someone agonizing in love for you. So basically it means that he approves of only this kind of love, a huge one that makes a fire of him. He made others to burn for him, that's why his teeth are dirty, and he wants to feel it too. So when she tries to light him up, she's not serious, she's just flirting. He doesn't react and that makes her irritated. Also she gets hurt in the process (almost lights herself up - he smiles at that, she's already in his net) so it's risky for her, she might fall too. And the half-circle turn, when the camera moves at 1:08 means that she's halfway through to being in love. (It correlates with the same moment at 2:14 but that time that will be a full circle - completely in love). She tries to capture his attention in other ways, like climbing over that table, but that doesn't help her. He's still waiting for her to give up. She's not going to flirt and just leave him, she has to fall for him for real. Her body betrays her every time she tries to leave. The servants are the symbol of his will and they bring her back on her Seat at the table (name of this movie by the way) until she's ready. I'm not sure what they tell her at 2:46, it's either "you're in love now you've gone full circle" lol or "you can leave now", because at first she doesn't believ, but then she either gets scared or glad that she can finally leave - no one's stopping her now, and she tries to escape but she understands that she can't (because she really doesn't want to leave him). And then she gets serious, he finally sees that and burns, she enjoys that (by eating a marshmallow), but it doesn't last for long. She's not going to move on from this and do this to other men (like we know he did to other women many times before), she won't be a player because these feeling immediately become reciprocated, she falls for him. And everything goes according to his plan, he gets the love he's been waiting for, when both of you are in love without playing around

I wish the Spotify version had the chorus at the beginning and end. Gorgeous addition.

Fuck she is seriously such a great actress

Therapist: Mustache Hozier isn’t real he can’t hurt you Mustache Hozier:

I think a lot of people are missing the meaning of Diatribes here... It's a bitter verbal attack towards something or someone... Watching this and taking that into consideration my interpretation of this song is two lovers who fall in love with each other through intellectual sparring. Sometimes using others to do their bidding, both try not to show how impressed they are with each attempt but finding themselves combusting with attraction. At times becoming offended and literally attacking and when not getting the reaction they want they flirt or attempt physically seducing the other with looks or actions. Obviously, one is more experienced than the other. Ah, the appeal of manipulation, darkness, grotesque and the unseemly, toxicity defined.

I don’t care if it’s toxic I want what they have

If Hozier makes a concept album based on Greek mythology it would be the death of me.

Director: So what do you want to do for this video? Hozier: Idk set me on fire

Hozier didn't do a thing in this video but look into the camera , but this video did something to me.

wow The Menu looks great

that girl looks like she would be real good a chess. what a queen.

That girl is suchha good actor. She should get a netflix show.

They're both way too good at nuanced acting, this is a whole movie

Dude, they so have the chemistry! Just that look in their eyes! Why have I only seen this now??! Thank you Youtube algorithm!