It references Beatrice Kiddo/ The Bride in the Tarantino films Kill Bill. I'm foregoing the spoiler warning for a movie from 2003, but the same music/red color is in the film whenever she recalls Bill killing her groom and bridal party, and shooting her in the face, leaving her for dead.
In 2022, the Mets were (are?) by far the team most likely to get hit by a pitch. It's a commentary on past trauma.
I do agree that social isolation, hopelessness, and the US culture of rugged individualism may play a factor here, but we don't have a monopoly on that. Or mental illness. Or bullying. And on and on.
In this context, the only metric in which the US far surpasses other OECD countries is gun ownership and our idolatry of guns.
EDIT: Plus the constitutional enshrinement of gun ownership, based on a document written in the 17th century.
I highly recommend the In/Frame/Out YouTube channel for dissections of good indie and older classic movies. His year-end lists are always satisfying. The Scottish accent is the cherry on top.
In 2022, the Mets were (are?) by far the team most likely to get hit by a pitch. It's a commentary on past trauma.