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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/pompingcircumstance on 2023-08-31 00:59:02+00:00.

The ‘quality’ part of the title is slightly subjective, but are there many (or even any) films that come to mind which have two separate plots- not ones that eventually intertwine, ones that remain separate, maybe linked by some vague themes but not directly- where you consider one of those stories significantly better than the other?

I’ll mention one I think of to give a better idea of what I mean:

Harmony Korine’s Mr Lonely is a pretty key example for me- the subplot with the nuns is actually interesting but it’s so unrelated to the tale of troubled celebrity impersonators bonding (apart from perhaps in fairly vague general symbolic ways), and never gets a chance to fully flourish so it feels wildly misplaced even in a surreal film like that one. The main plot about the aforementioned impersonators was more than enough, and the secondary plot was strong enough for a short film or maybe even a separate full length one if attached to a more directly relevant subplot.