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Really looking forward to Newsome putting the homeless people in Los Angeles into concentration camps for the 2028 Olympics, and then beating J.D. Vance in a landslide a few months later.
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uh let me do A24 Civil War
Civil War had the baffling decision to have California and Texas team up against Washington and when asked about it, Garland said something along the lines of one would hope a team of rivals could work together to defeat a dictator and that the movie wasn't about politics anyway
it'll happen after the nation of CA manufactures a color revolution and installs Beto as the Rightful President of Texas
It's #His turn.
I don't think a movie made me angrier
At least not in recent memory
it's exquisite
Alex Garland:
I was just kind of
by the choices made during most of the movie, but thought the last 20 minutes were funny.
Alex Garland:
I gotta recommend The Morbid Zoo's excellent video essay on the movie: Journalism and the Passive Aggression of Civil War . I love Alex Garland movies, but Civil War's themes are fairly simple (to the point of being reductive and incorrect) as addressed in the video.
I would give anything to be able to throw a cat without it snagging its claws on anticommunist drivel like when this lady feels the need to characterize "communist newsletters" as completely uninterested in truth and falsehood, only in subversion, and via diagram explains that they are completely outside of the frame of "legitimate disagreement" while the entire American "consensus" is inside of it. Before you say anything, she was using this model as a framework to explain how she thinks things really are, rather than to refute it.
I swear to god it's so inescapable to hear any kind of political commentary from one of these fucking "video essayists" without it at some point devolving into lazy anticommunism.
Edit: The one thing I really appreciate is how she's evidently a big fan of Manufacturing Consent (see the floor shots), which can tell you a whole lot about the reception of that book.
Edit 2: The idealist screed at the end is also annoying, but honestly I can gratefully say those are usually relegated to people such as video essayists who have forgotten what the material world is.
Cultural fascism strikes yet again. WeSSterners are cooked.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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Portland Maoists are having their day in the sun!
That film is the perfect encapsulation of AmeriKKKa. It's all vibes and has zero thought put into the setting.
I can't even remember it. I keep remembering, uh, the story arc in Battle Angel Alita where a voyeuristic photographer follows the Barjack rebellion as they lay siege to the Scrapyard, and his nearly erotic fascination with capturing the joy and suffering of it.
At least that character (and Barjack in general) had some personality!