Learning about Norma McCorvey for my humanities class and finding myself struck by the sadness of her story. I find myself wanting some kind of justice for her despite her deep flaws and bad choices, and not knowing what justice for her postmortem even looks like.
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
read it and weep bitches
Don’t overlook any anomalies.
If you find anomalies, turn back immediately.
If you don’t find anomalies, do not turn back.
Head into the infinite corridor with the official trailer for EXIT 8, based on the global hit video game.
The producers of SCREAM 7 are bad decision makers?
The same producers who fired their lead actress for vocally opposing the killing of unarmed women and children? They’re so good at reading the tone of the room!
Annoying people have started replying to the hit skeet and I would like u all to go away now
Exactly. Man, I cry during most documentaries I watch because I guess I am a weak and malleable viewer, deeply affected by the human experience like some kind of pleb.
Wow hit skeet
Follow me for more occasional film complaints and maybe even some actual writing with effort put into it
(oh, side note, seeing The Tick out in the wild is always a treat 🤝)
Totally agree, just think the choice of language is silly. Unearned pivotal moments are emotionally manipulative, yes, but so is a successful film's attempt at the same thing. The more accurate description is indeed that it is unearned.
I sympathize, ET is one of my favorites of all time but I cannot bring myself to worship Spielberg as a director or see his ENTIRE filmography as "best of the best" level. I've seen people earnestly say "he's never made a bad movie". Like, did we all watch the same Ready Player One or..?
I think what sparked this skeet (are we still calling bluesky posts that?) was a review of a documentary, too. My eye twitcheth
I have movies like that too. Instead of calling them manipulative I see it as being tryhard, or maybe disingenuous, unconfident. When a movie's attempts at emotional manipulation become so clear to the audience that it's annoying, it feels like the filmmaker is not confident in their skills.
Every time I see someone critique a movie as "emotionally manipulative" I shed a little tear because all movies are emotionally manipulative, you fool. It isn't real! Why are you crying! Just say it's trying too hard because that's what you actually mean.
It’s Black History Month.
Another good excuse to say, “Read James Baldwin’s collected essays,” especially if you’re melanin challenged.
www.loa.org/books/121-co...
He's very well-liked and from what I know has experienced 0 controversies or meaningful drama
Hating Aronofsky for AI slop but not how he continually pretends exploitation is empathy and films people he views as lesser-than like sideshow attractions??
Where have y’all been???
nah fuck this nonsense, i dont wanna hear any white men talk about OBAA no more i'm tired. i'm tired. shut up
They'll nominate Teyana Taylor for #OneBattleAfterAnother but not for A Thousand and One. I'm tired.
#filmsky #oscars
For Privileged people, Social Justice isn't so you can declare yourself a "good person", it's so you can learn to make yourself a safe person to be around for people unlike you while you fight with them to get them their rights.
Haven't been to very many concerts in my life (like, "count on one hand" not many). Only one was a woman: Aretha Franklin when I was 12. Great memory.
This happened today and is a big story more news outlets should be reporting on but of course they aren't
Watched #OneBattleAfterAnother and #TheAlabamaSolution this evening. Two movies that care about what they're saying, but obviously Alabama Solution takes the cake. I don't think I could reasonably compare them in a truly just way.
Living it up
#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #filmsky
No walls. No borders.
Why?
Because I would like to visit.
Let me in.
Real tired of hearing mushbrain political takes from people who genuinely do not know how to put a fucking sentence together legibly
These people are writing things in all one sentence like word vomit and it is fucking incomprehensible
Significant because the government wants you to think this woman was a leftist troublemaker who was responsible for her own death. If this were the case then they wouldn’t have her up on the screen at a sporting event. I wouldn’t expect every NBA team to do this but it’s good they did it in Minnie
I am so tired of hearing "XYZ didn't look like the type of person who could kill some1" like we as a society don't know by now criminals don't have a "look" like be SO serious
does a movie have to be "relatable" to be good or can we simply observe something different
im confused,
