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Safe 1995
In a time of heavy-handed narratives and pandering moral tones, ambiguity is refreshing. On the surface none of these characters are redeemable, but the confusing contradictions in which they live elicit visceral sympathy.
Carol has a blatantly psychological illness, an illness created by her own (introspectively) sedentary and underdeveloped life. She comes from an unsympathetic class position; she doesnt do anything. Her total lack of preparedness to even conceive of her affliction creates a refraction of the illness. It is…Translated from by
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Je Tu Il Elle 1974
Roomf did such a good job with the 15 min lesbian sex scene that i didn’t know was in the movie. There’s a lot of interesting things happening in this film, but i think the sex scene was my favorite. I wrote an article a year ago abt the way that sex is portrayed in “culture,” (really just the way we talk abt it). The liberation of the sex act to an oddly newfound free and open discussion within cultural…
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Dave Chappelle: What's in a Name? 2022
The man is magnetic to say the least. Some will call it a 40 min masturbation, which maybe it is, but i can’t get out of my head the fact that he looks at the floor for almost the entire special.
For all the talk of artistic freedom, it’s a shame that Chapelle seems to conceive of art as something that exists only on a television or a stage. If this was filmed in 1968 he would certainly be holler abt the feminists trying to “silence” poor Andy Warhol. What could convince him that Solanas may have performed the work of the century?
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