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The Seed of the Sacred Fig 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This film may work as a political allegory, but is entirely unconvincing as familial drama. Sana's motivations for stealing the gun and then refusing to fess up when faced with the dire consequences the theft may have on the family, remain unexplained and make no sense except through Rasoulof's revolutionary lens. I'm sure that Western audiences will lap this movie up because its message is self-congratulatory and entirely uncritical of the forces - apartheid, genocide, American imperialism and hegemony -…
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997
Missing from this otherwise fine film is any mention of the fact that from 1964 to 1973, the U.S. dropped more than two million tons of ordnance on Laos during 580,000 bombing missions—equal to a planeload of bombs every 8 minutes, 24-hours a day, for 9 years – making Laos the most heavily bombed country per capita in history. That's more than all bombs dropped during WWII combined.
This omission, of course, does not diminish Dieter's horrifying experiences during his…
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Showgirls of Pakistan 2020
Let it be known that these women persevered despite tremendous odds.
Let it be known that a truly free, independent woman - whether scantily-clad or dressed in a burqa - poses an existential threat to the patriarchal norms of respectability imposed by colonizers and maintained by the Pakistani elite.
Let it be known that Pakistanis know how to party, not just in the chic stylish villas of Islamabad and Karachi, but in dungy muhallahs all over this ancient, beautiful and…
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