While I appreciate the film’s cinematography and editing as artistic achievements, it feels a bit too clever for its own good. The visuals are overly crafted to the point that they overshadow the story, making it harder for the viewer to engage with the subject rather than just admiring the aesthetics.
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Hasan Minhaj: Off with His Head 2024
> The problem wasn’t so much the untruthfulness of his act as how it felt both opportunistic and cynical. Minhaj wasn’t just a middle-class kid from a college town outside Sacramento; he cast himself as someone who grappled with intense racism and Islamophobia, which, in turn, gave him increased moral authority onstage. During the Trump Presidency, figures such as Minhaj became part of a highly visible, multicultural resistance that never quite said anything radical, but certainly clothed itself in such terminology…
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