In all fairness to the movie, I watched it over two nail refill sessions so I didn’t really sit down and appreciate it, but I don’t think I needed to. It just seemed so off… like I know they didn’t want their daughter throwing her law career away and that’s why they didn’t want her getting married, but it lowkey just gave racist and felt just very white people comedy
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Poor Things 2023
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Idk how to explain my feelings on this movie. I loved the cinematography of it, and I think the acting performances were well done, but I disagree with the concept of the film as a whole and found it quite disturbing.
The idea that this was considered a huge feminist piece when the entirety of the film centred around the sexual identity of essentially a “born sexy yesterday” caricature of a person is really weird and not really feminist. The…
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The Sterilization of Leilani Muir 1996
It feels somehow unethical to give this film a rating. Watched it in a history of madness class for uni, had a long discussion about the sensationalization of historical trauma (the music choices + editing combo was WILD - akin almost to horror-esque soundtracks/shots, which plays into the misappropriation of what was a very real and cruel history for ‘entertainment value’) and how proximity to whiteness makes your trauma more sympathetic/worthy of being screened. It was an interesting conversation to have at 9am on a Tuesday morning. I feel the most I can say is you can tell the documentary is a product of the 90s
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