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  Tongues Untied 1989

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 03 Mar 2025

  “Silence is my shield (it crushes). Silence is my cloak (it smothers). Silence is my sword (it cuts). This is the view of our most talented tenth, the movers and shakers, the imagemakers considered the militants who follow their lead. Their jokes, their laughs, form a chorus of contempt. Each joke levels us a little more and we sit silently, sometimes joining in the laughter as if deep down we too believe we are the lowest among the low. No…

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  At Berkeley 2013

  ★★★★½ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  At Berkeley’s opening scene showcases a Black student’s argument that she shouldn’t have to care about the collapse of the American White middle class pertaining towards poverty and increased costs for higher education, arguing that this phenomenon has been happening for the past century especially in Black communities and perpetuated from the foundational exploitation of America’s creation. By placing this concept at the beginning of his expansive coverage of this educational monolith, Wiseman builds upon the frustrations of the aforementioned…

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  Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1975

  ★ Watched 29 Apr 2022 2

  A superficial shit (literally) "critique" on fascism solely based on shock value with no real substance at all. To quote another letterboxd user, "...it has no point. If Salo is about fascism, then Shark Tale is about the 2008 financial crisis."

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  Queer 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 12 Dec 2024

  epilogue made me want to rip all of my skin off and pour bleach of my exposed musculature and facial structure terrifier-2 style…. it was pretty good!

  also starting ur 1950s period piece with a sinéad o’connor cover of a nirvana song with come as you are immediately succeeding it adds at least +1,000 bonus points