This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
you can tell this was written by guilty gen x men who 1. don't know anything about "redpill" social media and 2. want to sanitize and distance themselves from abuse and absenteeism by older men… complex issues that make male validation and hatred online appealing
1. the social media portrayal in this series is wild, online radicalization is boiled down to some mean messages on insta, one of the most mainstream and least extremist platforms that only holds short-form content,…
would have been a lot more engaging if the movie was split-screen with subway surfers so its soundtrack could drown out two hours of forced dialogue
its gameplay could have also provided an element of suspense for a character I was actually worried about getting caught—and that existed in a believable storyline
this film left me feeling very torn…
overall mishima’s facist idealism is pretty sickening and glorifies an era closely tied to mass killing and rape of china—with imperial japan’s total death toll being comparable to nazi germany—and yet the imperial family (the emperor this guy loves) still got pardoned and were allowed to retain some symbolic status despite all this
as an artist I can see and appreciate the universal themes touched on in literature he created earlier in life……
