Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
at its essence, this movie is just copaganda cloaked as an examination of the vancouver stanley cup riots. police are openly stating that they’re monitoring social media feeds and pictures taken by news publications and everyone in the film is just like “that’s what should happen.” too many wannabe cops, not enough discussion on the implications of surveillance (and the communities that will inevitably be affected by that surveillance). they didn’t even discuss the canucks and their franchise history! get this shit off my screen.
Couldn’t help but think of Fanon’s brief musings on sports from “Wretched of the Earth” while watching:
“The stadium is not an urban showpiece but a rural space that is cleared, worked and offered to the nation. The capitalist notion of sports is fundamentally different from that which should exist in an underdeveloped country. The African politician should not be concerned with producing professional sportsmen, but conscious individuals who also practice sports. If sports are not incorporated into the life…