Starts as a fascinating and hilarious insight into alienation of labour and alienation of reproductive labour (and how the double consciousness of the worker becomes within itself a new stratum of class) but quickly slips in to cheap SNL-parody of Trump and surface level critique of fascism by way of superhero movies. Could have gone so much better if not for shitty fucky Western chauvinism.
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A Brighter Summer Day 1991
A Brighter Summer Day is a four-hour tragicomedy of cyclical violence and alienation, where Taiwan’s youth are left to destroy each other while their true oppressors remain in power. Under KMT martial law, with leftist organising violently repressed and American cultural imperialism filling the void, these teenagers channel their frustration into gang wars and doomed love, mimicking the hierarchy of the state. Their violence is not liberatory but misdirected, a symptom of a society where class struggle has been suffocated…
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Disclaimer 2024
I appreciate TV is about appealing to the broadest stroke of people but really? Is this what a supposedly great director and actress can come up with when given an unlimited budget for the small screen? When so many new and exciting talent are doing work on Apple TV that far outpaces this (Severance), it feels almost insulting to hand someone this material and watch it play out so predictably and corny.
I mean– where is the boundary pushing, the experimentation, the thought-provoking moral quandaries? Unbelievably basic ass shit masquerading as high-brow television.
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