I take back anything critical I ever said about this. Sean Baker is the patron saint of millennial diy filmmakers and my stupid life needed the glimmer of hope this sweep provided.
Go out and shoot your shit! Go broke, fuck the financers. The world is ending, it always has been. If you wanna make movies, make them. Don’t let anyone stop you, and don’t you dare ever ask “who am I to be doing this?”
“Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. If it's a handful, throw it. If it's a fingernail full, scrape it out and throw.
Conversations, protest of any size, BDS at work/school/worship, refusal of labor & strikes, anything you can reach.”
- Rasha Abdulhadi
This is really inspiring stuff. Generally speaking, films of this scale tend to be politically/emotionally neutered. I remember being way too excited that Oppenheimer didn’t entirely denounce some of its milder anti-war/anti-Capitalist themes by the 3rd act. When I watch something as uncompromising as this, somehow made for less than 10 Million dollars on 33 shoot days (I made a movie 1/3rd the length and 1/100th the scale in 17 shoot days and it ruined my mental health for over…
Like the union of California and Texas, I’m giving this two stars.
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For real though, it’s hard not to be acutely aware that the unspoken “morality” within the reality of this film is that in war: you don’t touch journalists. Not if you’re an official soldier anyway. On either side. Only redneck pieces of shit do that.
In our reality, the US is providing weapons for a power that has deliberately targeted citizen journalists on a historically unprecedented scale,…
