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Cure 1997
Robin Wood, following Barthes, distinguishes between basic and surplus repression. Surplus repression describes all the various culturally and temporally specific norms that are instilled in us through the various institutions that foster our socialization into a societally appropriate (meaning productive) subject. Think Althusser’s ISAs or simply the various, intersectionally arranged ideologies we are subject to but which we also reporduce like race, class, gender etc.
Basic repression describes much more animalistic features of the human experience that everybody represses, regardless of…
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Heretic 2024
I aspire to become as good a lecturer as Hugh Grant’s character. Great use of inane-seeming props and anecdotes expertly woven together to tell a larger story, great way of teasing out an argument, great delivery and very chrismatic. As for the actual character, it is possibly the definitife representation of a lost sub-cultural charater: The 2000s incel Reddit atheist. All the hallmarks are there, from the rank misogynistic desire for a harem, the complete misunderstanding of religion ("it’s about control!"),…
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Civil War 2024
This is one of the most ill-conceived movies I have ever seen. Its only redeeming aspect is as a soon-to-be historical relic and object of study for the emergence of reactionary centrism. It is a movie by and for the people who have flocked to the New York Times during the Trump years as a last bastion for making sense of a world they don‘t recognize and don‘t understand anymore. The movie is so fundamentally flawed in every aspect, including…
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Mission: Impossible 1996
A movie about how Operation Gladio 2: Electric Boogaloo is actually good and important.
Yes I know that the first time around our agents almost destablized two major European allies but you need to understand that this was done in preservation of freedom. No, it absolutely did not get out of control and anyway our new approach is much better anyway. Well, because we moved away from outright acts of false flag terrorism to a new method we call the…
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