Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
my landlord's son made me watch it I didn't really get it because it was in spanish
georges bataille posited that economic ideas about scarcity fail to recognize the excess a modern economy produces beyond subsistence - which are expanded in non productive ways, like sacrificing one cat to be saved, or creating spectacles of luxury of cgi-generated cats. though bataille's theory helps us understand the waste societies produce, it is also tragic that the hundred million dollars spent on this film, plus the fewer than a hundred million dollars revenue, could have been spent on solving poverty, building resilience against climate change, or even just giving it to me. any of those uses are better than this
the ted lassoification of media has been a travesty.
jean beaudrillard posited the essence of the postmodern condition is to no longer live in reality but in simulation, when symbols and motifs and signals are how life is experienced. what is real is merely representation. so we have no real movie here, just a cheap simulation of legally blonde, except one where the protagonist feeds off of privilege and constant unearned trust from her colleagues rather than the charm of…