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by OO000oo 3y ago
I don't know what you think you're onto but it's giving far too much credit to what is nothing more than another toothless, idiotic utterance of the absolutely depraved American bourgeoise mind mush.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
This is a bad joke, right? Would you hold the politicians that you support to the same standards? Of course not, and none of Bernie’s supporters could possibly care less if he has a home in Vermont and a home in DC just like literally every
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by OO000oo 3y ago
The red scare ruined countless families' lives. It was an absolute atrocity and continues to undermine the interests of working Americans to this day.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
I agree, but when my 70 yo mother was visiting last month I watched her look something up on her ipad and she typed in "duckduckgo.com" to do it! I was amazed and asked how she learned to do that. Apparently, she learned it from m
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Exactly. A lot of progress was made in that time, so I have little patience for defeatism.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
In such a case, I won't feel better yet will I? So we'll try again...
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by OO000oo 3y ago
I will only feel better when the working class controls the society it built.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Students learn best when they have a quiet home to study in, 3 quality meals a day, parents who aren't working 3 jobs they can ask questions to, parents who aren't fighting about paying the bills that month, good school supplies,
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by OO000oo 3y ago
This is so naive. Poor kids do worse in school because their lives lack the material and parental support necessary for quality education.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
That is very naive. What employers want more of is workers that can be exploited for more labor at lower cost, and no workers are more exploitable than those under threat of deportation if they lose their job. https://www.politic
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by OO000oo 3y ago
> I can't imagine that America's byzantine visa system is accomplishing any useful policy goal I am positive it is. It works like most things in the US. The ruling class profits tremendously from the exploitation it enables,
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Uber and Lift don't pay drivers nearly enough to afford regular vehicle maintenance. I trust a taxi company's fleet maintenance 1000% more.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Well, nobody said that.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Please enlighten me with some of these "idea" films you speak of. I'm not sure I am convinced that more "ideas" makes better movies. What has you so tickled? Tarkovsky? The French New Wave? German Expressionism?
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Not technically wrong, but it is one thing to decorate the complexities and contradictions of the human experience, and quite another to distract from the complexities and contradictions of the human experience. I think we both know which o
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Great craft cannot be delineated from great art, and neither can "genuinely American cinema" from American cinema. Was Kubrick a master of British cinema? Of course I can't really argue with your specific point, but one of
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by OO000oo 3y ago
The purpose of art has never been to entertain, even if art can be entertaining. The fact that so many people think such a decadent idea shows how debased our society has become by way of the profit motive.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Had any of the examples been Lessons of Darkness or Grizzly Man or Burden of Dreams , this conversation would have gone quite differently, but since none of those films were released on Youtube they were not even an option to begin wit
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by OO000oo 3y ago
What? That sounds so ridiculous, but I would not be a bit surprised.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Mythology and fantasy are drastically different things. Meaning, purpose, context, are very important for understanding art, of course. We live in a time when adults everywhere will openly exclaim their adoration for fantastical nonsense. T
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by OO000oo 3y ago
It is perfectly valid. Their primary purpose is to convey information, not artistic expression. It is that simple.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Narrative works can make use of otherworldly features without being remotely escapist. Shakespeare and mythology are fine examples of this. Science fiction is historically not escapist at all, but that has somewhat changed. These days we
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by OO000oo 3y ago
None of your examples are even artistic expressions; they're informative content. The comparable counterparts would be television shows or documentaries, not Hollywood narrative films. Tiktok has a lot of artistic expression, but simpl
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by OO000oo 3y ago
I didn't realize the question was about newer films. My mistake.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Where to begin? The Criterion Collection pretty much exists to preserve and make such films available.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
And the content is garbage. Even if one would disagree, we are comparing with the American cinematic canon, by most measures the greatest body of artistic accomplishment humanity has ever produced. I cannot believe people even have the nerv
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Out of self-respect, I'm done with this exchange.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
> If I'm a young person who wants to perform on screen for a living, I know where I'm going: TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube. An extremely sad state of affairs by any historical measure of a successful society. Hollywood marks
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by OO000oo 3y ago
How are you contradicting my point? It's historically very abnormal for adults to be so fascinated with dragons and other escapist features. We are living in strange times and it's not coincidence. We have lost capacity for art th
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by OO000oo 3y ago
> Most people don't go to the theater (or even stream) to watch "quality," they go for entertainment. A tell-tale sign of a decadent society where people are depressed and unfulfilled, more interested in escape from life

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