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Yeah, that's why I laughed when he said "I want your eyes", as if there's something inherent about his African Eyeballs that's more receptive the concept of "soul" (and they're Activated Eyeballs, too - he could've taken any black guy's eyes but this one's learned a trick).
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Artists who're non-normative tend to have their work viewed through the lens of their most notable aberration (black, disabled, gay, etc), and it's literally a blind guy telling him "your work has soul". His apartment is basically just missing a barista, it's gentrification in architectural form. It could just be a cheap movie location but it's the picture of ladder-climbing, non-threatening conformity.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Not 'eyes' - eye. Root doesn't want mere eye surgery. Blindness hasn't really held him back in life, you may have noticed. He wants the soul itself - literally, to have a little black guy (trapped as a disembodied gaze) inside him. I understand that, my statement is from his misguided point of view. I can't remember if he said "eye" or "eyes" on the videodronicator but the point is the same either way.
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Mar 24, 2017 18:50
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If only he'd given her a Pepsi.
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Apr 7, 2017 03:47
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Nothing is real.
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Apr 7, 2017 04:42
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It's basically a mix of Stalker and Solaris.
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Apr 7, 2017 17:35
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Much like life, all films are a fantasy, it's your experience and interpretation of the fantasy that's real.
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Apr 7, 2017 19:26
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*carnival music*
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Apr 8, 2017 02:16
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This is CD, you don't have to see a movie to debate it.
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Apr 8, 2017 23:01
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He writes like a prick but that's subjective.
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Apr 11, 2017 05:59
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:I am the ultimate killing machine. You're an rear end in a top hat.
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Apr 11, 2017 22:54
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The opposite interpretation is also correct.
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Apr 12, 2017 00:09
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Extended SNL Skit Produces Limited Discussion
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Apr 12, 2017 05:44
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Starbucks apartment! thank you
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Apr 12, 2017 07:50
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It should be the ending to Thriller, with Chris comforting Rose, suggesting they go get something to eat, then turning around to reveal reptiloid eyes. And the end credits slam up over ironic Jewish klezmer music.
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:Also, wait til they see Tales from the Hood. There was some article making its rounds a few months ago about Get Out that was praising the "recent trend" of, get this, what the author called "allegorical horror films (re: It Follows, Get Out, the Babadook)." "Wokeness" is a symptom of a larger disease.
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I remember seeing a photo of a pregnant black woman's stomach and I think a picture of a black kid in front of an apartment building - pictures a white gallery owner would probably say demonstrated an amazing sense of "soul".HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The neo-soul montage of his artwork at the beginning expresses this, but the joke is the pullback to his apartment and it just looks like he could've bought it from Pier 1 Imports. That was the high point of the movie for me. You can extrapolate everything from those lovely metal stools he has at his fake-industrial breakfast counter.
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Apr 12, 2017 19:24
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:To take that totally seriously is making an argument that the script isn't that witty. Like, are you supposed to take that totally seriously and think "oh he's like Gordon Parks!" If it happened in something like Art School Confidential, you would recognize that kind of thing as poking fun at a cliche. Yeah, he's absolutely middlebrow - inoffensive, really.    and then you cut to:  I mean, lmao at the dove flying between two tenement buildings or whatever. And then you cut to her looking at the donuts:  The fact that Chris is a bland photographer works on a handful of levels and I really like all of them.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Like I'm 100% certain all of that imagery has been in a Hype Williams video at some point, each on the screen for less than half a second. The idea that you're supposed to take 'Chris is a really serious artist' from it is kinda funny. I'd like to think it's part of the joke, and that it underlines that he's self-consciously producing his art from a black perspective for a white audience, rather than as an act of pure unconscious instinct, which would tie in to the anxieties that are explored in the rest of the movie.
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Apr 12, 2017 20:03
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No way, that apartment is some cookie-cutter bullshit, there's so much of it here in Seattle and it has everything to do with gentrification ("reclaimed industrial spaces").
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Apr 12, 2017 20:09
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It looks like an airbnb that's described as "urban".
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Apr 12, 2017 20:18
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It's not an essential expression of his blackness because he's white gazing himself.
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Apr 12, 2017 20:21
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Chris is like an electron that's observing itself.
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Apr 12, 2017 20:28
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Replace versus with "and".i am the bird posted:Whenever I picture myself, I think of an amorphous array of colors and numbers. I would literally never think of my body. That's crazy. One of the main concepts the film works with is the question of how to act purely as oneself, without giving ourselves an agenda or trying to sell ourselves in some way. The answer is we usually don't (there are always external influences) but Chris perceives this as a literal conspiracy, rather than just a function of our psychological need to be accepted.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:(In any case, I'd question how people are reconciling 'generic normal apartment' with the large photos of pregnant black women adorning the walls, etc. Is everyone familiar with Belly?) They're presumably his own photos, which means he's living in his own gallery show (it could be misdirection but it would also be fitting).
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Apr 13, 2017 19:43
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Maxwell Lord posted:So what is the proper and healthy Marxist approach to interior design Keep rearranging your furniture until you die.
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Maxwell Lord posted:All that does is tell me what NOT to do. I have to put the couch somewhere eventually. The couch is always somewhere, it's your relation to it that matters.
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