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 Are you for real? Yes, the theme of the movie is quite explicitly what it feels like to be on the receiving end of majority-white spaces' self-congratulatory ineptitude at welcoming and tolerating minorities (wokeness). Jordan Peele is saying that the subjective experience of being marginalized is akin to having a conspiracy arrayed against you and that white liberal mainstream lauding of individual talented minorities while ignoring real racial disparity is akin to hollowing those people out and using them as flesh-puppets in service of their own egos. The horror elements are employed to convey that subjective experience to an audience that normally would be totally oblivious to minority perspectives by heightening everything and making it viscerally grabbing. Like, this is really basic horror 101 and Peele directly confirms it in his statements about the movie  https://twitter.com/JordanPeele/status/842541070151897088 https://twitter.com/JordanPeele/status/842589407521595393 Unless you really think the movie wasn't made with any thematic point or intentionality beyond getting gore on the screen?
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It really is bizarre how thoroughly people who get super mad about SMG seem to be involved in a parallel universe version of whatever thread. "Invective and insults?"  It's not even a particularly controversial critique he's advancing! Like I understand why people get provoked to emotional responses when he posts about Darth Vader being a divine agent of justice or whatever, but here his read amounts to just going "yep, the filmmakers made a movie consistent with the themes of the genre they consciously placed it in." Like, how is that so challenging?
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 Do you honestly believe thematic content is out of reach for most viewers? Analytic Engine posted:Execution and the realities of doing art are what makes the end product interesting. Oh. You're also reading, like, a huge amount of animus into SMG's posts that frankly just isn't there. Don't mistake his concision for condescension.
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DeimosRising posted:woof. yikes. Just some straight-shootin'  my man 
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~~The five stages of Cinema Discusso~~ Stage 1: I will disprove SMG Stage 2: I will disprove Marxism as a critical lens Stage 3: Heh, checkmate, how can SMG's posts have meaning if I start refusing to recognize words have meaning Stage 4: Whatever you're all nerds anyway I'm leaving Stage 5: Acceptance (HIGHLY HYPOTHETICAL) HookedOnChthonics fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Apr 11, 2017 |
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Lurdiak posted:Actually, the opposite interpretation is true. King Vidiot posted:I thought the first stage of CD was a sane and rational discussion of the motifs and themes of the movie where everybody who loved the film can come and discuss it. The second stage is where SMG comes into the thread and completely derails it and makes it about him, then everybody either gets bored or keeps arguing with a brick wall. What threads did this perception come from? Or have I just written too many essays on Adorno and Horkheimer in my life and gotten irreparable CT brokebrain? and a gif of jordan peele to keep this even minimally relevant for the new page   get out or get in kitty but dont just meow at me 
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yeah nvm, gomen nasai
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