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I have seen this movie, here are my thoughts: https://twitter.com/KennethJWaste2/status/1136821876414697473
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Bogus Adventure posted:It shouldn't affect this review because watching Loqueesha should make anyone justifiably angry. Except it shouldn’t because it’s just some self-produced, vanity project, dtv garbage. It is literally just a window into the insane narcissism of a completely unremarkable performer. It’s also tremendously informative as an example of a modern Randian objectivist film. The precise wrong way of going about it is to try to raise its political profile as being somehow particularly emblematic of racism or transphobia or whatever. Saville’s politics are not nearly as problematic just because he decides to affect a fat sassy black woman as, say, Zoolander 2, which is obviously not an “alt-right” film. The movie is about a gen x crank who revived the mammy to spin down home, “tough love” wisdom. It’s at least interesting as a premise, it’s just realized with maximal horror. The essential double feature is Brawl in Cell Block 99, another unbearably bloviated movie about an arch-egoist who is indisputably just absorbed in a racist, misogynistic fantasy, but constantly qualified with post-racial/feminist memes. A big part of 99 is that Vaughn just brutalizes and kills minorities to save his wife, but tells his drug dealer boss not to say the N word; and the parallel narrative of Loqueesha is that Saville really does feel like Loqueesha is a part of his “identity,” which should be tolerated implicitly. It’s insane, but it’s much more fascinating than it is offensive, like The Room.
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