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Reviewer

Neo Feudalist

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Reviewed Item

"“The Hunt (2020)”"

Author Rating

4

I remember briefly seeing a trailer for this film in passing and thought it was a horror film. Within the first 10 minutes it seems pretty dumb and goofy until you realize that it’s a dark comedy. They lower your expectations from the get go and every scene afterwards gets compoundingly more clever. For example, it starts with the easy one liner phrases that the lowest common denominator will get like the antagonists saying “dumb redneck” and the protagonists saying “snowflake.”

But eventually the dialogue gets into open-to-interpretation stuff like the revisionist tortoise & hare analogy that pointed out how Right-Wingers are so used to being in the upper echelons that they have rested on their laurels and are now being cucked by the tards. 
 
Loved the Kill Bill homage and having a tig ‘ol bitty blue eyed blonde as the lead was awesome even if there are unintentional feminist undertones that must come with a twig beating people up. But it’s a somewhat slapstick comedy and her backstory explains her bad ass-ness away so relax.
 
Oh and Dennis from Always Sunny was great it in this and I had no idea he was in it. Only briefly though. To be honest, the film was only a 3/5 star film, but as a super biased Right-Winger I fell in love with it. But even if you are a Centrist the way the plot evolves will likely win you over by the time it’s over. The bias against liberal elites was clear but there’s enough self-deprecating jabs at us conspiracy theorists, White trash, and Fox News Boomers to make it bearable for moderate lefties too. 
 
Very charming. Definitely watch and support! 

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Neo Feudalist

Review Date

Reviewed Item

"“The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)”"

Author Rating

5

There’s even a cameo by the very genuine & authentic, Mitt Romney:
 

 

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I am fully aware that my new pseudonym sounds pretentious and gay. I’m just being cheeky and having fun with English. My old pen name was “Libertarian Agnostic” but decided I should do the test again since my views have changed quite a bit since I started blogging. And also because it looks bad to only have staff reviews by the same guy over and over. But obviously if I am telling you this I am not trying to make a sock puppet account and be deceptive. Full transparency. ^_^
 
Anyways, the TL;DR is that I am a race realist who generally likes freedom but has gotten increasingly socially conservative the older I get. But I also understand that bloated authoritarian organizations create inefficiencies, suffering, corruption, etc. So when I meet people IRL and don’t want to sound like a complete f**got I’ll just say I’m an independent. Or if they seem somewhat political I’ll just say I’m a Paleo-Conservative or Minarchist Libertarian. Truth be told, I’m a one issue voter: immigration. And have lost faith in the system after the 2020 election and probably won’t vote again. That’s okay though ‘cuz I think we are gonna’ balkanize regardless. Hopefully sooner rather than later but could be a couple decades. Who knows?

But just for fun, lemme’ LARP and speculate in more detail.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/test

My most recent test results (June, 2021):
https://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2?ec=-1.88&soc=0.72

For screenshots of every answer I gave on the test along with an unedited verbal diarrhea explanation click below:

Test Questions

Explanation

1.) I am a trans-humanist because I think we are already mending with technology even if we aren’t injecting microchips in our skin yet. I think this can be a very dystopian future especially if we don’t address the realities of human nature (E.g. race/gender differences and also better understand the right hemisphere and Jungian psychology). Likewise with vain attempts to have globalist unions like the U.N. where no one respects the deals made and ghetto countries just get bribed. So in order to protect the environment it’s more realistic to have an agreement with the Anglosphere countries to all put the same tariffs on cheap oil from Saudi Arabia and China and if any one country violates this rule of exporting CO2 emissions to production in China or whatever, then they pay a fee, etc. Expecting China or Saudi Arabia to play ball with an environmental consciousness is naive.

Likewise with just assuming the laissez faire “””free””” market will do what’s best for everyone is silly. We already see Big Tech like Twitter/Google/Facebook taking over and gaining more power than the local governments. But some sort of anti-Capitalist control is impossible unless you want to live in the stone age like North Korea, in which case you just surrender the flow of capitalism/technology in the hands of nefarious types. Likewise with some sort of Ted Kazynski anti-tech anarcho primitivist society like the ghetto tribal countries in Africa or the Middle East. You delay the inevitable and only have a pocket of luddites.

So yeah, accept this flow towards globalism but do our best to mitigate it and guide it somewhat so we (in The Occident) are safe and Africa/Asia don’t destroy us along the way.

2.) Blind loyalty leads to invading sovereign nations and committing war crimes like the Gulf of Tonkin incident leading to the Vietnam War. You can still love your country and not partake in every aspect of it. You can be a reformer and critique the country you love.

3.) It’s natural to love yourself and your tribe. And your ancestors’ blood runs through your veins. The older I get the more I realize how important this is and how much my genetics determine who I am. And “demography is destiny” so your nation is just an extension of who you and your tribe are. Without some connection and pride to it, how can you ensure it continues? How can you ensure its citizens want what’s best for it instead of just exploiting it parasitically and myopically (E.g. Canadian politicians with no children selling off land/real estate to Chinese). However, this distinction between the current country and your kin is important because it allows you to be critical and willing to evolve/reform it if you’re currently turning into a disgusting consumerist sloth safe space for degenerates.

 

Explanation

 

4.) I would be lying if I said I don’t feel superior in some aspects. But truly, in the bottom of my heart, do not believe in the overall superiority of any one race. Alan Watts explains it much more eloquently than I could:

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Whites’ creativity seems to be linked with our naivety and “pathological altruism” that gets exploited. Asians seem to be less creative but less sympathetic and their lack of a “high trust society” creates a ceiling in their possible development. Blacks tend to be better boxers and runners, but can’t swim well or beat the top MMA fighters when we add wrestling into the fighting equation. There are always pros and cons to everything. I view every race like a video game character with different stats. And it would be dumb to think that we all are born with the exact amount of points that are spread around categories, clearly some have more overall points. But it would be equally as dumb to think one is always better and has no weaknesses or areas of improvement.

Having said that, I am for a eugenic policy reform. Right now we have dysgenic policies like the movie “Idiocracy” satirizes. So although I think we should be weary of genetic modifications and over stepping our bounds by “playing God,” I also think if we do nothing the default will encourage the scummiest types to overpopulate. This is especially true within races. I don’t care to implement any eugenic type policies on sovereign nations, but understanding these differences among races can help us not fuel problems. I have a Star Trek “Prime Directive” approach to foreign policy in most cases. Japan gets it:

 

5.) This is just a pragmatic outlook on the world. Clearly it’s a case by case basis, but finding out what shared interests are is a good way of living your life and conducting policies. (E.g. America teamed up with the Soviet Union to fight the Nazis and then quickly switched back to an adversarial relationship with the USSR for the Cold War.)

 
6.) International law (at least now) is total garbage. Virtue signaling nonsense that has nothing to do with how geopolitics actual works. They are all scum with black mail videos of them on Epstein’s island or getting bribed by Israeli lobbyists. The only time to obey international law is if it will have real world consequences. For example, if America invades France or uses Zyklon B on Syrians and it leads to a war or embargos. Except, as I understand, Trump broke international law when he did the Syria Strikes or when he killed the Iranian general but nothing happened because we are at the top of the food chain. It just makes other countries hate us more. 
 
But in the Neo-Feudal future where international law is based on agreements between a few countries, I think it should be treated with the utmost respect. It’s horrible when we go back on past agreements and people realize our word isn’t our bond. For example, Obama’s Iran deal that Trump went back on. Whether you agree with it or not doesn’t matter, it makes future deals less weighty. 

7.) Clickbait and polarization being incentivized via Capitalism is worrisome. But the fact that information is becoming more digestible and it’s getting easier and easier to spread knowledge is not a bad thing. One could argue that conspiracies about flat Earth or whatever could be damaging since 3 chapters about George Washington is likely way more boring. However, I’d say reality is stranger than fiction in many cases. I can’t believe we have a pyramid with the eye on our dollar bills and we never get taught about it in school, or about the Free Masons or Skull and Bones. Etc. 
 

Explanation

8.) To me, nationality is a proxy for a person’s race. Even if that has been drastically changing and been muddied in the past 50 years or so…

And so yeah, Black people in America are much richer than Black people in Africa. And this goes for two reasons. One, because they are born in a White country that allows for functioning services and trading and redistribution of wealth.
 

But also because African Americans have more European admixture making their average IQ’s higher than “pure” Africans from the motherland. However, the Nigerians who come to America outperform most other Blacks and this is because they often have a strong family unit, an emphasis on work ethic/education, and have been artificially selected by being the only Nigerians who properly jumped through the hoops to get an immigration visa. 
 
Nevertheless, we see a general trend globally about Black performance in education, fatherless homes, higher rates of violence, etc. And from nearly every study I’ve seen that controls for race as a variable, the correlation is much stronger than class or geography or any other factor. I know people will blame generational wealth and bla bla, but a perfect example of this is the fact that the richest African American is Elon Musk.
 
Having said all that, class matters and I despise California yuppies who are sheltered from the realities/repercussions of their votes. And some of the biggest enemies to the White working class people are bourgeoisie White liberals like the Koch brothers or the politicians who sell us out for a few shekels.

So class definitely matters, but nationality (proxy for race) is much more important imho.

9.) Unemployment is a symptom of inflation and inflation is a symptom of the (((Federal Reserve))) completely raping American citizens. It is the number one enemy we face as Keith best articulates:

10.) This is just common sense. Only Anarcho-Capitalist types can do mental hula hoops that make it seem like China or India wouldn’t poor oil into a river for a handful of pennies. And if we make realistic agreements between a handful of trustworthy countries in The Occident, penalizing those who outsource pollution to the 3rd world, and incentivize those who have clean production plants, we could make a much bigger impact than the Paris Agreement or whatever. But this is also a naive take at least right now. Because the world is based around lobbyists, the military industrial complex, the petrodollar, etc. So it’s not about if it’s possible, it’s about human nature and corruption and what the elites prioritize. 

11.) The fact that it’s from Marx makes it a loaded phrase. But if we can pretend it’s not, I guess it kinda makes sense. I just take it and inject hierarchy and natural order as part of it. Women can provide the most to society if 90% of them embrace their nature and focus on children/family/house. Likewise with men who are artists or engineers being funneled into what best suits their skill sets. I guess my take is just the Japanese concept of Ikigai being the balance:
 

And that not all citizens are equally as important. I think reality shows an 80/20 principle to almost everything. So whether it feels nice to accept or not, 80% of the population could be killed and history would be roughly the same. So if society rewards the people who produce more, that makes perfect sense. And the best way to try and facilitate people having a harmonious ikigai career path, would be to do what Japan and some Nordic countries do, which is to test kids around 12 or 13 to see if they should go to a trade school or continue learning STEM stuff. 

Explanation

12.) I think if the market is too controlled, you get a North Korea kind of situation. I am still a Capitalist, but Capitalism is a tool and if it is completely unregulated, it will be exploited by the meta-market like how China devalues their currency or steals our copyrights without consequence. And then of course there’s the reality that lobbyists from oil companies and military industrial complex type people will start to create regulations that benefit them. Or push for policies that flood the country with cheap labor so they can save money, meanwhile the other politicians will still push for “””humanitarian””” policies that redistribute citizens’ wealth to pay for these migrants’ healthcare, education, housing, etc. In an Anarchist vacuum fantasy, you could have a completely free market, but that just doesn’t exist. There will always be forces pushing and pulling to try and benefit themselves. So if you don’t take part in trying to gently guide the market, you will just get f**ked over by others who brutally and unapologetically steer the market.

 

13.) Meh. It’s just part of technology and new ways of compartmentalizing things, repackaging. If you’re an optimist you could say it’s amazing that so many people have clean drinking water around the world. They go hand in hand…

14.) I hear people say that landlords are parasites and this and that, but I haven’t been convinced of it. Just sounds like some autistic ideologue logic like the “non aggression principle” or goofy phrases like “taxation is theft.” Then people get dogmatic about it. Lending money and renting stuff seems like an essential part of any economy. I think the people who bought land thought ahead and sacrificed things they could have spent that money on in exchange for passive income. I have no issues with that except generational wealth and monopolies begin to form if you don’t have some regulation. So limiting it to a few properties makes sense. Or for example, in some cities they put limits on the skyline height because it will affect the overall feel of the city. Like in Kyoto, it’s a historic place with lots of temples. This seems like a reasonable and healthy balance. 

15.) I donno. Maybe I should have just put “agree” and not “strongly agree.” Guess that’s just my anti-Semitism peeking out. But society is only gonna’ get more and more abstract and speculative. It’s retarded to think that agriculture and tangible manual labor is the only valuable contribution to society. Having said that, the critics of Wall Street make a great point. These people just hoard money and shuffle it around and then use their massive amount of wealth to bribe politicians to keep bailing themselves out. So, same with real estate, some limits to exploitation would be good, but people lending value (in various forms) is a very useful contribution to society. Any entrepreneur or business type person understand that you can’t just put everything into terms of dollars. Time is money and word of mouth and time saved and inflation and all that jazz are variables in the calculation.  

So, it seems fine to me, but I’ll leave the “strongly agree” part because I wish it wasn’t responsible for the “many personal fortunes” of the parasitic 1% at the top that contributes very little. If the income inequality between them and the rest of society was more moderate like that of low level lenders or real estate landlords, it would be all good.

Explanation

17.) I’ve made that clear above with the way China doesn’t play by the same rules and needs to be regulated against. (E.g. Segway copyrights, currency manipulation, environmental pollution, etc.) But the same is true with how America was expected to just protect all the other countries in NATO without them actually contributing. Then smug Swedes would criticize our INSANE military budget. I don’t like it either, bub, but recognize that we use it to swing our dicks around and allow you guys to have absurdly high education and healthcare budgets. 

18.) I hate Woke Capital, but I think the government should regulate companies (gently) so that they don’t rape the planet and export suffering. The average citizen (myself included) is too dumb when it comes to “out of sight, out of mind.” We need conscientious politicians that can help prevent some of the horrible animal cruelty, child slave labor, environmental destruction, etc. And most importantly, the funding of horrible regimes like the Saudis. But idk, this is a slipper slope and generally trying to regulate companies just hurts the market and allows for a loophole in a foreign country to fill the gap. However, the GOP shilling for Big Business no matter what is disgusting. Corporations should not be exempt from any moral responsibilities whatsoever.  
 
19.) I think a flat tax rate would be ideal. You don’t want your rich, best & brightest members of society fleeing the country like that French guy did to Russia. (Gerard Depardieu.)
 
20.) This is just reality. Wealthier people can afford better things. Deal with it. The only issue is that there should be a base level of reasonable healthcare for the bottom classes of society. And in a homogenous country where the average IQ is 100+, you can have these safety nets without leeches and dysfunction. 

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21.) Self-explanatory. Common sense imho.

22.) Bingo! Crony capitalism is inevitable and in order to allow for a somewhat level playing field, you need to be vigilant against the international clique of rootless cosmopolitans. 

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23.) I used to be more pro-choice but the older I get the more I realize how I was gas lit by the media. And it’s shocking at how they’ve convinced women to go against billions of years of evolution and literally cry in joy at the ability to kill their own babies. 100% not natural, but they’ve been manipulated by sociopathic elites for economic reasons and straight Satanic ones. No joke. The push for abortion in later and later terms has made me much more open to religion in the traditional sense. 
 
Having said that, we have a very dysgenic society and I think rape should also be an exception to abortion. And the caveat to almost all of these questions is if it is a homogenous society or not. If it is America now, then first term abortion should 100% be legal for people 18+ regardless of the reason. But if we’re talking after America balkanizes and there’s a homogenous White Neo-Idaho, then any abortion should be illegal unless they were raped or the mother’s life is in danger.
 

 

24.) I question all authority but this is not a good thing to instill in every citizen. In fact this authority-complex is part of why America is the degenerate place it is. Can’t tell anyone what to do.

25.) This as a form of law seems barbaric, but in general I believe in kharma and living your life in a give and take way. There aren’t always consequences for your actions but you shouldn’t be surprised if things come back to bite you in the ass.

26.) I think left to our own devices we just become porn addicted, social media fiend, soulless retards. But if we have some sort of guidance and regulation then we can have a much more fulfilling experience in life. So for example, I ban myself from social media and then when I am bored will go to historical YouTube channels or something. It’s the eudaemonia feeling of satisfaction v.s. the short impulsive dopamine thing I mentioned before. And having an appreciation for your ancestors and heritage and deeper forms of art is something that needs to be cultivated. This makes it near impossible to compete in the “””free market””” when you are going against sex drugs and rock and roll.

 

Explanation

27.) School should be mandatory up until age 12 or 13 when we do a test to see if they are better suited for arts, trades, etc. Higher education should not be mandatory though, because now it is meaningless. “If everyone is special no one is special.”
  

28.) I have travelled all over the world for more than a decade of my life. I love different races and cultures. But it’s very clear that 95% of people would be happiest living with their own kind. “Diversity is our greatest strength” is an obvious lie. Some variety is good but you have no idea how crucial every aspect of your society and fellow demographics are. You take it for granted until it’s too late.
 
29.) I don’t think I will spank my children, but I will certainly put them in time out and use physical enforcement like grabbing their arm or holding them down when they are having a temper tantrum. 

30.) Of course. This is human nature. I just hope to have a very open relationship with my children where they feel they can tell me anything. The craziest girls I’ve dated were Catholic school girls or Muslim or some sort with super strict parents. The goal is to be strict enough to protect them and allow them to grow into self sufficient smart individuals who choose the right thing. If you constantly force them to do the right thing, the moment they leave you they will have no self-will to keep it up, or worse, will have a strong desire to do the opposite and ruin their life.

Explanation

31.) Marijuana is a dream killer and a pacifier for most people. But not all drugs are the same and I think citizens who have never been caught driving under the influence, and don’t get welfare, should be able to smoke if they have the will power to do so moderately. But in general I think straight edge is the best way and almost every drug is a net negative for 99% of people I know. It’s just a less harmful vice compared to alcohol or others and human nature requires vices. I’d rather not live in a society that throws marijuana smokers in prison so long as it is still mildly shunned and viewed as a vice like smoking cigarettes or whatever.

32.) School should prepare students to be the best citizens that they can be. It should teach them how to do their taxes and navigate all aspects of life. It should instill morals and philosophies that the community agrees on. And then of course it should help them get a job in the career they’ve chosen.
 
33.) Yeah, sorry. If they just died off in the forest I wouldn’t care. But in practice, this means the rest of society pays someone to drop out of society to take care of them. The cut off should be if they have enough agency to live on their own. So for example, getting a prosthetic limb or wheel chair that allows them to take the bus and bag groceries or whatever. But right now we have literal vegetables writhing in pain that should not be procreating. In fact, this is one of the times abortion should be legal. Once they do the scan and let the mother and father know, they should be able to choose to have the baby but they will get no extra welfare benefits or anything. 

34.) Absolutely wrong. They should build their own discipline but should not be thoughtless robots that accept punishment. 

Explanation

35.) C’mon. 

36.) Duh. 

37.) Sometimes you need to face your troubles so you can solve them. Listening to sad music when you’re sad can be cathartic and help you get over it. Ignoring unpleasant thoughts and feelings is a sign of weakness and unnatural imho. 

38.) This doesn’t mean they aren’t welcome. It just means that those first 10 years growing up somewhere are crucial. And in most countries around the world you’ll always be known as the foreigner even if you were born there. This used to bother me but now I realize they are right, and my American multiculti brainwashing was BS.

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39.) Corporations usually work in their own interests. And it’s true that Capitalism usually allows for innovation and the rising waters raise all the boats, or whatever the phrase is. But income inequality is getting insane and monopolies grow. And there’s first movers advantage like with Big Tech. And then Google uses this massive amount of money to fund CPAC and prevents any of the GOP from putting up a decent fight against rightwing censorship. This is just one of many examples where that statement is blatantly false.

40.) Already explained this before about eudaemonia and how worthwhile content will never be able to compete against porn and selfish degeneracy. It’s like a comedian who can’t curse v.s. a prop comic who can be as vulgar as they want. 

Explanation

41.) The false dichotomy presented to us is: another 9/11 or burn the constitution. The third option is ban Muslim immigration, make dual citizenship in the government punishable by death, and make lobbyists get 10 years in prison.
 

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42.) This is a trick question. Yeah, this is an advantage of a single party government but this is like saying “do you recognize that income inequality decreases when you make everyone starve to death?” Uh… I guess so, but I don’t support it. Which is why I said “disagree.”
 

43.) It’s a slippery slope and it’s the principal not how it will affect you specifically.
 
44.) I remember talking with someone about how we shouldn’t waste tax money and should allow all prisoners the option to euthanasia. But the fear of a slow and miserable existence in prison is what deters people. If it was just “suicide by cop” if you fail, especially if it was humane and painless, I bet we’d see a spike in crime. However, the most extreme cases of sociopaths like the serial killer that put needles in his own pelvis don’t operate within the realm of normal logic and should just be euthanized.

Explanation

45.) This is too dogmatic and unrealistic. Sometimes whistle blowers and free thinkers are necessary to keep a healthy society. And every society must progress and evolve with the times, so you need the square pegs. But yeah, most people should respect authority and society functions more smoothly.

46.) So I learned that non-objective art is the stuff people really hate. Abstract art is based on something and just interpreted creatively. Like Picasso for example. Although you don’t think of it The Simpsons and every cartoon is also technically a form of abstract art too. So I like it and have come around to respect it. Non objective art is the pretentious crap that people think of when you just see a square in the middle of a canvas for $600. However, I think art is very important for public morale and healthy collective consciousness. So any state funded art/architecture would have to be approved and only 10-30% of the public art pieces could be abstract. None could be the non objective crap we see so often which is just a hunk of metal curved and costs 5 figures.

47.) Punishment is a necessary deterrent but if it’s a mild felony or misdemeanor we should prioritize rehabilitation.

48.) Yeah, key word “some.” Some people are just lost causes ‘cuz they were tortured as a kid and turned into monsters. Or are genetic freaks that were born hardcore sociopaths. But they should be studied and we should try experimental (yet humane) ways of changing their DNA to make them not sociopaths. But I imagine this would be bad because even if it worked, they’d have to deal with the guilt of all the horrible stuff they’ve done. Like Angel from “Buffy” getting a soul as part of a Gypsy curse. Or the Clockwork Orange premise. It seems like studying these lost causes to learn preventive measures would be the best way that they can serve society. Find out who tortured them or what gene they have that is linked to sociopathy. Etc.
 

Explanation

49.) So, I make art and have always been a vagabond drifter starving artist type. However I always loved this scene because I think it’s crucial for artists to understand the hierarchy and importance of the practical jobs that make society function.

But of course, I’ve been recently diving down the rabbit hole about the 80/20 principle and top down changes in civilization. It’s true that the artists and authors and other vanguard confident 10% members of society are the ones responsible for it’s progress and overall direction. And along that same line of logic, if slaves were all it took to build America, why is Africa still looking the way it does? It’s the guidance from up top that makes those salt of the Earth jobs have a worthwhile direction.
 

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( FYI, I heard about the Rodney Stark book in the section of this convo here, and stumbled on Jonathan Bowden’s speech about top down vanguard movements from a random forum.)

My conclusion is that artists and writers make the biggest ripples in history, but cannot do it without every other pragmatic job working together so the hierarchy of needs can be met.

50.) Again, I’m not a “White Shariah” guy. But we should all embrace nature and what we were meant to do. I’ve dated lots of intelligent strong women milfs and the majority would have been happier if they just had kids imho. Joan of Arc should be the exception not the rule. Ya dig?
 
51.) Yeah, just seems like a reality. I don’t feel very strongly about it either way, but not sure it’s something I care to deny, nor know enough about in any event.
 
52.) You don’t have to like it, you just have to accept reality so you can have the greatest impact within your means. Learning how to navigate the system and accepting the things you cannot control, but also the things you can, and “the wisdom to know the difference.”
 

Explanation

53.) Astrology seems like complete BS, but ngl I have been actually open to it for the first time in my life because of my dive into Carl Jung. 
 
54.) This is a semantics thing, but I feel like “religious” implies organized religion and traditional concepts of it. I think Sam Harris is probably a more altruistic and moral person than the average Christian in America. Because most people just go about their business and react to stimuli. So I think religion is necessary for the average human and they need a clear cut instruction manual or they will fall into being witches and sacrificing babies. Which is literally happening right now in America with dumb thots getting abortions and going to Wicca parties. So for the average person they are less moral than they would be if they had an organize religion. However I don’t think it’s a pre-requisite and many people abuse religion to be immoral. (E.g. the Scofield Bible and the weird End Times Evangelical version of Christianity in America that encourages Americans to send their kids overseas to fight and die for Israel. Bizarre stuff.)

55.) The government sucks at almost everything and they will take $10 from you to do the same thing $1 could have done in the private (or nonprofit) sector. Besides, the government often gets subverted and ends up doing a net harm like encouraging divorce and welfare moms and transgender children. Etc. So I guarantee if private citizens got to keep their social security money it would be a lot better of a safety net.
 
56.) Yeah, in the sense that no one is born equal. We all have advantages and disadvantages. Some people are born premature and with diabetes or whatever. However, Tim Ferris, Putin, Napoleon, etc. were manlets and that fueled their desire to outperform everyone and change history. So maybe they are born lucky? 
 
57.) I wouldn’t send my kid to a hardcore Christian academy, but I want my kids to grow up religious so they have a foundation before they start to experiment and pick and choose what they like. Think about it like Joe Rogan who was straight edge until 30+. Now he can handle drugs. I think secular philosophies and degenerate individualist tendencies can be great and are inevitable, but you really need a strong foundation based in firm moral ground before you can start wiggling around to find your own groove.
 

Explanation

58.) I am generally Agnostic and think sex is natural. I understand that society needs to repress it so we can transmogrify this energy into creating great art and whatnot. But our birth rates are too low and I think we need to evolve with society and redefine morality so that we have healthy relationships. Right now we have a false dichotomy that leads the youth to think they can only be Christcuck bible thumpers with promise rings, or degenerate Only Fans thots in polyamorous trans relationships. I think the emphasis should be on love and respect and safety and the natural order. If you get your highschool gf pregnant, you keep the baby and commit yourself to her and your babies. 

59.) I’m cool with gays and lesbians, but there are way too many pedophiles within their community. Not gonna’ risk it. Exceptions exist but the ideal should be a normal man and woman household.

60.) There should be limitations on the kinds of porn though. “Merchants of Sin” redpilled me on how they used “free speech” as a guise to push degeneracy. It’s not about speaking truth to power, it’s about smut. So healthy forms of mildly kinky sex should be legal to watch but porn addiction is very damaging right now so we definitely need to cut things back somehow. If we can do it for child _ _ _ _ than we can do it for other kinds.

61.) So long as it doesn’t affect children in the house, or cause diseases that other tax payers have to subsidize, doesn’t matter imho.

62.) I think many homosexuals are born gay. I think 90% of lesbians are not. And I’m not sure how many but a decent chunk of homosexuals were molested. What percent is nature what percent is nurture, we won’t know anytime soon because it’s such a toxic topic atm.

63.) I am a pretty open guy. Pretty degenerate. And even I am getting uncomfortable with the “sex positive” depictions in society. It’s not a matter of getting old, it’s a matter of society becoming objectively more corrosive as the empire declines. History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes, as they say. 

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Libertarian Agnostic

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"“Thursday (1998)”"

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5

 
If Pulp Fiction, Nobody, Breaking Bad, American Beauty, and Falling Down, all had a baby, it would be this movie. A bit dated and cheesy at parts, but fantastic overall. The middle may lose you but stick around until the end and I’d say it redeems itself. There is a great reoccurring theme of a tamed wolf that works great as the social commentary of the emasculated modern male, but also the cucked White guy as well. And because this film was before the woke era, they drop hard R’s willy nilly and are realistic about the racial tribalism in the crime world. Also very redpilling about female psychology and staying true to who your woman fell in love with.
 

Two things come to mind that fit with the message of the film. The first, is the YouTuber, UberBoyo’s analysis of Nietzsche’s take on the betamale losers subverting the warrior class and messing up the natural order in society:

 
Introducing Nietzsche: The WARRIOR Philosopher – [Animation from Thus Spoke Zarathustra]

The second is a great sample I heard on Mr. Bond’s “Like A Diamond” cover from his “Screw Your Optics” mixtape. Which I now realize comes from the movie “Siberian Education.” (One more thing to add to the “To Watch” list.)

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"“The Muse (1999)”"

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2

Skip the movie not for boycott reasons but because it’s just not that good. I only sat through it because I like the notion of the Muse and am a bit of a new age kook. Unlike “City of Angels” that Steven Pressfield recommended, this is not a feel good movie about the metaphysical. In fact, his book “The War of Art” was written in 2002 and this film was made in 1999. So no relation. 
 
It was okay, but the Jewish humor of constant victimhood and obsession over money just didn’t land well. Only few people, (Larry David for example), can pull such stuff off for global audiences. So seeing the Muse as an obnoxious and greedy figure was just not as enjoyable to watch. However, it was a good analogy for what creative types go through. Willing to sacrifice every comfort and throw thousands of dollars into a hole chasing their creative whims. Jordan Peterson breaks that down better than the movie does here:

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"“Dirty Work (1998)”"

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4

Fantastic film with the god father of modern comedians who aren’t absolute trash, Norm Macdonald, as the lead. Lots of the classic actors of the 90’s SNL era. Back when they actually had funny actors. No woke BS in the film. In fact quite the opposite. 
 
There were:
 
• rape jokes
• gay jokes
• fat jokes
• sexual harassment jokes
• mental health jokes
• beastiality jokes
• racist jokes
• transphobic jokes
• midget jokes

etc.
 
There was no agenda and no message. Just a funny movie with the sole purpose of making you laugh with crude humor. Definitely not family friendly but not uncomfortable to watch with your family unlike all the new streaming movies that always have explicit sex scenes. No awkward stuff like that. My only gripe was that the cliché bad guy was a one dimensional rich fat cat. But whatever. They also made fun of hobos and Chris Farley is hilarious.

Speaking of which, hearing Artie talk about Chris Farley and behind the scenes here:

Nick DiPaolo And Artie Talk Chris Farley

And Chris Farley’s nose shtick seemed to be brutal foreshadowing…

#1376 Artie Lange Reveals What Happened to His Nose | Joe Rogan
 

Two thumbs up. 4/5 stars. Definitely recommend, but guy humor for sure.
 
 
 
 
 
 
PS: Fun fact: it was directed by Bob Saget!

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"“City of Angels”"

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4

Pretty great film. I had never seen it before but always love the idea of angels and demons. Yokai anime are my favorite and other Hollywood movies about ghosts or angels are in my top 10. So I am a bit biased. Very fascinating to see Nicholas Cage not be crazy for once, but he’s just so friendly and kind that he is creepy so two sides of the same coin I guess…
 
Anyways, I would recommend this film for sure. The main love interest is a strong womyn™ doctor and another main character is a Black angel. There are some obligatory feminist moments and of course robbers are White whereas the Black guys are businessmen or whatever. But this is to be expected and my standards are so low in terms of propaganda/agenda that this stuff doesn’t even phase me anymore. Oh! But the “in the arms of an angel” song that is now Pavlovianly associated with abused dogs is played during a crucial moment and you can’t help but get sucked out into the real world. Real buzzkill.

All in all, don’t let those elements prevent you from seeing this pleasant film with solid philosophical / pro-Faith themes.

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"“Nobody (2021)”"

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3

Definite bait and switch. You will not be getting a White guy on a rampage against hoodlums that you come across in real life (Mexicans/Blacks). Instead, you get yet another John Wick Russian mafia vendetta. So for me, as someone who deeply loves Russia, the film was nonstop schadenfreude. And a lot more “schaden” than the “freude” to be honest.

However the bait and switch in it was also what made the film more interesting than the other types in its genre. Is it yet another midlife crisis White guy snapping type movie (e.g. Fight Club, American Beauty, Click, Stranger Than Fiction, Office Space, etc.) ? Or is it another patriarchal revenge porn type movie (e.g. Mad Max, John Wick, Taken, etc.) ? Well it’s a mixture of the two and the dark comedy bits make it worth the watch. Lots of clichés subverted and a few twists and turns that kept things interesting to the very end. One one hand, not having the typical divide and conquer Hollywood BS about evil Whites v.s. Blacks was a relief. But on the other hand, it’s disappointing to see more stereotypical Russian bad guys. They are the only safe group to hate nowadays and the Russophobia in recent years makes me sick.
 
Other parts in the film made me  wonder if this movie was a PR piece for alphabet agencies and stoking anti-Russian sentiments now that Beijing Biden is in office and we need a scapegoat to counter the pro-Russia Trumpism of recent years. I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes out that the CIA or FBI was somehow involved in this film like they were for many others. But after googling a bit it doesn’t seem so. Once I looked into the director, it turns out it’s the same guy who made Hardcore Henry. His (((early life))) section on Wikipedia is what you’d expect from anyone in Hollywood, but he is also a Russian who spent a lot of his childhood there. So the Russian bad guy thing might just be out of convenience and comfortability, along with being a safe group to hate nowadays. Not an agenda, per se. 
 
Regardless, I am on the fence about if you should pay to see it. Pay to see it because we need more films about White males who reject modernity trying to turn them into beta bug men pencil pushers. ( Very redpilling subplots about female attraction and men keeping true to their purpose and not giving it up for any woman. ) But if you are sick of anti-Russian clichés, then don’t pay, and go rent the latest Rambo where he goes ham on a bunch of Mexicans with a very similar crescendo to Nobody‘s.

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"“The Last Boy Scout (1991)”"

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2

The Last Boy Scout is a super raunchy, gory, and incoherent buddy cop movie by the same guy that did Top Gun. There surprisingly isn’t a lot of the, “white guys walk like this, while black guys walk like this,” humor and the race of the cops doesn’t seem to play huge role in the plot or dialogue. Don’t worry though, there is some Hollywood bull crap for sure. 

One of the first scenes we see in this film is Damon Wayans character in bed with a white super model. This is shortly followed by his character being a proper female chauvinist and saving another white woman from being harassed by a fellow white football player. This was definitely the most unbelievable scene in the movie (for comparison, there’s a scene where a guy falls into the blades of helicopter – much more realistic). Hollywood wants us to believe that a washed up, drug addicted NFL quarterback comes to the safety of a prostitute! But finally, the movie gets rational and we see this character in a seedy Los Angeles strip club where his girlfriend works (Halle Berry).   

Bruce Willis’ character is a disgusting, depressed, lowlife that once cared about morals and values. Throughout the film we see him berate his wife and daughter, drink constantly, and only care about himself. However, with the encouragement of his new black friend, he slowly regains his righteousness and saves the day. Thank God for drug addicted hoodrats! 

Besides the egregious scenes in the beginning, there isn’t too much leftism in the movie. One of the villains appears to be gay, but they don’t make a point of it or shove it in your face.  The main antagonists are of course an evil white rich men, what’s new? The movie itself is definitely not for children though, as there is nudity, vulgar language, and violence throughout the entire film. If you like 90’s action movies, but don’t want to rewatch Die Hard, this is a decent movie you should watch for free (just start it 20 minutes in to avoid the beginning scenes).

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"Santa Claus is Coming for You “Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)”"

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5

There are many Christmas themed horror movies, and most of them are very bad. Nearly impossible to watch. Rare Exports is an exception. If you plan to watch a Christmas themed horror film, this is an excellent choice.

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"“Apocalypto (2006)”"

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5

This film immerses the viewer into a brutal world where a series of unrelenting tragedies barrages the characters in a majestic setting filled with beauty and grace. I enjoyed it.

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"“Parasite (2019)”"

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4

I was curious to see this only because it had won best picture at the Academy Awards last year and I have found that any best picture is usually voted ‘best’ for a reason.  It turns out it is an extremely well made movie. For almost the entire length of the film, (which by the way is subtitled), it is hard to tell what will happen next which is always a good sign in a script. The set up takes a large portion of the film, and as many movies do, near the end events start to get exaggerated. There is no agenda that I can remember and overall it has a good, original storyline. This is all topped off by the fact that  it is the very first best picture awarded to a foreign film.

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"“Fat Man (2020)”"

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3

This is one of those movies that portrays exaggerated character doing ridiculous things. If you can watch it with that in mind it can still be entertaining. (Personally I like a more realistic storyline.) Overall it was a fun movie to watch and has some really nice ideas when attempting to describe the back story of Santa. This reminded me of American Beauty in the sense that it is a bizarre and crazy story but in the end it succeeds in making a point.

And finally I would never notice let alone have a problem with any race or gender in a movie. The problem today is it is now an agenda hitting you over the head. So the fact that they made Mrs Claus black….well that to me is absurd and an agenda-based casting decision. Which makes me angry and disgusted. When in the real world it would not have even been a thought. Now it is all I see. Too bad huh?  An example of the carnage of the left.

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Overall this is a fantastic movie. One reason is: it is complex. There are so many films made for the lowest common denominator audience member now that something that is difficult to follow is almost a treat. I don’t think even the film makers thought anyone could follow all of the plot points the first time through. The time element is probably the most difficult to follow because this is different than anything we have ever seen- this isn’t going forward and backward within our own timeline, it is watching time going in the other direction simultaneously with the people going in real time forward.  That is an affect that is very hard to keep up with!

Another element in the mix is the sound because it does make it difficult to understand what is being said at times- yet through all of this I would recommend this film. Just plan on seeing it a second time. At least.

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"“Tenet (2020)”"

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5

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The latest, and possibly the greatest, from Darren Aronofsky. It all plays out one location and is full of biblical allegories. Lots of metaphors/symbolism and is a fun one to dissect and discuss whether you’re familiar with the bible or not.

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"Mother! (2017)"

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4

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One of the best future cop movies. This one’s more focused and faster paced that the 1995 film Judge Dredd. Great action, fantastic cinematography, well executed. 

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"Dredd (2012)"

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4

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A whale of a tale! It’s like Moby Dick, but not. 

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"In the Heart of the Sea (2015)"

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4

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I absolutely love this one! It’s a light film noir that takes place in 1940s L.A. and mixes live-action and animation. It is incredibly well done and it’s awesome seeing so many beloved classic Warner Brothers and Disney characters on the same screen. Bob Hoskins plays the lead and gives a perfect performance. I’ve watched this one dozens of times since I was a kid and it never fails to keep me entertained and delighted.

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"Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)"

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5

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I love a good ocean movie and this could might maybe be the best! Based on a true story, I’d also really recommend the documentary from 1950. Great story, looks awesome, beautiful score.

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"Kon Tiki (2012)"

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5

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A documentary about girls getting into the porn industry. Pornography has become so common, accepted, and even celebrated in our society when it’s been doing massive harm to us all and exploits women in the worst ways possible. This film centers on a few girls in particular, and while there’s plenty of sad and disturbing moments, it could be a lot worst, showcasing the true horror a lot of girls involved in porn go through. Although the subject matter is very graphic, there’s no shots of anything too graphic, just some brief T&A. I’d recommend this to anyone one who ever watches porn and also to teens who will no doubt be exposed to porn. This might be a good starting point to scare anyone looking to go into the industry, and guilt anyone that watches porn. 

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"Hot Girls Wanted (2015)"

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Great, in-depth documentary about the history of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. It takes you through its inception, the toy lines, the series, the movie, the fandom. Well done.

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"Power of Greyskull (2017)"

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4

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Although this is one of the weaker films in the franchise there’s still a lot to like here. It does move along at a leisurely pace with lots of shots showing off the scenery, so you have to be in the mood for that sort of thing. The story is good, but when compared to other Star Trek stories, it’s mediocre. The score by Jerry Goldsmith is top of the line. And it’s awesome what this film meant, reuniting the series cast and reinvigorating the franchise. If you’re looking to get into Star Trek movies this might not be the place to start, you could skip it and go straight to Wrath of Khan (1982). 

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"Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)"

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3

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Great goofs and lots of lols! It’s got the ziggers and zaggers. Weird Al gives a fantastic performance and you get a young Micheal Richards and some other goofballs too. I like it!

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"UHF (1989)"

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4

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A young man longs to be an artist and fit in with the beatniks. An early Roger Corman film with a great performance by Dick Miller. Lower budget, and lighter in tone than you might expect. Good stuff.

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"A Bucket of Blood (1959)"

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3

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"“The Highway Men (2019)”"

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4

This movie was very well done and thankfully stuck to the historical truth of what happened when two old Texas Rangers were called out of retirement to help capture Bonnie and Clyde.  Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson are cast as the lead characters whose increasing age cause them to question their ability to do what was needed to crack a case in the 1930’s- drive the ‘highways’ for months in search of clues, talking to folks and working out how to finally nab these outlaws.

In contrast to the 1969 Bonnie and Clyde with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, this movie showed what their crime spree was actually like. They were treated like celebrities in the original 1969 movie  (which the populace believed them to be at the time) and their story was shown from their point of view. This new version is from the police and detectives perspective (ostensibly the truth of the case) which is 180 degrees from that public perception.

Overall it is well worth watching, Costner and Harrelson put on great performances and give the audience a feel for the country at that time. Most roads were dirt roads, most people lived in very small towns, most were simply eking out a living. No wonder two young lovers keeping out of the reach of law enforcement for over two years was an exciting story to be romanticized.  Possibly due to the simple fact that this was a story of what actually happened, it does not appear that Hollywood was able to slip in any of it’s agenda.

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Good spooky fun that’s appropriate for the whole family! Feature length film that switches up the Scooby formula. Has some really good catchy music. The animation isn’t anything to write home about in the grand picture of cartoons, but compared to the old Scooby TV shows it’s a giant improvement. 

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"Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)"

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4

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At first I wasn’t really getting into this one. I felt the humor and style was kinda heavy handed and I guess I just wasn’t in the mood for this sort of movie. But it slowly keep winning me over and by the second act I was hooked and really enjoying it. Turned out to be a lot of fun! A really good modern horror comedy.

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"The Babysitter (2017)"

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4

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Modern cannibal movie that pays homage to films like Cannibal Holocaust (1980), and has social commentary about activism. Pretty brutal and hard to watch at times, great gore effects. Some plot holes, but overall I liked it. The tone isn’t brutal and hardcore throughout the film, it centers on college eco activists and there’s a lot of laughs too. Also it’s well shot, some really great cinematography.

I should mention I’m not really well-versed in the cannibal sub-genre. I’ve only seen Cannibal Holocaust (1980) before and didn’t really like it.

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"The Green Inferno (2013)"

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This may be the most difficult review I will ever do.  When this movie first came out there was an outcry- this was the most outrageous pile of garbage Hollywood has ever made. A story of a man seducing a young kid to have sex with him? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???  The right trashed it mercilessly, the left applauded it. Yet another chasm between the two sides of the political spectrum. How in the world could anyone applaud this movie??

Well, you can’t if you understand the surface storyline alone. (which, btw, I don’t know how this can happen if you actually do watch the movie) The profound nature of the film is on display immediately with the opening credits. The credits are paired with photos of iconic statues from the ancient world (which also happens to be part of a subplot in the movie- the boys’ father is working within academia to catalogue ancient artifacts which, in one scene, we see being dredged up out of a lake in northern Italy)  These images begin the story and are exactly what change the premise of the film – that this is not just more garbage from Hollywood – it is the deepest film I have ever seen.  

Now I would even go so far as to say that this is one of my favorite films because of what it portrays. It attempts to show us the meeting of two souls- a story that we mostly know from antiquity.  Alexander and Hephastion, Jonathan and David,  Apollo and Patroclus. This is the story of two souls who- no matter their sex or any other possible descriptor imagineable- find one another in a life changing summer in Italy. 

‘If I could have him like this in my dreams every night for the rest of my life I would stake MY LIFE on dreams. And be done with the rest of it.’  This lofty Shakesperean rhetoric is what makes this the deepest movie I have ever watched. If you can take out the details of who these people are, then you get it. And you will love it.

oh- the title of the movie. It says everything. Two people are so close they are each other.

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"“Call Me By Your Name (2017)”"

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The original mummy movie with the great Boris Karloff can be a little dull at times but has a good story and several incredibly beautiful shots. Personally I like the Khairs mummy movies with Lon Chaney Jr. from the 40’s better, but certainly still enjoy this one too. I feel like this one is middle of the road for the Universal monster classics.

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"The Mummy (1932)"

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3

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I really enjoyed this one. It’s found footage, which is a genre I generally don’t care for, but here it’s done really well. It primarily takes place in the catacombs beneath Paris and It’s kinda like The Descent (2005) with a bit of Indiana Jones.

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"As Above So Below (2014)"

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4

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Practically perfect in every way. Every component that goes into filmmaking is exceptional throughout these movies. The CG does show it’s age compared to modern movies but that’s normal, and it’s actually holds up pretty well for being nearly 20 years old. If you’re intimidated by the run times, you don’t have to watch it all in one sitting ya dangus!

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"Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001 – 2003)"

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Gay! As in it’s lame and also kinda homo erotic. Although it’s a weaker entry in the franchise there’s still a lot of great stuff in this movie. Like all horror fans I’ve heard talk about this movie, I never saw it as being gay at all, it’s just very “80’s.” If you saw the first one and are wanting more Elm St. but don’t necessarily want to go through the whole franchise you can skip this one and go straight to part 3, which holds better continuity with the first film anyway. 

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"A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)"

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Truly a masterpiece. Beautifully shot, great story, with fantastic music and sound design that adds up to a very effective horror movie. I love the surrealness of the nightmares and the amazing practical effects.

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"A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)"

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5

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"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)"

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5

German expressionist film, massively influential. Required viewing for film buffs and horror fans.

SPOILERS!!!! (kinda)

It tells the story of an old hypnotist, Dr. Caligari, who entrances a man by the name of Cesare, who is said to have been asleep for 23 years, in order for him to commit murders in the night. The sets are jagged with distorted dimensions that give it a more fictitious dreamlike feel. In the first act the story begins by being told by a man in a mental institution so the German Expressionist style can be interpreted as the warped psyche of this mad man. Twisted and pointed shadows and light were painted directly on to the sets to further the distorted perception. These sets also helped to convey a feeling of unease or the impression of a nightmare which matched the horror plot of the killer on the loose. The costumes of Dr. Caligari and the somnambulist Cesare also reflect this style with exaggerated black clothes and pointed hair and make-up. It’s also worth noting that this is one of the earliest films to have a nonlinear plot with most of the film being the flashback of a character introduced in the beginning and returning to the characters from the first act at the end, now with revealed knowledge of these characters. Something else that makes this film unique is a somewhat twist ending that reveals characters in roles that are unexpected and then a somewhat ambiguous ending.

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"Thor: Ragnarok (2017)"

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MCU at it’s best! Visually stunning, fantastic score. A must watch for any sci-fi/fantasy fan, even if you think you don’t really like Marvel movies.

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"TerrorVision (1986) is a whole lotta 80’s fun!"

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4

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"TerrorVision (1986) is a whole lotta 80’s fun!"

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5

Primarily a comedy, a great sci-fi/horror film from the 80’s. Awesome practical effects, fantastic characters, lots of laughs!

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"“Dragged Across Concrete”"

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S. Craig Zahler is back with a solid and satisfyingly rough follow-up to the jaw-dropping Brawl in Cell Block 99, reuniting with Vince Vaughn and teaming him up with Mel Gibson in a literally gut-ripping, downbeat buddy cop brutalizer. Seasoned detective Brett Ridgeman (Gibson) and partner Anthony Lurasetti (Vaughn) are caught on video using excessive force in the apprehension of a Hispanic drug dealer, creating a scandal for their police department, and get suspended without pay by their superior (Don Johnson). Both men need money – Lurasetti because he plans to propose marriage to his girlfriend, and Ridgeman because his daughter is no longer safe in their ghettoized neighborhood and the family needs to get out. At the extent of his tether, Ridgeman hatches a half-baked plan to rip off a heroin dealer that winds up with him and his partner pitted against a gang of formidable paramilitary bank heisters. A career highlight for Gibson equal to his over-the-hill hero roles in Edge of Darkness and Blood Father, and yet another impressive entry in Vaughn’s growing résumé of scary tough guy characters after True Detective and Brawl in Cell Block 99.

4.5 out of 5 stars. Ideological Content Analysis indicates that Dragged Across Concrete is:

Anti-drug. Troy Kittles plays ex-con Henry Johns, whose stint in prison illustrates a very possible outcome for a dealer. His mother, a heroin addict, has turned to prostitution. It is also mentioned that the dealer Ridgeman mistreats has been selling drugs to children, undermining any potential audience sympathy for the criminal.

Ableist! Lurasetti compares a hearing-impaired woman’s speech to a dolphin’s.

Anti-Semitic! Writer-director Zahler, as Soiled Sinema’s Ty E. puts it, is an artist who seems to have “transcended his Jewishness”, which may account for the brief and harmless but stereotype-oozing portrayal of the friendly jeweler Feinbaum, who says his wife has two brothers who are therapists and three sisters who are lawyers.

Homophobic! Henry dismisses his “cocksuckin’ father” as “a yesterday who ain’t worth words.” Disapprovingly, Ridgeman fails to see “much of a difference these days” between men and women, and also mocks Lurasetti’s “gay hair s**t” disguise.

Media-critical. Chief Lieutenant Calvert (Johnson) derides the anti-police bias of “the entertainment industry formally known as ‘the news’”, which “needs villains” and fabricates them if necessary.

Natalist, i.e., sexist! Unexpectedly, the movie features a tender (albeit offbeat) portrait of a new mother, Kelly Summer (Jennifer Carpenter), desperately trying to avoid going back to work after using up her maternity leave. The necessity of keeping a job seems cruel and absurd now that she has a baby. Her proper place, she realizes, is at home with her child. Her boss, Mr. Edmington (Fred Melamed) describes her as a “radiant vision of maternity”. The section of Dragged Across Concrete that follows Kelly is even more affecting on a second viewing.

Class-conscious. “My job [in a bank] is so stupid,” Kelly laments. “I go there and I sell chunks of my life for a paycheck so that rich people I’ve never even met can put money in places I’ve never even seen.” Henry’s little brother Ethan, meanwhile, sees big game hunting as “rich white people s**t”. There is also the suggestion that those with wealth have the means to elude the law, as Ridgeman at some point in the past allowed the son of businessman Friedrich (Udo Kier) to escape punishment for an unnamed crime in exchange for a future favor from the well-connected father. Ridgeman no longer believes in a meritocratic American dream. “I don’t politick and I don’t change with the times and turns that that s**t’s more important than good, honest work,” he tells his partner, determining: “We have the skills and the right to acquire proper compensation” for thankless years of public service.

Race-realist – with exceptions. “They’re so cute before they get big,” says Ridgeman’s daughter Sara (Jordyn Ashley Olson) – ostensibly with reference to lion cubs, but subtextually referring to the black boys who harass her when she walks home from school. “This fucking neighborhood, it just keeps getting worse and worse,” frets Mrs. Ridgeman (Laurie Holden). “You know I never thought I was a racist before living in this area. I’m about as liberal as any ex-cop could ever be, but now,” she demands, “we really need to move” or else, “someday, you and me,” she tells her husband, “we are in a hospital room with our daughter talking to a rape counselor.”

Ridgeman and his partner are both depicted as casual racists. “I’m not racist,” Lurasetti jokes: “Every Martin Luther King Day I order a cup of dark roast.” In a twenty-first century world in which “digital eyes are everywhere”, however, old-school law-and-order enforcers like Ridgeman and Lurasetti are living on borrowed time. “Like cell phones, and just as annoying, politics are everywhere,” Calvert observes. “Being branded a racist in today’s public forum is like being accused of communism in the fifties. Whether it’s a possibly offensive remark made in a private phone call or the indelicate treatment of a minority who sells drugs to children […] It’s b******t – but it’s reality.”

Softening Dragged Across Concrete’s racial edge is the presence of Henry, the conspicuous specimen of Africanus cinematicus played by Troy Kittles. This ghetto thug with the soul of a poet is given to saying things like, “Before I consider that kind of vocation, I need to get myself acclimated” and is at all times depicted as being more astute than those around him. His little brother Ethan, too, is portrayed as an underprivileged but bright lad of great potential. The case can be made that Dragged Across Concrete makes examples of its most prominent bigots by punishing them while rewarding Henry in the end. Ridgeman, who has refused to change with the times, is taught the important lesson that he “should have trusted a n*****.”

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Rainer Chlodwig von K.

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"“The Public”"

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3

Try as it might to seem hip and relevant, Emilio Estevez’s hero-librarians vanity project The Public never manages to shake a vague feeling of being something slightly quaint left over from the 1990s. Estevez, in a role perhaps intended to reference the actor’s iconic turn as a cool school library detainee in The Breakfast Club, appears as an idealistic but hardship-weathered employee of the Cincinnati Public Library whose personal and professional ethics are tested when a mob of crazy homeless men occupies the facility and demands to be allowed to use the library as an overnight shelter on a bitterly cold evening. Curiously, writer-director-producer Estevez appears to cling to the outmoded liberal convention of the white savior coming to the aid of downtrodden blacks and browns – in 2019. Star-power casting, with Christian Slater and Alec Baldwin also appearing, make the movie more watchable than it probably deserves to be.

3 out of 5 stars. Ideological Content Analysis indicates that The Public is:

Green. Annoying but well-meaning millennial chick Jena Malone rides the bus to work to reduce her carbon footprint, and the presence of a taxidermied polar bear (“Beary White”) in the library serves to remind the viewer of wildlife impacted by melting ice caps.

Anti-drug. One subplot involves the search for a missing opioid addict (Nik Pajic). Estevez’s character is also revealed to be a recovered alcoholic who once lived on the streets.

Media-critical. A self-promoting local reporter (Gabrielle Union) intentionally misrepresents the protagonist’s stance of solidarity with the homeless, leaving viewers with the impression that he is a madman holding hostages inside the library. Her cameraman (Ki Hong Lee) objects, but is ultimately complicit in the duplicity. Provocatively, the term “fake news” is applied to the mainstream media rather than to independent commentators.

Communist. “To each, according to his needs” is very much the moral of the film.

Racially confused. The Public represents a partially naïve effort at postracialism while also including distinctively anti-white elements. Against expectation, the film casts black actress Gabrielle Union as the unlikable reporter – showing that blacks can also be bad – but other blacks in the movie appear well-intentioned or victimized, with some depicted as harmlessly insane. Jeffrey Wright, however, appears as a polished and capable black library director. Christian Slater plays a slickly dressed law-and-order prosecutor and mayoral candidate who, though his political party is never mentioned, represents a heartless all-white Republicanism that must eventually give way to a more inclusive vision represented by his compassionate black political opponent.

Oddly, the movie opens with an angry black rapper shouting “Burn the books!” and ranting about tearing down monuments as various unfortunate street people appear queuing up to get into the library and out of the cold. The rap’s apocalyptic vision forecasts what is presumably the fate awaiting reactionary whites who fail to get “woke” and join the fight against inequality. European-American literary heritage in The Public is a universal legacy and an inspiration for all of “the people”, but Europe’s classical civilization is also insulted. The setting of Cincinnati invokes Cincinnatus, the exemplar of selfless public service, but the name “Athena” – evoking the Greek goddess of wisdom – is given to an eccentric old anti-Semite (Dale Hodges) who suspects those around her of belonging to “the Tribe”, while another of the vagrants (Patrick Hume) is nicknamed “Caesar”, with antiquity symbolically displaced, homeless, and reduced to pitiable madness in the context of multicultural modernity. A library book defaced with a swastika, meanwhile, reminds viewers of the persistent threat of white bigotry.

More interesting is the treatment of the preserved polar bear, “Beary White”, which – whether intentionally or otherwise – evokes “polar bear hunting” or the anti-white “knock-out game” in a ghettoized urban setting in addition to bolstering the global warming messaging. The film concludes with a shot of the towering, fierce, and triumphant-looking polar bear, which is perhaps intended to symbolize the moral victory of white-liberal-savior-with-soul Emilio Estevez, who redeems himself and his race and hopefully avoids the hunt by self-sacrificingly taking up the cause of impoverished minorities. The irony of such an interpretation is that the life-like bear is merely a feat of accomplished taxidermy and that the once-majestic creature is already dead inside.

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Rainer Chlodwig von K.

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"“The Miseducation of Cameron Post”"

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3

Chloe Grace Moretz, who began her career in a skintight superhero costume as a sexually exploited child in the disposable Kick-Ass films, embraces her prostitution to the cultural Marxist establishment in her role as a teenage lesbian cruelly condemned to be treated at a totalitarian Christian conversion therapy camp. There, she is insensitively disciplined by a suspiciously cold and masculine Christian psychologist (Jennifer Ehle) and mentored by a friendly reverend (John Gallagher, Jr.) who, unsurprisingly, turns out to be a recovered homosexual himself. The Miseducation of Cameron Post has little point apart from further demolishing western civilization and tediously depicting Christians as stupid, corny, boring, mean, and hatefully judgmental.

The other major objective of the film is to tempt young women into lesbian relationships. The unsightliness of male-male physicality is prudently kept off-screen, but more than one sultry scene of hot, quick lesbian seduction is featured. A key meta moment occurs in the sequence depicting Moretz’s first girl-girl experience. She and a friend (Quinn Shephard) are hanging out and watching Donna Deitch’s 1985 film Desert Hearts and find themselves overcome with lust during one of the movie’s lesbian scenes. This, of course, is how The Miseducation of Cameron Post is intended to function. With its much greater reach than this obscure eighties predecessor, The Miseducation of Cameron Post is designed to get mentally malleable adolescent girls to question their own pedestrian sexuality and wonder if it might not be more rewarding to luxuriate in a childless life of unending slumber parties and digitally induced, guy-free orgasms.

I find a great irony in this movie’s contrived shock moment of homo horror, when gay boy Owen Campbell, tortured by the contradiction between his Christian ardor and his burning desire to gobble a c**k, freaks out and mutilates his genitals, leaving a pool of blood on the floor of a bathroom for Chloe Grace Moretz to find. Are Bible-thumpers really the ones bullying young men into cutting off their penises, though, or is that messaging emanating from some other quadrant of our cultural landscape?

3 out of 5 stars. Ideological Content Analysis indicates that The Miseducation of Cameron Post is:

Democratic. When Moretz and two of her pals at last escape from Sobibor, they hitch a ride in a pickup truck that boasts a Clinton Gore sticker – the Democratic Party being the vehicle that will carry Americans forward into a more enlightened future.

Multiculturalist. Moretz’s buddies at camp include American Honey’s mystery-meat dreadlocks vixen Sasha Lane and fellow pothead Forrest Goodluck, a laid-back Native American lad with “two spirits”.

Pro-drug. Dope enhances the thrill of an intense backseat lesbian encounter, and Moretz also bonds with her new gay camp companions over weed.

Anti-Christian. Yes, apparently Christianity isn’t quite dead yet – or, at any rate, Hollywood wants to make absolutely sure, and so continues to flog its carcass. “How is programming people to hate themselves,” the screenplay poses, “not emotional abuse?” (I wonder if the buffoon who wrote this line has, in this same spirit of fairness, taken an honest look at the ways in which whites are typically depicted in Hollywood fare.)

Anti-family, antinatalist, and pro-gay (i.e., pro-AIDS). Gay as the U.S.A. is these days, it still isn’t proactively putrescent enough to satisfy the ass venerators in Hollywood. Movies have given us gay teens, gay parents, gay artists, gay cowboys, gay scientists, gay singers, gay strippers, gay soldiers, gay superheroes, gay angels, gay Holocaust victims, and even gay Nazis – and yet, as The Miseducation of Cameron Post capably demonstrates, there remain still-ungay filmic frontiers to be reamed in trailblazing explorations. As long as there are virgin goyish bloodstreams yet to be blessed by the gift of a full-flowered autoimmune disease, and homophobic churchgoing bigots yet to be epically BTFO’d on the big screen with feels and thotness, Hollywood can hardly afford to flag in its valiant venereal efforts.

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Rainer Chlodwig von K.

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"“Sollers Point”"

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4

American Honey’s McCaul Lombardi stars as Keith, a directionless Baltimore wigger and drug dealer just released from prison and attempting to find his place in the world. At stake in the formless, meandering story is whether the poorly behaved and inarticulate protagonist will settle into the family pattern of working-class tedium and community coexistence or fall back in with the white nationalist gang with which he became affiliated while incarcerated. Keith bowls from one unnecessarily unpleasant situation into another, getting into fights, making a little money, and chasing after various specimens of ghetto tail. Lombardi is an intense performer, and Jim Belushi is likable as his boring but well-meaning dad. What at first appears to be a downbeat and largely pointless character study, however, is revealed to be an accidental comedy once the filmmaker’s ridiculous intentions are taken into consideration.

4 out of 5 stars – in part for the unintentional humor furnished by the director in the DVD extra features. Ideological Content Analysis indicates that Sollers Point is:

Anti-drug. Diminishing marijuana’s glamor, a thug mentions that his stash had recently been stuffed up his ass. The film also offers a putrid portrait of an aging, heroin-addicted w***e hawking her unappetizing wiles on a roadside.

Pro-family. Keith’s father does what he can to protect and provide for his wayward son, and other family members are also helpful and affectionate. Keith seems to be troubled by his absence from his niece’s life.

Multiculturalist, pro-miscegenation, and anti-white. Baltimore appears in the film as a more or less functional chocolate city marred only by the presence of reckless and immature young white men and trashy white women. Keith’s father, at least, seems to be a good man as evidenced by the fact that he hangs out and plays cards with blacks – so not all white people in the movie are criminals or addicted to dope. “I was really interested in reflecting the diversity of this neighborhood in southeast Baltimore,” soyboy writer-director Matt Porterfield explains in an interview included on the Sollers Point DVD, “but I wanted to sort of focus on the ways in which they shared space rather than the divisions, you know?” The way in which Keith shares space with his black neighbors, however, seems to entail an inferior and deferential role. When Keith’s wigger nationalist acquaintances roll up with hostile intentions, Keith’s black thug neighbors come to his aid by throwing liquor bottles at the white gang’s van; but then they expect him to pick up the broken glass littering the street – which he obediently does. Keith, Porterfield says, has to “figure out who his people are”, and as Porterfield concludes, “his people in the film are white and black” – which may go a long way toward explaining why the character is so lost. Interestingly, the writer-director describes his movie as “a portrayal of a white male in society trying to find his place,” adding that Keith is “not being given any traditional rites of passage.” I burst out laughing, however, when he added that the protagonist is “representative of, you know, a large portion of the population that put our current president in office. […] It’s tapping into a cultural energy that we all kind of want to understand, that put Trump in office.” Which, of course, is 2016 in a nutshell. The Dems should never have underestimated Trump’s appeal to the wigger jungle fever ex-con MAGA drug dealer demographic!

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Rainer Chlodwig von K.

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"“Hunting Emma”"

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3

This is an okay Afrikaans-language thriller about a schoolteacher, Emma (Leandie du Randt), whose car breaks down in South Africa’s arid Karoo region on her way to her father’s home for a holiday visit. Compounding misfortunes, Emma is witness to a drug-related execution and must flee for her life through the desert whilst pursued by a gang of criminals. Unfortunately for the bad guys – led by the icy Bosman (Neels van Jaarsveld), who comes across like a cross between Gian Maria Volonté and Bono – it turns out that the resourceful Emma was trained in military survival skills by her ex-Recce father. Will the direness of her situation be enough to goad Emma to finally dispense with her philosophy of nonviolence? Furthermore, will she ever learn to shoot straight? Finding out makes for a fun hundred minutes.

3.5 out of 5 stars. Ideological Content Analysis indicates that Hunting Emma is:

Family-ambivalent. Emma’s father (Tertius Meintjes) is depicted as a devoted parent whose lessons stand his daughter in good stead in the face of a challenge. Emma, however, displays a distaste for domesticity, and teaching seems to fulfill whatever impulse she has toward motherhood.

Class-conscious. One of the crooks is a rich, recreational criminal.

Feminist. “My favorite kind of kitchen work – ironing,” martial arts expert Emma declares after tediously dispatching a sexist gang member with an iron. This fight, significantly, takes place in an abandoned home.

Anti-white. Leave it to South Africa’s Department of Trade and Industry, the agency responsible for Black Economic Empowerment, to facilitate the production of a film in which the threat to a woman traveling alone through the “Rainbow Nation” is a pack of white rapists and drug dealers. Emma’s mocha-colored students, meanwhile, give a glimpse of the country’s non-white future.

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"‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’"

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3

This is a fun romantic comedy- especially for girls. It follows two girlfriends who get themselves deeper and deeper into trouble in the world of espionage which includes loads of criminals as well as handsome british spys . Kate McKinnon really shows her comedic talent in this and the relationship between the two makes for a very entertaining film.

One element that stood out though as I watched it were the violent scenes that were way over the top.
As an audience member you are watching a somewhat light hearted comedy and these scenes just didn’t work for this type of film. It was very strange and I don’t know if I’d ever seen anything like this before. Then the credits rolled and I found out the movie was written and direct by a woman, Susanna Fogel.

Later I ran across an interview with Fogel where she wondered if the criticism the film was getting over this point was due to the gender of the main characters. She wondered if the same criticism would be leveled if it were a male-driven storyline.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-spy-who-dumped-me-interview-susanna-fogel-on-why-the-films-violence-shouldnt-be-so-a8507946.html

So the film itself was mostly free of liberal messaging but the one strange quality that I noticed was indeed debated in the whacky liberal bubble of Hollywood. The gender of the characters had absolutely nothing to do with whether the level of violence was out of place in this slaptick comedy!

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"‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’"

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4

Although Hollywood can still get their agenda into period pieces this film did not attempt to end western civilization in anyway! (Luckily period pieces tend to deal with the politics of the time they are portraying and not present day concerns.)  So happily this was an agenda free hour and 44 minutes of cinema.

Note: I looked up whether the movie stayed historically correct and it turns out it did!

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