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Is today like weird take day or something? Is there some random thing I should pick and write a screed about how as leftists we should all hate it?
Fuck it we should all hate tables it's a symbol of the patriarchal power structure as well as a symbol of colonial oppression as people were regarded as savages for not using tables, as well as this they are inherent to the classist idea of table manners
Am I doing it
This isn’t a bit. I don’t watch comedy movies. I think they’re grotesque. They celebrate disgusting humor, usually and quite often at the expense of women and people of color. They’re celebrations of things nobody should celebrate and intended to shock and disgust. Ideally, the resources put towards creating comedy films would be put to use creating films of a chaotic and darker nature, exploring the human spirit.
⬇️ Marx uses the language of horror stories to describe the capital class. Horror would be less reactionary under socialism but still existent
“Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks”
Well, duh, that's the first thing you learn at Antifa Vampire Hunter Academy.
Van Helsing was the first antifa super soldier, you heard it here first folks
In an ideal socialist society, all positive media would be banned as antithetical to revolutionary spirit and an attempt to sap the workers of their revolutionary discontent.
Horror movies will continue as training guides for how to properly deal with fae-beasts and operate torches & pitchforks.
What's a traditional name for the fae: the lords and ladies.
This goes all the way to the top
What about Dracula? It's a pretty direct allegory for the bourgeoisie.
Also movies shouldn't all be uplifting - showing the breadth of the human experience is one of the things that art does really well.
Isn't that more like torture porn? Sure, subset of the genre for all it's worth but this seems like claiming metal is bad because there's shitty metal bands
Actually the western vampire tradition started with Polidori as a metaphor for how Lord Byron slept around with a bunch of women on the promise of marrying them and therefore was bad
Horror is just about the only socially conscious movie genre. I would posit that just about all of them say something, regardless of whether the creators intended for them to do so.
Not every horror movie is in the Friday the 13th series. Horror movies are a pretty broad genre as well. You can't really make the same judgement between say, Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Halloween 4, The Thing, Creepshow and The VVitch. They're all horror but very very different.
Ideally, the resources put towards creating horror films would be put to use creating films of a harmonic and friendly nature, uplifting the human spirit.
The problem is that under this logic we should also ban reality television. Actually, wait, you might have something here.
