Can't believe this lost to Coco at the Oscars.
The question I always used to ask about these kind of behold-the-plight-of-the-third-world movies is who are they for? The Breadwinner is not for Afghani children. It's not for Afghani adults either.
Took me a while to figure out they're for middle class libs who think watching the right movies makes you a good person.
"It (Schindler's List) is not instruction, but melodrama. Members of the audience learn nothing save the emotional lesson of all of melodrama, that they are better than the villain. The very assertion that the film is instructive is harmful. It is destructive. The audience comes to the theater in order to, and leaves the theater feeling they have looked down on actions that they have been assured - this is the film's central lesson - they would never commit." ... "But the film panders to the audience. It invites them (as does any melodrama) to reward themselves for Seeing That the Villain's Bad; and, in the Liberal Fallacy, of feeling this perception is a moral accomplishment." -David Mamet.
Took me a while to figure out they’re for middle class libs who think watching the right movies makes you a good person.
…right in the heart.
I thought the film was made by someone from the global south wanting to share their experiences like Barefoot Gen did with Japan post-nuclear bomb. But no. It's directed by an Irish woman and the book it's based off of was written by a Canadian woman.
It's probably upper-class libs who think that watching the right movies makes you a good person.
Can't believe this was a 2017 movie, kinda late for some pro-invasion propaganda. Oh, based on a 2001 book. Oh, based on a 2001 book by some white lady. Meh, I go to the movies to be entertained, not lectured at.
Meh, I go to the movies to be entertained, not lectured at.
Should rephrase that so you don't sound indistinguishable from a chud.
I go to the movies to be entertained, not lectured at.
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I love the studio that made this (Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers), but haven't seen this yet. How does it look from a lefists POV?
I said this above too but the key difference between movies like SotS or Secret of Kells and The Breadwinner is the intended audience. It's a beautiful work of art on its face, but it's not made for the people it depicts.
Song of The Sea is an Irish fable made by Irish artists for Irish families. The Breadwinner is an English-language Afghani drama made by Irish and Canadian artists for Irish, Canadian and American bleeding hearts.
It's meh, kinda lib but then again the Taliban does suck as and it kinda looks/glosses over at how Afghan has been repeatedly invaded and fucked over for most of it's history (the main plot will also make you cry). The art style and animations are amazing.
Wolfwalkers
oh i just watched this tonight it was p. good
