:sicko-biker: :amerikkka: :sicko-pig:
:fedposting: ?
Seems like a good movie to check out either way
That's kind of a weird way to put it. They did have a fed consultant, which is questionable but I don't know what you mean about like bragging about that.
I'm going to go watch it as soon as it shows in my city for sure, it looks fucking tight
I've seen the Q&A where they mention it, I definitely didn't get that vibe
I haven't seen the interview but they do talk about working with a consultant in the Chapo episode. The way I understood it, they were proud to have accurately represented how a bomb is constructed because many other pieces of media do not do that. Their reasoning being that they wanted to stay true to form of the book that following through on the title is actually something that is possible and to show how that is the case.
Who knows maybe they're all :fedposting: but they make good points when talking with Will. I'll watch it especially because I'm so tired of "look at this epic soldier/operator for the US do war crimes" and capeshit
If I'm engaging my 👁 brain, the fed shit that matches the sophistication of our propaganda network is that the consultant would insist they need to portray this as complicated, dangerous and expensive so people don't get the sense just anyone can achieve the result by just riddling them with bullet holes
I liked Searching for Sugar Man, but I don't remember any South African fans of the American musician Sixto Rodriguez building any bombs in that film.
weird dynamic of "radicalized by book, asked 'what if that was us?', so we made a movie as if that was us"
This is a very good way to write and produce a movie you will actually finish!
I don't think it was their intention, but self-insert narrative fiction about climate activism kind of feels like it carries aspects of stolen valor / capitalist realism / commodification of dissent
Also wondering about that mention of "conservative environmentalism", seems like a concept begging to be critiqued (what sort of systems and structural relations do its adherents seek to conserve, and for whose benefit? what do they think about environmental racism? what is their vision of "climate justice"?)
I have a lot to say in response but I think I'll hold off on detailed commentary until people have had a chance to see the movie.
:rat-salute: I'm sure there will be a good thread when it's released
but I will say - I think people should go and see it with friends in a theater. it gets my endorsement (ppl will have criticisms and some will be fair). it's a good time at the movies and imagine if it made a billion dollars so someone has to make how to hack the pentagon, how to liquify the federal reserve etc
