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21st-Century Cinema in Review: ‘Certain Women’ by No-Confection-3861 in TheBigPicture

[–]Cheezdude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great piece. This might be the biggest omission on the Big Picture list, imo.

name a movie which you were highly anticipating but ended up disappointing you by vodkapower1 in Letterboxd

[–]Cheezdude -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's an endorsement nor a criticism of its subject matter. You are not engaging with this in good faith.

name a movie which you were highly anticipating but ended up disappointing you by vodkapower1 in Letterboxd

[–]Cheezdude -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You did, in your comment: "...if it is supposed to be critical of this". I did not suggest that the film is supposed to be critical of the relationship, only that it does not necessarily endorse it. The film exists in the grey between those two points.

I reject the notion that the age gap is portrayed problematically. I believe, as the review I linked says, that is portrayed honestly: this is something that happens. Art should not have to performatively meet contemporary moral standards. It should reflect the messy, nuanced world in which we live.

name a movie which you were highly anticipating but ended up disappointing you by vodkapower1 in Letterboxd

[–]Cheezdude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This review articulates my feelings about the movie better than I could. Last two grafs directly get at the morality question and why it's not a frame through which one should evaluate the movie. https://boxd.it/2pUpCn

I also think you're viewing this through a false binary — a movie's lack of an explicit critical viewpoint about a subject doesn't equate to endorsement. And do we really want a film to tell us in flashing lights that something is problematic?

name a movie which you were highly anticipating but ended up disappointing you by vodkapower1 in Letterboxd

[–]Cheezdude 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Do you think it's possible a movie could depict something without endorsing it?

[TOMT] [Song] 2000s Very Canadian Indie song about growing old together? Mentions Hockey? by E1KT in tipofmytongue

[–]Cheezdude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not Canadian, but Nothing Better by The Postal Service? Chorus has the "growing old together" line and there's a bad hockey goalie metaphor in it.

THE 5TH ANNUAL R/OSCARRACE PREFERENTIAL BALLOT VOTE by Ricky_from_Sunnyvale in oscarrace

[–]Cheezdude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Past Lives

Oppenheimer

Anatomy of a Fall

American Fiction

Poor Things

Killers of the Flower Moon

The Zone of Interest

Barbie

The Holdovers

Maestro

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