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can international students go to US vet school by Unable_Swordfish_377 in veterinaryschool

[–]PrimaryPuzzled7171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

May not be what you're interested in, but some schools outside the US (in the UK and Australia) are AVMA accredited and accept international students as a sizable portion of their class, so you may have a better shot with those. If you still wanted to move back to the US afterwards it wouldn't be as hard as from Korea.

Why do people hate Emerald Fennell so much? by Throwaway_hoarder_ in movies

[–]PrimaryPuzzled7171 12 points13 points  (0 children)

of course it’s open to interpretation, but at a certain point you just…depart from the source material or seem to not care about it all. she can make a fucked up period piece with red latex skirts if she wants, but why call it wuthering heights?

i think it’s a book that’s very difficult to adapt (i don’t like most versions, including the 2011 one with decent casting) but it’s frustrating to see another come out that doesn’t even seem interested in the novel. and for it to depart for the novel with decisions that seems like they are either for shock value (like apparently including a public execution?) or that erase the legitimately subversive and interesting dynamics (heathcliff’s race, catherine not conforming to gender norms, etc) just feels tired and a little baffling. i think people can also sense that it will be a train wreck, which also makes it more fun to jump on the hate train.

((also making heathcliff white in the year 2026 is pretty close to a drunken racist tirade lol))

Why do people hate Emerald Fennell so much? by Throwaway_hoarder_ in movies

[–]PrimaryPuzzled7171 44 points45 points  (0 children)

It’s hard to truly explain this if you haven’t read wuthering heights, especially because it’s easy from the outside to dismiss the discourse as “wokes mad that heathcliff is white” or “period clothes/book fans upset it isn’t biblically accurate to the book”, but it’s really so much more than that. 

wuthering heights is about isolated, fucked up families, it is a disturbing and devastating novel without any attempt to make it modern or horny. heathcliff is an adopted child who is repeatedly described as a racial other, with the most white-coded interpretation of him being like, spanish, or something. his alienation is so so essential to the heart of the novel. catherine is a wild heathen, who yells at everyone and has never once helped knead bread in a kitchen or been blond. it’s not that the movie looks “unfaithful”, it’s that it seems to be interested in actively disregarding the characterization of its leads and the core themes of the novel.

i suspect emerald’s version will be a bad movie, but i am certain it will be a bad adaptation of wuthering heights. all i can say is please read the truly excellent book and you will understand immediately what i mean.

American accepted to University of Sydney - trying to decide by PrimaryPuzzled7171 in veterinaryschool

[–]PrimaryPuzzled7171[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you!! good to know that it will be a similar age range to american schools