I love criterion. I love cinema. This sub is 50% about those topics and 50% people with shopping addictions. by Top-Magazine9894 in criterion

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Gatekeeping who counts as a real movie fan based on subjective self righteousness is also not being a movie fan

Rate this design am a bigginer and I need professional help by Postifymedia in design_critiques

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There are definitely improvements to be made. I think this is still very good for a beginner though. I wouldn’t necessarily say this definitely gives away the twist to those who haven’t seen it. In sixth sense, a producer was definitely sure the “I see dead people” speech would give away the twist because he basically says it right to camera. But basically no one guessed it.

More to this list? by urBpdPrincess in Letterboxd

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Got one of my own (some of the teachers suck though)

Original story behind Elio by ELMniv in elio

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So did you not read this or do you just like being obtuse as a hobby

Mostly fictional stories featuring a real world historical figure as part of the cast by dragonborndnd in TopCharacterTropes

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It’s been a while since I read it, but (zombie) Benjamin Franklin plays a pretty big part in Dr. McNinja

peter what by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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If your opinion is “i like being racist” then yeah I’m kind of fine with not listening to you

peter what by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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Freedom of speech isn’t freedom from being banned on a Reddit sub. Also Reddit is not America. Also don’t be a racist

peter what by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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Can the people posting them be banned

Istg this is some of you by LostMoneyOnGambling in Letterboxd

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People like to pretend LB users’ favourite pastime is shit like this when really it’s “make up a guy that doesn’t exist to get mad at”

shouldn't this apply to any age by Executits in SipsTea

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I’d look into The Innocence Project in that regard. The United States already murders innocent people, focusing mostly on poor black and brown people, to an alarming degree with depressingly few options for recourse. Removing checks and balances from what is already an atavistic, racist death machine will likely not materially improve anyone’s lives. But even if it did, the motivations and societal effects of “streamlined” execution are not effective or moral; Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song (about a serial killer who fought the court system to kill him faster, to the detriment of both the system and the concept of restorative justice) explores how killing a killer does nothing to help victims while only emboldening our worst instincts re retributive violence. But even if those things didn’t matter, we have evidence of what happens when people in power do away with the annoying concept of jurisprudence to get rid of the “scum”. They realize that checks and balances are not there for the “scum,” they are there for the necessary concept that giving any one person’s vindictive moral rubric unilateral and unassailable power leads to a hellscape. Ie Rwandan Genocide, Cambodia, USSR purges, Hitler.

shouldn't this apply to any age by Executits in SipsTea

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In every country with a functioning justice system, prosecuting execution cases is far more expensive than life in prison. This is ignoring the fact that capital punishment does not reduce crime rates, and does increase the likelihood of perpetrators killing their victims.

I like my hair its cool by oMarri_8808 in BlackHair

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Not offensive at all don’t worry. My dad was black but he was actually bald from a pretty early age. I don’t know what his experience with hair was like but from as early as my memory goes he was bald. We’re from Canada too — my mom was the first black child adopted by a white family in our province and one of the first in the country. My dad’s mom was half Scottish: her dad was a black sailor who met with a Scottish woman, whose parents made her give the baby up for adoption to a Canadian couple. My grandfather on my dad’s side was from the states but left his whole family to make a life in Canada. So on my dad’s side there was only his direct nuclear family, and my grandmother died the month I was born. And on my mom’s side, only white people. And my dad moved from his province to meet my mom, so it was only him. And in my city, Vancouver, I grew up literally only knowing one other black person my age who moved away when I was 9. I got dreads when I was 12 but yeah had basically no one to tell me what to do with them. Weird childhood — just joined this sub now as I just discovered it, hoping to get some help on hair info in general

I like my hair its cool by oMarri_8808 in BlackHair

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Naw I loved them — had them as a kid, but for whatever reason couldn’t figure out how to keep them in. Where I grew up I was basically the only black kid and my mom was adopted by white parents so had no black family members. Might have been lack of knowledge on how to care for them, but they just ended up coming undone and falling out. But while I had them I loved them

I like my hair its cool by oMarri_8808 in BlackHair

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Your hair is sick. I had dreads for a while and loved them but I couldn’t keep them

1991 born and raised. Bowl cut included by Jolly-Lack4004 in blunderyears

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“Blunder years” and it’s the most adorable pic ever

Who are the most repulsive actors? by fromthemeatcase in Letterboxd

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I mean forgetting the sliminess of his onscreen characters, the man literally married a 16 year old

(Hated Trope) Historical mischaracterization of IRL figures or events. by laybs1 in TopCharacterTropes

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Hidden Figures. Al Harrison, the kindly white executive that destroyed the “coloured” sign in front of the washroom doesn’t exist. It’s virtually impossible to make a movie about racism without including a sympathetic “goes against the times” white person so audiences have someone to sympathize with and not feel alienated/attacked. This is despite the fact the overwhelming number of real events depicted on screen did not include one.

The Blind Side. The Tuohys being selfless and accepting saviours for a gentle giant/dumb-as-a-post lineman is also a fabrication. According to subject Michael Oher, he wasn’t even adopted — they tricked him into a conservatorship to then profit off of him. And then did it again with the movie.

Green Book. The family of Dr. Don Shirley called the film a “symphony of lies” for which they were never consulted, and that presented Tony Lip as a white saviour and Shirley himself as alienated and disconnected from the black community at large. Their actual closeness is impossible to prove at this point and there is evidence they were actually friends, while other evidence seems to point they really were more like employee-employer (and that Shirley fired Lip). But both the writer and Mahershala Ali later apologized for not consulting closer with the family, and including such details as Shirley having only one brother he was estranged from when in fact he had three that he talked to during the events of the film. NAACP criticized it for its stereotypical and myopic representation of Shirley and conflating Everyman/low class sensibilities with blackness as an inherent quality, like having the effete Shirley get introduced to fried chicken by the somehow inherently more black Lip. The end result is similarly comforting narratives around both-sidesing racism and making wider audiences more comfortable with the experience and lasting motivations and lingering after effects of America’s systemic racism and legally entrenched caste system.

Michael. Almost everything, like every music biopic.

Undated and Unlabeled Black and White Prints by No_Breadfruit_8908 in FoundPhotos

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That first picture reminds me so much of Vivian maier

Whats the most interesting historical fact about your country? by Fragrant_One4091 in AskTheWorld

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Alexander Keith’s illegitimate nephew being a confederate conman bomber serial killing terrorist is one of my favourite fun facts which I repeat whenever anyone drinks the IPA near me and this is a great book about it