Good stuff. Well, not really. Heavy subject matter, if anything. And the retching sound at the end was all too real for me (as someone that once went through an OD).
Honestly, I do like the subject matter of fascism (and especially neo-fascism nowadays). There’s the pre-fascist era, when it was just being developed, from the 1890s onward, and then there’s when it was actually coined by Benito Mussolini onward. And then there’s post-1945. Operation Paperclip, the rise of the white power movement in the 1980s and the terrorist attacks of the 1990s. And not to mention the “fourth empire” of the Ku Klux Klan during the Obama years.
I live in Virginia and that’s where the fiasco at Charlottesville happened with people invoking the “great replacement theory” meme, and you can connect that to “white extinction anxiety” during the late 1800s to 20th century.
The movie evoked all these thoughts for me and the normalization of it. I see it with several of my family members too. We are living through the growth of a new fascism in the United States, I feel.
Recently showed my child They Live and he absolutely loved it. One of my all time favorite films, so it was really nice to share something like that with him and have it catch on with him. He’s been quoting some lines from it on and off since we watched it.
They Live? I’ll look that one up.
You’re in for a treat. Great film
I apologize for the very Reddit comment, but user name checks out.
I didn’t want to recommend the perverts’ guide to ideology because I felt it would’ve been too on the nose, and also because Zizek suuuuucks. But alas.
Oh God, you’re meming, aren’t you?
Zizek opens The Perverts’ guide with an analysis of They Live, which is really interesting and introduces the concept of ideology that the film will use rather well. I would recommend watching it after watching They Live if you feel like it
Zizek sucks ass at this point, but his work on ideology is still unmatched in my opinion, and I chose the username after watching The Pervert’s guide, and before Zizek kept having shitty take aster shitty take. I just can’t be fucked with creating a new account.
I’ll just stay away from Zizek, thank you very much.
Snffffffff
Fair enough, I do the same nowadays.
Sounds good!
Eh, the first 30 minutes are great. Then its horrible
Took me forever to actually get around to watching it. Knew about only from meme’s and pop culture references from over the last 20 years. I was actually expecting a much worse movie from the “Cracked dot com” style articles that I had read about it… its not a great movie by any stretch but its was a more solid watch than I was anticipating.
Nvm, you edited your comment.
What?
Oh, man. I’d love to be able to watch it again for the first time. Enjoy!
thnx!
That’s a great one.