”A merciless study of the lives of people who are living badly, [The Iron Claw] not only poses questions about free will, but portrays characters sunk so far in convention, fear, and unnaturalness that even the dawning of a more vital life must appear to them as something terrible and destructive.”1
That Liberals invent every day of the week for the benefit of their mothballed pansy-transy flimsy-whimsy World Order.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Produces so many ideas about how bad that it is, it's impossible to keep track of what that it is.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A good film with spectacular effects and a good casual-comedic and human performance from Chris Pine, expresses something of the problematic concerning any effort to achieve liberal political dysjunction through technology.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
An absolutely impeccable film from start to finish. Aesthetically, artfully, meaningfully. And yet it draws a line where it shouldn't and refuses to look where it should.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Although generally understood to be a satire, a proper understanding of this film today should attempt to recover the historical context from which it arose and to which it ultimately owes its true meaning. Whether the director believes in it or not.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Politics masquerading as film. The spectacle and affective allure of cinema redefines the traditional (liberal) political operation of art: from coincidental serendipity to hysterical mass-mobilization. It highlights concerns with the current state of climate politics based on the COVID19 model.xxxx