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
Initially difficult to endure, this HBO series evokes a profound historical consciousness of the struggle for communal life in the face of liberalism's contrived alienation and cultivated resignation.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Joker presents an interesting, if over-worked character study of the transformation of Thought possible at the bottom of abject, alienated human existence. It's political potential, however, is intentionally displaced and it ends-up contributing to reproducing the problem it describes.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's most recent film asks us to take seriously the pervasive consumption of alcohol and to see within it the potential for transcendent societal liberation and new forms of communal engagement.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
By glorifying and providing community to the lonely individualism of sociopathic liberalism this film transforms a philosophy confronted with its limitations into pure ideology.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
While the film is only a semi-tolerable juvenile romance, there is something interesting in the disruptive, rebellious rhythm of the film that unpretentiously expresses a certain form of economically marginalized and excluded life.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This is an enjoyable and finely made film that revives the musical genre with its addictive song. The lingering cognitive dissonance it produces, however, proves to be just too much to ignore.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Watching these two films one is struck by what appears to be a significant transformation (or, regression) in the future that science fiction expresses and of the role that it has traditionally played with respect to its social and political implications.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential."xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx