Nice try feds
I like that analysis, thank you.
You love to see it. It’s wild how outright piracy has become a normal tool of international diplomacy.
It’s not not cyberpunk.
It’s close enough and shares enough of the same things to be analyzed as part of the genre.
I do think that to a large extent the big evil bowling ball of doom is supposed to abstractly represent capital or something adjacent.
Things like the depiction of the indigenous resistance movement as unsophisticated dupes and terrorists merits analysis; why did the French director depict them this way? How can this be a reflection of French colonial history? Same with the depiction of the white Archeologists and the presumably middle easter kid subjected to colonialism in the beggining though I think there’s less there.
Leelu can be analyzed through the “born sexy yesterday” trope and there’s a lot of questions to ask from a Feminist slant.
The movie actually acknowledges some of the harms and contradictions of capitalism, while underplaying others. Showing the relationship between Corben as a cabby working for Zorg and ultimately being one of the people who thwarts Zorg is nice.
The decision to never have the protagonists and the antagonists directly interact is a neat one and opens up some very good questions about narrative norms - turns out the hero doesn’t actually need to confront the villain!
It does have a lot of cyberpunk themes; mighty and powerful corporations and governments can’t save themselves so they need a working class guy and his weird buddies to save the world. The upper classes are depicted as a gaggle of decadent idiots who have no idea what’s happening, while the corporate leader is a hyper-competent bastard who completely understands all the harm his sytem causes and loves it.
And it’s also just a silly adventure film with lots of style and cool visuals and a sappy power of love resolution.
Studying Democratic Party politics, huh?
Have you tried Lies of P? It was apparently very good.
Technically God killed those ten people, Satan was just like “idk man do you think that guy really worships you, even when shit’s not going his way?”
I really cannot get over hiow directly responsible Biden is for every bad thing happening now. The man is Satan’s emissary to earth, except Satan never did most of hte bad things attributed to him so Biden has no excuse, he just chooses to be like that.
is “Tatanka tachanka” anything?
On the one hand, having a weird chemical engine that can turn dead stuff in to atp is pretty cool, but on the other hand why doesn’t it work better?
Mao directly calling you out from beyond the grave.
Yes. No. Maybe. Idk the details but I bet the news mega could explain what we know so far. idk how they’d know this guy was delta, but I guess if they got him and managed to check his tags or wallet they could get his name.
@whyesseff is always on the prowl for new and relevent emojis.
Whenver I see a Bernie ad now it’s just like “Bro, I supported you when you were at the height of your power and we ate shit miserably and pathetically and we have nothing to show for it at all. Your path has been revealed as a completely unqualified failure, why would I support you now in your pathetic fallen state when I have seen you defeated at your greatest?”
Word. That’s a gross thing to say on numerous levels Good on you for yelling at her. : p
If a young person tells you “I can’t wait to be old” look them in the eye and say “Being old is awful in ways you cannot imagine because they are so internal and personal that until you have experienced them you cannot fear them. Whatever it is you idealize about old age; Wearing gross sweatpants to the grocery store, metamucil, prostate exams, farting; you can do it now, while you’re young, while life is still something to be enjoyed rather than endured”
(my tummy hurts and I am mad about it)
George “literally hitler 20 years ago but I guess that never happened” “I murdered a million people and sent the world in to decades of chaos and war” W Bush.
Back in the day every mad scientist had an unclear relationship with their much younger working class buddy and I think that’s beautiful.
“Uhh, actually, this revolution that worked failed” is a classic liberalism.
It was so fucking confusing I got much more out of media and video games and shit htat used the concept, and people talking about how panopticon actually works in real life, than I did from teh book itself. Like I stg Kojima has done more to help me understand philosophy than actual philsophers. So ma
Eew. A story about how evil and cruel America is doing a collab with a story justifying all of america’s evil and cruelty.