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Mostly my Slavic mumblecore ramblings about my SW/The Rise Of Skywalker disappointment. Fatigue is real. All of it.
10 MAR 2020 · Just a quick commentary on the Project Luminous covers that were revealed a few weeks ago. "Just give the boys what they want" is never a good idea, especially when "the boys" are documented racists and misogynists. But hey! Everyone is a little racist sometimes, right? RIGHT?!!
2 FEB 2020 · The banality of evil. The true message of TROS. And as a tasty bonus, my extra special pick of all the extra special cringeworthy moments of TROS. It ends on a hopeful note, with Tchaikovsky's beautiful Slavic March that was one of the musical inspirations for John Williams.
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The Rise of Skywalker is not a deed of perverted sadists but of „terrifyingly normal“ people.
And that’s what makes this entire situation frightening - it reminds us of a similar historical incident.
Hannah Arendt found Eichmann (the Nazi operative responsible for organizing the transportation of millions of Jews and others to various concentration camps in support of the Nazi’s Final Solution) an ordinary, rather bland, bureaucrat, who in her words, was ‘neither perverted nor sadistic’, but ‘terrifyingly normal’.
He acted without any motive other than to diligently advance his career in the Nazi bureaucracy. Eichmann was not an amoral monster, she concluded in her study of the case, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963). Instead, he performed evil deeds without evil intentions, a fact connected to his ‘thoughtlessness’, a disengagement from the reality of his evil acts. Eichmann ‘never realized what he was doing’ due to an ‘inability… to think from the standpoint of somebody else’.
Source: https://aeon.co/ideas/what-did-hannah-arendt-really-mean-by-the-banality-of-evil
TROS reveals a deeply seated sadism, hatred for women, total ignorance of female reality, and echoes the misogyny of Freud’s theories & postmodernists like Lacan who also negated women as an autonomous existence and only recognized women in relation to the male ego, desires, etc.
Women are a fantasy for males to build up or tear down and dehumanize in one way or another.
Very rarely is a woman given the recognition of independent complex humanity that men assume for themselves and give each other.
I think it's high time to defy these cynical narratives.
31 JAN 2020 · According to CT and JJ, working mothers destroy galaxies. I wonder if they have some unresolved, deeply seated issues with their own working mothers?... Leia's character is assassinated and it's perhaps the greatest or the second greatest atrocity... in this aTROSity.
31 JAN 2020 · "I AM THE SPY!" And I'm internally screaming. This movie has an obvious problem with male power: unless their male characters rise in power exponentially, they should be discarded unceremoniously. And that's not how good storytelling works.
30 JAN 2020 · This is not the story the Jed... I mean, JJ would tell you. Chris Terrio and JJ Abrams don't get how the redemption works and don't care. Ben Solo was punished because of his femininity. That's the only "cardinal sin" in the eyes of the toxic masculinity and he was punished for it.
30 JAN 2020 · R.I.P. to Rey, the actual strong female character. Not a trope or a male power fantasy. There is not a single character in this film that isn't butchered, but the ritualistic relish with which Rey was degraded and turned into an empty vessel for male power fantasies is truly morbidly absorbing and downright revenge porny. I just can't.
30 JAN 2020 · Lo and behold! The dead speak and women are easily replaced! Also: The four expendables! Klaud the Prickly Dick, Janah, Zorii, and Merry Brandybuck could've all been easily replaced with Rose Tico and are a proof that Chris Terrio & JJ had enough time to write Rose's character but they didn't solely because they're moral cowards and racist supporters (and misogynists as a cherry on the top of this sh*tpile).
29 JAN 2020 · Obi Wan and I sense the great disturbance in the Force: it's the vail of 8 episodes of SW dying in terror. I talk more about how botched TROS production was, how Kelly Marie Tran was treated (abominably) by D/LF, and how racism and misogyny are rampant in TROS. Also: JJ and CT have a high school clique mentality and I drop one F bomb.
28 JAN 2020 · An intro: why I think it's the ideas that destroyed TROS, not its sloppy writing or bad filmmaking. I explain why this movie is morbidly fascinating to me. I never watched anything so morally corrupt and spiritually empty in my entire life. Also: there's a cool rendition of Imperial March on accordion at the beginning of this episode. Which is definitely the highlight of this podcast. All credits go to Nemanja Jovovic.
Mostly my Slavic mumblecore ramblings about my SW/The Rise Of Skywalker disappointment. Fatigue is real. All of it.
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