The Flower Girl

***1970s Ranking***

***1970s Ranking***

i watched this movie pretty much just so i could say the following:

if you dont like socialism, get the fuck off my page. if you dont like progressivism, get the fuck off my page. if you’re a racist xenophobic nationalist, get the fuck off my page. if you’re transphobic, get the fuck off my page. you get the gist? 

theres a putrid number of bigots in the film community for some reason, and its absolutely fucking disgusting, it sickens me. 

fuck nazis, fuck bigots, fuck transphobes, fuck conservatives, you know who you are 🫵

(this a pretty damn good movie too tbh, capitalism and imperial japan can get fucked)

i watched this movie pretty much just so i could say the following:

if you dont like socialism, get the fuck off my page. if you dont like progressivism, get the fuck off my page. if you’re a racist xenophobic nationalist, get the fuck off my page. if you’re transphobic, get the fuck off my page. you get the gist? 

theres a putrid number of bigots in the film community for some reason, and its absolutely fucking disgusting, it sickens me. 

fuck nazis, fuck bigots, fuck transphobes, fuck conservatives, you know who you are 🫵

(this a pretty damn good movie too tbh, capitalism and imperial japan can get fucked)

It’s a revolutionary opera so it’s very up front, urgent, and instantly rousing, but I found myself even more impressed with how well this work of stage/theater propaganda was adapted to a more filmic vocabulary with its own emotional framing and thematic possibilities. The contradictions underlying Japan-occupied Korea are presented so matter-of-factly, are explored in such a harrowing and humanizing way (the music helps), and overflow with such inevitability, moody shot composition, and unparalleled passion… like watching the collective imagination—and future—of millions be unlocked… immediate pain and historical sacrifice is not all for naught—it should not be reframed and appropriated by the next generation, to be merely affirming new oppressions—it is a burden carried so that it can be better understood and, thus, overcome by said next generation. There’s an applicable Paulo Freire line about how the oppressed knows double what the oppressor knows just by virtue of that dichotomy existing.

Here are the wrongs of society—>these are the victims who bare them—>here’s how you right the wrongs, overcome trauma, and defeat the oppressors—>here’s why we, the revolutionaries, are the only force that can undo this lineage predestined to slave labor… an eternal story that is utterly convincing if you don’t find it already true

It’s a revolutionary opera so it’s very up front, urgent, and instantly rousing, but I found myself even more impressed with how well this work of stage/theater propaganda was adapted to a more filmic vocabulary with its own emotional framing and thematic possibilities. The contradictions underlying Japan-occupied Korea are presented so matter-of-factly, are explored in such a harrowing and humanizing way (the music helps), and overflow with such inevitability, moody shot composition, and unparalleled passion… like watching the collective imagination—and future—of millions be unlocked… immediate pain and historical sacrifice is not all for naught—it should not be reframed and appropriated by the next generation, to be merely affirming new oppressions—it is a burden carried so that it can be better understood and, thus, overcome by said next generation. There’s an applicable Paulo Freire line about how the oppressed knows double what the oppressor knows just by virtue of that dichotomy existing.

Here are the wrongs of society—>these are the victims who bare them—>here’s how you right the wrongs, overcome trauma, and defeat the oppressors—>here’s why we, the revolutionaries, are the only force that can undo this lineage predestined to slave labor… an eternal story that is utterly convincing if you don’t find it already true

one thing abt socialist film is that it’s bechdel approved 🙏

one thing abt socialist film is that it’s bechdel approved 🙏