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A Question of Silence 1982
i remember being a kid and my dad would occasionally “teach” me the differences between men and women. he went on about how women are never outwardly violent - they only kill in feminine ways by poisoning people, or they’ll just be passive aggressive (they’ll nag you to death 🤪). and if a woman IS aggressive, it’s because of hormones and she’s on her period 🤪. i’m actually a little surprised a judge didn’t ask if the women were menstruating…
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Opening Night 1977
about halfway through, i realized that i wasn’t sure about this one. great performances of course, but was i buying it thematically? “a movie about a woman afraid of aging 🙄 who cares, reductive, maybe even sexist…not every woman cares about getting old!” but who was i kidding? i was pulling a myrtle, really. of course getting older matters to me. of course i’m afraid of it. i’m only 29, so it feels silly to be so worried. that’s still…
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Drumline 2002
edit: i do not want the most popular review for drumline to be me offhandedly complaining about my 2013 college professor lol read the oral history of Drumline instead and about how Fox wouldn't give Charles Stone III $5 million more unless he added a white character. also Lil Wayne auditioned to be Devon??
i hope you're doing well, ned - maybe turning on Drumline and then falling asleep in the back row while students paid $450 for the college credit wasn't that bad after all. you didn't make us buy any textbooks, so i'll give you that.