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I am a HUGE fan of the BCU!! And tbh the main reason I was disappointed by the barbie movie was because it didn't cater to the audience that grew up watching Princess and the Pauper, Mariposa, 12 Dancing Princesses, Rapunzel, etc. Where was the magic? Where was goofy lil guy (Like Bibble of Wolfy). It felt so exhausting to watch that movie, bc I just wanted to see a magic princess story and instead they gave me a half baked feminist essay. And I love feminist essays too, but do it right and market it that way if that's what you're wanting to do. I was so excited for an OG BCU callback and they gave me nothing.
The biggest problem is the casting of POC actors as the people who would have been responsible for their enslavement and oppression lends credence to the idea that the PoC who lived through it had a choice or in some way participated in their own oppression.
2:48 Canadian accent detected.
Who is the artist shown at 1:15? Thank you!
Girls taking the term “Male Weepies” and running with it has to be the most womansplaining thing of 2024
She must have just discovered the term because I lost count how many times she used the term “Male Weepies” 💀. It’s like when a restaurant gives their burger a goofy name. “Can I get the Wacky-Tacky Burger”
I still loved this movie.
Totally totally. I mean the Eslpeth seems kind of edgy, icy, prickly but not like she’s a bad person.
Totally totally. I mean the Eslpeth seems kind of edgy, icy, prickly but not like she’s a bad person.
Super interesting. Thanks
What about famous non-white artists.
I don't trust a man that doesn't get emotional at the end of Warrior.
i cannot thankyou enough id chosen this movie for a project and this video perfectly summs up all the points i wanted to include.
Some weepies not included in this video: The Deer Hunter, Stand By Me, The Place Behind the Pines, Sling Blade
I never had a name for these type of films but now I do. and when I think about some of my most favorite films of all time, its most of these that you talked about including the more recent films like IRON CLAW. I broke down in tears in a way I haven't in years, I cried so hard at the end in the theater literally alone by myself. I had recently lost my Grandpa when the film came out and I honestly didnt know that the movie was going to be so deep and it pulled me in the whole ride. I felt so sad in that moment for so many reasons, grief, loss, regrets, etc but I felt like in that moment I had nobody to call, no father or father figure or male friends I was literally having a mental breakdown and I did the only thing my brain could think, I called my mom. I normally call her "mother" but in that moment I felt so unprotected and vulnerable I instantly just called her "Mom" like a little kid. I say all that to say, I dont think alot of men grow up fully because alot of us are so lost and we just act like "grown men" that we think we have to be based on what we've seen. So when we watch movies like Rocky and see an Apollo Creed or watch films like Good Will and see Robins character we connect because that's something we've never seen in real life and thats the connection we've been missing. And like Matt Damons character in Good Will Hunting, it was the love, support, and acceptance only a woman can give that helps him on his journey, women are able to bestow men emotional/mental protection in a way men can't always give to themselves. Rocky needed Adrian to believe in him. Adonis needed his mom to believe in him & show that she seen him, I needed my mom in that theater all alone under pressure that drives alot of men to suicide. So when I say "love from a woman" I dont mean romantic, I mean genuine unconditional love that is so rare in todays world. Iron Claw broke me because I felt like Zac's character who had lost all his family but the blessing was his children kept him going. Some men dont have anything to keep them going and I really pray for all the men who feel they are alone. You are not alone, you are seen and you are heard more than you know. Keep going even if it's just standing up, you can do it today, then try taking a step tomorrow.
Just found this channel and your podcast. Superb material! I'd love to hear you talk about the twice cancelled Lisa Kudrow/Michael Patrick King show "The Comeback". Like Fleabag I've been able to watch it numerous times and find more layers. But unlike Fleaback we never get a full reason why Valerie is so compulsive and so willing to throw herself and her close relationships in harms way if not on the road to destruction.
I'm really enjoying Peter Guralnick's biography of Elvis
One tumblr media reference not many ppl have caught is that the colored-light-costume-party scene resembles the ACTUAL queer film closet monster from 2015. The colors are more obviously similar AND the animal costume is so similar I literally laughed watching Saltburn because of how much it seemed like a less-informed Closet Monster.
The worst part about being a man and crying alone is feeling like you're not alone. The voices of everyone you know is stuck in your head, chastising and belittling and judging, and laughing. Even in solitude, you cannot break. That's the gig. That's the unfortunate and miserable curse. I fucking hate it.
By 1976, the face of boxing WAS black. He’s clearly modeled after Muhammad Ali. I don’t necessarily think it goes any deeper than that. It’s also important note that Apollo enters the ring dressed as Uncle Sam. If there is a deeper message, it’s more likely attacking the system than minorities.
I'm glad that I missed this discourse and was able to enjoy these works for what they are outside of a broader cultural context.
Me as a person who lives in global south is totally true all these colonisation process and I know about all action of capitalism in merchandise fetishist but I don’t think is a problem a person just likes fashion and wanna consume this industry. Because ethical fashion consumption is just handicraft without class struggle. I think it’s commendable if you don’t want to participate of this type of trade because the sufferings of the people but boycotts doesn’t work
thank you fir this vide cus me and my best friend were so excited for the movie and thought we were fucking crazy for not liking the movie as much as we expected to. we love girly, pink everything but the movie felt so flat and forced and smth just did not feel right about the movie. this video made me realise why i did not enjoy it as much as i wanted to.
I admire the intention and craft of this piece and I appreciate this is masculinity through the perceived lens of a Gen Z woman, but it's really tiring to have every conversation about masculinity framed against what is toxic and what is not - as though the worst attributes of 50% of the human populace somehow define them and everything else is either the fault of the patriarchy or some other monolithic structure too powerful for us to change. Toxicity, selfishness and narcissism have grown equally amongst both genders. The key difference is one of those is shamed for it and the other is lauded as being empowered and casting off the shackles of historical repression. Few draw attention to the fact those same shackles still make it hard for men that dont fit those archetypes to exist and be happy. Your end conclusion discusses the positive narrative of men being illustrated through the characters being "protectors and providers", whilst I dont disagree, what of those men that dont want to partake in that? Are they less valuable as men? We could use this same argument for women being "nurturing, calm and bubbly" - a notion that would be rejected by most women that dont fit into that bubble I'm sure. I would love to see you tackle the inherent issues with modern toxic femininity.
All great romcoms demand suffering. Not mild inconveniences but deep existential dread. Notting Hill isn’t the best romcom in the world but the sequence of a year passing for Hugh Grant is crushing.
This was definitely a hot take, but so many of your points were incredibly out of touch and seemed to come from somewhere else entirely, such as your hate for Johnny Depp or the fact that Alice becomes an explorer at the end of the movie. A strange take indeed.
ironically i feel that the opportunity a biopic presents for a new interpretation of someone’s life should give way to avante garde/more surreal and stylized portrayals of human experience that seek to highlight some truth. passion of joan of arc by carl dreyer is wonderfully expressionistic and highlights joan’s (and ours by extension) emotional experience and her place as a deified body. unfortunately when stylization isn’t in service to intimacy, when it isn’t in service to any sort of nuance, you get the kitschy sanitizing presented in Elvis (2022).
I never liked any of his movies. They try way too hard to be different just for the sake of it, instead of actually having something unique to say. He comes across as someone who thinks hes way more clever than he actually is
You are a beautiful writer oh my god!
30:50 i love this
Anyone But You got the credit that Rye Lane deserved
"In the paper-thin machismo of Jordan Peterson" @10.54 Why are you taking a cheap-shot at a clinical psychologist who's help people (both men and women) take responsibility for their actions and offering a better way to look at life... based on years of therapy? Peterson has nothing to do with machismo or toxic masculinity.
THANK YOU FOR THIS
It's rare for me to feel like a woman making video essays about how men think and feel actually, you know, ever asked any of us instead of just asserting the least charitable narrative. But I think you're basically spot-on, and you handled it with empathy. Congratulations and thank you. Thank you.
Lord have mercy, I must say, Sidney Sweeney's boobs deserve their own listing in the credits. Maybe even an academy award in the category of best supported parts of a female lead. Does this woman have anything else going for her? Cause without the ever-distracting rack, she's not really even that pretty. My advice to her is, with only those two things going for her she better be careful not to over expose them. Oh wait, too late. Now we've seen them in all their moods, there's nowhere else for them to go, but down. Pun intended. Does that kind of pandering to male audiences work in a rom com? Cause I don't think women are that keen on décolletage as a likeability selling point. P.S. Reminds me of that line from 'State and Main' when Sarah Jessica Parker was bulking at doing a nude scene under the guise of modesty, and someone quipped she's done so many nude scenes the American public could draw her boobs from memory. I'm paraphrasing.
You said "schmex" and I turned off the video
I think what’s also often forgotten is how when films attempt to capture or speak to universality they often fall short, because truly it is the idiosyncrasies, the little nuances in a specific story that make them easier to identify with. I am not absolutely head over heels with fleabag because i feel that this middle class white woman speaks for me as a bipoc queer woman and speaks to my specific experience, but i love the show because in just depicting one woman’s experience, in depicting reality, surreality, the absurd experience of life itself, i find SO much to identify with. i would love a BIPOC fleabag-esque show, but that doesn’t mean i have to hate phoebe walter bridge’s portrayal to want it. marginal voices from all scopes, even when they are inherently privileged like that of straight white women, can and have to come up together with bipoc voices to tear down white patriarchal hegemony in the film industry and in society broadly
ebert's class of critics are over, nowadays, modern film critics have more integrity than came critics, if you discount red letter media and the weirdos in the star wars hemisphere of film critique
I love your videos bc I don’t know if I’m going to agree or not. But after the opening “method does not a great actor make” I already agreed. Happy I found this channel and binging it. Thank you for these essays
At the end of the day, the biggest thing preventing men from being able to express themselves emotionally is and will always be women.
Not that anyone cares but i actually really loved this film I’ve watched it 4 times. 🤷♂️
Was anyone else puzzled when Oliver told the mom how hot she was?
I think you have to consider who the filmmaker's writer, producer, and editor were from film to film to get a better read on the rise and fall in their quality.
Watching a lot of your videos today and enjoying hearing your perspective. Thank you for making them.
Eyes Wide Shut is not a film about love or sex, is about the masculinity in the in the lens of privilege. All of Kubrick's movies are about masculinity, each one of them looking at a perspective of this subjetc, for example I would say "Full Metal Jacket" is the opposite from "Eyes Wide Shut", because is talking to us about the fragilities of men who were put on the extremes of violence, and forced to get rid of their own subjectivity in this process, men treated as tools, objects. Bill is a man who has the right to his subjectivity, he is at the "top of the food chain", he has money, a beautiful family, a profession that makes all spaces comfortable for him, everyone wants him in some way or wants to be him, in the film he discovers that there are spaces where he was not invited entering, like the secret sect and his wife's mind, he discovers that his life is "a lie". The film is about the existential crisis of a man who keeps shoving 100 dollar bills into people's hands every time he hears a "NO", and is forced to face the pain that in some spaces, money and status he possesses are not enough. In the end, like many men, he ends up crying in his wife's lap.
anyone know the song at the end of the vid 👀
Video that aged badly.
8:31 - there is an answer to that question and it lies in understanding the way that females compete with each other and also how they co-operate - some very interesting studies have been done on this but sorry no, I cannot site them for you right this second :)
I really enjoy your content and think you have great analysis but PLEASE, do not cite Caitlin Flanagan and Conor Friedsdorf. Or at least put it in context of their intense ignorance and really bad opinions when it comes to gender issues. And life.