CANCIONES DE LOS ROLLING STONES: ‘CRAZY MAMA’ (1976)
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You can scandalize me/ Scorn my name/ You can steal my money/ And that don’t mean a doggone thing…
Escrita por: Jagger/RichardGrabada: Rolling Stones Mobile, Rotterdam, Holanda, 22 de enero-9 de feb. de 1975; Musicland Studios, Munich, Alemania, 29 de marzo de 1975; Casino, Montreux, Suiza, oct.-nov.…
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Heyyy!!
I saw and loved (and, I won’t lie, panicked a little at the implications of) your “I Love You” BMC TikTok.
Now I don’t know if you know the song “Partner in Crime” by Madilyn Mei, but the lyrics of the song from 1:40 onwards fits so well with the TikTok that I can’t get it out of my head.
So I figured I’d share :)
You don’t have to do anything with it, I just wanted to let you know 😌
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NO BC YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT
WORKING ON SOMETHING RN
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Blue Eye Samurai & Themes of Breaking Free from Binaries and Boxes
Mizu must choose between being a woman or a man, between feminine and masculine.
Mizu must choose between being Japanese or white.
Mizu must choose between being human (loving) or demon (hateful).
Mizu has struggled against the chains placed upon her since birth, but no matter how much she writhes and pushes against them, the chains remain. And they will continue to, until she learns to accept all of those facets of herself and suppress none of it.
Mizu must realise that she is both feminine and masculine; Japanese and white; human and demon. Mizu is all of these things and everything in between and at the same time she is none of them. She is simply Mizu. Only upon accepting this can she slice through the chains and find freedom.
But Mizu isn't the only one faced with these stifling binaries and predetermined paths. Each of the main four characters represent this theme as well.
"This is the world. It grants women a fixed number of paths. Proper wife or improper whore." -Seki, to Akemi
Akemi, as a woman, must choose between being a wife (modest, meek, but rich) or whore (sexually liberated, willful, but exploited). Both of these would amount to defeat, both of these are cages. So what does she do? With the cards she's been dealt and the rules outlined for her, she decides to change the game so she can win, manipulating her husband (and father, who is now under her care) to give herself the advantage. This way, she blazes her own path ahead to achieve power for herself.
"As it says, there are four paths through the world. The way of the farmer, the artisan, the merchant, and the warrior. Each of these can lead to greatness. I never even cared which path, so long as I found mine." [...] "I know I can't touch greatness any more than I can swallow the sun. But, I can help. I can help greatness." -Ringo
Ringo, partially due to his disability, faces barriers succeeding any of the predetermined paths set out for him, but freely moves between each one in search of one that can lead him to greatness. However, upon meeting Mizu, his horizons expand. Now, he forges his own path, deciding to rise beyond a quest for his own greatness, choosing to instead to help greatness. This is similar to the role teachers take. Teachers do not get to be rich or successful or written into history books, but they help, teach, and inspire others so that they can rise up to their fullest potentials.
"Eighty-four thousand Dharma doors. For me, there were only two. The net or the sword. I could become my father, or I could cut my way free of the net." -Taigen
Taigen, born and raised impoverished, had only two options to survive. He could either be a fisherman and remain poor, or he could strive to work hard as a swordsman in the hopes to one day escape poverty. To him, it was a choice between a life of suffering or a chance at glory. Either way, the chances of dying (from either starvation or getting killed) were present, so obviously he'd taken the chance to run away and try his hand at greatness. But then, he lost his honour, and thus lost everything. Now his only choices are to regain his honour or simply kill himself. He tries the former, but upon bonding with Mizu and Ringo, he finds out there is more to life, that there is a third option open for him he'd never realised before: happiness. Rather than just mere survival, or toiling for material gain, he realises that life is about living.
Overall, the story is very multifaceted through its exploration of societal expectations and norms, and how people are forced to conform, but also the ways they can break free from those boxes.
And in my opinion each of the characters represent differing aspects of marginality, and can be analysed from differing perspectives.
Akemi's story is a predominantly feminist narrative about the marginalisation of women.
Ringo's story is a predominantly disabled narrative about the marginalisation of disabled folks.
Taigen's backstory is a Marxist narrative about the marginalisation of the poor and working class.
Mizu's story is most prominently a postcolonial narrative about the marginalisation of racial Others, ethnic minorities, and hybridised identities. However, as the protagonist, Mizu's story is the most multilayered and thus also heavily features feminist, queer, and Marxist themes due to her complex relationship with gender as well as her background as an orphan living on the streets.
I just found it very interesting that, altogether, the four main protagonists each represent groups that are fighting against an unjust system.
Even Takayoshi, son of the shogun, who should thus be one of Japan's most powerful men himself, is instead seemingly powerless as he is silenced and manipulated by his own mother due to his disability—his stutter.
I also find that these themes of breaking free from conformity and expectations are very interestingly displayed in Taigen, who had thought he'd found a way to join those unjust systems and play by all its rules, and by doing so he had played the role of antagonist. Because one of the central conflicts of the show is Man Vs Society, in which society is the antagonist and the man is Mizu, among others. So by becoming one with that cruel society, Taigen in turn also becomes Mizu's antagonist. Only when he is stripped of everything, all his years of struggle immediately stomped into the dirt as soon as he loses a single duel, only then does he shift away from his antagonistic role. Disgraced and dishonoured, he, too, now rejoins the margins of society, becoming an outcast alongside Mizu and Ringo.
So, TL;DR the society and world portrayed in Blue Eye Samurai is shitty for pretty much everyone unless you're a rich, corrupt, able-bodied cis man. Thus, essentially no one is free and everyone is restricted into neat little boxes where they play their roles and stay in line while the rich and powerful benefit. But Mizu, Akemi, Ringo and Taigen challenge this, and slowly they will rip the boxes go shreds—choosing what they want, and what they want to be, for themselves.
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