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rhfffas · 6 months
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incels trolling the marvels and trying to be objective with “the plot is bad”, DUDE, you’re watching marvel movies where captain america tried to choke a robot and iron man tried to fix ai apocalypse with another ai and hulk can only turn green when hes man paining and thor caused war just because his own stupidity and old man hawkeye can’t deal with grief so turn into a killer for hire
BUT YOU ARE TELLING ME WOMEN SAVING THE UNIVERSE IS BAD?????????
your misogyny is fucking showing
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cinegeek237 · 1 year
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Random Captain Marvel Rant
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Note this is a positive rant because I love her.
Women usually are only allowed to have positions of power if it's in the shadow of men. Esp in comics. It's even under the male counterparts title which is evocative of the mysonist tradition of women' taking their male partners name in marriage thus erasing an aspect of their identity. The very identity of women superheroes are these shadows of men... supergirl, batgirl, lady thor, she-hulk, Kate Bishop becomes Hawkeye. Captain Marvel falls under this in the comics but is her own person in the MCU and that is extremely powerful. More than that she is one of the most powerful characters in the MCU and didn't get her powers at all from a man, and further doesn't fall into the crazy overpowered woman trope like the literal image on tvtropes.org  (Wanda which is a whole other sigh thing). It's important to see women can have power independent of men... esp when comic books have historically propagated this disgusting sexist trope. The Captain Marvel movie does this.
Further, Carol Danvers is told over and over that emotions get in the way; make her weak. This is something real women face every damn day and is hugely oppressive to them... esp in the workforce and in politics, which often bars them (and female voices) from legislation and policy making positions. Seeing Carol come to terms with her past and taking her power back from her literal oppressors and being her own emotional, human, independent, badass is very important for girls, women, (AND boys, men, and people in general) to see. Emotions are not a weakness.
I love that Carol doesn't fight Yon-Rogg. She doesn't have to. She's better than him. She doesn't have to prove herself, because he's a waste of her time. OH and unlike DC with Wonder Woman.... she isn't dating a dude either... YES women can exist without a love interest. F*cking this!
Lastly, Captain Marvel is a fun 90's buddy cop movie between Brie Larson and Samuel L Jackson. A woman and a black man. Do you know how rare it is to have a movie with no white male leads? Like the only thing I can compare it to is Rush Hour. Like all these buddy cop movies are white guy with X type of partner - X being a black man, younger white guy, a dog, ect. 
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daisy-mooon · 8 months
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"I want Annabeth to be blonde :(" then pick up a PJO book and read it you dumb fuck
#pjo fans stop being weird about black annabeth challenge IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#first off annabeths race isnt important to her story. annabeth could be any race. her skin colour doesnt actually impact her. her hair does#now im not blonde but im a white girl so let me explain why some pjo fans need to stfu. i have grade 9s. im called stupid for my appearance#im not insulted bc im white or bc i have blue eyes or brown hair. im insulted bc women are judged on their appearance. im insulted bc SEXIS#annabeth isnt really called dumb for being blonde. shes called dumb bc shes female. and ppl are more likely to stereotype women than men#this is especially true for black women! whatever sexism white women get is always horrifically multiplied for poc women#black hair frequently gets called unprofessional untidy unhygienic etc. its VERY likely that show annabeth has been called dumb for her hai#does this make the casting “accurate”? no. but castings don't have to be accurate. they have to ADD to the character.#annabeth being black ADDS to her character because it showcases how women (esp black women) are devalued for their appearance#movie annabeth wasnt bad for having brown hair or white hair she was a bad adaptation bc she was ooc#i just think its ironic that a core aspect of annabeth was being judged for her looks. and now show annabeth is getting judged for her look#like. you guys really missed the point here.#anyways disagree all you want but book annabeth is still blonde. no one is erasing her. theres a new PJO book w blonde annabeth SEPTEMBER 2#GO READ CHALICE OF THE GODS IF U WANT BLONDE ANNABETH OMG! adaptions and source material can be separate and coexist!#rant over sorry#pjo#percy jackson#annabeth chase#pjo show#percy jackson and the olympians#the lightning thief#discourse#shitpost#percy jackson show#pjo discourse#riordanverse
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macbethz · 7 months
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I hate that media criticism has been reduced in online spaces to solely discussions of representation, where Good Media has the ever elusive and impossible to define “representation” and an absence of bigotry (and yes, it’s about the ABSENCE of bigotry rather than the presence of some other subversive quality), to the point where genuine critique of the formal qualities of something that happens to Have Woman In It is seen as indicative of some secret sexist agenda. Sometimes things can be completely inoffensively bad and sometimes people want to talk about it that. Sometimes the mere presence of a minority group does not make something good and it especially does not make it groundbreaking.
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gwydpolls · 6 days
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What Movie Would You Like to See a Quality Updated Remake of?
I forgot one when i ran this last time, so I'm running it against the winner.
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mondfahrt · 6 months
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"Life Is Not a Competition, But I'm Winning" is a documentary by women and queer people about women and queer people in sports, specifically running.
SYNOPSIS: If history is written by the victors, where does that leave those who were never allowed to be part of the game? A collective of queer athletes enters the Olympic Stadium in Athens and sets out to honour those who were excluded from standing on the winners’ podium. They meet Amanda Reiter, a trans* marathon runner who has to struggle with the prejudices of sports organisers and Annet Negesa, a 800m runner who was urged by the international sports federations to undergo hormone-altering surgery. Together they create a radical utopia far from the rigid gender rules in competitive sports.
I had the opportunity to watch this movie and it's really really good, dealing with very heavy subjects but never letting pain and suffering overtake the story the protagonists want to tell.
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oak23 · 9 months
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Me running away from the urge to rant about white feminism's obsession with critiquing sexism without discussing how it intersects with racism and instead opting to act like racism doesn't affect gender at all
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amberofember · 6 months
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one thing that pisses me tf off is how the media, no matter what, will always first and foremost focus on men. even if something is about women they will turn it to men. for example when the barbie movie came out there was a significantly larger amount (from my perspective at least) of attention on ken and how ryan gosling was so amazing as ken and the im just ken song. and don’t get me wrong i loved ryan gosling and thought that his character was enjoyable and really well written but most of the movie was about women and the experiences of girlhood and womanhood (again, my interpretation), and meanwhile barely anyone was praising the female actresses like margot robbie of america ferrera. and now, with the priscilla movie coming out (amazing movie btw highly recommend) i’ve only seen people talking about jacob elordi and comparing his portrayal of elvis to austin butler’s, while completely ignoring cailee spaeny’s phenomal, as well as in my opinion incredibly respectful and considerate, portrayal of priscilla presley. isn’t the entire point of the movie to show her perspective on a narrative that so often ignores and mischaracterizes her? but no, the media loves to re-focus everything back to men in the end.
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kthulhu42 · 2 months
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After my last personal post here I sat down with my husband and we watched our son skating, and I told him about how I was feeling, and struggling. And, to his credit, he listened, didn't make a fuss, agreed that he was spending a lot of time away, and told me that my work was important to him too. We've decided to look into seeing if there's some classes I can go to, and he's going to wind up some of his DnD campaigns in the next month.
(He also cancelled his plans for last night after dinner and we just cuddled up on the couch and chatted, and it was really nice.)
But, when we got up to leave skating, one of his friends was like "Hey man, the new Dune movie is coming out, when are you free?"
And we *just* had this talk to I glanced over at him like "please don't"
And his friend - wouldn't you know it - caught that look said "Aw, let him come out, he's going to be stuck at home all the time soon enough"
My husband said he's too busy right now, but I'm still feeling tearful thinking about it.
Men really treat women and children like a prison sentence. Like the worst thing I could possibly do is ask my husband to not go see a movie on one of the few nights we have time to spend together. Right after we had a discussion about how lonely I am and how I'm struggling with my disability.
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battleangel · 7 months
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This Barbie Is Pro-Abortion!
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The Barbie in the Barbie movie is pro-abortion and finds herself by realizing that Barbie Land is a fake reality, discovering the real world, rejecting the programming and conditioning she received all her life in Barbie Land and scheduling an appointment with a gynecologist at the end of the movie for an abortion.
So, whats the Barbie movie really about?
I am sure thats not the ending Mattel wanted but Greta Gerwig fought for it.
Before we talk about the ending, we need to talk about the movie itself.
What does Barbie Land represent?
Barbie Land is our current virtual reality simulation, what we refer to as "the real world". Where I am typing this and where you are reading this.
Where we are now is a virtual reality simulation, just like Barbie Land is.
We all originated from an eternal dreamscape.
We are all limitless eternal energetic beings.
When our parents had sex, and procreation occurred, our limitless eternal energetic being selves temporarily manifested as physical human beings in this virtual reality.
Where we are now is a simulated virtual reality of the actual dreamscape that we all originated from.
When you dream at night, when you enter REM sleep, your consciousness shifts and you re-enter the dreamscape temporarily.
Its why dreams are so lucid, vivid and surreal. They are the dreamscape. 10 dimensions all existing simultaneously at once vs the 3 dimension virtual reality we currently inhabit.
Its why in a dream you can fall through the sky without dying, walk through walls, walk on water.
Its why in your dreams, you can do anything. Its why we all dream, even if we dont remember our dreams.
Then we wake up, and we are back to our virtual reality.
Wash, rinse, repeat for our entire human existence until our physical bodies perish and we return to our eternal energetic selves in the dreamscape.
Figuring out that you are actually a limitless energetic being, not the temporary human being you are currently physically manifested as, is the entire point to our existence.
Barbie had the same journey in the Barbie movie.
She had to figure out that Barbie Land wasn't real, it was just a simulated reality made to appear real, but it wasn't.
In the film, she then found out about our current reality (which represented the dreamscape) then she ascended beyond her Barbie doll self at the end of the film and self-actualized into who she actually was by asserting her bodily autonomy and personal freedom and scheduled an appointment with a gynecologist for an abortion.
Barbie rejected the myth and demands of feminity, the societal demands to martyr oneself on the altar of motherhood, rejected the feminine ideals of self-abnegation, self sublimation, subservience, submissiveness, putting the self last, sacrifice to the point of obliterating the self, sacrificing career, dreams & freedom.
Barbie rejected all of this societal conditioning and programming and fully accepted her actualized self, completed her self ascension and self awakening journey.
Barbie the doll was dead, Barbie the actual self had finally been realized and self-actualized.
Through an abortion appointment with a gynecologist.
In most films, Barbie would have found herself and completed herself at the end of the movie through love for a man, Ken.
They would have lived happily ever after in Barbie Land together forever in their perfect Barbie mansion.
The end.
Except she left his ass and got with America Ferrara and her daughter to take her to a gynecologist appointment for a motherfucking abortion.
Theres your happy ending.
I am in my 40s so I lived for all of those cheesy late 90's & early 00's romance comedies -- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Wedding Planner, Shes All That, What A Girl Wants, 10 Things I Hate About You -- the list goes on and on.
If Jennifer Garner, Amanda Bynes, JLo and Kate Hudson were in it and it was a romance comedy, bet I watched it. And missed literally all of the societal grooming, messaging and conditioning inherent in all of the above movies (Julia Stiles consistent takedown of the patriarchy in 10 Things I Hate About You is a notable & rare exception which went totally over my head at the time as I was 17 and a lot more focused on how cute and endearing Heath Ledger was).
At the end of the Barbie movie, Barbie is dressed professionally in a stylish and chic business suit, so one assumed she was going to a job interview, to find her "true identity" in the hallowed halls of corporate America.
Barbie doesnt need a man, she has her career!
That she then sublimates her entire identity for, replacing who she is with a job title, stock options, clout, prestige and a 401k account instead of pursuing true knowledge of the self.
Remember the LinkedIn posts after 250k people got their asses unceremoniously brushed out the door of big tech last fall?
Who are they if not an Amazonian, Googler or Metamate?
They dont know as their big tech career became their entire identity.
Thats the point of capitalism.
You are a worker first and foremost. Your job defines you. Your work is who you are. Your work is your worth.
You're nobody without Amazon, Google or Meta.
At Amazon, on top of the world, impressive, six figure salary, unrestricted stock, envy of your LinkedIn network, impeccable credentials, career that speaks for itself, untouchable.
Laid off from Amazon, unemployed & jobless loser who scrambles to type "Ex-Amazon" in your LinkedIn headline befofe you're even walked out of the building.
Exchanging one false identify -- Barbie the perfect living doll -- for another -- Barbie the corporate executive -- and still never finding and pursuing the true self.
Who are you and why are you here?
What were you made for?
Had the movie ended with Barbie going to a job interview, ostensibly to ascend the ranks of corporate America in her stilettos, her newfound corporate identity would be nothing but another superficial Barbie outfit.
Barbie, the corporate ballbreaker! Pantsuit sold separately.
Still with no knowledge of who she is, just another false persona to put on.
But the last line of the movie reveals that Barbie actually isnt there for a job interview, she is there for a scheduled appointment with a gynecologist.
Presumably to have fetal tissue scraped out of her uterus.
Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice hits.
The end.
So, what was the Barbie movie really about?
When you figure out our reality is actually a virtual reality simulation, and its not real, you will actually start to experience the same glitches Margot Robbie did during the "Hey Barbie!" musical number.
Her realization that Barbie Land wasnt real and that there was a real reality outside of Barbie Land and her slowly waking up to the patriarchy, paternalism, myth of femininity, toxic feminine idelas, toxic masculinity, society's dystopian obsession with beauty, unrealistic beauty standards nearly impossible to attain, obsession with image and appearing perfect, obsession with impressing people and keeping up with the joneses, hypercompetitiveness, constant comparisons, emptiness within, shallowness and superficialty, lack of substance and introspection, not knowing who she is as a person outside of "Barbie", suppression of "negative" emotions like sadness, existentialism, questioning why she is here, why she was born, what she was made for, hopelessness, malaise, boredom, always having to appear happy, always smiling, subservient submissive pliant obedient attractive sexy willing feminine ideal -- and her becoming her actual self after meeting her maker (Rhea Perlman) and leaving the virtual reality (Barbie Land) and ascending to the actual reality (our current world in the movie which actually is an allegorical stand-in for the dreamscape) and then becoming her true self and shedding her Barbie persona by scheduling the appointment with the gyencologist at the end of the movie for an abortion.
So, what was the actual message of the end of the Barbie movie?
By freely choosing to have an abortion, Barbie chose bodily autonomy, rejection of the feminine myth & feminine ideal, rejection of the societal mandate that all women martyr themselves for motherhood, rejection of societal programming that children complete womens identity by turning them into that enigmatic mystical all-consuming figure of "mother" and that a womans highest calling is to be a mother.
Barbie chose to be her complete self as a woman by choosing not to be a mother and she chose not to fulfill her identity and personhood through procreation as society dictates and demands all women to do.
Being pregnant doesnt mean -- at least it should never mean -- that you have to give birth.
A lotttt can happen where youre pregnant and you dont want to be.
Barbie refused societys demands that she now sacrifice herself on the altar of motherhood -- her dreams, her life, her sexuality, her body, her appearance, her career, her freedom, her income, her lifestyle, her independence -- all to become a sacrificial mother lamb to be put on a false pedestal like all the mothers who came before her to be endlessly used and abused for free labor.
Cooking, cleaning, laundry, rides to school, sports practices, games, dance recitals, dance rehearsals, doctors appointments, school plays, birthday parties, parent teacher conferences, sleepovers, grocery shopping, meal planning, vacuuming, sweeping, mopping, car rides, car pools, help with homework & school projects, advice, discipline, punishments, teaching them, educating them, raising them, reading to them, bathing them, dressing them, teaching them manners, socializing them, singing to them, brushing their teeth, blowing their nose, changing their diapers, potty training them, putting them to bed every night, giving them medicine when theyre sick, bandaids when theyre hurt, staying up when they have a fever, picking them up when they cry, burping them, sterilizing bottles, washing dishes, emptying the dishwasher, finding recipes, placating picky eaters, fixing childrens broken hearts, dealing with toddler tantrums, making them eat their vegetables, picking up legos, limitless endless patience of a saint, never complaining, never being tired, limtless boundless energy, putting away toys, slavery, drudgery, scrubbing stains on carpets, unpaid labor, no benefits no time off, cleaning up spills, messes, urine on the floor, vomit in the hallway, blowout diaperas, diarrhea everywhere, buying decorations, responsible for creating holiday cheer, planning the 1st birthday, organizing the family calendar tracking all games, practices, parent teacher meetings and conferences, dance recitals and rehearsals, school plays, boy scout and girl scout meetings, registration for summer camps, taking them to the library, coming up with and planning all fun family activities, ensuring good grades, good behavior, good performance in sports, dance, gymnastics, cheer, teaching and instilling teamwork, friendship, generosity, kindness, sincerity, genuineness, honesty, defending the vulnerable, empathy, creativity, imagination, fostering an open mind, band camp, music lessons, playing the piano, private tutoring...
The mother is primarily responsible for all of that, and if the father deigns to help, he is lauded for "helping to babysit" and take care of his own fucking children!
Just because a condom broke or the bitch refused to wear one, just because he coerced her to have sex, pressured her, forced her, just because she had an amazing meaningless fuck and enjoyed every second, just because she had sex with her soulmate and she loved every moment, just because she didnt know how to say no because she was never taught how to, just because she was intimidated, just because she didnt want to piss him off, just because she wanted him to like her, just because shes proudly promiscuous, just because she likes to fuck, just because she forgot to take her birth control, just because she was on prescription medication that rendered her birth control ineffective, just because she couldnt get to the pharmacy on time to buy Plan B -- that should never ever ever mean that any woman should have to submit to the tyranny and sublimation of motherhood if she doesnt want to.
In rejecting the ultimate societal programming of all females which mandates that all women were meant to be mothers, you arent a woman if youre not a mother, motherhood is femininity, being a mother is a womans highest calling, only selfish women choose not to have kids, you complete & finalize your identity as a woman only by becoming a mother -- nothing else you ever do or accomplish will ever compare in any way to expelling a fetus from your uterus, she became Barbie, herself, her self, because now she knew her self, and not the Barbie she always was in Barbie Land.
This Barbie is pro-abortion.
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imrockbottom · 2 months
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I hate it when in a movie the woman gets away from the serial killer and finds help and the killer just has to appear calm and say "I'm sorry my demented sister bothered you, she just had one of her mental breakdowns" and the supposed help goes "oh, that makes much more sense, let me help you put her in your car" because that would probably work irl.
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rhfffas · 22 days
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dune is such a white savior/orientalist/racist movie yet still so many ppl praise it like its some kind of masterpiece what tf wrong w you ppl
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sanyu-thewitch05 · 1 year
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Without fail, when Hollywood wants someone to play a darkskinned woman, they always choose a lightskin biracial. I’m sorry for the darkskinned indigenous Hawaiians who were expecting Nani to be darkskinned.
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ghostlyauroras · 3 months
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Bella Baxter is not a baby in a woman's body, Bella is Frankenstein's monster if the Doctor had actually stuck around to raise his creation (they literally named the doctor God for a reason)
Was God a good father to Bella? I argue he was. He gave her life, taught her with kindness and patience, protected her from harm as far as she would let him and then set her free to make her own mistakes and learn from them. He did his best given the torturous way he himself was raised, and really that's how most parents are in the end.
Her rate of maturing is wonky and untraceable for us because her physical appearance is fully grown, but hyperfocusing on her starting out as a baby's brain in a woman's body is missing the point that the baby is growing up! She's learning new vocabulary and thinking new thoughts and that naturally escalates into adolescence and then adulthood.
And in the end Bella is neither mother or daughter, she is her own person that she created out of all her experiences both good and bad. She becomes a grown woman in her own accord. That's the point! It's Frankenstein's experiment but it worked and the creature turned out fine! It just needed to be treated like a real human being!
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lesbiancolumbo · 5 months
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being a woman in any film space, be it filmmaking, cinephilia, film festivals, film school, any and all of it, and like not getting frustrated and leaving that world altogether? you are god's strongest fucking soldier and i love you so much.
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janetsnakehole02 · 5 months
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unfortunately i have seen pretty much all of animal through the reels on my instagram explore page so i have one thing to say - STOP. GLORIFYING. CHEATING. i do not give a flying FUCK that you don’t like rashmika mandanna, or that tripti dimri and ranbir kapoor have “better chemistry,” i really don’t. fact of the matter is vijay (ranbir) abused geetanjali (rashmika) and cheated on her with zoya (tripti), and instead of portraying it like the toxic act that it is, sandeep reddy vanga once again chose to glamorize and romanticize that toxicity under the umbrella of “sab kuch papa ke liye kiya, this is what true love is.” believe or not, NO, you actually DON’T have to hurt someone to show that you love them. and of course the movie takes no time in making things worse when vijay says that if he leaves, geetanjali isn’t allowed to remarry, or when she asks him how he’d feel if she cheated and asked for forgiveness to which he angrily responds that it’s unacceptable, as if he has any sort of standing to hand out those kinds of orders after the shit he pulled 🙄
this reeks of double standards and a lack of accountability and it reminds me of something kangana ranaut said in an interview way back when (back at a time when she actually made sense oop) about how there’s nothing wrong with exploring dark subjects in cinema, but the condition is that they have to be portrayed authentically and that means showing the consequences of those actions as well. in real life there are consequences to cheating, consequences to domestic violence, consequences to a lack of self control and anger issues. and if you make the choice to explore these sensitive topics you have taken on the social responsibility to show it as is. you cannot glorify it. cinema is a highly powerful and influential form of media, especially in india, a country where actors and films are worshipped like a religion, and it’s truly beyond me how sandeep reddy vanga has deluded himself and his audience into thinking that he doesn’t have that responsibility at all. then again what else can i expect from a director who thinks that love isn’t real if there’s no violence and you can’t “slap your woman or touch your woman whenever you want” 🤡
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