![]() This is kinda hard to articulate but I’ll do my best: As fucking infuriating as it is to say, being around my dad and other conservatives growing up basically made me realize that a lot of people have a sick tendency to “play both sides” when it comes to depictions of violence against two different parties, no matter how clear-cut it is who the victims and the oppressors are. So whenever I watch media that tries to shine a light on things like this, I can’t help but view it from his perspective - because to this day I still butt heads with him on issues like this. So, my dad has some pretty fucked up and racist views… not the type of person that would do the vile shit in this movie, but probably the type that would think that these sort of executions don’t still happen. There are just a couple things that left me wondering if there is actually some merit in the movie. I just watched the movie and I’m a little conflicted, but I basically have ~80% the same takeaways as you. Hey this is a late reply but I had a couple of thoughts and I was curious to hear your take on them. Whether it's the director's intention or not, this movie STILL glorifies POC's trauma. I'm so tired of seeing my trauma reworked and remixed and rehashed in ways that only make me feel hopeless and angry. ![]() It's what I was hoping the ending of Soft & Quiet would be, but nope. So why do I need to be reminded of that, for one hour and thirty minutes, with no payoff? A PSA: If you're going to make a movie on this topic, from now on, can you PLEASE do it in the style of Django Unchained in which the oppressed party goes full-on scourged earth and wrecks everyone's shit? That is truly the only way I can stomach these kinds of stories anymore. I already know unspeakable horrors like what happened to those sisters happens in real life. I already know white supremacists exist and hide their bigotry behind closed doors until they don't. I already know they feel entitled to do whatever they want without any consequences because white womanhood is associated with innocence and femininity. I already know white women can be racist. And what's worse (and what I hate most about this new wave of "privileged people be bad" horror movies), is that I feel fucking nothing. I wanted to see their blood and tears, and instead the story ends before any semblance of proper closure is found. ![]() The movie was one giant build up to a piddly climax. Why do we, the audience, get to sit through their trauma and torture (and frankly the trauma/torture of hearing these cunts spew their bigotry for 50+ minutes nonstop) but we don't see the same done to them in turn? What those sisters went through.was abominable. After sitting with it, I think I hate this movie.
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