Can't believe this lost to Coco at the Oscars.
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Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
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The question I always used to ask about these kind of behold-the-plight-of-the-third-world movies is who are they for? The Breadwinner is not for Afghani children. It's not for Afghani adults either.
Took me a while to figure out they're for middle class libs who think watching the right movies makes you a good person.
…right in the heart.
"It (Schindler's List) is not instruction, but melodrama. Members of the audience learn nothing save the emotional lesson of all of melodrama, that they are better than the villain. The very assertion that the film is instructive is harmful. It is destructive. The audience comes to the theater in order to, and leaves the theater feeling they have looked down on actions that they have been assured - this is the film's central lesson - they would never commit." ... "But the film panders to the audience. It invites them (as does any melodrama) to reward themselves for Seeing That the Villain's Bad; and, in the Liberal Fallacy, of feeling this perception is a moral accomplishment." -David Mamet.
I thought the film was made by someone from the global south wanting to share their experiences like Barefoot Gen did with Japan post-nuclear bomb. But no. It's directed by an Irish woman and the book it's based off of was written by a Canadian woman.
It's probably upper-class libs who think that watching the right movies makes you a good person.