Watching some movies
Sep. 29th, 2023 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sasha_featherI rewatched "Thirteen Lives" last night, which is a masterpiece. I love how I movie that I have already watched can still hold tension and keep me on tenterhooks. What a satisfying movie.
Feeling warmly towards this film's director Ron Howard, I went looking for some more of his recent work; I found a documentary called "We Feed People." It is on Hulu. Despite the name it's a profile of one guy, José Andrés, a famous chef who is now promoting his NGO, a disaster-relief organization that focuses on feeding people. I say promoting because this doc had more the feel of a paid advertisement. I've encountered a few different documentaries like this in my wide-ranging tv watching and they have this oily quality. But I had time to use up so I kept watching for a while.
At about the one hour mark, there is assault and harassment on-camera. Talked about in a general way under the cut.
It was really upsetting to watch because it's a real scene, not fictionalized, not distanced in that way. And no one steps in to protect this random woman from being bullied and harassed by José Andrés.
There are probably some who would watch this scene and not think much of what he did, but that is because these kinds of things are normalized to such an extent that you have to re-learn how to see them. Then once you do see them, it's shocking. I have become sensitized, which is to say, I can now see things more accurately.
Anyways I noped out at this point and put up a note on "Does the Dog die", which is a great resource but some of these obscure things don't have any content notes up for them at all.
I also noped out of "Bottoms", mostly because it is not my genre-- teenage, raunchy sex comedy, and about lesbians, but without the political aspect of "Sex Education," and without the warmth. I mean it's selection bias on my part but I've never known lesbians who are like this, just kind of... mean-spirited. Also the one girl talks extremely quickly and in a way that is not straightforward; I had trouble understanding her dialog.
I made it all the way through Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which was a mediocre story but had good lighting, good cinematography, some humor, and likeable characters.
Feeling warmly towards this film's director Ron Howard, I went looking for some more of his recent work; I found a documentary called "We Feed People." It is on Hulu. Despite the name it's a profile of one guy, José Andrés, a famous chef who is now promoting his NGO, a disaster-relief organization that focuses on feeding people. I say promoting because this doc had more the feel of a paid advertisement. I've encountered a few different documentaries like this in my wide-ranging tv watching and they have this oily quality. But I had time to use up so I kept watching for a while.
At about the one hour mark, there is assault and harassment on-camera. Talked about in a general way under the cut.
It was really upsetting to watch because it's a real scene, not fictionalized, not distanced in that way. And no one steps in to protect this random woman from being bullied and harassed by José Andrés.
There are probably some who would watch this scene and not think much of what he did, but that is because these kinds of things are normalized to such an extent that you have to re-learn how to see them. Then once you do see them, it's shocking. I have become sensitized, which is to say, I can now see things more accurately.
Anyways I noped out at this point and put up a note on "Does the Dog die", which is a great resource but some of these obscure things don't have any content notes up for them at all.
I also noped out of "Bottoms", mostly because it is not my genre-- teenage, raunchy sex comedy, and about lesbians, but without the political aspect of "Sex Education," and without the warmth. I mean it's selection bias on my part but I've never known lesbians who are like this, just kind of... mean-spirited. Also the one girl talks extremely quickly and in a way that is not straightforward; I had trouble understanding her dialog.
I made it all the way through Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which was a mediocre story but had good lighting, good cinematography, some humor, and likeable characters.
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Date: 2023-09-30 06:59 pm (UTC)Thanks for your reviews.
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Date: 2023-10-03 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-03 07:53 pm (UTC)