Been awhile - late night Q + A - no theme edition
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
What do you think about the idea that aliens in SIGNS aren't invaders, they're refugees? And that what we're shown is the main characters' xenophobia from their own pov?
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Replying to @TontonPogo
i think theres nothing in the text to support that
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
Well, the painting of the aliens as invaders are done by a military figure and the media for instance, the aliens themselves are never shown to do more than seek shelter, their acts of violence are only told by other characters Not saying it's willingly text, but it holds water
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Replying to @TontonPogo
1. but we're still talking about complete and total projection. you need text. it's integral to all semiotics. everything else is conjecture. 2. *snicker* ... water.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
Isn't, say, the choice of presenting the aliens' violence only through media and hearsay part of the text? And you take refuge where you can, not where you want. The water thing makes much more sense to me as a make-do than an invasion with a pre planed strategy
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Replying to @TontonPogo @FilmCritHULK
I mean "text" isn't only what's explicitly being said by the characters in the piecr, right? It's also how it's said, by whom, in what order and to which effect, isn't it?
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Of course, but that stuff adds up to contextualization for SOME nugget of core text that points in that direction. Of which I argue the film offers none. Without the nugget, it's conjecture.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
There's a nuance I don't get here. What constitutes a nugget and what doesn't. But alright!
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