Real talk? Y'all need to realize there's a difference between "lip service screen time" and "what it's about." It's literally the main villain's goal. The knowledge brings about change in two characters - it is at the center of a relationship between the main and his father -
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It is literally the driving force of the movie and the place the entire population come to a reckoning for, thus experiencing the notion of displacement - even in the Skaar, you have a colonial oppression system, wholely symbolic of slavery cities
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It's in the DNA of the entire film. It's right there. And here's someone else's great write up on it. https://www.villagevoice.com/2017/11/10/thor-ragnarok-marvel-from-a-postcolonial-perspective/ …
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I know Taika talks around it and makes jokes in interviews but he also talks about it forthrightly just as much. This was the clear intention of the film at every single level. He also wanted to make it hilarious.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK @artfulmegalodon
I read the article. And the fact is that everything there isn't as deep as you and that author so desperately want it to be. There are other films tackling these issues with much more nuance and blunt realism. (1/3)
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You are simply applying a framework of your own world view over the skeleton of superhero movies and saying, "yeah, that sorta fits" before writing a personal diatribe under the banner of "film analysis". (2/3)
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Like I've said before, anyone could take either of these movies and manipulate them to fit their own world view, and your excellent prose as a writer is just masking the fact that you're grasping at straws for things that are primarily in your head. (3/3)
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None of what I'm saying is to invalidate your articles in any way. Frankly, analysis that deep is a form of art itself and I can appreciate it on it's own merit. But tying it to a blockbuster film with as surface level a message as "violence is bad let's be nice" is silly.
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Replying to @Zwok_ @artfulmegalodon
And I think you're woefully oversensitive to texture and you're unwillingness to see what's really there, as literally THOUSANDS of critics and fans are writing about their experiences with BP - is laughably patronizing, toward the movie, and them.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
"Lots of people from my circle agree with me. Therefore, I am right." That's what you're saying. I do not care that thousands agree with you. All it takes is a whisper in an echo chamber to convince a lot of people of something.
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I'm saying the literal opposite. Besides, everyone thinks that if you get popular, you're in an echo chamber, when it's the exact opposite. Believe me, people come from every nook and cranny and are SURE to tell me what they really think.
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