My overly sweeping hot take: Taking a second to think over the best possible argument against your hot take is becoming a lost art.
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Doing this will help, not hurt your argument. If this argument even brought up an obvious counter-example — like say David Lynch, who critics love — and then explained why that doesn’t work, it improves the piece. https://newrepublic.com/article/147341/film-critics-blind-big-lebowskis-brilliance …
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I was actually thinking about arguing in original draft about Barton Fink: its surrealism was acceptable because Kafkaesque & literary (as against goofball surrealism of other movies).
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