my fair lady is a *much* weirder movie than i was led to believe, good lord
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professor higgins does a bunch of really controlling stuff, borderline abusive, and plenty of it the movie never calls him out on. weird experience, made it hard for me to settle into the movie
audrey hepburn was incredible at least
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I really disliked it as well and there's an emotion I have that I can't quite name but I'm horrified that the movie is presented as a light-hearted cultural icon while being so terrible when you peer below the surface. No one really talks about that.
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Not new, but if you want some entertainment + side project of discussing changing gender/class stereotypes, may I suggest Pygmalion & P-themed movies. I hated _My Fair Lady_ what a terrible movie. _Educating Rita_ was pretty rad. _Good Will Hunting_ best. See also _Pretty Woman_.
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it actually makes for kind of an interesting case study in guru / cult leader dynamics that way, the specific combination of he's doing horrible shit + nobody else in the movie seems to really notice or care + except maybe eliza but she doesn't have the words to describe it
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like that combination just happens irl sometimes 😬
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Yes. So many thoughts on this but 1 that applies to many domains: determining value/truth/etc is hugely energy/processor intensive + our default (understandably yet annoyingly) is to be conservative w our resources + treat basic assumptions based on superficial evidence as fact.
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We use razors to reduce available array of info into something easier to grasp. But it's not evaluating for truth, it's simply way to reduce set of possibilities.
I cringe whenever people mention Occam's Razor. It does not reveal truth/best decision--just helps you decide.
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