What is it about 1999 movies about terrorists than the m a n o s p h e r e loves and green camera filters?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I always think of those two movies as in a trilogy with American Beauty but no one likes the latter anymore
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Replying to @arthur_affect
my dad loves that movie but I've never seen it. Should I?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
sure but it's best watched with the eye that it's a critique of itself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
the filmmakers are themselves an example of the kind of narcissism they're attempting to explore
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
none of the protagonists are sympathetic but the filmmakers seem to think they are
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
big contrast w Fight Club. Protagonist does a lot of similar things but never fully gets his self destruction is what it is
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
relevant to your original thread: in AB the "dream girl" is an anti-Marla - totally externalized, objectified, sexualized
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the fact that she's only a meaningless figment becomes a plot point
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