LRT: I've said this a million times but I think critics have multiple responsibilities when it comes to films like John Wick 3. It needs to be acknowledged that a great many viewers will enjoy/experience it as "brainless" fun, and that as a result, the overall cultural impact...
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...of the film is largely one of glorifying and normalizing brutal violence. But of course there is so much more going on than that in the John Wick films, and critics should also strive to complicate viewers' relationships with them, rather than flattening and simplifying them.
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I've written at length about this tension and my personal experience of it, as I did in this piece.https://feministfrequency.com/2017/02/22/hall-of-mirrors-facing-patriarchy-in-the-media-facing-ourselves/ …
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I actually read this last week and shared it with some people. It's beautifully written.
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