Hotline Miami wants to have its cake & eat it too. The game wants its fun violence & for it to be a critique too. Can’t have it both ways.
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@carolynmichelle@ZaidJilani@radicalbytes maybe in the case of district 9 because it's a terrible movie made by a hack filmmaker, but-Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@carolynmichelle@ZaidJilani@radicalbytes there are plenty effective critiques of violence and its relation to masculinity/society at-Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@carolynmichelle@ZaidJilani@radicalbytes large where, on a surface level, the violence is presented as "fun" or "cool" or "admirable"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@carolynmichelle@ZaidJilani@radicalbytes see: a clockwork orange, the sopranos, the wire, breaking bad, most antiwar films -
@Hexjackal Personally I never found the violence on The Wire anything but tragic and horrifying. And I think BB utterly fails on this...
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@carolynmichelle@ZaidJilani@radicalbytes the godfather, apocalypse now...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@carolynmichelle@ZaidJilani@radicalbytes actually, a particularly relevant example here is Drive, which HLM is based off of
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