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whenever someone is really really really centrist online for no discernible reason and their logic doesnt follow and their facts dont really add up — 98% of the time they just have an evil job
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re: Ebert occasionally "missing" on a great movie, I think people forget that the point of criticizing art is not to be "correct," it's to engage with the work sincerely; a critic should be evaluated less on "correctness" and more the consistency/depth of their work
there is almost nothing you could say as a 15 year old that I wouldn’t feel you deserve a clean slate for at 30 (not to mention with vastly different beliefs now) and i’m not shocked that the most neurotically ravenous people online feel like litigating this is “activism”
No documentary has ever been a "straight documentary"
I loved “You Can See Everything.” But it left a sour taste: why would it be unethical for Holmes and Evans to get paid??
This is not a straight documentary. Fielder is shaping a performance amongst the 3 of them. So the conventional journalistic prohibition on paying sources doesn’t clearly apply. Framing A24’s financial interest as the neutral business of making a movie, while Evans’s as a moral failing feels flawed.
And then the part that gets sour is turning that negotiation into material. Which is quintessential Nathan Fielder, but AGAIN makes any appeal to conventional documentary ethics even less convincing.
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Last week above the city of Rhenen in The Netherlands. I had been wanting to photograph this church tower with these kinds of conditions for years, and I finally managed to do so. What a morning.
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Interesting perspective for the “try being a Jew in Ramallah and see what happens to you 😈” crowd: a 65 year old Jewish American journalist being treated with care in a Palestinian hospital after being beaten nearly to death by Israeli Jewish settler terrorists. Makes you think!
AED’s and similar devices are so important. Everyone should take a CPR / AED training
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tiresome Twitter "greatest"--"best"--"highest"--"most favorite"--everything hyperbolic, amplified. even a classicist mimicking the simpleminded either/or of MAGAspeak.
maybe the "greatest" poem ever written is five lines long & was written by Emily Dickinson. why not?
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I really wish we could disagree with one another without throwing epithets like this at people who have lived their values to such an extent that they’ve been targeted by the full boot of the state. I don’t agree with him here but this is just thought terminating.
one of the biggest things reading does for you is teach you how much you lack, how dumb you are. the worst people online don’t read and so they are constantly convinced they are at the highest echelon of thought























