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Bottle Rocket is also great, especially if you think of it as being a farce on contemporary, Tarantino-esque, indie crime films.
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mysterious frankie posted:"For here is the most ludicrously extreme representation of postmodern cinema’s “undefinable nostalgic past … beyond history.” Here is represented the complete “historical amnesia” Jameson warned us would preclude our ability to grapple politically with our own moment in time." I once got into an argument with someone over the historicity of Django Unchained where they legitimately criticized the fact that Candie's speech on phrenology was never explicitly rebuked within the film. When I suggested that Django's successful, clandestine ability to assassinate every white person in the movie did explicitly rebuke the veracity of Candie's outdated racial theories, he said 'normal people wouldn't get this.' Jacobin's waxing about postmodernism strikes me as the same sort of condescension, except aimed at the 'hipsters' who find beauty in Anderson's accurate, impressionistic portrayal of "historical amnesia" and comic-tragic depiction of characters who have lost their "ability to grapple politically with [their] own moment in time." Film critique is a completely fatuous science, where the critic draws upon their projection onto the work (their own preconceived values and, thus, their ability to identify with the world of a text) and basically uses the text as the basis to discuss their own philosophical position. (Not that a film can't make you change or reconsider your philosophical position, just that they usually don't.) Jacobin's point isn't that Anderson's deliberate use of nostalgia to frame his story isn't obvious; it's that this technique is bad because other people might mistake something I don't like for something that is good.
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