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This series is great but whoever's picking out the 80's songs for it sucks. The editing and use of Simple Minds was brilliant but it would've been better with a different song.
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I'm sure people have written this about the book already, but since I'm being exposed to it for the first time, I have to say I appreciate that we're seeing a story about slavery featuring white people as slaves. Most of our films about slavery feature blacks as slaves, which presents a hurdle for white audiences to identify with black slave protagonists. Not that it can't be overcome but there's some hurdle you have to get over first and maybe some audiences struggle with successfully navigating that. Maybe that's why traditionally we often had movies featuring a Good White Guy saving the black slaves. Maybe that's why recent films like Get Out have struck a chord by challenging that need to see at least One Good White Person in a movie about Lots of Bad White People. So what The Handmaid's Tale offers is a stepping stool to get over that hurdle, a Slavery Simulator for White People. You get to experience the same visceral fear and gut-wrenching feelings a black person would normally feel watching a film about historical American slavery. You feel these feelings more directly than you have before because the torture, mutilation and abuse is happening to people you identify with more strongly. Now when you think about films about black slavery you can draw on the stomach-turning feelings you had watching The Handmaid's Tale. Maybe get you to expand your ability to empathize. Or not, I dunno. What do you guys think?
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May 4, 2017 00:32
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Groovelord Neato posted:i dunno man i almost cried during the strange fruit sequence in birth of a nation, and i'm a white dude. i'm also not a woman and could empathize fully with offred when reading the book. Sure sure, but there are a lot of different people out there who might not empathize with the struggles of different-looking people as well as you
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May 4, 2017 00:44
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Jack Gladney posted:I bet that the kind of white man who can't sympathize with black characters also has a hard time identifying with white women. Which is why we need Margaret Atwood to pull a Twilight and publish a genderswapped book called The Handyman's Tale
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May 4, 2017 00:51
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If you want a gut-wrenching account of Iran turning from a cosmopolitan nation into a totalitarian religious regime overnight, watch Persepolis or read the graphic novel. It's pretty brutal.  Whipping with electrical cables features a lot in it. Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 07:09 on May 4, 2017 |
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May 4, 2017 07:05
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Groovelord Neato posted:nah it's an important book and i would assume anyone interested in the show would have read it. That's a very inaccurate assumption to make.
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May 7, 2017 02:07
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Lampsacus posted:(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER) 
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May 16, 2017 23:11
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