Message from @DrPeper

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2018-09-12 20:41:08 UTC  

yeah

2018-09-12 20:41:10 UTC  

1915

2018-09-12 20:41:19 UTC  

well, details nat

2018-09-12 20:41:19 UTC  

19 fucking 15 is when this movie was made

2018-09-12 20:41:24 UTC  

yup

2018-09-12 20:41:36 UTC  

.gif Bitch please

2018-09-12 20:41:40 UTC  

pretty important film

2018-09-12 20:42:01 UTC  

well

2018-09-12 20:42:08 UTC  

Shame it was made by a complete fuck

2018-09-12 20:42:11 UTC  

anyone wants to watch something

2018-09-12 20:42:13 UTC  

dm me

2018-09-12 20:42:45 UTC  

Nah I'm about to head to class

2018-09-12 20:42:55 UTC  

a seminal commercial spectacle but also a decisively original work of art—in effect, the founding work of cinematic realism, albeit a work that was developed to pass lies off as reality. It's tempting to think of the film's influence as evidence of the inherent corruption of realism as a cinematic mode—but it's even more revealing to acknowledge the disjunction between its beauty, on the one hand, and, on the other, its injustice and falsehood. The movie's fabricated events shouldn't lead any viewer to deny the historical facts of slavery and Reconstruction. But they also shouldn't lead to a denial of the peculiar, disturbingly exalted beauty of Birth of a Nation, even in its depiction of immoral actions and its realization of blatant propaganda. The worst thing about The Birth of a Nation is how good it is. The merits of its grand and enduring aesthetic make it impossible to ignore and, despite its disgusting content, also make it hard not to love. And it's that very conflict that renders the film all the more despicable, the experience of the film more of a torment—together with the acknowledgment that Griffith, whose short films for Biograph were already among the treasures of world cinema, yoked his mighty talent to the cause of hatred (which, still worse, he sincerely depicted as virtuous)

2018-09-12 20:42:57 UTC  

lol

2018-09-12 20:43:27 UTC  

Bye boo-boo @I-VaPE-ChEMtrAiLS

2018-09-12 20:44:18 UTC  

the film is studied in many history of film classes

2018-09-12 20:44:27 UTC  

Right

2018-09-12 20:44:38 UTC  

left

2018-09-12 20:45:10 UTC  

lol

2018-09-12 20:45:20 UTC  

it has a cool poster

2018-09-12 20:45:25 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/484514023698726912/489537038828437515/800px-Birth_of_a_Nation_theatrical_poster.png

2018-09-12 20:45:45 UTC  

Means he dies in battle

2018-09-12 20:45:50 UTC  

stupid dumbass

2018-09-12 20:46:02 UTC  

...

2018-09-12 20:46:06 UTC  

hha a contradiction

2018-09-12 20:46:10 UTC  

?

2018-09-12 20:46:17 UTC  

Sorry

2018-09-12 20:46:23 UTC  

I am thinking out aloud

2018-09-12 20:46:28 UTC  

clearly

2018-09-12 20:46:40 UTC  

I am bored ok

2018-09-12 20:46:52 UTC  

clearly

2018-09-12 20:46:55 UTC  

surrounded by complete silence

2018-09-12 20:47:04 UTC  

makes me hear my thoughts

2018-09-12 20:47:35 UTC  

go watch a movie

2018-09-12 20:48:37 UTC  

Probably will

2018-09-12 20:48:37 UTC  

Birth of a Nation is only good if you are a film wank and care about the development of different shots

2018-09-12 20:48:43 UTC  

I am hella triggered

2018-09-12 20:49:45 UTC  

Otherwise it's a 4/10 that is best described as "boy I'm glad I don't live in the 1910s"

2018-09-12 20:50:04 UTC  

the number of legs a horse has in the air in a statue indicates how the rider died.

2 legs in the air: rider died in battle
1 leg in the air: rider died by wounds made in battle
0 legs in the air: rider died by any other reason

2018-09-12 21:37:19 UTC