Message from @Samwise
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anyone wants to watch something
dm me
Nah I'm about to head to class
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)
lol
Bye boo-boo @I-VaPE-ChEMtrAiLS
the film is studied in many history of film classes
Right
left
lol
it has a cool poster
Means he dies in battle
stupid dumbass
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hha a contradiction
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Sorry
I am thinking out aloud
clearly
clearly
surrounded by complete silence
makes me hear my thoughts
go watch a movie
Probably will
Birth of a Nation is only good if you are a film wank and care about the development of different shots
I am hella triggered
Otherwise it's a 4/10 that is best described as "boy I'm glad I don't live in the 1910s"
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
Can I have Q & A role
I have questions
What questions
Questions for the mainstream
oh
I will read
can't actually answer
O
We both need the role then
I guess