Message from @K_Wagner

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2017-10-01 02:03:15 UTC  
2017-10-02 00:07:10 UTC  

Empire of dust

2017-10-02 00:07:13 UTC  

they live

2017-10-02 00:07:32 UTC  

Ooh, empire of dust is really good! 😄

2017-10-02 00:07:47 UTC  

I would be up for that

2017-10-02 00:07:48 UTC  

based chinese dude has to herd some dindus

2017-10-02 00:08:27 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/362535345146953728/364201931914084363/1474907974828.jpg

2017-10-02 00:09:21 UTC  

Let's watch it!

2017-10-02 01:52:07 UTC  

just looked up the music that was playing

2017-10-02 01:52:11 UTC  

pretty good

2017-10-03 02:21:10 UTC  

https://alternativeright.blog/2017/10/03/dark-m-night-white-flight-the-village/

2017-10-03 02:21:31 UTC  

Anyone seen this one? This article made me curious.

2017-10-03 02:21:35 UTC  

nope

2017-10-03 02:22:14 UTC  

The setting and lot seems strangely relevant to our project and what we're trying to accomplish.

2017-10-03 02:22:19 UTC  

*and plot

2017-10-03 02:22:24 UTC  

interesting

2017-10-03 02:30:03 UTC  

From the article:
"By contrast, “The Village” is a somewhat oblique social commentary masquerading as a spooky horror film. It doesn’t advertise itself as something controversial; you have to scratch to find what is in fact gutsy and shocking about it. Critics are vaguely aware that it isn’t kosher, but they aren’t sure why.

The setting of the movie appears to be a 19th-century utopian community, which sits in a picturesque valley surrounded by dark woods. The woods are said to be inhabited by monsters, known to the townsfolk as “Those We Don’t Speak Of.” Long ago, a truce was reached between the townspeople and the monsters: if the people stay in the valley, the monsters will leave them alone.

Beyond the woods, we are told, are places called “the towns.” The elders of the village warn vaguely that the towns are evil places, best avoided.

Most of the people in the village seem perfectly happy staying put. However, some of the younger folk have some curiosity about the world outside their home.

Without bogging down in the details of the plot, I will say that it eventually becomes necessary for a young woman to make a terrifying journey through the woods and to “the towns.” It is when she makes it to her destination that we find out the movie’s “twist.” Instead of taking place in the 19th century, the setting is in fact the present. The elders of the village, we discover, are Americans who, about three decades ago, decided to flee the decadence and corruption of the modern world and set up an agrarian community inside a nature preserve somewhere in Pennsylvania.

Apparently, these settlers elected to set the clock back and behave as though the 20th century had never existed. They took on not only old-style dress and lifestyle but also (and less plausibly) dialect. In order to keep their children from straying back into modern life, they made up the myth of monsters dwelling in the woods who will not bother the townsfolk as long as they remain in the valley."

2017-10-03 02:30:23 UTC  

"The townsfolk live by mores that today have largely been abandoned. Traditional sex roles are embraced; women are in charge of housework and child-rearing duties, while men labor in the fields. Boys and girls are required to obey their parents. Sexual repression is viewed as necessary in order to keep the families together. The patriarch of the community, for instance, refrains from taking up with a certain widow — though it is clear he is attracted to her — because he is a married man. (Compare that decision with the radically different choice made by a “patriarch” of our country a few years ago!)

In spite of their outmoded customs, and in spite of the fact that the village elders have deceitfully concocted a lie about the monsters and simplistically painted “the towns” as havens of vice and depravity, the movie does not condemn the elders for their decision to secede from the 20th century and shun the 21st. In fact, scenes that take place in “the towns” prominently feature newspaper headlines and radio reports of murder and mayhem, which serve to underline the notion that perhaps the settlers chose wisely to leave when they did.

At the movie’s end, when the elders decide to rededicate themselves to keeping their community going following a period of crisis, the viewer is relieved: it would have been disappointing indeed if they had chosen to fold up their tents and slink back toward Gomorrah.

The boldest aspect of the film’s critique of modernity is also its most subtle, but it is apparent upon reflection. Is it really only a coincidence that the townsfolk are all white? And given that crime is cited relentlessly as a reason for avoiding “the towns,” is it such a stretch to call the villagers white separatists, who have left a world beset by social breakdown brought on by multicultural chaos, where whites are not infrequent victims of robbery, rape, and murder?"

2017-10-03 02:30:29 UTC  

It could be that M. Night Shyamalan, as a non-white director, can get away with implying that traditional sexual morality and racial homogeneity may actually be desirable things, even for whites.

"Lord knows the heat Mel Gibson would take for making any such implication. Still, white advocates should be gracious enough to accept the sympathetic overtures Shyamalan appears to be making — however guardedly — on their behalf."

2017-10-03 02:31:58 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/362535345146953728/364600440131682314/image.jpg

2017-10-03 15:08:28 UTC  

The Village is great, but I haven't seen it in forever 😄

2017-10-03 16:29:58 UTC  

Damn, that is pretty good.

2017-10-03 17:13:06 UTC  

The Village was quite enjoyable

2017-10-05 23:42:18 UTC  

im thinking of another film club, this time on saturday 6pm

2017-10-06 07:02:52 UTC  

Is that 2 am cet?

2017-10-06 07:02:57 UTC  

🤔

2017-10-06 13:51:35 UTC  

Saturday sounds good

2017-10-07 12:30:17 UTC  

thats 11pm cet

2017-10-07 12:30:41 UTC  

this saturday? today?

2017-10-07 12:31:00 UTC  

@everyone next film club is 9.5 hours from now

2017-10-07 12:31:08 UTC  

noice

2017-10-07 17:14:32 UTC  

5 hours away!

2017-10-07 20:27:03 UTC  

and hour and a half away

2017-10-07 20:37:01 UTC  

what film?

2017-10-07 20:39:39 UTC  

^

2017-10-07 21:23:08 UTC  

still deciding, likely some sort of a classic

2017-10-07 21:25:29 UTC  

You do these every Saturday?

2017-10-07 21:30:05 UTC  

ive been doing them once a week, but the times have varied

2017-10-07 21:31:01 UTC  

is it supposed to be more artistic?

2017-10-07 21:50:41 UTC  

@everyone film club starting in 10 minutes