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Whiplash isn't a movie, it's a weapon of child abuse. The film explicitly condones and endorses violent physical and sexual abuse of kids in the name of some entirely fictional achievement in "character". It tells abusive men that they're fine and actually need to act even "tougher" with the people they have power over, it tells abusive men that really they're helpers. It tells victims that their lives will be improved by this treatment instead of ruined. It's propaganda condoning child abuse.
I believe people who say that Terrance Fletcher is the villain to be wrong, if that's their interpretation I don't believe that actually watched the film. I don't believe Damien Chazelle's mealy mouthed claims, he makes movies about dominant men getting their way, that's the movie he made here and if he says otherwise he's lying.
Whiplash is a weapon. Period. It was made to hurt people and to help abusers destroy lives.
Throwback Video
Since it’s coming back to theaters this weekend for it’s 10th anniversary I wanted to throwback to my favorite and probably the best Damien Chazelle movie.
I like how the esteem for this movie has grown over the years and I gotta agree, it really stays with you and sadly I’ve had a few bosses and teachers sorta like that. But I didn’t get any cool skill other then not to act like that.
But whatever still a great movie
As has been made abundantly clear to me over the last ten years, nobody cares about abused kids and nobody cares about the factors or forces that actually propagate abuse in society, so this really has been simply personal. I don't believe there is anything redeeming about this movie, I believe with my entire heart that it's simply axiomatically toxic, there is nothing to be gained from it.
I hear and understand the people who like it, and am disgusted and unmoved by their opinions, I do not refuse to engage with the themes of the film, I see clearly the intention and deny it.
I believe in engaging with art on its own terms.
Throwback Video
Since it’s coming back to theaters this weekend for it’s 10th anniversary I wanted to throwback to my favorite and probably the best Damien Chazelle movie.
I like how the esteem for this movie has grown over the years and I gotta agree, it really stays with you and sadly I’ve had a few bosses and teachers sorta like that. But I didn’t get any cool skill other then not to act like that.
But whatever still a great movie
Sigh. Lovely. So very very lovely.
LA LA LAND (Dir: Damien Chazelle, 2016).
I am writing this almost a week after watching so apologise in advance for a review which is light on insight and heavy on vague observations (when are they ever anything but?).
This widely acclaimed homage to the golden age of Hollywood musicals was a first watch for me. It’s somewhat simple plot concerns the rollercoaster romantic and professional trials of aspiring actress Emma Stone and struggling jazz pianist Ryan Gosling. While proudly declaring its love of classic Hollywood, this often low-key film feels much closer in spirit to Jacques Demy’s French language classic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) than any actual Hollywood musical.
Where La La Land most strongly recalls the Hollywood musical is in it’s lovely saturated colour palette which would befit a 1940’s MGM Technicolor extravaganza and in the staging of musical numbers, A Lovely Night in particular and in its climax, a clever ode to those extended modern ballet numbers popular in 1950’s musicals, most famously An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951). For me it also strongly recalled the finale of The Muppet Movie (James Frawley, 1979), but that might just be me!
The score is strong, notably the beautifully melancholic recurring theme City of Dreams. The dancing skills of Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone was rightly acclaimed. Neither are singers, but their pleasant vocals recalls the non-singer casting of Jean Simmons and Marlon Brando in Guys and Dolls and works fine in context.
For all its vintage Hollywood flourish, La La Land has a slightly melancholy almost anti-Hollywood musical narrative and feels less like a traditional musical than its more pop music oriented contemporary The Greatest Showman (Michael Gracey, 2017). Whether it will be as fondly remembered in 65 years time as the musicals of 65+ years ago to which it pays homage, I am not sure but I did enjoy it. It’s a good movie, nicely performed and beautifully made.
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La la land 💌
El equipo de 'Babylon' encuentra las notas correctas para establecer el tono del Film de Damien Chazelle sobre la decadente década de 1920 de Hollywood....
El equipo de ‘Babylon’ encuentra las notas correctas para establecer el tono del Film de Damien Chazelle sobre la decadente década de 1920 de Hollywood….
La decadencia inducida por las drogas no es nada nuevo en Los Ángeles, pero el director Damien Chazelle buscó capturarla en su extremo en Su Nuevo Film Babylon, su exploración del Hollywood de la década de 1920 durante el advenimiento de la “era del cine sonoro”. (more…)
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87th Academy Awards : Best Adapted Screenplay
Jason Hall for American Sniper (based on the book, American Sniper, by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, and Jim DeFelice)
Graham Moore for The Imitation Game (based on the book, Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges)
Paul Thomas Anderson for Inherent Vice (based on the novel, Inherent Vice, by Thomas Pynchon)
Anthony McCarten for The Theory Of Everything (based on the book, Travelling To Infinity: My Life With Stephen, by Jane Wilde Hawking)
Damien Chazelle for Whiplash (based on his short film of the same name)
El equipo de 'Babylon' encuentra las notas correctas para establecer el tono del Film de Damien Chazelle sobre la decadente década de 1920 de Hollywood....
El equipo de ‘Babylon’ encuentra las notas correctas para establecer el tono del Film de Damien Chazelle sobre la decadente década de 1920 de Hollywood….
La decadencia inducida por las drogas no es nada nuevo en Los Ángeles, pero el director Damien Chazelle buscó capturarla en su extremo en Su Nuevo Film Babylon, su exploración del Hollywood de la década de 1920 durante el advenimiento de la “era del cine sonoro”. (more…)
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