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spouseoftherisingsun · 1 year ago

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I think if you ONLY saw Barbie and/or Oppenheimer in theater this year, you lose your rights to complain about anything that's related to awards shows, critical acclaim, or what kind of junk Hollywood pumps out. Like make excuses, but it took a blown out social media frenzy to get you to even leave the house for a movie screening. you have no idea what you're talking about

#oscars #oscars 2024 #oppenheimer #barbie #was torn over whether to tag or not bc people have rabies over barbie but am i really afraid of those people? not enough turns out #there's a lot of sociopolitical analysis to do about why people got weird about barbenheimer #but on here im gonna just stick to the core point.#like if you don't engage with a variety of texts your response to any one text is going to be hampered by lack of context and experience #and if you are somehow restricted to engaging with texts that sprcifically only have popularity as a merit #and you are loudly proclaiming a popular text's superiority to the echo of approval from a mainstream audience #your critique of other works in comparison is very clearly just unfounded criticism tpwrad it #for failing to create a zeitgeist socially powerful enough to compel you out of your general apathy #and that's a problem with how you specifically engage with art. Not with the art you refuse to entertain the potential of

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