#c: usa

[ntshastark]

What an absolutely hilarious article.

It begins with "No, it’s not set in modern-day America. Perhaps that’s the point: If we’re not very careful, it could be." and ends with "Maybe, when all is said and done, this is a movie for modern-day America.". It literally frames 'I'm Still Here' as some sort of cautionary tale for the USA under Trump 2.0.

And at no point whatsoever it deems necessary to mention why Brazil was under a military dictatorship in the first place.

I mean, who do we know that, during this thing called the Cold War, went around Latin America rubbing their imperialist little hands all over the place and helped topple tons of legitimate left-leaning governments in favour of militaristic dictators? You think this has nothing to do with you? That this is a story you're viewing fully from the outside?

I could do a whole rant about this, but I genuinely couldn't put it better than bluesky user guslanzetta already did 2 days ago, while quoting a video from AOC:

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis."]

The country that hates nazis hired a bunch of nazis to build rockets in the 40s. America is defined by hating communists way more than hating nazis. If AOC wants to be the voice of change she must admit how fucked up America is and how it needs to be better. Don't go "actual MAGA". There's nothing beautiful to return to, there's a better tomorrow to be built and it has to be a tomorrow, time moves forward and we must as well. We didn't lose our way, we realized there's another path. We want to go where we haven't been.

(emphasis my own)

‘I’m Still Here’: A stark history and warm memoir of Brazil’s darkest days

Walter Salles’s “I’m Still Here” is an epic within an epic: a teeming family drama contained within the melodrama of a country going insane.

No, it’s not set in modern-day America. Perhaps that’s the point: If we’re not very careful, it could be.

Brazil in 1970 existed in a state of constant tension, with a military dictatorship installed in a 1964 coup that was overseeing a resurgent economy and the increasingly brutal repression of anyone it saw as stepping out of line. Among the latter was Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello), a civil engineer and congressman from São Paulo who fled the country when his position was nullified by the dictatorship, but who returned within the year because he couldn’t keep away from his wife and kids.

You can hardly blame him. If you were lucky growing up, you knew one of those big, warm, rambunctious families whose dinner table was always open to strays and whose conversations on art, politics, culture and morality expanded one’s brain and the possibilities of life. (If you were luckier still, it was your family.) The Paivas were one of those special clans, and director Salles was, in his youth, one of the strays at their table, making “I’m Still Here” as much personal memoir as national history.

In Mello’s playing, Rubens is affable, smart and maybe too unconcerned for his personal safety. Or maybe he just doesn’t have the time, since he’s active in labor causes, holds meetings at home, publishes a left-wing newspaper and insists on being a present, loving father to his five children. In this, his wife Eunice (Fernanda Torres) is his partner and equal.

And then, one day in January 1971, Rubens is taken away for questioning, and “I’m Still Here” depicts the harrowing disorientation of a home invaded by men with guns. Eunice was detained and interrogated for a brief period, as was their adolescent daughter Eliana (Luiza Kosovski), and the glimpses Salles gives of the junta’s tactics — blood on the floor, screams down the hall — chill them and us to the marrow.

At this point, Eunice comes to the fore as the real hero of “I’m Still Here,” embarking on a relentless course of action to discover her husband’s whereabouts while holding her family together with elegance and grit. That path would eventually take her to a law degree and a national role as an activist pushing for the government’s recognition of those who were “disappeared” during the dictatorship, which ended in 1985. (The script by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega is based on a 2015 memoir by Eunice and Rubens’s only son, Marcelo, a successful Brazilian playwright and screenwriter.)

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[3liza]

incredible to me that in the age of spending minimum $100 for groceries for one person every three weeks where i live, people are still online like "dairy is bad for you because it has a lot of calories". at this point im calculating calories per dollar at the grocery store and youre still stuck in "fat bad" mindset from 1980. you are an absurd person to me. laughable

[ma-re-zo]

Whyyyy do iPad keyboards suck such mad ass I had to rewrite this at least 3 times

Anyways yknow what I think my screen is just dirty . _ .

[bombshellsandbluebells]

if I had a dollar for every time a criminal Shawn clearly had some attraction to asked him to come with him and join his life of crime I'd only have 2 dollars, but it's still weird that it happened twice

Desperaux this, Desperaux that, but nobody talking about how Tommy Nix wanted Shawn to run away with him

[tvmusiclife]

born to be a girl who watches the Olympics all day, forced to be a girl who works 9 to 5

[rvspecter]

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[kiasbarse]

I KNOW I HAVENT POSTED ABT THE OUTSIDERS IN FORWVERRR BUT I MET C THOMAS HOWELL TODAY AND HE WAS LEGIT THE SWEETEST!!! THIS MIGHT BE MY PEAK

[illustratus]

Custer's Last Stand by Newell Convers Wyeth

[officialrailscales]

MP5SD, MP7A1, and….MP7 at home

MP7 at home: • RSB® | Carbon Black

- RS

[science70]

"The University Library of the Future" envisioned in an Armstrong C-60 Luminaire Ceiling System ad, 1966.

[eightiesfan]

Grandview USA - Randal Kleiser - 1984

with C. Thomas Howell & Jamie Lee Curtis : great movie !!

[hananoami]

Love and Deepspace 1st Anniversary billboard in Time Square~ I AM SOOOO HAPPY I WAS ABLE TO SEE THIS LIVE AND IN PERSON!! �� Unfortunately, it wasn't cold enough for snow so it rained instead. However, that didn't deter me from going out to witness this masterpiece, hehe. Thankfully this was an all day billboard with frequent play time so I didn't have to wait long. I plan to upload the four clips I have for Rafayel, Sylus, Zayne, and Xavier soon after I do some audio edits. No Caleb feature this time, but definitely next year!

[bombshellsandbluebells]

Some people follow youtube trends, I throw a bunch of fanvids of a series that ended 10 years ago and barely anyone still cares about at you.

Shawn Spencer has always been one of my favorite characters because he's so layered and because through the whole show we so rarely see under his mask. In some ways, I think Psych should have explored the negative sides of Shawn's character more - but then again, I think it's BECAUSE we only see hints of it without the show fully committing to it (mostly because it's committed first and foremost to being a light-hearted comedy) that makes him so interesting.

Also the fact that they waited 8 whole seasons to have Shawn get really serious about his flaws rather than just hint at how he feels and drop that he genuinely thinks he made Gus's life worse and he's better off without him kills me every time I rewatch it. Stroke of genius, honestly, and one of the reasons that it's my favorite finale of all time.

also can't believe I'm editing to Taylor Swift, I swore I'd never do it, but the lyrics of this one fit a little too well

[merchantphoto]

our enhanced photo of a young C Thomas Howell of The Outsiders (1983) :)

[rvspecter]