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thevalleyisjolly · 9 months ago

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I wish literally any other one of the nominated movies this awards season won instead of Oppenheimer. No offence to the actors (although really, what the hell did RDJ do that was so exceptional), but I'm physically upset that they rewarded such an Oscar-bait movie.

#the valley is posting #it's how the suffering of japanese people is used to show the poor opie's moral complexity but japanese people are never allowed a voice #it's how us americans get to be tormented about the ethical consequences of their genocidal decisions #while the people of hiroshima and nagasaki and los alamos never get a face or a name or even a scrap of respect as human beings #they are simply not present in the narrative except as objects for us americans to debate over (and celebrate the suffering of)#and yeah sure; you can argue that this is oppie's story and not the story of hiroshima or nagasaki #but did we really need a 3 hour film talking about poor oppie's guilt over his complicity in the nuclear arms race #which manages to completely dehumanize and ignore poc suffering except as a plot device in oppie's internal torment #the AUDACITY of this bitch

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