Submitted by diet_Cupcake28 t3_z8u2kc in movies

What starts as a visually stunning but putrid and bizarre deep dive into American media Mandela effects then distills into a succinct commentary on the nature of power, hegemony, good and evil- and what’s in between. Gory and sexy, thrilling and fun but sobering. When it closes out, you can’t help but identify with the crazed murderers- you feel that somehow what they’re doing is not so bad. Not compared to the crooked cops, media mavens, and wrathful wardens. The treatment of women here is also interesting. Laden with abuse, assault, fetishistic scopophilia, and torture porn- we still manage to find feminism if you know how to look for it right. Though the lens runs over these scenes objectively, the viewer must see themselves as the victimized woman and be disgusted and angered by what is happening to her- to feel monstrous about watching it happen and understand the plight of why such women want revenge. Set against the wide open spaces of the ever-psychedelic southwest, with big red cars and southern drawls, this tinges on the fever dream of the frontier west. A 5/5 for me.

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Jonnyporridge t1_iyd9cf1 wrote

A movie well ahead of it's time, so many themes are pertinent to today's societally broken world.

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girafa t1_iydb4jn wrote

> deep dive into American media Mandela effects

Like what?

> lens runs over these scenes objectively

Nothing in this movie is looked at objectively, tbf

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kresbok t1_iydp8ev wrote

Scagnetti on Scagnetti.

I NEED that book.

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diet_Cupcake28 OP t1_iydqit6 wrote

Idk I think there's room for healthy disagreement. I'm a woman and I am very interested in the portrayal of women in film (a la Mulvey/Bechdel). I found the portrayal of women particularly interesting in this movie, and there was plenty of gazing at ass and titties... Pissing... Killing... being tortured.

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girafa t1_iydx6vh wrote

Yeah? Hmm. Not a great deal of nudity nor any sort of gratuity/meditation on lustful desire. I think the movie portrays sex more in a primal sense, with the obvious sex & violence connection. Rodney Dangerfield craves his daughter and we see his eyes/her ass, but it's not about the feminine form or voyeurism, it's carnal demand and dominance.

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