Cult Movie Challenge 2017 | 52/52 | New World Pictures
The red and yellow flag of the new US flag waves over the stadium—a fist over the stripes. Deacon stands at the podium, dressed in his white priest uniform, with silver fists adorning the drape around his neck. He announces the commencement of the 20th annual Transcontinental Road Race, where five racers will cross the country, creating mayhem and violence as they kill as many people as they can along…
Was Sorry to Bother You too confrontational? Did Dear White People still make you feel guilty? Was American Fiction's dated critique too pointed?
Here's a toothless movie about white fragility that doesn't functionally critique the respectability politics it lampoons. But don't worry, we get a speech near the end that amounts to, "Did you know Black Lives Matter?"
Here's what I liked: the movie had some funny jokes, Justice Smith and An-Li Bogan had moments of palpable on-screen chemistry, and…
I being in art school and finding obsessions. There’s always a fear of being perceived as naive or undereducated about a subject since “it’s all been done before” or whatever. But when you can just let yourself go and lose that fear a bit, it can feel vital and freeing, like I don’t have to think about what I’m going to make for a bit, it’s just going to focus on this
Anyway, I feel like this short captured that feeling pretty perfectly
