My blog reviews movies as political, historical or social commentary with intentional disregard for their artistic or cinematic value. One foe of American political scientists and economists is that they ignore movies as sources to inform them on changes in American culture, view exoticism as a hallmark of "foreigness" and, at the same time, impart American values and judgment to foreign movies.
Saturday, August 4, 2018
Fireworks, should we see it from the side or the bottom?
The 40-something percent approval rating of the Ghibli on rottentomatoes.com signifies only the mental paucity of the US critical universe. They shudder of anything remotely ambiguous, while applauding any movie speaking to their "values": patriotism (Dunkirk, the Darkest Hour), any gay-liberation or black-resistance themed movie, no matter how formulaic or artistically weak its cinematic story is. While a hodgepodge of Anime cliches, it is a wonderful, pristine movie about teenage love, angst and tribulations of mid-to-high school life.
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