How many Midgets-of-Color were in the movie?
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Waiting for a remake of “The Wild Bunch” with an all female cast
The author’s premise is bogus from the start, since Deckard had previously quit because of his guilt over the job. Remember the voice-over in the original, where he didn’t react well to praise for killing the first female replicant, saying, “..it didn’t make me feel better about shooting a woman in the back.”
Perhaps one the worst reviews I’ve ever read. You learn nothing about the production values, special effects, story, acting or themes. You get multiple paragraphs complaining there aren’t enough women and minorities to suit him and that the plot focuses too much of the protagonist stars of the movie. (yes, that was really a complaint he raised).
This review strikes me as shot through with the shallowness of the latest mutation of the secularist, pragmatist, empiricist, materialist, and relentlessly political movement called Progressivism. The story is about men reacting to something uniquely feminine. Without “das ewig Weibliche” there is no story.
If it's true that to the person with a hammer everything is a nail, to the person to whom everything is power politics and nothing more, every piece of attention given to males is one less piece given to females.
It's not for her enough to center the plot on the meaning and consequence of das ewig Weibliche. We have to have affirmative action and affirmative character development, and people of all colors and conditions, as well as of all “genders,” must shine no less and have no less screen time or the movie is nothing but a sad reflection of a deficiency of “wokeness.”
Well, the review burns a pinch of incense before a bust of Caesar's wife, throws a sop to the three-headed bitch guarding the Progressive hell. But it says nothing of importance.
See the movie. It's a tour de force.
The old argument comes round again:
“Is Deckart a replicant or not?”
Man, talk about projection. Freshman Social Theory is the intellectual death of the West. The movie is about what it is to be human and the author can't get past the color of their artificial epidermises. These Deep Thinkers are, after all, people who see racism in Dr. Seuss, so I suppose it shouldn't ever be surprising, but it is always disappointing.