"Away From Her" - new film by Sarah Polley

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and yet the colony is just a microcosm of our own supposedly progressed society! anyway, loved this movie, like thinking about it, think the critics who accuse it of reeling off 2010s feminist twitter talking points need to log off

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 January 2023 14:48 (one year ago) link

oooh really? Who's written that?

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 January 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link

I saw it again a couple weeks ago. I still think it looks drab and has a genuine pacing problem but I admired it more.

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 January 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link

oooh really? Who's written that?

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, January 22, 2023 7:49 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://boxd.it/3tlRZD

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 January 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link

The "Twitter in 2017" jab reveals the limits of that guy's experience with how women talk. There's something heightened about the dialogue, in keeping with the film's staginess, but it didn't feel untrue to their milieu. Women have been grappling with matters of consent and harm for millennia.

jaymc, Sunday, 22 January 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link


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