I am so insanely curious what it must feel like to be Curry Barker right now - watching the entire Internet have essentially a mass delusion event where they imagine that you made a much richer and more thoughtful movie than the one you actually made. It seems terrifying honestly
One funny twist on the whole “Donald Trump being president has driven liberals insane 😏 thing is that Donald Trump being president has also clearly driven Donald Trump insane
Trump has a new side project: counting the number of trees in a public park across the street from the White House.
He wants Lafayette Square to feature 47 trees — to match his 47th presidency, per people familiar.
with @jakespring
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Is the real answer to this not obviously Christgau?? Was I mislead just because he had his own website with reviews of basically every album ever made when I was in high school?
@RepealTCPA1947@TrueSlazac Not really true. DOGE’s main conceit was:
1. liberals waste huge amounts of state resources on DEI/NGO frivolity
2. The problem is so acute that even people who knew nothing else about governance could improve outcomes merely by cutting most/all of it.
Not very technocratic
@maddiewhittle@Keiracoven@wherebadkidsgo_ Sometimes it’s even a BETTER sign when a movie’s politics are messy and not perfectly & defensibly progressive imo. Most real people do not map very precisely onto established talking points, so it’s often a choice between a nuanced, human movie and one with perfect politics!
@maddiewhittle@Keiracoven@wherebadkidsgo_ My least favorite part of Twitter film discourse is how often ppl conflate “this movie openly tells you its politics, and they’re good politics!” with “this movie is an insightful and precisely observed exploration of the dynamics it’s depicting.”
@rohinmishra@maddiewhittle@Keiracoven@wherebadkidsgo_ My secret thesis here is that the sudden increase in writer-director movies has absolutely cratered the standards for screenwriting. SO many movies today feel like a first draft written by a first-time writer with little life experience (and often are!)
@rohinmishra@maddiewhittle@Keiracoven@wherebadkidsgo_ A movie can both be about a man stripping away a woman’s autonomy, and still have extremely obvious blind spots about women’s internal experience and how they navigate the world. It’s fair to complain about the latter, even if a movie also has the former
Critical take from Israel's Foreign Ministry on my column about sexual assaults of Palestinian men, women and children. You can read my piece here through a gift link: https://t.co/SL0oxguNmi