Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts

Sunday, 12 February 2017

Charlotte Rampling
(2016)


Inside every White person, Hitler yearns to breathe free

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

The struggle between the autonomous few and the non‑autonomous many – is only beginning.[1]

T he Academy Awards of Merit (Oscars) are a classic case of the self‑fulfilling prophecy of White supremacy, since there are no years when White people are not nominated for Oscars – an economic advantage White actors rarely renounce and from which Black ones can rarely benefit.

Unforgivable Blackness

In a sense, Blacks have little fear of being judged by their skin color for Caucasian awards, since it is so very difficult for them to win such awards from Whites – in the first place. Socially‑controlling Whites require that People Of Color (POC) always be at their best, because Whites will never give them more than one chance; while Whites offer themselves at least two, so are incentivized to be lazy, mediocre & entitled. Therefore, since Political Correctness is designed to favor such Whites, anything Black people win from them must be the result of a talent that not even Whites can deny – no matter how hard White people usually try.

Rampling’s claim that Black actors are somehow not as good as Whites proves she is perfectly happy to accept the fact that of the 3,048 Oscars awarded from 1929 to 2016, only 32 were won by Black people – implying Whites are 95.25 times more merit‑worthy than Blacks. It is White supremacist to assume that the reason for this is anything other than White supremacy, since there is no scientifically‑objective evidence that Whites are more talented than Blacks.

Caucasian Political Correctness

Rampling’s rant is the unassuagable White guilt that comes from being born into a racist culture and of benefiting from the unearned advantages that constantly‑threatening other people’s lives offers Whites. This induces the White desperation of claiming the existence of Black racism (whenever Black people attack White supremacy) as a simple way (Whites think) of evading the existential agonies of White guilt – an evidence‑free White paranoia that also suggests Hitler’s behavior actually was a self‑defensive response to the (non‑existent) predations of European Jewry. Simultaneously, the non‑existence of Black supremacy reveals Whites possess a reckless disregard for the facts‑of‑reality, which is also a tacit admission of just how racist Whites are and wish to remain.

Institutional cheating

The big problem for White actors, of course, is that if their awards were won because they were White (rather than talented), they would then have to face the ego‑deflating news that it is Whites who are the most undeserving of Oscars – not Black people.

It is an unpalatable fact for Whites that every award given to a White person in a White supremacist culture is automatically‑undermined and tainted by that very White supremacy. Their knowledge that they do not have to work as hard as everyone else to achieve the admiration of their peers, makes Whites lazy‑enough not to deserve the awards they get; meaning that these awards must be being awarded to them on the basis of skin pigmentation, rather than talent, skill or ability.

White supremacy at the Oscars has the same effect as drug-taking in sports – it is cheating‑to‑win; making Whites no better than athletes like Lance Armstrong (the three White exceptions being Dudley Nichols, George C. Scott & especially Marlon Brando). What Charlotte RAMPLING is really saying, of course, is that without White supremacy she would not have had such a good acting career.

Rampling conveniently‑ignores the fact that because Western culture is institutionally racist, actors‑of‑color have fewer opportunities to display their acting talent. But La Rampling – being White – lacks empathy, since the obvious fact of Institutional‑Racism means less competition for her acting roles and fewer actors better than she clearly being seen to be better. Actors‑of‑color thus get less opportunities to become the bankable stars whom, Whites claim, do not exist – a classically‑racist self‑fulfilling prophecy.

Negative Racial‑Stereotyping

White people fear that Black people are better actors because Blacks live richer emotional lives; thus being able to reflect and represent more varieties of human experience in their performances. This subverts the self‑fulfilling White tendency to treat Black talent as invisible, in order to make White talent seem so much better by implying Whites face no real competition from anyone else, since Whites wish to be seen as the self‑evident Master race that their racism clearly reveals they are not.

Every admission that a Black actor is better than a White one (& each year their can only be one Best, of either gender) knocks Whites off their racial pedestal – a blow to the ego from which they may never recover; explaining why so few such coups are ever offered Blacks. (Whites would prefer separate actor categories for Best Black Actor & Best (White) Actor, but that would make the Oscars’ racism (& its racist tokenism) even more obvious – as does the fact that most years two movies win for best film: One English-language; the other Foreign; ensuring that at least one White film wins every year.)

Caucasian Talentlessness

Rampling even bizarrely implies that White culture is a meritocracy – without any evidence; proving her to be a paranoid/schizophrenic with White delusions of Grandeur. This is the usual White attempt to maintain the benefits of White supremacy, while vainly‑refusing to accept the most‑appropriate label for such behavior: Racist. Yet, one cannot call such Whites anything else, stuck as they are in the angry vicious‑cycle of continually being reminded of their talentless claims of ethnic greatness.

Clearly, Rampling has relied more on her skin color in her career than upon any actual talent that she may – or may not – possess. Whites like her fear that if more Black people judged Oscars, less Whites would win; something that would make Rampling even more vocal about her inbred racial‑resentment. (Would she have the courage to say that because most Miss Worlds have been White, that this is because Black women are ugly?) Ultimately, a woman like Charlotte Rampling need never fear women losing‑out at racist awards like the Oscars, because a woman will always (& can only) win Best Actress; a gender quota that only applies to the four acting categories (Best Actor in a Leading Role; Best Actor in a Supporting Role; Best Actress in a Leading Role; Best Actress in a Supporting Role): An attempt to automatically forestall claims of White sexism in the Academy (there is, for example, no Oscar for Best Female Director). If only one actor won for their acting every year, you can be certain that if it were mostly male actors, she would be the first to label the Academy sexist. (It is also the case that nearly all acting Oscars are given to English‑language performances – only three such prizes for foreign language performances having ever been awarded; further demonstrating the rigged game the Academy plays with its prizes.)

Meritocracy for Whites

Whites know perfectly‑well that their culture is not fundamentally‑meritocratic, yet continue to accept awards knowing these have no necessary relationship to actual White ability, talent or skill. They refuse to openly‑admit that this is the case, so act (& it is all about acting) as if such awards were the inevitable reward for genuine, unaided adult achievement – when they are little more than examples of Whites re‑affirming the racist bonds that bind them to one another: Tokens of acceptance and approval that are sometimes given to POC in the vain hope that no‑one will realize that they are little more than rewards for agreeing to be racist.

When all other arguments fail to convince POC (& Whites, themselves) that their mutual backslapping is anything more than just another form of apartheid, Whites give‑up pretending to be meritocrats; falling back to their default position: Open White supremacy. Whites have to cheat to achieve anything at all in comparison to others, otherwise their other‑directed sense of identity (endless rigged benchmarking tests) can never form, since they are too lazy to develop a self‑directed identity, and certainly too idle to evolve an autonomous one based on what they discover using their own inner gyroscope[1][2]. This is what makes White laziness as institutionalized as White supremacy.

White Culture

All of this makes White people accessories to racism; additionally‑proving that they believe in White supremacy as the ideal social construction, since it gives Whites the ability to be slothful – at someone else’s expense. There is, after all, no need to hone any aptitude one possesses to its full flowering, if skin color is the basis of success, instead of talent. Whites substitute the need to develop talent with the unsubstantiated belief that they are born with the highest degree of automatic talent: In the diseased minds of White people, actual hard work is never required.

Thus, Whites have nothing else to rely upon as a guide‑to‑living or to tell them whom they are – or might be – and this is at the root of White existential pain. The cultural values that define Whites are the very ones that keep them deprived of self-respect and self-knowledge; meaning that no White actor can ever claim to be the best actor – they can only claim to be the best White one. And the fact that an Oscar is always awarded in every category – no matter the quality of that year’s recipients – means Whites will continue to award Oscars to their fellow Whites – no matter their quality.

Few Whites ever learn whether or not they achieve partly, mostly or entirely because they are White, because few are ever truly‑independent of their ingrained need for the cradle‑to‑grave social‑welfare insurance (White supremacy) that is granted them for simply turning a blind‑eye to the talents of those others allegedly not so well‑born.

Because it is clear Whites like Charlotte Rampling are going to open their stupid mouths and pontificate upon issues they do not, do not wish‑to nor ever could understand, either Whites create separate Oscars for separate ethnicities, or the other ethnicities create their own Oscars.

Thursday, 28 May 2015

Older than America

Also Known As:
Older than America
Year:
2008
Country:
United States…
Predominant Genre:
Drama
Director:
Georgina Lightning…
Outstanding Performances:
Entire Cast…
Premiss:
Woman’s haunting visions reveal a plot to silence her mother from speaking the truth about the atrocities that took place at her boarding school.
Themes:
Alienation
Christianity
Coming-of-age
Compassion
Corporate Power
Courage
Curative
Destiny
Emotional repression
Empathy
Erotophobia
Ethnicity
Family
Friendship
Genocide
Grieving
Gynophobia
Identity
Individualism
Justice
Loneliness
Love
Loyalty
Materialism
Narcissism
Nationality
Nostalgia
Personal
Political
Political Correctness
Preventive
Republicanism
Sadomasochism
Schizophrenia
Sexual Repression
Snobbery
Solipsism
The State
Stereotyping
White culture
White guilt
White supremacy
Similar to:
Candyman
Poltergeist II
Review Format:
DVD

Evil that White Men Do

Kill the Indian; Save the Man

Summary: Horrorific Psychological Affects of White Supremacy on Victims and Victimizers: The Genocide that Never Appears in White History Books.

Clever horror-movie-that-isn’t-really-a-horror-movie about White supremacy where the abused ghosts of the past return to haunt the present. These ghosts are both the underlying progenitors of ones culture and the traumatized dead who refuse to let the living alone until they are properly laid to rest; making the horror format an ideal vehicle for this story of the return of the repressed.

The depiction of Whites here is spot-on in revealing them to be people who instinctively-believe themselves superior to People of Color POC - in both overt and covert ways such as condescension and the belief Indian land can be exploited without permission, respectively. The irrational selfishness and lack of human warmth is palpable and profoundly-accurate and a perfect analogy to the leech-like nature of Whites within the context of a horror movie.

Whites here are especially affectionless and emotionally-blackmailing as regards other Whites who possess empathic human emotions; expressing the price Whites are expected to pay if they wish to grow to affective maturity: Social ostracism from other Whites.

White attempts to brainwash Native-Americans into believing White is best is shown via so-called Indian Schools whose sole purpose was to destroy Indian culture and history by separating children from parents and brainwashing them into becoming red-skinned Caucasians - or literally kill them. All this to suppress the White guilt feelings concerning the genocide, rape and looting so prevalent in the White sense of who they are: As if Whites are the landlords of the world to whom everyone else must pay rent. (One wonders if Whites invented ECT precisely for the purpose of committing emotional murder of undesirables in the guise of science: A demented desire to forestall revenge for past abuse by neutralizing the source of the potential threat. That such behavior proves White guilt is lost on Whites.)

Needless to say, all this is ably-supported by the usual Christian backing for genocide that made Christianity the global political force it is today; enabling the White Christians (people who do not believe in god so much as believe they are god) to patronize the Indians foolish enough to believe in a White Jesus who hates Red culture: Collaborators in claiming POC are paranoid schizophrenic savages. Whites definition of civilization is to call others savage and then murder, sexually assault and use them in medical experiments.

The film falters in trying to encapsulate all Native-American experience into a simplistic genre format like a horror movie (there is enough material here for half-a-dozen movies) but it proudly wears its ethnic identity on its sleeve to present both a convincing horror movie and a searing indictment of endemic Caucasian injustice; while creating reasonable characterizations.

A perfect dramatic argument against racial integration or assimilation and a savage indictment of the physical abuse, emotional violence and barely-suppressed anger inherent in Christianity as it is actually practiced - as well as of White psychiatry and its desire to pathogise anyone not White. Facing-up-to the ghosts depicted here keeps us grounded and far less prone to the self-delusion and lack of cultural rootedness arising from unresolved issues that is so common among Whites.


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Tuesday, 26 May 2015

Novecento (1976)

Also Known As:
[Twentieth Century]; 1900
Version:
Language:
English
Length:
302 minutes
Review Format:
DVD
Year:
1976
Countries:
France…
Italy…
West Germany…
Predominant Genre:
Drama
Director:
Bernardo BERTOLUCCI…
Outstanding Performances:
Laura BETTI…
Robert DE NIRO…
Gérard DEPARDIEU…
Sterling HAYDEN…
Burt LANCASTER…
Dominique SANDA…
Stefania SANDRELLI…
Romolo VALLI…
Premiss:
The lives and interactions of two men: One born of peasant stock; the other to a land owner.
Themes:
Alienation
Atheism
Christianity
Coming-of-age
Compassion
Communism
Corporate Power
Courage
Destiny
Emotional repression
Empathy
Family
Friendship
Grieving
Identity
Individualism
Justice
Loneliness
Love
Loyalty
Materialism
Narcissism
Nature
Nostalgia
Personal
Personal change
Political
Political Correctness
Republicanism
Sadomasochism
Schizophrenia
Sex
Sexual Repression
Social class
Society
Snobbery
Solipsism
The State
Stereotyping
Totalitarianism
White culture
Similar to:
Gattopardo

The Poor You Will Always Have With You

Summary: Five hours of Marxism for kids - yet riveting.

Ravishing to look at and superbly-acted Socialist epic, but the well-tuned operatic performances and fine music cannot completely conceal the disjointed, agitprop nature of the endeavor.

Here, Fascism is at the core of Aristocracy and inevitably produces the nationalist wars which serve as distractions from internal political-strife as well as being culls of the poor whenever there is economic hardship and too many mouths to feed. This is perfectly-captured by an abrupt change in dramatic tone from bucolic sentimentality to agrarian realism after Mussolini rises to power in Italy and sets in motion temporarily-insane political changes. Yet over-simplified politics and some inaccuracy in its portrayal of the reasons for the rise of Fascism make this a weak anti-fascist movie.

Rich landowners are presented as solely-responsible for sponsoring Fascism. Keen to maintain feudalism, they encourage and turn blind eyes to the violence of the Blackshirts: A well-depicted, morally-decadent  aristocracy somewhat out of touch with reality. Yet, for Fascism to spread, it must have possessed some kind of psychological attraction for the common people, too. Mussolini was not a member of the social elite, but he could speak to the crowds in their own language; more accurately explaining his general popularity.

The usual sexual repression & resultant perversion, well-evidenced in all White cultures, becomes the simplistic explanation for so much that happens here that one begins to wonder if Whites are totally sex-obsessed. Either that or they just do not know any better. The big failing of this movie lies in its characters being brilliantly-acted but under-written ciphers whose rather dull personal neuroses eclipse the political drama unfolding so beautifully before our eyes.


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