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SEX AND THE CITY — 3.13

mercblues

a car you used to drive can also be a kind of dead wife

mercblues

a selection of dead wives from the tags

#god my beautiful 2003 Honda pilot I put like 300k miles on… baby come home I miss u

sophie edell

by Enoki Toshiyuki

snoopy of the day

weird animal flipbooks i made

girlnumbers

how it feels to not gives a fuck or shit

Discussed I love boosters over mimosas and I stand by my original take which I didn’t feel like posting last night…. Really excellent movie in terms of story etc BUT when it takes that didactic turn at the end it falls flat because it gets on a soap box about dialectical materialism and then doesn’t make a materialist movie. You can’t talk about contradictions and this and that and then think that turning up the contradictions on something magically creates a general strike. This is what Lenin was always writing about, it’s not enough for contradictions to sharpen there need to be people who see what’s happening and do something with those contradictions. Spontaneity and organization are in a dialectic with eachother.

And so it’s a little silly for there to be this long drawn out focus on dialectical materialism, and then introduce the deus ex machina contradiction/spontaneity device. Which I really wouldn’t care about EXCEPT you did a whole turn-to-camera-to-explain-dialectics bit. And had Eiza Gonzalez try to convince the main characters to unionize multiple times and they turn her down over and over (very weird to me that wasn’t ever fully addressed, came off a little off putting in the context of the political message tbh)? And the workers in china kind of give up unionizing in order to do adventurism (another Lenin moment)?

Also I’m more pro china than the average Joe so I get why china didn’t get the most flattering portrayal in this movie, but we had time for the sex pest plot line but not even a passing mention for any kind of nuance around how workers might be treated in the us by the biggest socialist state in the world?? Everyone remember rn that the vast majority of people in China own their homes?

Again really excellent movie and I wouldn’t normally care that much about it being kind of radlib EXCEPT it went out of its way to paint itself as a Communist™️ movie and then kind of dismisses the actual work of unionizing in favor of left accelerationist theories of change?

#all love to everyone involved ik it’s not that deep