Lens Flared

A blog for film and movie lovers. www.lensflared.com

[blignick]

[homopsychology]

and this is why i 1. never share my social media in professional settings and 2. only post on tumblr

[marmorada]

men be like how can I invent new ways to oust women from the workplace

[celtyradicalfem]

Men be like sex discrimination and discrimination on the basis political belief in one go

[deadmemegraveyard-blog-deactiva]

just like gender being clothes and haircuts, styles that were created by lgbs have been turned into the only way to be gay.

☹️☹️☹️

[cocainesocialist]

Striking Workers Are Bringing Back 1970s 'Mindfuck' Tactics

Trade unions are looking to the past for inspiration in how to mess with their exploitative employers.

The 23rd of January was meant to be another strike day at the Ministry of Justice. Just like the day before, an anti-strike workforce of cleaners, receptionists and security guards had been brought in to keep the building running. Early in the morning, Purma and the other strikers turned up to form a picket line. But then, all at once, they walked inside to do their jobs like normal. Rather than continuing the protest, the workers had secretly coordinated to go back to work a day early.

The unexpected non-strike meant that all the outsourced staff turned up for work and needed to get paid, and so did the anti-strike scab workforce. Someone was going to have to pay a double wage bill.

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Deliveroo and UberEats riders, however, are masters of the mindfuck. Because they’re technically self-employed, the laws on strike action and trade unions don’t apply to them. That means that the slow bureaucracy of postal ballots and turnout thresholds designed to prevent workers from taking collective action goes out the window. Instead, these workers can just do what makes sense to them. The result has been an explosion in militancy, as the platforms try to cut their workers’ already-low wages. Strikes are now breaking out every couple of weeks with little or no prior notice. They’re organised through complex networks of encrypted messenger chats which are completely invisible to platform bosses, meaning that all their standard management techniques need to be rewritten.

[firebirdeternal]

Remind them that the alternatives to them treating us fairly at the negotiating table is Open Goddamn War

[antiplondon]

[user610138]

"uhhmm actually 'keep abortion safe and legal' is an anti abortion slogan now because i said so. i am very smart."

[deforest]

LAURA BOWMAN in TEN MINUTES TO LIVE (1932) dir. Oscar Micheaux

[scullys]

On the boat coming here, they used to sing that song at me. I wasn’t as contrary as they were.

THE SECRET GARDEN (1993), dir. Agnieszka Holland.

[mmmthornton]

Go for Gold: A personal Redemption of the Biopic

Have you ever had a film experience that made you realize something about your own tastes that you hadn't understood before?

I, Tonya is such a good movie it changed my understanding of an entire film genre.

[mmmthornton]

Go for Gold: A personal Redemption of the Biopic

Have you ever had a film experience that made you realize something about your own tastes that you hadn't understood before?

I, Tonya is such a good movie it changed my understanding of an entire film genre.

[filmgifs]

Shirley (2020) dir. Josephine Decker

[mmmthornton]

My friend John made this anime which has been his dream for a while. You should check this out. John is one of the funniest, most creative people alive.

[mmmthornton]

My friend John made this anime which has been his dream for a while. You should check this out. John is one of the funniest, most creative people alive.

[speakingparts]

PARASITE - UK alternative poster art by Andrew Bannister

Bong Joon-ho, 2019

[c86]

Duane Kearns Puryear holding his own AIDS panel at ‘Display on Ellipse’ in Washington, D.C., 1989

In creating this (panel) with needle and thread, Puryear completed the most significant reidentification possible. He identified himself as dead

[foreignmovieposters]

[lensflaredofficial]

foreignmovieposters:

Fargo (1996). Japanese poster.

[mmmthornton]

I've always felt that biopics are the laziest movies because i can practically list every single scene and shot because they're so predictable and bullshit, but as I'm watching I, Tonya I'm realizing that what I hate about them iiiiss that every "great man"'s story is exactly the same but every women's story - both adapted and not (yet) - is a work of high art.

Men have a story arc and personality more than "I'm super smart and gifted clearly but my tragic flaw is I'm abusive to women 😔" Challenge.

[violadvis]

Carrie (1976) dir. Brian De Palma