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bladestain

horror & the philosophy of suffering

audition (1999) / candyman (1992) / saint maud (2019) / martyrs (2008) / hellraiser (1987)

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Shinya Tsukamoto as The Metal Fetishist — TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto

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Faye Wong Chungking Express (1994) dir. Wong Kar-Wai

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Chungking Express (1994) dir. Wong Kar-wai

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365filmsbyauroranocte

“Humanity is dreadful, didn’t they tell you?”

È stata la mano di Dio (Paolo Sorrentino, 2021)

wernerbertzog

Top 25 Favorite Films of 2021

#1: C’mon C’mon (dir. Mike Mills)

bongjoonhoe

The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook

The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Celine Sciamma

Ammonite (2020) dir. Francis Lee

beatchya

Jessica Lange in the early 70s

callese

bewareofdyke

Transcript:

James Baldwin: A cop is a cop.

Nikki Giovanni: Well, a cop is a white man. [Laughter]

Baldwin: And you know, yeah, and he may be a very nice man, but I haven't got time to figure that out. All I know is he has a uniform and a gun, you know, and I have to relate to him that way, you know. That's the only way to relate to him, at all. Because one of us is gonna--One of us may have to die.

Giovanni: You know, in New York, there's a big campaign going on to humanize the, uh, policemen. And they have posterboards--uh, billboards up state, and they have a picture of this BIG cop bending over this little blonde girl, and the signs say "a nd some people call him pig." And I wanted to buy--I told a friend of mine I wanted to buy a billboard and show this big cop and this 14 year old kid with thirty bullets in him, and say "and some people call him peacemaker."

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Also, from the tweet linked in the notes I found this article on the above conversation, which gives context and includes a link to the full video.