every once in a while i remember what the japanese imperial army did to east/southeast asia and the war crimes and atrocities and what happened to my own family and how the government still has not apologized or paid reparations and actually still glorifies that period in their history and how it's difficult to even discuss any of this because white americans used this as an excuse to be extremely racist and commit even worst atrocities against japanese civilians in retaliation for pearl harbour and also just because they don't see people of colour as human beings point blank so trying to discuss japanese war crimes is hard bc westerners don't know how to act right about it so i always have to emphasize that they didn't deserve the nuclear bombs and american war crimes or for ppl of japanese descent to be placed in western internment camps just to preface any discussion of how the japanese imperial army beheaded my family members and hung their bodies in the streets and kept their turbans as trophies and never apologized for it bc the experience and power dynamics between asians in asia during the war are not the same as the experiences and power dynamic of white americans nuking civilians in an asian country that was already surrendering. and then i get so mad i have to go lie down lol
Dandelion if he was Mongolian don't ask me why but I love his dramatic little ass so here he is in all his glory with a grumpy geralt in the back, waiting for this to be over so they can leave
really tho, it would be so cool to see more series based on different cultures and folklore. there's so many good ones out there!
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sooooo.. I may or may not be seeing Andrew Wincott tomorrow at a meet & greet... and I may or may not have spent the last hour drawing Raphael for him.....
maybe i’ll do another one later because there’s a lot to this film
I watched Dinner in America, and a lot of people seem confused about the "uncalled for" racism in the movie’s opening scene. However, I think some are missing the point. Every single character in the film is a caricature. We focus so much on how weird the main characters are that we forget to analyze the behavior of the background characters and see the bigger picture.
The film satirizes the American Dream and people trapping themselves in a system. All the families depicted are different stereotypes of white middle-class American families from the 1960s and 70s. The first family, for example, is a joke about the stereotype of a racist, football-loving dad, a clueless jock son, and a mother who stirs up drama to distract herself from her shallow and boring life.
To understand this, we need to reconstruct the idea of the American Dream as the film portrays it—a Christian family that’s strict, “normal,” and ironically, only "normal" from the perspective of the American Dream. The film reveals how absurdly flawed this "normal" is. Even the bullies fit this stereotype, perfectly embodying a version of small-town American life that feels trapped in caricature. Most of the characters are so isolated within the confines of this "American Dream" that they don’t know anything beyond what they’ve been spoon-fed about being "good Americans" (like when Patty’s mom asks her dad if he knows what a rave is).
Naturally, within this limited worldview, their behavior is racist, ableist, close-minded, and fearful of anything new. The movie mocks this system, the propaganda that forces people into a box, living a false dream of being “normal.” The main characters are the opposite of that. One actively rejects being liked by people stuck in the system, while the other physically can’t fit in, even if she wants to.
The whole meaning of the movie is captured in its soundtrack, “fuck everybody else but us.” If you live for others, afraid of being judged, you’ll end up living a boring, joyless life, where you’ll only have time to judge others.
Overall, I LOVED the movie. I think it was more of a statement in itself, though the filmmaking lacks some details that could have been added, like working more on storytelling through objects and other subtle elements. However, it delivers well enough when it needs to.
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