æʃliŋ, purrepurrocessor @aescling@cat.family

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Men (2022) is a movie where men can have pussies and women dicks

for the curious: 5,000 videos

it is no longer pawsible for me to add videos to my watch later playlist. youtube tells me i’ve reached the maximum playlist size

author seems anti-Communist but i still find [their] history of the ideas leading up to the Manifesto useful, even if only really for its own sake

the penguin classics edition of The Communist Manifesto is very well worth it for the preface alone

It never seemes to have occurred to [Marx] that people are complex beings with different talents, ambitions, and desires. It may be more accurate to say he didn’t care!”

Most people work best when they pursue their own self-interest, an idea Marx despised.

btw all the men in this movie who are not her husband are played by the same actor so this film is REALLY inviting reading them as parts of some whole

twin thinks the very long mpreg birthing sequence is meant to depict the way toxic masculinity constantly keeps reproducing itself, creating hurt people who go on to hurt others; he read something to the effect of empathy in the way Harper looked at her husband at the end

my first guess is that all the men in this film are meant to be understood as different aspects of the way her guilt* over her husband’s suicide is haunting her; at the end they are gradually morphed together into one, and then take the shape of her husband as he looked when he looked himself. so i mean.

* undeserved, but it is not exactly the case that trauma is rational

anyway i’m rewatching the folding ideas video on annihilation again because i learned, after watching men, that it has the same writer-director

btw i should probably watch annihilation sometime

anyway by serious content warnings i mean it’s doing a lot with suicide, depicted quite explicitly, and a very blatant sexual assault, just right there, on screen

so like
yeah

also there is a very self-indulgent pun on wasps that i have no idea why it was there but i appreciated

there’s some fucking excellent body horror in this one

it’s probably good i just wish i’d understood what it’s doing

i did not understand Men (2022)

also btw for those curious about it, serious content warnings on that one, ny’all

maybe if i’m gonna be resting my forepaws and thus avoiding video’d game and typing and such i should just, read through all those socialist magazines i haven’t gotten to yet or something lol