This movie takes place in 2002 despite the incredibly 2022 setting. Nobody acts like 9/11 just happened. Not even the adults. Nobody is sad or paranoid. Nobody tackles or tazes the psycho mother during the scene where she gets onto school grounds without permission to give her 13 year old daughter her tampon pads.
The movie tries to make the mother look insane and unreasonable because she does not approve of child twerking or prostitution.
Then why set it in 2002? Why deliberately choose that year when you know you’re not going to honor the setting?
Lemme guess: one of the female writers is self-inserting and can’t fathom changing the year because that’s when she was the same age as the protagonist.
Lemme guess: one of the female writers is self-inserting and can’t fathom changing the year because that’s when she was the same age as the protagonist.
Those hacks don't know how to write a good movie so they pick their own IRL history(or how they'd want it: herstory barf ) to write something they pretend is so deep and talks about so much when it in fact is mostly about periods. Amy Schumer would be proud(and probably already stole some of it for her """"comedy"""").
they still want kids to relate to it to want to watch it
Yes, I want kids to relate to someone who effectively creates fucking cheese pizza to get money. Or were they hoping kids go "haha I own a cellphone too!"?
It's a forced meme among the left. Some guy (Mr. Enter, whoever that is) said that the movie doesn't address 9/11, so now the NPCs are forcing themselves to pretend that the right wing is mad that the movie wasn't based solely around 9/11.
Here was his deranged alt-right rant:
This film takes place less than a year after the September 11 terrorist attacks. I bring this up because it radically altered the culture of the time in ways that make this movie feel exceptionally ignorant of the time.
Yes, that's the entire thing.
He's not entirely wrong. It's all people on this continent were talking about for years to come. It would be a little weird for a kid's movie to address it, but this isn't a kid's movie. It's a movie for thirtysomething Asian women disguised as a children's movie.
I remember a lot of comments about people saying "well, in reality, 9/11 wasn't that important to kids in Canada". I don't understand why people suddenly care about "accuracy to reality" when the movie itself threw it away to give every single preteen a fucking cellphone.
I genuinely had no idea it was supposed to take place in 2002 until after I watched it and read the Wikipedia article. The only real hint is that the kids all had candy bar and flip phones rather than smart phones, and that the main character had a Tamagotchi, but both of those things are still sold in exactly the same form as in the movie, and the idea of a bunch of 13 year olds not being given expensive smartphones was just taken for granted by me.
They didn't actually reference anything that happened in the early 2000s. The only way you'd ever know is if you paid really close attention and connected all the vague one-shot references together.
Canadian kids most certainly were not running around with flip phones in the early 2000s like scandavian kids with their cheap Nokias in the 90s, because cell phone service was fucking EXHORBITANT at the time, and if they did have one, it'd be a pay-as-you-go. Canada was WAY behind the rest of the world in making cell phone service reasonably affordable, and I'm quite sure that was well after 2002.
And yeah, 9/11 WAS important for Canadians and their kids, it was all over the news here, too, and for sure they talked about it in schools as endlessly as everywhere else. Not to mention the fact that people from everfuckingwhere worked in those buildings.
And this is why totalitarianism is coming to the West, btw. The younger generations have never been NOT under constant surveillance. Thanks, cell phones.
Everyone except some 11-13 year old tween who got her first period in 2002. The rest of us might have been talking about 9/11, terrorism and Afghanistan, a tween-teen girl probably wasn't.
This movie takes place in 2002 despite the incredibly 2022 setting. Nobody acts like 9/11 just happened. Not even the adults. Nobody is sad or paranoid. Nobody tackles or tazes the psycho mother during the scene where she gets onto school grounds without permission to give her 13 year old daughter her tampon pads.
The movie tries to make the mother look insane and unreasonable because she does not approve of child twerking or prostitution.
It takes place I'm 2002, but they still want kids to relate to it to want to watch it. Compromises needed to be made.
Then why set it in 2002? Why deliberately choose that year when you know you’re not going to honor the setting?
Lemme guess: one of the female writers is self-inserting and can’t fathom changing the year because that’s when she was the same age as the protagonist.
Winner winner chicken dinner!
Like, what else could it be?
Those hacks don't know how to write a good movie so they pick their own IRL history(or how they'd want it: herstory barf ) to write something they pretend is so deep and talks about so much when it in fact is mostly about periods. Amy Schumer would be proud(and probably already stole some of it for her """"comedy"""").
It is based on the film director's experience. She is Asian from Canada.
Yes, I want kids to relate to someone who effectively creates fucking cheese pizza to get money. Or were they hoping kids go "haha I own a cellphone too!"?
They were hoping to plant the idea that kids can get money for taking pictures of themselves.
"It takes place in 300 B.C., but they still want car enthusiasts to relate to it, so Caesar has a Camaro S.S. with a 450".
Is a hell of a take.
That's a bit of a stretch. This movie's target audience is clearly young. I reason still stands.
off topic: I kinda wish we had more films based in Ancient Rome. Feels like a missed opportunity.
It's a forced meme among the left. Some guy (Mr. Enter, whoever that is) said that the movie doesn't address 9/11, so now the NPCs are forcing themselves to pretend that the right wing is mad that the movie wasn't based solely around 9/11.
Here was his deranged alt-right rant:
Yes, that's the entire thing.
He's not entirely wrong. It's all people on this continent were talking about for years to come. It would be a little weird for a kid's movie to address it, but this isn't a kid's movie. It's a movie for thirtysomething Asian women disguised as a children's movie.
I remember a lot of comments about people saying "well, in reality, 9/11 wasn't that important to kids in Canada". I don't understand why people suddenly care about "accuracy to reality" when the movie itself threw it away to give every single preteen a fucking cellphone.
Yes it was. Everything that happens in the US happens in Canada 6 months later.
We went with you guys into Afghanistan because of 9/11; we didn't even go to Vietnam.
I genuinely had no idea it was supposed to take place in 2002 until after I watched it and read the Wikipedia article. The only real hint is that the kids all had candy bar and flip phones rather than smart phones, and that the main character had a Tamagotchi, but both of those things are still sold in exactly the same form as in the movie, and the idea of a bunch of 13 year olds not being given expensive smartphones was just taken for granted by me.
They didn't actually reference anything that happened in the early 2000s. The only way you'd ever know is if you paid really close attention and connected all the vague one-shot references together.
Canadian kids most certainly were not running around with flip phones in the early 2000s like scandavian kids with their cheap Nokias in the 90s, because cell phone service was fucking EXHORBITANT at the time, and if they did have one, it'd be a pay-as-you-go. Canada was WAY behind the rest of the world in making cell phone service reasonably affordable, and I'm quite sure that was well after 2002.
And yeah, 9/11 WAS important for Canadians and their kids, it was all over the news here, too, and for sure they talked about it in schools as endlessly as everywhere else. Not to mention the fact that people from everfuckingwhere worked in those buildings.
And this is why totalitarianism is coming to the West, btw. The younger generations have never been NOT under constant surveillance. Thanks, cell phones.
Everyone except some 11-13 year old tween who got her first period in 2002. The rest of us might have been talking about 9/11, terrorism and Afghanistan, a tween-teen girl probably wasn't.
The 13 year old girl might not know what 9/11 is but all adults in that movie act like it never happened.
But shes a self insert from someone who was a teen just after 9/11, hence its ignored because she ignored it at the time.
I think Mr. Enter just lives rent free in the heads of people who hate him.