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Some older movie recommendations for the woke-wary viewer
posted 2 years ago by ww5861 2 years ago by ww5861 +43 / -0
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– Adamrises 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

A personal favorite of mine, and one completely unalike anything on your list but still worth recommending just for the uniqueness of it:

Funny Games. Has both a German original and a nearly exact replica English remake. I'm more of a fan of the English just due to incredibly minor body language differences in the main character (cocky amusement vs cold "going through the motions" emptiness). But its a movie designed to "subvert expectations" in a way that, while still insulting, isn't doing so to push a political point but to philosophize.

As in, its a horror movie asking you "what kind of person actually enjoys this?" So it denies you everything you'd like in a horror movie like violence and gore and sex, and then asks why'd you even want that. Why you'd want to watch innocent people suffer, why'd you want to see a kid destroyed like that, why would you enjoy that?

Which makes it incredibly amusing to watch, especially with someone else. It just keeps almost playing tropes and cliches straight and then immediately subverts them just to laugh at you for expecting it. So you'll either get cucked hard and be angry, which by its theme is asking "why are you upset at this?," or get a kick out of just how anticlimatic and downright realistic it feels. Its hard to explain without straight up spoiling major scenes, but you'll just get it once its done.

But, on topic, its the least woke movie possible. Every single character is a blonde-ish upper class white person without a single bit of attention drawn to that. There are no politics, no moralizing beyond the single main theme, and just a simplicity to it that no movie in its genre has. None of the homoeroticism or moral cliches about virgins and girl power.

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– TerpenoidTester 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

If you enjoyed Funny Games you should check out Dogtooth. It is more surreal and less horror but they are oddly similar films in a ton of ways.

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– Adamrises 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

I'm not usually a fan of surreal works, due to my lack of imagination, but I'll certainly give it a look regardless.

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