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It's an amazing film. It's not being nominated for Best Picture is bizarre. It's acting, dialogue, cinematography, score, and general pacing are outstanding.
Except perverts.
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tolerate - allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one does not necessarily like or agree with) without interference.
Exactly what I thought.
accept - believe or come to recognize (an opinion, explanation, etc.) as valid or correct
Also exactly what I thought.
What I said is right. I tolerate bugs. I accept people. Yes, you tolerate LGBTQ folks. You don't accept them. You're a dinosaur with an archaic, backwards way of thinking. That you don't want to police their actions is positive, but that you're so bothered by their existence is a problem.
I tolerate bugs. I accept people. You don’t.
Classic. I’m intolerant and ignorant because I reject your rejection of LGBTQ persons living their lives. I’m the asshole. The guy who doesn’t police other people. The person disgusted by people living polyamorous lifestyles is the tolerant, open-minded one and I’m the dick for being supportive of people who live differently than I do and frustrated with those who don’t.
It’s nice of you to police people’s relationships.
You are a homphobe and a bigot. Comparing LGBTQ folks to serial killers = textbook homophobia.
They had no idea what HIV was, first of all, but expressing one’s sexuality was a way to take back some semblance of power in a repressive world that rejected them for who they were. But ultimately it’s normal to act on one’s desires.
Had the young person been a woman, would you have been equally disgusted?
Being gay is a bad habit?
I desperately hope not. I hate to see anybody 0-7, especially at 71 years old--I still feed sad Peter O'Toole died 0-8--but she didn't deliver the year's best performance by an actress. Lady Gaga or Olivia Colman did (it's hard to say who, but one of them did).
Lady Gaga was absolutely mesmerizing as Ally. She was so completely emotionally available and so, so real. She's so incredibly likable and pleasant, traits that are often the marks of somebody being played by an actor/actress who has a lot of star power whose charm and charisma are theirs and not the character's, but with Ally are the result of being played by somebody so real that we feel for her and root for her because we feel we know her.
Olivia Colman is simply incredible in a very eccentric, very big, very difficult role. Interestingly, in a film with an incredible screenplay, in which well deserved Oscar nominees Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone undoubtedly benefit from great dialogue, Colman had comparatively fewer brilliant lines, and breathed life into this character with her screams and shouts. Her face was usually all that was needed to know how she felt.
Glenn Close's performance doesn't compare to either of these. It doesn't compare to Melissa McCarthy's. She is the best part of The Wife, but it's a bad movie, probably because of a predictable, formulaic screenplay. A Glenn Close win would be like Meryl Streep's for The Iron Lady. Viola Davis clearly deserved that Oscar and Streep won because she'd lost 16 Oscars over the course of 28 years.
Thank you!
Yes. It was wrong.
Have you seen it yet? It’s amazing. It’s another beautiful, wonderful film by Barry Jenkins in which he was in complete control of a very clear vision and perfectly realized it.
This is an excellent post.
I do believe she wanted some sort of adventure before dying and I've always wondered if she saw herself as, or least saw the opportunity to however briefly be, a mentor and teacher in introducing them to this part of adulthood. Of course they'd already "been introduced," but she didn't necessarily know that, and even if she had, she could have thought being with a woman was different from being with a girl and that that was an experience she could provide.
It does seem their relationship was ruined because of their kiss, but that's not necessarily her fault. It was their own insecurity that made them too uncomfortable to continue their friendship. I think their polarized socio-economic backgrounds was going to bring the friendship to an end soon anyway and that this kiss was a bit of a catalyst.
I agree 100%. I wanted to love this movie, being a fan of Cuarón, but there not being a single, concise plot and there being 0 close-ups kept me from ever being pulled in. The close-ups are the main problem for me. It is interesting how needed close-ups are when it comes to pulling a viewer into a character's world. I think the actors did a great job but I feel that I didn't see what a great job they did because everything was shot so wide. Ultimately, it felt like 2 1/4 hours of brilliant cinematography and not too much more.
I don't agree with your 2, I just watched it last night and I'm leaning toward a 7, but I agree wholeheartedly that it was beautifully shot but that that alone does not make a movie good. I feel Mid90's an overall better film than Roma because it let us into its characters' lives which I feel Roma really didn't.
I have a couple of questions and I hope we can be civil because they come from a place of true curiosity.
1. Do you consider any of the following race baiting? 12 Years a Slave, Django Unchained, Schindler's List, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, In The Fade, The Color Purple, In the Heat of the Night, Boyz N The Hood, Fruitvale Station.
2. Generally, how do you define race baiting?
3. When you think about Millennials, are you thinking about high school and college students or 22-37 year-olds?