Movies Without Manipulation
Posted by freedomforall 2 weeks ago to Movies
Excerpt:
"At some point in this century, I began to watch movies with grave trepidation. There is a good chance that somewhere in whatever film, the moment would come when the producer would send some strange political message with a barely guarded attack on some fundamental tenet of bourgeois society. They began eschewing art for hectoring.
A poster of the movie “Snow White” (2025). Walt Disney Pictures
We watch movies by choice. We pay to see them mostly. Why should we do this if the point of the movie is to sneakily attack core values and preach some strange woke creed? Stung too many times, I’m far more careful to avoid anything that seems coded with a political purpose in mind. Life is too short.
...
Good movies might make a comeback—and perhaps that is happening now—but if you are like me, I wait until the reviews are out and eschew anything coded left simply because I don’t want to pay to be insulted."
================================
I don’t want to pay to be insulted.
Don't do business with your enemies.
Hollywood is an enemy of individual liberty.
"At some point in this century, I began to watch movies with grave trepidation. There is a good chance that somewhere in whatever film, the moment would come when the producer would send some strange political message with a barely guarded attack on some fundamental tenet of bourgeois society. They began eschewing art for hectoring.
A poster of the movie “Snow White” (2025). Walt Disney Pictures
We watch movies by choice. We pay to see them mostly. Why should we do this if the point of the movie is to sneakily attack core values and preach some strange woke creed? Stung too many times, I’m far more careful to avoid anything that seems coded with a political purpose in mind. Life is too short.
...
Good movies might make a comeback—and perhaps that is happening now—but if you are like me, I wait until the reviews are out and eschew anything coded left simply because I don’t want to pay to be insulted."
================================
I don’t want to pay to be insulted.
Don't do business with your enemies.
Hollywood is an enemy of individual liberty.
It took AS to get me into a theater even then.
I hadn't gone to a theater more than a handful of times in this century prior to that.
Reading fiction again became my escape around '96 and it still is.
The serialization was a woke-fest. They canceled it after 2 seasons, either that or it died of disinterest.
I read to escape reality, not to have some Leftist hatemonger opinionate about the inhumanity of the straight white male in my face.
The Alchemist
Novel by Paulo Coelho. Thanks FFA