Tag: Art
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The Good Place?
I don’t think I’ve talked much about The Good Place before. I don’t really have the energy to, but somehow I’m going to do it for way too long. It doesn’t reflect well on me to be so hard on what is really a fine show with some decent laughs, but I’m going to anyway.…
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Mulan 2 and duty
Here’s a super relevant topic, Mulan’s straight to video sequel! Seriously, this movie isn’t really worth talking about a lot. It was fine. Not terrible, not great. Fine. The one thing I wanted to talk about is what a perfect example it is of the conflict between Chinese and American values. As a sequel with…
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Cuties, part 2
An afterword about sexual taboos. Please skip if you’re easily offended. The topic of discussion is taboos we have already dropped and what ones we may still drop. So no matter where you are in the timeline of taboo holding or taboo rejecting, you’ll probably find something to be offended about. On a side note,…
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Cuties
The film Cuties has raised some ethical problems about popular art. One particular problem is, where do you draw the line between exposure of an issue and exploitation of an issue? It may have been the intent of the filmmaker to criticize the sexualization of children. On the other hand, she did it by showing…
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Art is not necessary
Art seems to stand as a peculiar and bizzare feature of humanity, because it is not necessary. It did not have to be. It is an act of creation, of interference in and addition to nature. When you attempt to reduce human behavior to simple, biologically deterministic routines scaled up from basic animal routines, there…
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Aladdin and modern Disney anthems
I’ve been trying to untangle what bothers me about the “I won’t be silent” song from Aladdin. I suppose a lot of it is context. The movie is a pale imitation of its predecessor, it adds almost nothing to the story and subtracts much. The title character is clearly the weakest in the whole movie.…
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On one of my life’s great disappointments
If I had to pick one of my absolute greatest disappointments in life, it was realizing that I would never be a great musician. I wanted so much to be a great singer. But by middle school my total loss of my voice and my vocal nodes ended that dream. I felt the music so…
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Art as a vision
Our art tells the story of what our culture wants to become. The art we consume tells the story of who we will become. Through art we apprehend with the imagination as the reality of beauty what the mind apprehends through cognition as the reality of truth. Knowledge is specific and defined and clear because…
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On Infinity War
There’s a lot you could say about this movie. Here’s my sort of spoiler review. It was an amazing experience, the biggest cinematic experience I’ve ever had, certainly the most emotional. It’s the ultimate comic book movie and a great end to the MCU. If I were to pick out my only tiny nitpicks, the…
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Only time is adamantine
Only time is adamantine. Only one hardest substance serves As an armor impervious To all ventures. Not a thousand years of tearing and Scratching with desperate hands serve to carve Even a single, transparent curl From the surface of one moment. Bright and fixed for eternity; Unchangeable, unreachable Before your eyes. Untouchable. My eyes search…
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