War is peace.
Slavery is freedom.
Media is social.

I'm really, really, really hoping this is a joke.

Of course, if you're looking with only one eye, it's going to look like there's a justification for the cut in human visual perception.  But if you look with two eyes, unless you move your head at whiplash-inducing speed, you'll see the stuff in between - hence long takes are more natural.

No, I don't think consensual BDSM is necessarily wrong, but it can be … and the situation in "The Story of O", as @avclub-e053e4f47a7ccbc51be254596e483d7c:disqus  describes, would be one where I would say it is (though maybe that's because I wouldn't consider it truly consensual - and the question of whether someone…

@MrWorms:disqus Oh yeah!

That's a tough question, @avclub-3f690b3dd67a7950289a822e16be445d:disqus , but that's all the more reason why we should be asking it, not dismissing it by claiming some sort of 'who-can-say-what's-wrong-so-nothing-is' relativism.

@avclub-eccbc7cdf4dfd00792d431e1a1d896fa:disqus But of course we're free to choose to do wrong…  That something shouldn't be disallowed doesn't mean it's not wrong.

Not surprised.  The description of the burning-the-$100-bill scene is enough of a tip-off as to the way this movie is likely to understand what's 'meaningful' and how it is so in film.

Yes, but the right crowd is, in that case, wrong.

Weren't these guys on Brass Eye?

Funny … I'd happily read Sartre in order to not read Foucault.

Agreed … there IS a difference between how the formats look, and as long as someone has enough experience to know what to look for, and is actively doing so, it's pretty easy to tell it, "these" or any other days.  If you see a back-to-back comparison and claim you can't tell the difference, you're either not being…

I'm specifically referring to [SPOILERS] the boy tossing the union jack flag (here signifying the National Front movement) into the ocean.  The scene's only purpose was to present imagery that would symbolically stand in for the fact that the boy repudiated all the things he'd bought into by literally having him…

I liked This is England, but thought it would have been much better if it had ended before the last scene, which was a silly and over-literal use of symbolism (which also broke from the realistic tone throughout in terms of what the main character would actually do).  Not to give anything away, but the turn in one of…

On the plus side, the soundtrack is a collaboration between Caveman and Pterodactyl.

Maybe that's what 'They' want you to think…

"This makes no sense by wrestling standards—just because one side in a tug-of-war momentarily anticipates victory doesn’t mean they then just awkwardly stand around, letting their opponents make up all the lost ground—unless maybe time-wrestling is unlike its real-world analogues in some way.  […]  Viewers don’t know…

Gus van Sant's probably on it.

Keep going with your paranoid theory.  Who would stand to gain from this? What would the effects of people not watching older movies be that 'They' would find desirable, and/or what effects would 'They' want to stop with this?

But isn't that the move that really put Blockbuster out of business (or was at least the primary cause to services like netflix' secondary one)?  If they get rid of anything but new releases, will they be able to stay in business?