Wouldn’t making those kids exceptional or special in any way kind of negate the point of the film? I think it was purposeful that they made them serve more as the ‘every child’ than some heroes or exceptional children that could imply that their death was, somehow, more tragic than all the other lost lives?

I think…

I’d counter that with saying that you are conflating “good storytelling” with “nuanced storytelling” when they aren’t necessarily the same thing. You can tell a story using very broad archetypes, for instance “Knight rescues Princess from Dragon” without embellishing it in any significant way and it can work totally…

But did she die with unique character?

You quoted the review of a person, which stated,

I think Seita and Setsuko aren’t special because they weren’t made to be special. They are two among a million orphans in the same exact situation, and that’s the whole message, for me. The beginning of the movie even shows Seita among a number of other kids just like him on the train station.

I better get to the hospital because all of this edge has me hemorrhaging.

She released a banjo inspired version

That made me snort!! Got ourselfs a got danged sue-do innalectual here trying to edjucate us all!

White people always try to equate all historical slavery. “Slavery is slavery” they say.

Bro/sis....I just realized a couple weeks ago that, to be fully transparent, I come to The Root almost specifically to read the greys lol.

Did you read that and also wonder how the hell he managed “Hegelian dialectic,” but got tripped up on “privilege” and “Venezuela?”

Bruh.

No one wants to wear Sonic throw up on their feet they want red,white and gold sneakers.

Can confirm.

And in the 90s! He called and called and called and called and called (or actually had an assistant actually call) the Zoolander offices till they gave him that cameo.

But... Sonic’s shoes are red.

I gotta start watching that show.

Why am I reminded of this?

Well, and really. I’ll say it again because someone asked me to: Someone on the wrong end of a serious power & money imbalance. I maintain it’s the real reason we’re having so much trouble ratifying the ERA — once we get paid the same thing they do for the same work (and I mean *really* the same — WOC getting the same…

I had a similar Troy reaction to this...