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twincityhackerFirst day of Pride:
Ready Okay! - The feature presentation, was an American film about a family. Most of the action is centered around the young boy who wants to be a cheerleader, his mother Andrea, and a group of wacky family members, neighbors, and Catholic priests and nuns. Ends happily!
The thing that sticks out in my mind the most is the costuming. The boy is always in his school's colors. Alex always wears a shirt and tie, even though it's the same shirt and tie, Andrea is always dressed nicely even when she's just picking up her son from school, and the neighbor dresses very, very gay and wore what I can only describe as Jew glasses, because for some reason whenever I find an older photograph of a Jewish man, they all seem to be wearing the same style of glasses.
Also, Andrea's hair is very blond in the beginning of the film, but as the film takes place her hair grows out and her roots start to show until it's about half blond and half dark brown.
Krudas - a short from Cuba about a couple who does hip hop to educate, mostly on the topics of women, race, the environment, and vegetarianism. Most of their intersection message about the intersections of exploitation makes sense, though I don't think carnivoreism is the first step down the road that leads to all kinds of exploitation.
Cut - a short animated film about a woman who gets a buzzcut, gets fired, and finds love. I didn't care for it, but mostly because I didn't like the style of animation. Especially of the main character, as she looked like she walked out of a cubist painting.
Unca Trans - A short set in an agrarian future of Canada, where a man gives a telling of his involvement in various activist organizations throughout his life. Though when I say man, it's a stop animated doll where many shots contains the hand and arm of the poser in the shot. This was my least favorite film of the night, though I can't put my finger on exactly what it was. I'm a little bitch, please about the speed of which the land claims of native americans went, as the whole thing was said to be wrapped up 2015, or eighteen years after the short was made, and the agrarian society of 2045 with global warming and adding at least another billion to the planet's population and all.
Kali Ma - A Indian-American mother takes revenge teenager that was bullying her son. Partly hilarious, and partly "OMG, this is horrible!" until you remind yourself that the teenager had just beaten her son and left him dazed on the bathroom floor, and it's hilarious again. On the way home I batted around the film and whether it had any race/gender issues, but since it was a standard mama lioness story, the thing that could be said was all the different -phobes and -ists that the teenager had in addition to just being a jackass.
Love Bite - A three minute Australian short. After school, two boys smoke weed and one has an confession to make.
The films were the only thing of note. I didn't see anyone I knew, so it was a solo fun night out. Spilled coke all over myself and the floor, so now my coat smells of vanilla flavoring. Though I did check out the books on display, with two standing out. One is a rec for my sister called "Working Sex" by Annie Oakly about the sex industry ( if your still looking for books, that is) and a book for myself called "The Lavender Scare" by David K. Johnson. "The Lavender Scare" combines two of my favorite historical topics: McCarthyism and pre-Stonewall GLBT history.
EDIT: Changed some wordings to make this post less logic fail. Mostly "vegetarianism is the gateway drug of exploitation" should be "carnivoreism is the first step down the road that leads to all kinds of exploitation."
Ready Okay! - The feature presentation, was an American film about a family. Most of the action is centered around the young boy who wants to be a cheerleader, his mother Andrea, and a group of wacky family members, neighbors, and Catholic priests and nuns. Ends happily!
The thing that sticks out in my mind the most is the costuming. The boy is always in his school's colors. Alex always wears a shirt and tie, even though it's the same shirt and tie, Andrea is always dressed nicely even when she's just picking up her son from school, and the neighbor dresses very, very gay and wore what I can only describe as Jew glasses, because for some reason whenever I find an older photograph of a Jewish man, they all seem to be wearing the same style of glasses.
Also, Andrea's hair is very blond in the beginning of the film, but as the film takes place her hair grows out and her roots start to show until it's about half blond and half dark brown.
Krudas - a short from Cuba about a couple who does hip hop to educate, mostly on the topics of women, race, the environment, and vegetarianism. Most of their intersection message about the intersections of exploitation makes sense, though I don't think carnivoreism is the first step down the road that leads to all kinds of exploitation.
Cut - a short animated film about a woman who gets a buzzcut, gets fired, and finds love. I didn't care for it, but mostly because I didn't like the style of animation. Especially of the main character, as she looked like she walked out of a cubist painting.
Unca Trans - A short set in an agrarian future of Canada, where a man gives a telling of his involvement in various activist organizations throughout his life. Though when I say man, it's a stop animated doll where many shots contains the hand and arm of the poser in the shot. This was my least favorite film of the night, though I can't put my finger on exactly what it was. I'm a little bitch, please about the speed of which the land claims of native americans went, as the whole thing was said to be wrapped up 2015, or eighteen years after the short was made, and the agrarian society of 2045 with global warming and adding at least another billion to the planet's population and all.
Kali Ma - A Indian-American mother takes revenge teenager that was bullying her son. Partly hilarious, and partly "OMG, this is horrible!" until you remind yourself that the teenager had just beaten her son and left him dazed on the bathroom floor, and it's hilarious again. On the way home I batted around the film and whether it had any race/gender issues, but since it was a standard mama lioness story, the thing that could be said was all the different -phobes and -ists that the teenager had in addition to just being a jackass.
Love Bite - A three minute Australian short. After school, two boys smoke weed and one has an confession to make.
The films were the only thing of note. I didn't see anyone I knew, so it was a solo fun night out. Spilled coke all over myself and the floor, so now my coat smells of vanilla flavoring. Though I did check out the books on display, with two standing out. One is a rec for my sister called "Working Sex" by Annie Oakly about the sex industry ( if your still looking for books, that is) and a book for myself called "The Lavender Scare" by David K. Johnson. "The Lavender Scare" combines two of my favorite historical topics: McCarthyism and pre-Stonewall GLBT history.
EDIT: Changed some wordings to make this post less logic fail. Mostly "vegetarianism is the gateway drug of exploitation" should be "carnivoreism is the first step down the road that leads to all kinds of exploitation."
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Date: 2009-01-30 06:33 am (UTC)Uh . . . bwuh?! o_O
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Date: 2009-01-30 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-30 05:44 pm (UTC)(Not giving you crud for the typo, BTW, just laughing over the imagined posters and such . . .)
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Date: 2009-01-30 09:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-01 03:55 am (UTC)XD
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Date: 2009-01-31 04:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-31 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-01 02:02 am (UTC)Maybe I thought it was British because they have more issues with Indians than the US does.
Which, on a side note is so hypocritical of some of them. Yea, Americans are big and dumb, well you're racist jerks apparently.