The characters in the damn movie don't even know wtf the movie was about
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The characters in the damn movie don't even know wtf the movie was about
Breh I am so pissed off I watched that movie. It was based off of a book. Wtf?
Why the fukk did this movie even get made? :whatthefukk: How is it getting such positive reviews on RT?
I even googled "Hold the dark movie movie explanation" afterwards.
Anyways the director of this movie did "I don't feel at home in this world anymore" which was actually very good.
Interesting
dvdjamm
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dvdjamm
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First time binging? If you liked it yous a lucky muhfukka.
I still watch that shyt once a while.
First time binging? If you liked it yous a lucky muhfukka.
I still watch that shyt once a while.
Honestly I gotta watch it again, it just be bums me out they lose in the end
On a rewatch if I got beyond season 1 I usually stop a few episodes before the grand finale.
Abstract83
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Give Altered Carbon another try. I gave up about 4 times because it dragged by episode 4. It picks up going towards the end of the season.
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Director of 'Desire' on Netflix responds to critics who claim its opening scene is 'child pornography'
Director of 'Desire' on Netflix responds to critics who claim its opening scene is 'child pornography'
The scene in question shows the young girl jumping up and down on a pillow, playfully riding it like a horse, when she begins to orgasm. The scene is in slow-motion and closes in on the girl's face as she breathes heavily, which has offended those who took to social media to voice their concerns.
The film's director, Diego Kaplan, issued a statement to Indiewire in regards to the controversy. The full statement is below:
"'Desire' is a film. When we see a shark eating a woman on film, no one thinks the woman really died or that the shark was real. We work in a world of fiction; and, for me, before being a director comes being a father.
Of course this scene was filmed using a trick, which was that the girls were copying a cowboy scene from a film by John Ford. The girls never understood what they were doing, they were just copying what they were seeing on the screen. No adult interacted with the girls, other than the child acting coach. Everything was done under the careful surveillance of the girls' mothers. Because I knew this scene might cause some controversy at some point, there is 'Making Of' footage of the filming of the entire scene.
Everything works inside the spectators' heads, and how you think this scene was filmed will depend on your level of depravity."
Netflix has faced conservative backlash over a number of controversies this year. Users threatened to cancel subscriptions when Netflix appointed former UN Ambassador Susan Rice to its Board of Directors, and when the Obamas signed a producing deal with the streaming service. It has also recently faced conservative criticism over an upcoming animated superhero drag queen show called "Super Drags," which has a petition against it to stop the show from being released.
From what I'm hearing, the movie is not normalizing pedophilia. It's about a young girl entering puberty and her self-discovery of her own sexuality. That's completely normal. Now, if the scene was meant to be titillating and/or there were adults involved in the scene grooming her with no negative connotation, you can definitely say it promoted pedophilia.
My opinion on this is somewhat shaped from having recently watched another movie featured on Netflix, "Nymphomaniac Vol 1 +2". I found the film, though containing graphic sexual content, to be a very multilayered film, in which sex, puberty, and sexual discovery permeates the entire film, from the time she was a kid until an adult. Never once did I consider it child porn, but just the story of how a nymphomaniac grew up and lived her life. Even nymphomania wasn't promoted nor glorified, it was just presented.
There is a line in the sand. There might be sickos out there who get off on this, but there's nothing in the article that suggests the character was nude or that the movie is saying adult/child sexual relationships are okay.
On top of that, child pornography in and of itself, while absolutely disgusting to me, can serve a purpose (not the type where adults are having sex with kids...unless it's animated) in
that pedophiles have an outlet for their predilections and are less likely to go out and assault a child in real life.
But really I can only justify it if it's animated. Even an underage girl posing naked in a picture is crossing the line...because who took the picture? How else are they being exploited? There's an entire extremely profitable section of the black market consisting of child sex slavery and child porn that needs to be eradicated. But that has nothing to do with this, especially in light of the director's statement.
Doesn't sound like child porn to me.
Grand Conde
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Dark.
Grand Conde
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Altered Carbon is meh.
Abstract83
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I liked the action. The story is Meh but I enjoyed it for what it was.