John Schinnerer
1 min readMar 22, 2023

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Consider the possibility that you and a statistically irrelevant random sample of a few other people not liking the movie doesn't mean it's a "bad movie."

A lot of people in our culture won't understand, let alone appreciate, less so like, a movie that breaks so many conventions, tropes, trite cliches, and comfort zones.

With the possible exception of Moonlight, your comparisons are to extremely mainstream-comfortable, un-challenging, conventional, straight white male supremacy films. Citizen Kane was cinematically groundbreaking, but otherwise not groundbreaking at all. The Godfather was epic, but otherwise mainly a reflection of our glorification of violence and crime (as family values no less). Titanic...also epic I suppose, and potentially a reminder of the consequences of hubris - especially white male technological hubris - but we don't seem to have changed course (so to speak) with regards to that, even though a lot of people saw Titanic.

Meanwhile I'm still trying to figure out if your final paragraph is satire, or not.

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John Schinnerer

A generalist in a hyper-specialized society. "How we do what we do is who we are becoming." - Humberto Maturana