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Jason wrote:

showa58taro wrote:

Jason wrote:Looking up the plot line it tells me it's about a real life Indian writer's obession with Bruce Springsteen. If they invoke rassism in it, it'll garner an eye roll that would make Linda Blair fuckin proud.

Enjoy rolling your eyes broski.

Went to see it. Definitely going to be a love-hate film for Jason in that he’ll love the use of Bruce and soundtrack and hate the rest.

Well, since I have the entire music catalog, I guess no point in seeing the movie. I prefer to get away from politics in movies and not have to worry about phony racism being invoked in everything we watch.

Yup. Classic snowflake move, can’t handle facing real problems.

If racism were actually an epidemic and shit was happening like the movie portrays it, then it would be a meaningful watch. But it is divisive and racist and I don't want any part of it because I go into movies for entertainment and not phony politics that only make people argue.

They've managed to turn a movie about Bruce Springsteen into a movie about phony racism. Not interested, thanks. I'll just take the music, where there is actual real meaning and lyrics worth listening to.

Phony? Lol. You’re so afraid of facing the reality here.

Also, the story doesn’t work without racism. That’s the plot you’re trying to discount.

showa58taro wrote:Phony? Lol. You’re so afraid of facing the reality here.

What reality? That white people spit on Indians in the U.K.? I never went to school out there, so maybe that happens, but I highly doubt it.

I am going to be extremely candid and sincere, here. I did not know what race was until I was picked on viciously for being white the moment I entered grade school. I was five years old and was picked on for being white all throughout most of my school years up until just before high school. I was young and confused, and felt shame for being white, not being cool enough to hang out with the hispanic kids because they didn't like me. They never punched me or jumped me or anything like that, but they viciously shamed me for years for no other reason than because I was white. However, I hold no grudges. I got older and just moved on from it. They got older, too. I think this is why it stopped before high school. Just a bad crowd of kids. I saw this happen with other white kids in school, too. I wasn't the only one. Throughout my school years, I never once saw hispanic, black or asian kids experience anything even remotely close to racism at all. Does that mean it doesn't happen? No, but it isn't some epidemic the way movies and media want you to think it is.

showa58taro wrote:Also, the story doesn’t work without racism. That’s the plot you’re trying to discount.

Exactly. They have to invoke racism in it. What would be a Bruce Springsteen movie is now a movie about racism because movies and media love feeding you that narrative. It's pretty disgusting and very divisive. There is an agenda here, you can see it in a lot of movies. Even the new Child's Play movie. The cop is black, the first dead victim is a white guy in a watermelon patch, and the cop said white men being murdered in a watermelon patch was poetic justice. If there is a racism epidemic that needs to be addressed, there's your perfect example. Can you even imagine the outrage if the roles were reversed? There is a massive double standard here.

White kids in schools across the globe treating black and hispanic kids like shit, spitting on indian kids, I just ain't buying the phony narrative. It's forced, and obvious.

Suppose that explains your outlook. But still not why you’d discount actual racism as a thing that is clearly prevalent.

Also the film is set in the 80s so that should probably help the context.

showa58taro wrote:Suppose that explains your outlook. But still not why you’d discount actual racism as a thing that is clearly prevalent.

Also the film is set in the 80s so that should probably help the context.

I don't know. I'm just not buying that type of racism. Seems way too forced and not the least bit genuine.

Jason wrote:

showa58taro wrote:Suppose that explains your outlook. But still not why you’d discount actual racism as a thing that is clearly prevalent.

Also the film is set in the 80s so that should probably help the context.

I don't know. I'm just not buying that type of racism. Seems way too forced and not the least bit genuine.

What type of racism aren’t you buying? The existence of racism full-stop? The National Front?