this whole oceangate submarine fiasco has actually led to a lot of interesting talks and debates about the grey area of human empathy vs the inclination to recoil at the bizarre behaviors of the ultra wealthy and how people struggle with both ideas and is actually very interesting to watch play out in different types of people
like this whole disaster is not some neatly packaged black and white situation and it’s normal to feel both empathy for human life and anger or disgust for how difference in wealth truly divides the lives that we live in this world
Multiverse stakes are actively counter to my enjoyment of a movie at this point, because when everything is at stake, nothing is at stake. Across the Spider-Verse works for me because, in spite of its reality-spanning plot, the stakes are crushingly intimate. I don’t believe that a film would destroy the multiverse. I do believe that a film would kill Miles’s dad.
We want character development. We want a decent story. We want practical effects. Rehashing the same thing again and again will get the audience to disengage.
popping in to say that for the past 6 months I’ve used this post as an indicator of when to check the news because it spikes in notes every time there is a major world event
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