Nostalgia and praise for the liberal society

Stephan 2022-10-02 09:31:44

It's interesting to see zzk's comments: "Pretending to be super feminist, describing the future of America, conservative Christian fundamentalists in power, banning female literacy, oppressing women, but there are two criticisms, "The Handmaid's Tale" is a classic example, My friend, what the American Marxist Jameson called "nostalgia for the present", my God, the whole film is full of intense nostalgia, nostalgic for today's liberal society lost in the horror of fundamentalism, from this perspective, this TV series describes The Dark Realm of the Dark Country completely ignores the crux of the question: How did this horrific Christian fundamentalist totalitarian rule emerge from a liberal society? It's just nostalgic, very disciplined... There's no more disciplined film than The Handmaid's Tale , because it's basically a celebration of our liberal society, imagine the loss of liberty, and then you can go nostalgic, "Oh my God, what a beautiful society we have" and so on, that's an image of the public enemy today, attacking fundamentalists is very It's easy, but being fascinated by this kind of film will not destroy fundamentalism." "And another deep-seated reason, I was a little bit cool when I watched this film. Those invented various methods to oppress women, such as banning women's literacy, so When they go shopping, they use small pictures, and when they want to buy oranges, they come out with pictures of oranges. My friends and I, including female friends, think this episode is very cool, and we are fascinated by this oppressive society, which is very oppressive. Ambiguity...this fascination with evil"

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  • Moira: Hey, that shit is contagious. You want to see your baby girl again? Then you need to keep your fucking shit together.