That comic is one of the ones that convinces me Randall Munroe and L. S. S. of mutual acquaintance are the same people or a hive mind, but I'm sorry about the film.
Thank you. It really was a problem I had not previously encountered in my experience of noir—I'm used to swing-and-miss movies or movies with one saving grace, but not movies at the visible top of their game doing something I just don't enjoy watching. I am sure I would feel somewhat less sharply about it if its tropes had not become so wall-to-wall wearyingly familiar (though I stand by my feeling that it bobbles its ratio of subversion to reification and that's on the film itself, not its unironic Fight Club inheritors), but they are also just tropes I don't like.
I would have cheerfully watched an entire movie about Gloria Grahame, so there's that.
Fritz Lang can't be cancelled, I agree, because Metropolis is, as has been discussed, the reason I'm anxious AND feminist AND socialist AND gay.
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Thank you. It really was a problem I had not previously encountered in my experience of noir—I'm used to swing-and-miss movies or movies with one saving grace, but not movies at the visible top of their game doing something I just don't enjoy watching. I am sure I would feel somewhat less sharply about it if its tropes had not become so wall-to-wall wearyingly familiar (though I stand by my feeling that it bobbles its ratio of subversion to reification and that's on the film itself, not its unironic Fight Club inheritors), but they are also just tropes I don't like.
I would have cheerfully watched an entire movie about Gloria Grahame, so there's that.
Fritz Lang can't be cancelled, I agree, because Metropolis is, as has been discussed, the reason I'm anxious AND feminist AND socialist AND gay.
I get all of that except the anxiety.