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I should do a Gilmore Girls rewatch, at some point.

I can't pick a side. Either way I look at it, I'm right.

Liza Weil as Paris Geller in Gilmore Girls (2000 - 2007)

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I watched Beans, a movie about The Oka Crisis.

The main character, whose nickname is Beans, thinks that she is tough, and more grown-up, by wearing belly shirts, and using rude, misogynistic language.

This is sad.

The female mentor Beans chose, April, seems like an insecure narcissist.

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Beans, wanting her younger sister to experience a disappointment, too, after she experiences one, claims that she can't bring her two stuffed animals on a trip to a safer area, because they are "kid stuff," and, therefore, non-essential.

The younger sister of Beans, Ruby, has better instincts than her, and doesn't like her older sister's new friends.

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The Canadian government is pretty bad on Native issues, for the most part.

This is very much on display in the movie.

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After an altercation with a racist police officer, Beans cuts herself.

Self-injury is unusual.

The influence of her new mentor, or the police officer?

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When an older girl at a party expresses concern for Beans, noting how young she still is, after she spent some time in a closet with a guy, Beans feels bad, and responds by lashing out, intending to make the older girl feel bad, too.

I think the older girl had good intentions.

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Beans is starting to care more about how someone else made her feel rather than the context.

Was their intent to make her feel bad?

She doesn't care. She only cares that she did feel bad. Therefore, they are bad, and she wants them to feel bad, too.

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She is starting to act more and more like her ill-chosen mentor, April.

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When April learned that Beans was planning on going to a more prestigious, whiter school, April felt bad, so she burned Beans's school pamphlet. This upset Beans, but voice anger with her mentor for this, but with a guy that spoke to her, a bit later, instead.

Displacement.

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Beans physically attacked a white girl, for trying to leave the same establishment, and then, falsely claimed that the girl had deserved it, and, made the extremist statement that all white people did.

Displacement. Generalization.

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Beans is starting to view how she feels as more important than the safety of others, now.

If their feelings make her feel bad, they are illegitimate.

Like the white girl feeling uncomfortable, and wanting to leave.

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Her mother is understandably upset with her for behaving in this way, noting that when white Canadians see Natives behaving badly, it feeds their racism.

Beans behaving badly may encourage more white Canadians to treat, or continue to treat, Native Canadians poorly.

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Her mother goes into labor, possibly prompted by the stressful events of the night, which included being attacked by racist Canadians on the road, after picking up Beans, after the fight at that establishment.

Her little sister seems to give voice to their father's sentiments.

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Her mother, thankfully, has a healthy delivery, which she recovers from.

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After she runs off into the woods, and gets drunk, a teenage boy tries to get a blowjob from Beans, a distraught twelve-year-old.

When she realizes what he wants, she says, "Eww! Gross!"

He attempts to rape her, and her mentor is unsympathetic, initially, until April reveals that her brother, the attempted rapist, is like their father, Gary.

Anxious, after revealing this to Beans, she threatens to kill Beans, if she tells anyone about what she said about her father.

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Later, Beans helps April move out of her father's house.

April goes to live with her grandmother.

It is unclear how much April's behavior will improve, after this change.

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In the end, Beans goes to that school that her mother wanted her to attend, which April had felt insecure about, before.

She introduces herself to the class with her full name, Tekehentahkhwa.

Beans (2020), dir. Tracey Deer

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The theme song of Welcome To Sweden is annoying.

I am not sold on this show.

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Parks and Recreation is a good show, but I don't like this one.

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I got to the last episode of the first season, and I was a bit surprised by Aubrey Plaza agreeing to appear in the show as herself, as the portrayal of her in the show is very unflattering.

As this show is a fictionalized account of the actual relationship of Greg, Amy Poehler's younger brother, and his Swedish partner, Charlotta, after he moved to Sweden with her in 2006, it is bizarre that Plaza agreed to appear in this show as a herself, and, in the tenth episode, joked about, or admitted to, attempting to rape Greg's character in his sleep. Did she do this to Greg in real life? Did she stalk him, back in 2006, also?

Plaza is suspected of doing so by Emma, in the show, and she jokes about how celebrities can't stalk non-celebrities, although they totally can, and this joke just wasn't funny, at all.

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This show is very dull, but, also, very strange, as it has this in it, too.

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It doesn't provide good commentary about life in Sweden, or life in Sweden as an American expat, even.

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I ended up wondering, if Greg has Borderline Personality Disorder, because his fictional representative, Bruce, followed a romantic partner to a different country without learning some Swedish, or lining up a new job for himself, there, before the move.

Then, he develops an odd man crush on his partner's ex-boyfriend, whom wants to get Bruce out of the way. Bruce goes back to America, even though his partner is pregnant, as though driven to unwittingly fulfill Emma's narcissistic ex's wishes.

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ISSA RAE as President Barbie Barbie (2023), dir. Greta Gerwig

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Bruce: We talking about Hitler right now?

Emma: Nope. Still cinnamon.

–Welcome to Sweden, 1.02

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Hassan: I am from Iraq. I was a civil engineer. Eh, good job, big house, nice family.

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This bit of dialogue was nice.

Frances Ha (2012)

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“I’m so embarrassed. I’m not a real person yet.”

Frances Ha (2013)

dir. Noah baumbach

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I watched this movie, yesterday, and I was okay with it, but not wowed by it.

I am unable to recall the name of the character with the glasses, now, and this is due to my mental illness.

An inserter saw a resemblance to a Chrissy, whom was in the same year as me, years ago, when I was still in school, but I didn't see the resemblance they saw.

Frances made more of an effort than I saw her friend make in the movie.

Frances Ha, 2012 — dir. Noah Baumbach

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The original Fantasia is the best one.

Fantasia (1940): The Nutcracker Suite

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I rewatched this movie, again. The first time I saw it, I was a teenager, and I had a Bipolar II diagnosis.

This time, I watched it, as someone that has paranoid schizophrenia, and I was very unsatisfied with the portrayal of the condition in this movie.

I had had a good impression of Roger Ebert, before I saw that he actually gave this movie four stars, even though it does not accurately reflect what schizophrenia is actually like, and the writers had a book about an actual schizophrenic to use as their source material.

It is unclear how much the writers deviated from the book, but I am sure that the source material is much different, and that Nash was treated unfairly by the writers of the movie.

The visual hallucinations in the movie reminded me, unpleasantly, of the similarly inaccurate Words on Bathroom Walls. Most schizophrenics don't get visual hallucinations, and most of the time auditory hallucinations are distinct from regular sounds, so they hardly ever get confused.

A Beautiful Mind (2001) dir. Ron Howard

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This is the first TV show that I have finished watching, since my SZ onset in 2019, if miniseries are excluded.

Ultimately, I found this show rather unsatisfying, and didn't enjoy watching this show as much as I had, years ago, before my schizophrenia onset. I hadn't finished the last episode, or two, I think, during my first viewing of the show.

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An inserter used to mention "Hae Soo," the female lead of the show, repeatedly, but I was unable to recall, which show this character had been in, for a time. Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo was, oddly, confused with Empress Ki, and the heroine, Hae Soo, was mistaken for a female villain in the latter show.

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I was frustrated with the writing of the show, in general, this time. Hae Soo, unfortunately, seemed like a Mary Sue.

It is reasonable for viewers to expect TV writers to be better at constructing realistic characters, and relationship dynamics, than teenage fanfiction writers do on Fanfiction.Net, but they didn't do much better than some of them with this show.

The writing wasn't Ebony Dark'ness Way level bad, but it was still strikingly unrealistic. Korean TV channels can choose the best Korean writers to write these shows, so the quality of the writing should have been much better.

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Time travel is a fun plot device, but it is hardly done well, in fanfiction, books, or in visual media.

Hae Soo should have been shown struggling to adjust to the time period, and its social customs more. There should have been a far greater degree of culture shock than there was.

10th century Goryeo, I know essentially nothing about, so I can't say how (in)accurately the time period, its laws and social customs were portrayed in this K-Drama, but, I imagine that not much research was done.

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When Hae Soo hit Prince Eun, but did not receive any punishment for this entirely unwarranted act of violence against a prince, I knew that the writers weren't trying very hard to be realistic.

Anyone whom did this, back then, was almost certainly bound to receive a harsh punishment for the offense.

It is odd, also, that Eun didn't come to dislike her, after, and that this incident didn't alienate the other princes, King Taejo, his mother (whom was not shown), his other relatives, court allies, friends, or his servants. Instead, he continued to be fond of her, and most characters happily continued to like her, as though her offense had been charming, instead of offensive.

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Hae Soo seems to be a woman, whom four to five of the princes were romantically interested in, at one time, or another.

Baek Ahn offers to marry her, as does Jung (whom does), Wook, and So.

To avoid being forced to marry King Taejo, the princes' royal father, Hae Soo marred her flesh by cutting herself, rendering herself ineligible for the position that she would have otherwise been forced into.

Presumably, Hae Soo was the self-insert of some female writer, whom wrote for the show, and this shows.

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Yeon Hwa, the only daughter of King Taejo on the show, is portrayed in almost as negative light as Prince Yo, whom killed his older brother Moo. Her characterization seems sexist.

Yeon Hwa gets in-between the lead couple, Hae Soo and So, because she is so ambitious that she agrees to marry her half-brother to become Queen.

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So, oddly, decided to try to frame Wook, so he could concoct a reason to have him executed. This led Hae Soo to become so unhappy with him, that she decided to leave the palace, after intervening to save Wook.

Unrealistically, Jung dares to make an offer of marriage to Hae Soo, his kingly brother's favorite woman, and she accepts his offer, although she later gives birth to So's daughter.

Jung, again, unrealistically, agrees to hide the existence of this daughter from his brother, the king, and suffers no negative consequences for this, when the truth is discovered.

This was all unrealistic, annoying, and added just for the sake of creating unnecessary drama.

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The mother of So, Yo, and Jung is a bizarre sexist caricature, whom mutilated the face of her own child, So, out of spite, and, then, never forgives him for this.

So seeking in vain for her favor, until the end, did not seem like a rational response to her mistreatment of him, to me.

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Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (2016) – Episode 1

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Byun Baekhyun as Prince Wang-Eun Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (2016)

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the thing that gets me about about barbie is that barbie land wasn’t even purposefully a matriarchy, barbie land came about because of the way little girls were playing with their barbies, it wasn’t created by mattel it was created by the people using the toys, so the fact that the barbies ignored the ken’s and had girls night every night wasn’t because they had some bias against him, it was just an accurate depiction of how kids play with barbies. I had some ken dolls as a child and they were essential to the plot in the sense that of course my barbie has a boyfriend because that represented the world i saw around me, but also he didn’t have any purpose in my dream world because i was only interested in what the girls were doing because they represented me and how i wanted to be, I wanted girls night every night I wanted the girls to be president and austronauts and not because of some inherent feminist idea but because I was a girl and I wasn’t thinking about boys, ken was an accessory. this movie wasn’t made to change the world but it showed a different perspective than what we usually see which I thought was fun. Men don’t have to be the centre of all our stories and its not even because we hate them, sometimes we’re just not thinking about them

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This part is pretty weird. When he presses a button, near these screens, he can hear the woman on the screen having sex.

City of Women (1980)

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This film is better than some of the other ones that I have seen, recently, like The Layover, but, still, I have trouble watching it attentively.

It is a very odd movie.

The party scene, I found the most enjoyable, and I liked the one song ridiculing the idea that a woman needs a man, and is incomplete without one.

Some parts are unnessarily porn-y, and sexist, however.

Italian movies, I hardly ever watch, and, perhaps, this is unfair to Italians, but they seem, based upon this movie, to be a very strange people. Certainly, I don't get the impression that I would like living in Italy very much.

(To be fair, this is an older movie.)

Most Americans have a positive view of Italians, and this is strange, since we tend not to know much about them, except that their food is good, and that they are Catholic. Watching Italian movies should help give one an idea as to how Italians think, and what their culture is like, outside of food and religion.

City of Women (1980)

(2/2)