I mean, there are cultural aspects of this that I have to really immerse myself in because I’m not Japanese. It feels almost a little invasive to be telling the story from their perspective, but what the hell? Somebody’s got to tell the story, and I’m not going to tell it from a jingoistic, nationalistic American perspective, because I don’t want to deal with all the sociopolitical aspects of, should it have been dropped, all that stuff. I don’t want to deal with that.
I’ve got to be very careful about it not being an indictment of the people who dropped the bomb. I think the message needs to be, this thing happened. It happened to real people. Let’s not go into why it happened and who was to blame and all that sort of thing. But let’s just take that as a moment in history frozen in amber that we need to learn from. We need to cherish that memory, because that memory might just keep us alive.
How can you learn from something without understanding why it happened?
The next level of shoot and cry is shoot and I wasn’t even there. I was sleeping
I guess Hiroshima just did that 
All the Avatar dickriders owe me money. Horrible phenomenon.
I’ll admit I was more charitable towards the Avatar movies than I otherwise would’ve been in part because our culture is so incredibly fascist that even the most basic “imperialism bad” story is a breath of fresh air even with all of cameron’s mindworms infesting it.
Knowing that he’s trying to make an “apolitical Hiroshima” movie makes me question everything he’s ever done
Edit: I was blinded by the spectacle of american marines being skewered like kebabs and whalers being dismembered
The space american boots getting perforated was the best part but it’s still very white-savior and I can’t get over it sadly
That week or two on hexbear where everybody was unironically praising the Avatar films as anticolonial masterpieces was baffling
Taking a road trip to Will Meneker’s house so I can rub it in his “it’s making some people on twitter mad therefore it’s actually good” face.
“baffling” is the right word. I don’t love his writing all the time but I’m fully onboard with Walter Chaw’s bone-deep hatred for these movies.
Thank you for reminding me of the existence of walter chaw and filmfreakcentral.
same stuff is happening with superman right now
the movie hasn’t even come out lol
hexbears and flying off the handle because a headline validated whatever personal feelings they have about something lmao