Fire Next Time

Rating: 100%


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Also Known As:

Unknown

Year:

1963

Country:

Predominant Genre:

Non-Fiction

Author:

Outstanding Performances:

None

Premiss:

The White Problem in America.

Themes:

Alienation

Christianity

Coming-of-age

Courage

Destiny

Emotional repression

Humanity

Identity

Loneliness

Materialism

Narcissism

Personal change

Political Correctness

Redemption

Republicanism

Self-belief

Self-expression

Sexual Repression

Solipsism

Stereotyping

White culture

White guilt

White supremacy

Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:

Unknown

Review Format:

Book

Fascinating memoir of a Black man in the US; fully articulating the emptiness of White culture, its essentially-parasitic nature and the concomitant anger of Whites who can never step outside of it to achieve personal happiness. The White resentment this breeds is well-highlighted by the White desire to invent scapegoats upon whom to vent their never-ending frustration at White supremacy for not resulting in automatic and unworked-for fulfillment.

Baldwin writes with clarity and insight about his life, tempered by an understanding that makes sense of the decline of White culture, in this brilliant opuscule on White hypocrisy and the psychological failure borne of conflating the Personal/Private with the Political.

A classic explanation for the existence of anti-White supremacy groups like Al Qaeda & NAACP.

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CSA: Confederate States of America

Rating: 80%



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Also Known As/Subtitle:

Unknown

Year:

2004

Country:

Predominant Genre:

Comedy

Director:

Outstanding Performances:

None

Premiss:

A satirically-humorous look at an America where the South won the Civil War.

Themes:

Alienation

Christianity

Compassion

Courage

Destiny

Empathy

Identity

Loneliness

Loyalty

Narcissism

Political Correctness

Self-belief

Self-expression

Solipsism

Stereotyping

White culture

White guilt

White supremacy

Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:

Bamboozled

Review Format:

DVD

Without Blacks, Whites Don’t Know Who They Are

Clever movie that makes clear the White need of someone to feel superior toward before they can have any idea - albeit false - of whom they are or might be. Blacks are the emotional crutches of Whites - a dependency borne of the fear of growing up and standing on one’s own feet - and the fear that Blacks will no longer provide Whites with an identity Whites have not worked for.

The movie understands that White loyalty to the concept of White supremacy is the only loyalty that offers Whites the sense of belonging they crave while, simultaneously, only offering the illusion of economic superiority. Once machines are invented, there is much less need of slaves and inferiors (yet the habits of the illusion of Race are inbred in Whites); meaning White culture can never advance much economically because it refuses to face the economic advantages of equality by openly-admitting Whites were wrong to take the get-rich-quick shortcut of White supremacy. Such a humiliating admission would be the final nail in the coffin of the lie of White supremacy.

There can be no economic advantage in trying to make Blacks economically-dependent, since Blacks would then produce little and buy even less; making Whites poorer through having fewer paying customers. Yet, Whites favor this scorched-earth policy of destroying their own culture rather than sharing the world equally with Blacks. Whites conflate politics and economics with ideology, such that political correctness trumps economic common-sense and prosperity.

However, the film fails to offer any explanation as to why Whites decided to create a culture that deprives them of the possibility of personal happieness, where loyalty to an idea outshines all other loyalties - even personal ones.

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Before Midnight

Rating: 100%



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Also Known As:

Unknown

Year:

2013

Countries:

Predominant Genre:

Romance

Director:

Outstanding Performance:

Premiss:

We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece.

Themes:

Alienation | Atheism | Christianity | Compassion | Destiny | Friendship | Identity | Loneliness | Loyalty | Narcissism | Nostalgia | Personal change | Political Correctness | Self-expression | Sexism | Solipsism | Stereotyping | White culture | White supremacy

Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:

Review Format:

DVD

How Caucasians Are

Superlative exposé of why Whites have the highest divorce rates of any ethnicity in the world: They allow Politics into the bedroom. Whites do this to evade their mistaken conflation of the Personal with the Political (as they also conflate Morality with Politics [& for the same reason]) - itself a vain means of avoiding the hard work involved in making Personal relationships successful. This explains why Whites produce whining dramas about Caucasians who pursue successful careers while yet having failed love lives - they believe the same trader principles apply in both spheres of human activity.

This movie is an excellent example of a true collaboration between director and performers that also becomes a true collaboration with the audience. The actors become their well-defined roles and bring out their characters’ essence - warts-and-all.

All this movie lacks is a non-talking cure for this self-induced solipsism, that would allow White marriages to become fulfilling, rather than just the suggestion that a good sense-of-humor and good grace will see Whites through.

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True Romance

Rating: 60%

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Also Known As:

Unknown

Year:

1993

Countries:

Predominant Genre:

Crime

Director:

Outstanding Performance:

Premiss:

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp & tries to sell it, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Themes:

Alienation | Emotional repression | Ethnicity | Identity | Loneliness | Materialism | Narcissism | Personal change | Self-expression | Sexism | Solipsism | Stereotyping | White culture | White guilt | White supremacy

Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:

Unknown

Review Format:

DVD

True Infatuation

Gleefully reminiscent of Roger Corman’s exploitation films, this is the usual self-indulgent film buffs’ movie from the unimaginative pen of Quentin Tarantino.

The characters are undifferentiated and use similar language as if born in the same neighborhood. Patricia ARQUETTE’s role is underwritten as the writer is a gynophobe – yet she does well despite this.

Only Blacks come across as real people – reversing the Hollywood norm – yet this genuinely-funny dialogue becomes repetitious. The kind of writing that attracts good actors who can make the words sound like poetry, but no more than a series of set-pieces rather than a coherent drama. Moreover, Christian SLATER, as the lead, lacks star presence.

Enjoyable nonsense, but there is no true love here - either between the central characters or for the audience’s intelligence.

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Dracula

Rating: 80%

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Also Known As:

Unknown

Year:

1931

Country:

Predominant Genre:

Horror

Directors:

Outstanding Performances:

Premiss:

An ancient vampire preys upon the virtuous.

Themes:

Alienation

Atheism

Christianity

Coming-of-age

Courage

Destiny

Emotional repression

Empathy

Grieving

Guilt

Humanity

Identity

Loneliness

Nostalgia

Original Sin

Personal change

Redemption

Self-expression

Solipsism

White culture

White supremacy

Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:

Dracula

Review Format:

DVD

Classy Stuff

Wonderful old-time horror movie proving Bela LUGOSI was the best nosferatu of all.

Highly stylized and somewhat stilted, this eloquently creates the necessary gothic atmosphere: The only way to tell a story so replete with implicit sexual yearning and danger. Understanding how closely related are fear and sexual desire, makes it easy to see how LUGOSI seduces so many young women with his eyes and gentlemanly manners.

Helen CHANDLER is excellent as the ingenue who realizes she is turning intro a vampire yet who, out of love for her fiancé, warns him to stop loving her. Her inner conflict of a woman unable to focus her sexuality against the polygynous attractions of the undead is well expressed.

Dwight FRYE is also superb as an everyday estate agent who then goes mad - in the kind of way Peter Lorre would rightly envy - after being bitten by the eponymous lead character.

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