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NoYank. Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

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Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.

American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the mental foundation on which their empire stands.

All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.

That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.

Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.

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If there's one thing the horror genre is really good at, it's making remakes that don't live up to the original. There are so many that it's become a running joke across the medium; sure, every now and then there's an amazing, innovative remake like 2013's Evil Dead, but usually, these rehashings of classic plots only serve as weak copies that can't compete with the original. Few are as infamous as the dreaded American remake of a foreign film, copies of legendary movies that reduce the original movie's plot to a much simpler copy, with one of this category's biggest offenders being The Uninvited.

Directed by The Guard Brothers, this film about two sisters trying to uncover the secrets of their evil stepmother was met with a resounding indifference when it premiered in 2009. A decent finale twist keeps it alive in modern conversations, but even this intriguing climax can't shed its reputation as a largely unremarkable film, which is extremely unfortunate โ€” for the original movie it's based on. Because, while The Uninvited is critiqued for its predictable plot and scares, its predecessor is lauded as a classic, a showcase of everything amazing about Korean horror cinema that unnerves anyone who watches it. Unfortunately, The Uninvited couldn't meet these lofty heights (few movies could) but audiences should not let that film's banality stop them from watching the absolute masterpiece that is Kim Jee-woon's A Tale of Two Sisters.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks, I'll check it out! ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's really good. I haven't watched it in a while, so I don't know how well it has aged, but I gave it 8/10.