On the other hand, you know who i love/am in love with?
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Chester A. Arthur
I recognize him as my president with all of the fervor Beckheads hate Wilson. Also I recognize him as my boyfriend.
Indeed! Daniel, please, in good faith, do not deny us the great and necessary pleasure of gleaning the overflow of the bounty of thy genius. What many wise pearls do spill from your lips. Might we not pick them up as dogs grabs scraps 'neath the tables of kings? O' to be a fly on the wall of thine mind!
From one guy who looks like he could be wearing that shirt in support of a rape-rapist, pervert and criminal to another, you look like you could be wearing that shirt in support of a rape-rapist, pervert and criminal.
"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like a infantile retard."
Ok, everyone brings up very valid points! None of us are right! None of us are Danny Boyle and understand his motivations, and none of us are from Mumbai and know what it's like to be very very poor and very very uncomfortable and oppressed. But what this reinforces for me is that this situation, the situation of poverty in Mumbai and these child actor's fragile lives and our view of them and our sympathy and our lack of desire to help and our lack of ability to help, is complex. It is difficult and it is not easily fixed and it is not fixed by our collective reasoning. And Danny Boyle (and maybe the Indian author, I don't know! I haven't read the book) simplified this complexity in the interest of telling a good yarn... A good story, which translates more as a weak, empty and untrue parable and an emotional experience designed to numb our consciences somehow. That is my feeling! It is not necessarily true or untrue. I feel that our view into the broken and ridiculous and sad lives of the child actors makes the contrast of the film's wonderful fairytale and harsh reality very apparent. Thank you! God bless American and Mumbai!
I mean... sort of...
but also the backlash is more about what he has done... that is, exploit, sugarcoat and understate a horrible situation in order for privileged folks like us who have things like food and computers and cars and dollars can watch it for two hours on the blueray players in our hovercars and shed a tear and feel good that we shed a tear and that we are so educated about the world's problems and that we are so sensitive to how hard it is to be from Mumbai where insurance for your hovercar is so expensive that no one has any hovercars at all
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