I don't know what's more offensive -- how terribly written this is, or how totally racist it is. Spoiler alert, it's the racism: "More powerful and advanced civilizations"? "bringing a small tribal community to modernity"? Come on Neatorama. Take this colonialist crap down.
My barber credits himself with saving the lives of 2 men during his career. Each had a mole above their hairline, and he noticed that they were changing over the course of a few haircuts. He urged them to get a proper diagnosis. "Son, you gotta get to a doctor or you're gonna die." He described one of the moles as being "runny" explaining: "That cancer has got to feed. It feeds and feeds and the waste it makes has nowhere to go. So it just kinds weeps out of it." (Read barber's quotes in the voice of Foghorn Leghorn for best effect.) Diagnosis and a haircut, two bits!
I read the daily newspaper cover to cover even as a child. It was part of our "lack of choice" that actually bound people together, although we didn't realize it at the time. There was one TV in the house, and it only got two channels, so the family watched TV together, even the 6 o'clock news. We listened to the same songs on the radio, because we didn't pick up many stations. The theater had one movie at a time, and no video rentals. Fragmented media and entertainment choices have their drawbacks.
I have to agree. But the times, they are a-changin'. We lived across the street from the elementary school that I attended and the playground was studded with baseball diamonds, every one of which would be filled on Saturdays by kids playing pickup games. Today - not a one is in use on the weekends. And I used to read all of my free time, as opposed to staring at a smartphone or computer screen. I'm better off for all that.
M Night is a victim of his own successes (there's nothing like watching his first one, The Sixth Sense - man, that twist!)
So, now every time you go to watch an M Night movie, you expect an unexpected twist. If you happen to guess the twist, then you're disappointed. And if it's not twisty enough, then you're disappointed.
He should've mixed it up - twist movie, then no twist movie. Keep the audience guessing!
So, now every time you go to watch an M Night movie, you expect an unexpected twist. If you happen to guess the twist, then you're disappointed. And if it's not twisty enough, then you're disappointed.
He should've mixed it up - twist movie, then no twist movie. Keep the audience guessing!