Part dystopian sci-fi, part documentary, this is one hard-to-sit-through film. But it's essential for resisters, IMHO. It's on MAX now. ***HIGHLY recommended.***
Why did I not read anywhere that Conclave is a dark comedy?! I watched it last night: the production is hilarious and the acting is slyly superb. I laughed at the monumental hubris and silly, petty narcissism all the way through, especially when a woman is let in via the back door of the ultimate calcified, vicious patriarchy. Of course that’s the only way women ever get into the rooms of misogynist male power — through the secret back door or the basement — but this was particularly delicious for its unwitting complicity of the ridiculous men in fancy medieval dresses! Clearly the cast and crew got it.
"We see, but don’t hear, the nuns as they meticulously set the table in the cafeteria and prepare delicious meals for their male peers." The whole point of the Catholic Church is that the nuns are not the peers of the priests, let alone in the Cardinals.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDE97KrYDuU
Part dystopian sci-fi, part documentary, this is one hard-to-sit-through film. But it's essential for resisters, IMHO. It's on MAX now. ***HIGHLY recommended.***
Wow! As Jackie commented — “ They’re selling our dystopia to us to distract us from the dystopia we live in!”
Destroying the hope & belief of ‘truth’ existing in any form … sounds like the current admin./Fox et al.
I borrowed the DVD from my public library and played on my laptop. No subscriptions to anything needed.
Why did I not read anywhere that Conclave is a dark comedy?! I watched it last night: the production is hilarious and the acting is slyly superb. I laughed at the monumental hubris and silly, petty narcissism all the way through, especially when a woman is let in via the back door of the ultimate calcified, vicious patriarchy. Of course that’s the only way women ever get into the rooms of misogynist male power — through the secret back door or the basement — but this was particularly delicious for its unwitting complicity of the ridiculous men in fancy medieval dresses! Clearly the cast and crew got it.
I love this take. "Sly" is a great word for it. Everyone is petty and egotistical.
Sorry, I cancelled Prime when Bezos cancelled the independence of the WaPo. Won’t be going back till he’s dead, and he could easily outlive me.
"We see, but don’t hear, the nuns as they meticulously set the table in the cafeteria and prepare delicious meals for their male peers." The whole point of the Catholic Church is that the nuns are not the peers of the priests, let alone in the Cardinals.