Half the song was muted along with whatever controversy there would have been
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I love them both. Rebel and James are at the top of the list for people to share a table with.
Gdam. Audience and Margot Robbie booing when the Oscars didnât spare a second for the women on Bombshellâs makeup team to say thanks.
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WHITE SAFARI UPDATE: This Dayton, Ohio bar is stoked over American Factory getting the best documentary award. This place is at the same block where that mass shooting in 2019 happened.
https://twitter.com/lbischoff/status/1226694093646049280?s=20
Workers of the world, unite, bitches!
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1226691569849454592?s=20
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haha itâs always great when it happens though
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Not Elton John starting the speech first was solid planning. They arenât playing off Elton John.
Wow. Thatâs a massive upset for director, right?
Wow at Bong Jo Ho winning best director. Parasite probably wins best picture now
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Mendes -600
Ho +425
right before the show
If the Oscars have to have a host sometime in the future, have Olivia Colman do it.
I think so. Like he said, he thought the night was over and had already started drinking. But I think Parasite in some ways was the least controversial choice. No one can argue it was an amazing film and a deserving director.
Brie Larson was stunning.
JOAQUIN LETâS GO TRUTH BOMBS AND ALL CAPS
American Factory just made my blood boil. These dumb, flabby, management failsons go over on a business trip to China in their polos and khaikis with their beer guts hanging out and theyâre just gobsmacked by the most dystopian capitalist propaganda imaginable. Like, imagine watching North Korea propaganda videos and being impressed. And the final boss Chinese CEO is so obviously Trumpian that itâs eye-rollingly bad but these corporate American jizzmoppers completely buy into it and whine about how American workers arenât willing to dig through shattered glass barehanded like their Chinese counterparts.
And whatâs extra infuriating is that every single review Iâve read makes me feel like the reviewers watched a totally different movie. Like, I expect reasonable takes from Vanity Fair, but wtf is this shit:
During the American visit to the Chinese facilities, a Fuyao employee makes the case that the American workers have a comparatively âeasy lifeâ: eight days off per month where the Chinese workers only have one or two, eight hour days compared to twelve overseasâa culture in which factory workers are less chatty and personable on the job, in which vacation time is severely limited. Americans are lazy, he says. âItâs just your nature. But youâre not bad.â
The accomplishment of American Factory is that by the time this line lands, itâs already been complicated by the movie, so much so that even the guy saying it doesnât look bad
No, motherfucker, that guy creeped me right the fuck out and none of this shit is complicated at all. Corporate management dudes want to fuck over the workers, tell me why any of this is complicated. Nearly every single review Iâve read talks about how there are âcultural differencesâ between China and America and if you actually watch the movie, the Chinese factory workers get along just fine with the Ohioan factory workers. The middle-management failsons from Ohio get along just great with their corporate Chinese overlords.
Jesus H Christ, the Chinese management guy is saying that people should have to come to work Saturdays and the Vanity Fair reivewer is all like âWell, this is very complicated, he doesnât seem like a bad guy.â Fuck off. This is not complicated, factory workers should get Saturdays off, go fuck yourself sideways, you bootlicking corporate squeezetoy.
I was honestly astonished at how well these rust belt dudes were sympatico with their comrades from 5,000 miles away. Seriously, watch this movie, watch how these Midwestern slobs invite their co-workers to go shoot some guns and how the Chinese workers get a kick out of that. Watch how the corporate American failsons pal around with the Chinese management dudes and complain about how lazy Americans are.
Iâve only seen one review of this movie that felt like the reviewer was even watching the same movie as me, and this is it:
That lens distorts things a bit. The âculturalâ differences on display include Americans worrying about safety precautions and quality control while their Chinese supervisors wonder why they wonât work weekends. The inflow of international capital brings on real labor problemsâenough that talk of a union provides some second-half drama. But American Factory classifies it all as âculturalâ misunderstandings. Its Netflix summary underscores this interpretation: âHopes soar when a Chinese company reopens a shuttered factory in Ohio. But a culture clash threatens to shatter an American dream.â
The problem is, the American workers wonât cooperate with the documentaryâs preferred narrative. The âclash of culturesâ narrative is entirely one-sided. In every circumstance, Americans make consistent efforts to praise and appreciate their new bosses, coworkers, and exhibitions of Chinese âculture.â Itâs clear throughout that every Dayton native is making a genuine effort to be tolerant. In the promo video, Obama admits he expected otherwise, saying âthey exhibited a lot more trust than I would have expected.â The sole exception comes when one worker asks why Chinese propaganda has to be playing in the factory lunchroom at all hours.
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RIP Bong Joon-hoâs liver.
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Yeah dude was ready to get smashed after just winning screenplay and international filmâŚ
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I donât normally care about the Oscars, but I fistpumped when Parasite won.
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Wait, did Parasite win? What is the score?
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Parasite won everything.
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Amazing.
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