I found Hereditary brilliant, and very hard to watch. I’ve never seen anything quite like it, and in fact would be hard pressed to write or even talk about it. Another good piece; the details about the governor are tough to stomach.
While I did like "Midsommar", I think that one's a ways away. Gonna leave horror for a bit in November, but there are COUNTLESS horror titles I can't wait to discuss down the line.
Would make for a good Horror in the Daylight series.
Really enjoyed your spooky season series. Gotta a couple more to catch up on. Would like to see your take on more recent Christmas themed movies before year end if that’s in the works.
Awesome that you covered this! The Rewatchables podcast did an episode on Hereditary this week and now we got your review too! I didn’t know how I felt about this one coming out of the theater but it stuck with me and each day after I came to like it more and more. I was originally hung up on all the tropes I noticed but come to appreciate it for the text underneath. I haven’t watched it since though. Not sure when I will again. Hereditary, Get Out, The Witch, It Follows, and Raw all fit in as future classics of the last decade for me. I’d throw The Babadook in there but it doesn’t hit for me the same personally.
Regarding the 2nd part of your piece I’m from and live in southern KY and I’ll never understand how people can be pro life but also pro death penalty. I had a professor in college tell me that he was against the death penalty because of at least that one person on death row who is innocent. Even if it’s just one person. It’s the simplest and best reason I’ve ever heard.
Since prison, given that I wasn't a part of society, I've become more of the mindset of, what would happen if aliens landed here today? I'm certain they'd see that murder is a crime, but we have a death penalty, and surely they'd say, "But why?"
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That is an interesting way to think about it. And a strong case for if aliens do exist (I’m agnostic on this) why they don’t have anything to do with us. Also the lens of humans 500 years from now. They will likely see this time as barbaric in the way prisoners are treated in this case regarding the death penalty specifically.
Future humans will likely judge us on the way we abuse other species that are vulnerable as well.
I found Hereditary brilliant, and very hard to watch. I’ve never seen anything quite like it, and in fact would be hard pressed to write or even talk about it. Another good piece; the details about the governor are tough to stomach.
Many thanks, and yeah, screw that guy!
If I may drop my own thoughts on the film here for your perusal… 😜
https://open.substack.com/pub/jackandersonkeane/p/the-hopelessness-and-horror-of-hereditary-8f1353809078?r=1lzok0&utm_medium=ios
We gotta get that Midsommar write up sometime soon right?
While I did like "Midsommar", I think that one's a ways away. Gonna leave horror for a bit in November, but there are COUNTLESS horror titles I can't wait to discuss down the line.
I hear that.
Would make for a good Horror in the Daylight series.
Really enjoyed your spooky season series. Gotta a couple more to catch up on. Would like to see your take on more recent Christmas themed movies before year end if that’s in the works.
Awesome that you covered this! The Rewatchables podcast did an episode on Hereditary this week and now we got your review too! I didn’t know how I felt about this one coming out of the theater but it stuck with me and each day after I came to like it more and more. I was originally hung up on all the tropes I noticed but come to appreciate it for the text underneath. I haven’t watched it since though. Not sure when I will again. Hereditary, Get Out, The Witch, It Follows, and Raw all fit in as future classics of the last decade for me. I’d throw The Babadook in there but it doesn’t hit for me the same personally.
Regarding the 2nd part of your piece I’m from and live in southern KY and I’ll never understand how people can be pro life but also pro death penalty. I had a professor in college tell me that he was against the death penalty because of at least that one person on death row who is innocent. Even if it’s just one person. It’s the simplest and best reason I’ve ever heard.
Agreed on death penalty.
Since prison, given that I wasn't a part of society, I've become more of the mindset of, what would happen if aliens landed here today? I'm certain they'd see that murder is a crime, but we have a death penalty, and surely they'd say, "But why?"
That is an interesting way to think about it. And a strong case for if aliens do exist (I’m agnostic on this) why they don’t have anything to do with us. Also the lens of humans 500 years from now. They will likely see this time as barbaric in the way prisoners are treated in this case regarding the death penalty specifically.
Future humans will likely judge us on the way we abuse other species that are vulnerable as well.