These are exciting times in the world of cinema. Mike “Juicebro” Cernovich’s new film long video Silenced — a documentary about a bunch of people who have not actually been silenced, as far as I can tell — has finally hit theaters Vimeo! And it’s getting rave reviews!
Well, technically I’m not quite sure if it is, because I’ve only seen one review, from Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos, who also happens to be in the film, though for some reason this doesn’t count as COLLUSION and no one is making giant graphics featuring little red arrows pointing from Milo to Milo to show HOW DEEP THE CORRUPTION GOES.
Anyway, Milo liked the film, declaring it “great.” He said a lot of other things about the film, but, as I didn’t bother to actually read the review, you’ll have to find out what they are for yourself.
But I did notice one VERY IMPORTANT PARAGRAPH in which Milo set forth one of the reasons he, or whichever intern he got to write the piece (allegedly), think the film is so totally awesome.
Technically, the film is sufficient for its purpose. Almost all the interviews are static, tight shots, which do a good job showing expression and even at times emotion.
Did you hear that!!?/!
TECHNICALLY THE FILM IS SUFFICIENT FOR ITS PURPOSE.
That’s the line that’s going on the movie posters for sure.
Milo does have some mild criticisms of the film, though.
My biggest complaint is with the graphics, a staple of documentary films these days, which feel clunky. In most cases these take the form of a tablet or cell phone used to show headlines or streaming video, but I found them distracting. While I preferred the tight interview shots of Silenced to The Red Pill, the latter uses graphics much more effectively.
Apparently, Silenced and The Red Pill are the only two documentaries ever made. Who knew?
@dlouwe
That’s a pretty standard claim, often replacing ancient aliens. The ‘argument’ in both cases being that PoCs could never have built something as impressive as the Pyramids, so either they were white, or they had external help.
@dlouwe
That alternated between funny and enraging.
During one of my Twitter lurks yesterday, I saw two responses to an indigenous man’s post about the Stolen Generation children.
Number 1 said “Who’d want to steal an A**?”
Number 2 said “maybe some really confused animal control officers?”
Then they had a good laugh and bonded.
They are clearly terrified of speaking their minds. Yep.
(apologies for the revolting detail; I saw these tweets as I was reading this thread so couldn’t help connecting)
Observations on Milo’s review:
Apparently Milo doesn’t watch any non-Alt Right feature-length documentaries because a large percentage of them don’t have a narrator or on-screen interviewers.
All competent filmmakers try to avoid having their issue-focused documentary show the same people repeating the same things. That’s not really a “device” per se.
So much for that “variety”.
Except filming screens showing footage isn’t “graphics”, which are added in post production.
My favorite moment:
This clunky sentence is pure Milo and by that I mean it’s unintentionally comical and genuinely pathetic. It takes a whole lot of horse shit to turn being an asshole on Twitter into being “an active warrior for free speech on social media” but Milo tries his darndest to make it happen.
@Sinkable John
Ooh, I hadn’t seen that! Thanks! I love terrible movies, so I shall be watching Grumpy Cat’s Chrissie movie, and some kitty themed movie called Santa Claws, where kittens have to deliver all of Santa’s presents because he has an allergic reaction to them. It could be bad, or it could be gold bad.
I’ll probably be eating prawns and playing backyard cricket for Christmas. That’s the Aussie way. As a foreigner, I look upon such activities with bemusement, whilst trying to convince anyone who will listen that North Pole-ese on the present tags is the only way to know that it was indeed Santa that delivered them.
What will you be doing for Christmas? Any terrible movies on the horizon for you? 😀
@dlouwe:
I didn’t watch the interview, but that sounds depressingly familiar. I swear, if we could invent a cure for the Just World Fallacy, there wouldn’t be a Right (alt or otherwise.)
Yes, Milo. You’ve been such a warrior for free speech ever since you started your alt-right attention-whoring. You go. Yay, you. *eyeroll*
It’ll be amusing when he finally says the wrong thing and they all turn on him. It won’t take much since they only tolerate a gay man like him because he parrots their views.
So…what is this movie about? I’m pretty intrigued about this Cernovich fella. He seems to be the archetype of male insecurity.
Damn Free Speech Warriors.
@LankyYankee,
*mutter, grumble*
Not for all us, it isn’t.
And that North Pole-ese stuff just adds to the whole bizarre experience of summer Xmas in a world that insists Xmas is white and cold.
*shakes fist*
I hope yours is great, though, and filled with terrible movies 😀
@LankyYankee
I actually thought the Grumpy Cat Christmas movie was pretty good-it has a kind of hackneyed kid-adopts-animal-who-saves-the-day plot, but a lot of Christmas movies have some sort of hackneyed plot, and the girl wasn’t annoying (thank God). Also, Aubrey Plaza voicing Grumpy Cat is (IMO) one of the best casting decisions of the past few years.
Thanks for the warm welcome!
Alan Dershowitz can certainly be relied upon for a soundbite.
Sure, Cernovich & Co. can say what they want (in the US, with the usual narrow inciting-imminent-lawless-action exceptions), and the great thing about living in a democracy is that we can freely speak back. And employers can voluntarily choose not to associate with people who’ve shown that they’re biased against some of their customers–women and minorities buy widgets, too!
These people are definitely the authoritarian right, not the merry marketeers of the libertarian right.
@Mish
The North Pole-ese thing is actually a tradition from my family, used to cold northern American Christmases. It completely baffles my in-laws and husband, though my step kids all love it.
The seafood as a Christmas food still doesn’t quite seem right to me, and the backyard cricket is just so weird… Has no one here heard of a good food coma?! I do love some of the Aussie themed Christmas paraphernalia about Santa and his boomers, ’cause reindeer can’t hack it in the heat. 😀
Christmas does feel very one sided – even the basic ornaments and things from Kmart and the like are all winter themed. Pretty, but so odd.
@Nikki
Ooh, really? I do like a cheesy feel good flick. That sounds pretty good, the kids might even like it!