Following the style and themes of his previous work "What is a Woman?", Matt Walsh offers his next piece, "Am I Racist?" to keep us laughing along as he serves extremely left liberals a taste of their own medicine. He acquires DEI certification, gets kicked out of anti-racist white grief counseling, confronts his racist uncle before the attendees of his anti-racist workshop, and ends it with a brief, dream-like monologue exposing his true feelings underneath all the mockery.
my favorite moments
  • Walsh brings on Robin DiAngelo for an interview. In a masterful maneuver, he pins her underneath her own claims and she willingly wriggles and squirms.
  • He takes to the streets to ask random real people - "What are you doing to decenter your whiteness?" A kid asks him to clarify, "why would I decentralize my whiteness?" The slip of decenter to decentralize was a really innocent and beautiful revelation, confirming that there are a lot of conflicting narratives out there borrowing language haphazardly, criss-crossing their way through the minds of my generation.
The film should be taken in as entertainment, but the words flying around, if taken in their context, are very heavy. However, there's no way it could be all that new to you if you went to college in the last decade or have a Twitter account. It was very funny, and I appreciate the way Walsh is uniquely able to locate the tickle spot of wokeism.
He takes to the streets to ask random real people - "What are you doing to decenter your whiteness?" A kid asks him to clarify, "why would I decentralize my whiteness?" The slip of decenter to decentralize was a really innocent and beautiful revelation, confirming that there are a lot of conflicting narratives out there borrowing language haphazardly, criss-crossing their way through the minds of my generation.
I was happy to see that one of the kids in that scene had a "Dead And Company T-shirt. It gave me hope for the future.
I enjoyed the movie okay. I thought it could have been funnier. Maybe my expectations were too high after everything I had heard about it.
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that's fair! I hadn't heard anything about it, but I did see What is a Woman. I thought they were on the same level of funny
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My wife and I were the only two people in the theatre. Maybe it was paranoia but I felt like the theatre usher gave me a weird look. Definitely not the movie to see in a deep blue region.
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oh wow it was shown in theaters??
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43 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 3 Nov
I keep seeing clips of this on X and YT. It looks super schadenfreude which I tend to wince through even if the prank is on an enemy.
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there's that element to it that I noticed in What is a Woman, too. This one leaned more into fabricating reality like Nathan Fielder does, and so it was more entertaining that way
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Good analogy, but Nathan Fielder is much funnier in my opinion. I feel like this movie could have been better with improved writing and editing. Might have caused less wincing.
Did you see The Curse? I thought it was great, though some people I know didn't think it was funny. It was also difficult to watch at times without getting very uncomfortable.
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I saw The Curse! Oh it was really cool, sometimes funny but more often pretty serious. Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone were really good. The last episode freaked me out.
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That last episode! The first episodes were good, typical Fielder, and then it went to a whole new, disturbing place. I didn't think much of Emma Stone for years, but then this and Poor Things set me straight.
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hmm I might have to write my review on Poor Things..that one gets me worked up honestly
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I'm looking forward to it.
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Entertainment, but mockery is the only way to deal with these people so wth
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Is there any other way to watch it?
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no not that I'm aware of
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