I am becoming the very thing that I hate most. I have always
maintained that there are a few key things that, hopefully, separate me from
the more mainstream film press. Apart from my insistence on not allowing a
person’s media enjoyment to reflect on a person’s character (i.e. not calling
someone stupid because they like/don’t like something) and making every attempt
possible to judge every film as equals, I also wanted to refrain from letting
my own personal politics spill into my thoughts on a given film. Well, if
you’ve been following me over the last month or so, you’ll know that I’ve been
doing a craptastic job of that last one. I’ve been shoe-horning in my views on
certain aspects of sexual politics numerous times here, even when it hasn’t
been called for. To put it simply, I don’t want to become another Armond White
and have my political views be the only thing that dictate how I watch/analyse
a film. So, it should help that I’m almost forced to do the same here, given how
this film directly deals with certain politically charged matters. I miss when
I would just reference random pieces of pop culture for my jokes, rather than
have to bring things down so much. Nevertheless, we still have a review to do
here.
