Pumpkin Person rating: 9/10
My coworkers and I just watched this movie on CRAVE and I was really impressed with it.
The plot: A 17-year-old girl (Autumn) and her same-age cousin (Skylar) take a bus to New York city because their working class white Rustbelt town doesn’t allow her to get an abortion without parental consent. After getting the abortion, they spend the night bowling and singing karaoke with a boy who gives them enough cash to buy a bus ticket back home.
The End.
That’s literally all that happens, and yet it’s one of the most powerful films I’ve ever seen. It just feels so real, like you’re watching a documentary. The actors all look like ordinary people, the scenes are all in everyday locations like grocery stores, buses, bowling alleys and medical clinics with fluorescent lighting, and minimal dialogue. Indeed the film’s protagonist hardly speaks and when asked questions, gives one word answers. The only time she comes alive is when she’s singing.
We never really learn who got her pregnant but it doesn’t matter. Every male in the film, from the bullies at their school, to their uncompassionate grocery store boss, to the old man customer at the grocery store, to her own father, comes across as a predator.
“Girl child isn’t safe in a World full of men,” Oprah once said.
Even after leaving their lower class town, it doesn’t stop. While on a bus in New York city a man in a business suit stands looking at them, and then unzips his pants to masturbate.
Finally they meet an innocent looking guy around their age who romantically sings Cherokee to Skylar.
Sadly, even he just wants to ply Skylar with alcohol and take sexual advantage.
By the end of the night he gets Skylar against a circular brick pillar and starts kissing her. What neither of them know is that behind the pillar is Autumn. In an especially poignant scene, Autumn reaches for Sylar’s hand and simply locks pinky fingers with her, as if to say “I’m here for you, and I feel your pain”.
And that was what they’ll remember of their big trip to New York city, as they take the long bus ride back to Pennsylvania…
… in the dark.
Pumpkin Person 
A 17-year-old girl (Autumn) and her same-age cousin (Skylar) take a bus to New York city because their working class white Rustbelt town doesn’t allow her to get an abortion without parental consent.
And then, for absolutely no reason at all, Muslims banned women from leaving home without their husbands.
I tried broadening my horizons in college by taking “gender and global politics.” Their reason for not coming down hard on the misogyny of the Muslim world was that helping them would “deprive those women of their agency.” Basically, if they can’t pin it on a white man or capitalism, white saviors couldn’t care less about justice. At least PP is honest enough to only rarely go full libtard. I think he’s responded well to the red pills I’ve prescribed. Might even up his dosage.
PP is like a left wing Luke Ford. He identifies with one end of the political compass, but is too intellectually honest for most of their bullshit.
And mugabe hates both of them.
The only agency those women have is the local government agency that beats them if they take their burqa off
islam wishes to create wolves in sheeps clothing from an ethnocentric positoin.
generic right?
it is what it is.
i thought life was like that but it wasnt.
still reading and writing is a very creative endeavor.
perceptiveness.
futuristic sci fi movies are my personal favorites.
Cherokee instead of karaoke is a hilarious malaprop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_niggardly
Watched Requiem for a Dream for the first and last time recently. One of those powerful movies that you don’t want to watch more than once.
I watched that movie years ago and don’t remember a single thing about it. I kind of like how I’m not autistic and my memory fades of movies I have seen so I later get the distinct enjoyment of watching a good film again.
Is “not autistic” a euphemism for stupid?
autism is the most detrimental disease on the planet. autistic lives dont matter. whites lives dont matter either.
The most intelligent movie critic (who is very woke) Richard Brody on this one :
https://www.google.fr/amp/s/www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/never-rarely-sometimes-always-reviewed-eliza-hittmans-ingenious-portrait-of-the-bureaucracy-of-abortion/amp
How can someone be intelligent and woke at the same time?
As long as it doesn’t harm their ingroup/mating group.
what is wokeness. who coined the term and what was their intent.
Thanks for the link, Bruno. I used to read a lot of movie reviews for a period of a few years. I might have read Brody, but I don’t remember for sure. I find it difficult to imagine a smarter professional movie critic/reviewer than David Ehlrich, though.
A good way to now wich one is better for you is choosing movies you remember very well or that you have just seen and compare critics from both of them. Then you ll know who brightens your watching more.
the yuge problem with online antisemites is all or most of them seem to make their living from it. so they always have to be hysterical like tucker carlson and his liberal peers. and they always have to produce “content”.
if the jews were a problem for real this is a scientific question. but instead of tables of data and graphs what you get is a bunch of trivia and literary/mass media allusions. it’s retarded.
i mean…
from a theoretical POV it’s totally possible that whole groups of people can be like a husband and wife who’ve come to hate each other, matter and antimatter. if one gets what it wants, the other is immiserated and vice versa. and it’s not that either is intrinsically evil. it’s just that they have these irreconcilable differences. if men and women who were in love can get divorced then so can whole peoples.
hitler was an artist not a scientist.
so nazism was another example of how technical people are autistic or un-organized and will obey whoever gives them orders.
because sex.
Yes. The biggest shortcoming of Culture of Critique imo is that a lot of KMac’s arguments rely almost exclusively on quotes lifted from secondary sources. Most of the sources’ authors are Jewish which makes up for this to a large extent, but he could’ve easily made the book more data-driven.
As that weird dude with the woman’s name from George Mason has noted, relying too heavily on qualifiers/value judgements turns debates into pissing matches.
The dissident right would probably be a lot more influential if it had more Sailers and fewer Spencers.
it is still true that the current actual elite is insecure about its status and this can be exploited very easily.
juts never let them know you aren’t an old money wasp, and they’ll assume it if you act like one…because fear and paranoia.
Just replace the word ‘class’ with ‘race’ and this makes sense.
Why are you obsessed with class anyway? It doesn’t explain things like it did in Marx day when social class was more akin to castes than classes of people.
In Wernicke’s aphasia, the ability to grasp the meaning of spoken words and sentences is impaired, while the ease of producing connected speech is not very affected. Therefore Wernicke’s aphasia is also referred to as ‘fluent aphasia’ or ‘receptive aphasia’.
Reading and writing are often severely impaired. As in other forms of aphasia, individuals can have completely preserved intellectual and cognitive capabilities unrelated to speech and language.
Persons with Wernicke’s aphasia can produce many words and they often speak using grammatically correct sentences with normal rate and prosody. However, often what they say doesn’t make a lot of sense or they pepper their sentences with non-existent or irrelevant words. They may fail to realize that they are using the wrong words or using a non-existent word and often they are not fully aware that what they say doesn’t make sense.
Patients with this type of aphasia usually have profound language comprehension deficits, even for single words or simple sentences. This is because in Wernicke’s aphasia individuals have damage in brain areas that are important for processing the meaning of words and spoken language. Such damage includes left posterior temporal regions of the brain, which are part of what is knows as Wernicke’s area, hence the name of the aphasia.
Wernicke’s aphasia and Wernicke’s area are named after the German neurologist Carl Wernicke who first related this specific type of speech deficit to a damage in a left posterior temporal area of the brain.
mugabe supports ALL independence movements, past and present.
scotland and wales and vermont and bavaria and catalonia and northern italy and chenchnia and Euskal Herria and the south and oprahstan and…
and palestinians?
i support a one state solution and the right of return for all palestinians outside the former mandate territory.
LOL
Jimmy’s just looking to start shit. Bill is obviously NOT a pedo based on his mannerisms alone. He’d be beyond horrified if he was even remotely exposed to that.
I read the first few chapters of Gulag Archipelago a few months ago and it set off all sorts of bullshit alarms in my head. iirc Solzhenitsyn claimed there were like 25+ million imprisoned dissidents, which seems incredibly dubious.
Seems like the only people who’ve gone on the record pushing back are Commie apologists, so maybe I’m just too cynical.
PP, Ithink you should put an upvote and downvote button for your articles. This way even you will know which of your articles are good and which ones are cr*p. Like this one.
LOL