We Have Never Been Modern
May. 18th, 2024 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaidenThere is so much going on in this film! It's a mystery about a stillborn intersex baby. It's about life in rural Czechoslovakia in the 30s. It's about starting a planned community/factory town and all that is good and bad about "progress". It's about intersex people and their place in the world. It's about a marriage disintegrating.
It's a period film, so it's a complicated watch because of period appropriate terminology and attitudes. but I think it's also a good conversation starter. I went on a wiki tear afterward - the setting is a real place that seems to have been portrayed pretty honestly. (It's wild as an American to think of a place in Europe as so remote that it's being accessed by plane like it's Alaska)
it seems like other pass holders were less into this than I was, but there was enough complexity that i felt compelled to learn more about everything going on politically and socially at the time; the friction of Czechia and Slovakia being glommed into one country is an underlying theme but it's assumed that the audience is familiar. (I'm guessing there's a whole dynamic about how people speak that is lost with subtitles)
anyway I dug this and want to have C andvarina8 see it to get their takes on the historic moment and the ethnic conflict. it's the kind of thing I love getting from the festival
It's a period film, so it's a complicated watch because of period appropriate terminology and attitudes. but I think it's also a good conversation starter. I went on a wiki tear afterward - the setting is a real place that seems to have been portrayed pretty honestly. (It's wild as an American to think of a place in Europe as so remote that it's being accessed by plane like it's Alaska)
it seems like other pass holders were less into this than I was, but there was enough complexity that i felt compelled to learn more about everything going on politically and socially at the time; the friction of Czechia and Slovakia being glommed into one country is an underlying theme but it's assumed that the audience is familiar. (I'm guessing there's a whole dynamic about how people speak that is lost with subtitles)
anyway I dug this and want to have C and
varina8 see it to get their takes on the historic moment and the ethnic conflict. it's the kind of thing I love getting from the festival
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Date: 2024-05-18 10:10 pm (UTC)Growing up when and where I did, you were constantly aware that being Czech was different than being Slovak (and as my grandfather impressed on me, being Slovak is not the same as being Slovene). I didn't start to identify as Yugoslavian until I came to Seattle in the early 1980s and no one knew where Slovenia was. Right about the time I surrendered to the mainstream, everything changed again.