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bwood
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Thu Sep-03-15 01:43 PM

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"Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller, 2015)"


          

Yo so this shit was outstanding b. It doesn't try to paint Minnie the protagonist as a slut. She portrayed as a girl having a sexual awakening that gets out of control. The nudity ans sex is not sexualized and titillating either.

Everyone in the cast kills it and I think the director and DP are gonna have long careers. The score is dope too.

It's a shame this will be overlooked.

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Goddamn, I really wanted to see this.
Sep 03rd 2015
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Same happened for me for The End of the Tour.
Sep 03rd 2015
2
does it have any racial stuff in it?
Sep 03rd 2015
3
Minnie does refer to Mexicans as wetbacks very quickly but
Sep 03rd 2015
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Terrific movie. Highly recommended.
Dec 29th 2015
5

Frank Longo
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Thu Sep-03-15 04:25 PM

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1. "Goddamn, I really wanted to see this."
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It played for like one week on the Westside of LA and then vanished. I might have to wait for VOD now. Fucking distribution...

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bwood
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Thu Sep-03-15 04:57 PM

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2. "Same happened for me for The End of the Tour."
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Missed my screening and it played for one week here in Trenton. Gonna have to catch it in NYC.

This is the last day for this movie in the tri-state area as well except for NYC.

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BigWorm
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Thu Sep-03-15 09:19 PM

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3. "does it have any racial stuff in it?"
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I can probably go ahead and say that in the book the protagonist is outright racist.

Not that any of the males in the book are characterized in a positive way, but just about every mention of black men is attached with it noted disgust/repulsion. And most of the time they are depicted as pimps and/or sexual predators.

You can excuse it on account of the times, but...otherwise it's just this girl's very wild and unfortunate coming of age story that randomly hits you on the head with pretty scathing racism.

  

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bwood
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Thu Sep-03-15 09:53 PM

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4. "Minnie does refer to Mexicans as wetbacks very quickly but"
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they do talk about black guys the way most white chicks do. I took in stride and the film KIM for the most part.

So, no really offensive shit other than the wetback shit.

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Frank Longo
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Tue Dec-29-15 01:26 AM

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5. "Terrific movie. Highly recommended."
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Great in pretty much every regard.

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