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  In the Year of the Pig 1969

  Watched by comradeocean 30 Apr 2022

  Happy Liberation Day

  [source: Kanopy]

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  Night Catches Us 2010

  Watched by comradeocean 29 Apr 2022

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  "I didn't know they were gonna kill him" rings so false it discredits the entire movie

  [source: streaming]

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  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 2003

  Watched by comradeocean 26 Jan 2019

  I have no chill.

  Hands Off Venezuela!!

  [available on youtube]

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  This Is Not What I Expected 2017

  Watched by comradeocean 13 Jan 2019 1

  I cannot handle the class+gender baggage of New New China!!!!!

  This and this, basically. and what is specifically wild about This is Not What I Expected is the total fantastical elimination of one of the binding features of contemporary Chinese society: familial strictures. It's not just a conceit on the level of New-York-without-black-people or freelancers-with-spectacular-apartments (comparable examples of the frothy sublimation of some animating logics of North America life - anti-black racism, precarity), but at an even more individually differentiated…