RSSMIDNIGHT COWBOY is one of those rare Oscar winners that could indeed be construed as the best of the year.
Yet another utterly useless article about good or bad movies, failing to even mention the tools of subversion and propaganda employed in numerous films. Take the movie quoted above, Midnight Cowboy, which serves as a prime example of a HORRIBLE film: there isn’t a single scene depicting normal, civilized behavior. The entire movie is nothing but a promotion of antisocial, degenerate conduct.
I highly recommend watching it—pay close attention. Then consider what this author actually tells you about it in the article!
Likewise, what this author says about Once Upon a Time in the West is the typical meaningless leftist drivel used to interpret movies or art. But it’s all wrong. What makes this movie great—beyond its music, breathtaking cinematography, sound, and costumes—is its deep and profound understanding of MANLINESS and WOMEN. True, the subtext has an anti-White slant, which is the only leftist/Marxist element in the film. However, its aesthetics and portrayal of revenge are almost fascist, while the music is as beautiful, harmonic, and anti-progressive as it gets.
So, yet another article that fails to educate readers on how to watch movies, instead obfuscating with useless, subjective leftist phrases rather than explaining the OBJECTIVE language and tools behind filmmaking.
Freud? 😛
Midnight Cowboy – boring?
Films work on different levels. Good films offer something to different types of viewers that appeals to them on their respective level. For dimwits, good action, sadism, and/or voyeurism; for women, heartbreak, gossip, voyeurism; for more intelligent, thoughtful people, realistic characters and a plausible plot.
Cineastes (real ones, not those wannabes who applaud the biggest trash hyped up by the left-wing press, like Midnight Cowboy, for example; also true for literature) also pay attention to the craftsmanship of filmmaking: the quality and credibility of the acting, the dialogue, the characters, the cinematography, lighting, the editing (flow, tension), the costumes, colorization, and the sets.
The latter can be judged objectively. In this regard, some aspects of Midnight Cowboy can indeed be described as good: the strong acting, the good cast, and the cinematography is not bad either.
It’s not boring because of the acting —unless one can’t distinguish good acting from bad.
Presumably, anyone can learn to judge acting, even relatively easily: just mute the sound when politicians give speeches. Then you quickly develop a sense for it. You do the same with films. Therefore to me well-acted films are never boring. They might be (incredibly) slow-paced, have stupid plot, but are not “boring”, because good acting make the shown emotions real.
Nevertheless, when objectively judged, Midnight Cowboy film is a horrible movie because it represents Bolshevik cultural subversion propaganda and suggests horrible self-destructive behaviors to a youthful audience as something desirable. I would classify it in the category of the worst Easy Rider-Tavistock brainwashing program, that incredibly successfully totally destroyed the Boomer generation.
Unfortunately, the hyping up of such trash films reveals a major flaw in conservatives, who all too often also label leftist, highly praised garbage as good, either because they’re too cowardly to challenge supposed ‘authorities’ in this field (a typical characteristic of conservatives—submissiveness):
While left-wing critics and the press pounce like bloodhounds on anything that seems ‘reactionary’ to them, tearing apart truly great films with hypocritical justifications, so that the naive and clueless bourgeoisie doesn’t even think of liking the film—and if they do like it, they at least don’t dare to praise it publicly. This has the further brilliant consequence that this intimidation carries over to leftist trash films, and no one dares to massively criticize the subversive, poisonous, hate-filled Bolshevik subtext of the film.
What? Joe Buck's dreams are shattered, and NY is presented as a seedy and corrupt place.
Nevertheless, when objectively judged, Midnight Cowboy film is a horrible movie because it represents Bolshevik cultural subversion propaganda and suggests horrible self-destructive behaviors to a youthful audience as something desirable.
Thanks for the McCabe and Mrs. Miller hint.