Getting back into beatmaking and I used to really enjoy Big Cheese and his battle rap remixes. Anybody got favorite verses they wanna hear on beat? Open to suggestions
>!Why didn't he shoot Louie? He already tortured her, and couldn't possibly have cared if she lived. I know he wanted Buckley for shooting him, but he was told from the start that Buckley was explicitly acting on her orders.!<
>!I also understand that he was aware of his loss to the Saints, and would legitimately give up Louie in exchange for getting away. But once Jerome said "Nah," what reason was there to push Louie out of the way instead of using her as a human shield, or just shooting her in the head? At that point, he was gonna die, and imo Louie was...THE target, moreso than Buckley or even Jerome. What gives?!<
We all know about the grand conspiracy to expose bojan horsemack's secrets through the plot of Philbert. Do you think Common's involvement was premeditated? Or did Flip bring him on to add an air of misdirection and throw boj off his trail?
Me personally, I think Common knew all along about Joback and his issues, and was waiting his whole career to expose him. In 2005, he made a song called "Testify."
And that's exactly what Brexit-Bricks-Be ended up doing in the interview with Bo Burnham, exposing him as a abuser. I think Common knew all along where his career would go after Philbert and took it upon himself to become involved in the ultimate conspiracy against the horse man.
Or maybe he was just racist idk
Great movie. Loved it. 3rd favorite of my life so far.
Jim Hudson is not exactly a morally upstanding guy. He has serious character flaws and makes terrible decisions during the movie. However, I did not read him as a literal racist white supremacist creep. I do not think he's actually the bad guy, and I don't think the movie is about how white people are evil for appreciating black culture.
The movie obviously comments on issues related to bodily autonomy or lack thereof, commodification of black bodies, white ownership and control over POC, mixed race relationships and the mental toll they take, all sorts of things. But I thought these things were couched in a layer of metaphor and abstraction, and I do not think it was a literal depiction of literal real life issues.
Just as an example: the film's director himself said that Hudson attending the Armitage auction is evil because he's bidding for Chris to lose autonomy and serve his selfish desires. I accept that this is the creators' intent but i'm sorry, this is just silly. He just uses his considerable wealth to try and restore his own vision. And the implication here is that Hudson coveting Chris's eye for photography/art is inherently unethical. That a white person appreciating a black person's body/talent is a character flaw.
EDIT: i'm not talking about the sunken place scene. I *guess* it touches on the central theme of the movie a little, but It's not really relevant to my argument, and I don't want to do contrarian hot take artistry about that subject matter. I offered no defense or excuse and do not disagree that this is what's happening. I just disagree that the Jim Hudson and The Armitages are *reeeaaally* white supremacists cause they obviously appreciate black people and have motivations beyond hurting them. They just do, through spooky hypnosis-related chicanery, and like the rest of the film, I thought it was meant to be taken as somewhat allegorical.