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abhorrent and disgusting. far more important an issue than the completely fake discourse about woke casting or whatever.

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this from the jacobin article on the topic is important context. this is not merely the background noise of imperialism and exploitation that defines all production under capitalism to some extent. this is an intentional and recent escalation of colonial norms driven by trump's pro-genocide policies

i am reminded also of how dunkirk saved a lot of money by using prison labour. i think of this every time nolan brags about how his films always come in under budget

I guess nolan really wanted to stick to his role of doing neo modernism so exploiting colonial power is just common sense for him

he doesn’t need to know. it’s his movie and his responsibility, if your departments are saving money by subcontracting prison labour and all you see is excellent we got a good deal on those ropes that’s still an ethical disaster

the chuds are not that fucking smart and also they dont need to; no one will care. but i do think more broadly and with less like, strategic intention that turning everything into an identity driven culture war does absolutely obsfucate material struggles and the right leans into it

hmmm no i dont think so, i doubt this story will go beyond a couple articles of liberal-left tutting, the idea that this will have any effect on the film's audience or nolan's reputation is, depressingly, laughable. it's bleak out there. third highest grossing movie of the year so far is Michael.

I remember seeing this brought up when the film was earlier in production, so I was surprised that I didn't see any coverage of it now that it's closer to release. I guess they're just depending on lack of awareness of Western Sahara in general.

Obvious example of why It's silly to let chuds define terms of engagement. There surface level whining makes too many ignore all the politics going on underneath. When you can see certain choices were made to project a modern image of masculinity. Disgusting actions like these are unsurprising.