"When I began writing The Bluest Eye, I was interested in something else. Not resistance to the contempt of others, ways to deflect it, but the far more tragic and disabling consequences of accepting rejection as legitimate, as selfevident.

I knew that some victims of powerful self-loathing turn out to be dangerous, violent, reproducing the enemy who has humiliated them over and over. Others surrender their identity; melt into a structure that delivers the strong persona they lack. Most others, however, grow beyond it.

But there are some who collapse, silently, anonymously, with no voice to express or acknowledge it. They are invisible. The death of self-esteem can occur quickly, easily in children, before their ego has “legs,” so to speak.

Couple the vulnerability of youth with indifferent parents, dismissive adults, and a world, which, in its language, laws, and images, re-enforces despair, and the journey to destruction is sealed." via

Blue Lights | Trailer - BBC這部到第二季，談北愛問題的地方處理得好細緻。影集本身是警察程序類型，警察是維持社會秩序的一部分，所有角色在這個立場上是鎖死的。但影集聚焦在北愛爾蘭的歷史的方式，突顯警察作為一個為公權力維持秩序的職業，和去擔任警察的那個人，不一定是同調的。談殖民的時候常提到殖民是建立一整個社會結構，這點在這部的北愛問題劇情線上特別明顯。警察不只是維持社會秩序的角色，就連身為警察的人想要說出事實，也會被警察和法律制度消音。

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讓我好好奇如果賴香吟的白色畫像拍成類似的影集不知道會是什麼樣。

如果有人對德勒茲和瓜達里有興趣的話，九月底有個研討會和工作坊： 報名

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Nope: Blackness, the Informe, and Cinema
Reformulating Black Cinematic Labor

Tolkien Society 2024 Hybrid Seminar: Tolkien's Roman...2024 "Tolkien's Romantic Resonances" seminar

《客人主人》正式預告－耗時5年史詩紀錄片，關於臺灣客家族群300年來的生存故事穿越「身在中間」的歷史，重探臺灣客家史觀——導演沈可尚談《客人主人》 | 放映週報

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

紐時21世紀百大書單好像和美國英文系小說課會指定的閱讀清單有一定的重疊度。Stephen King, Sarah Jessica Parker and More Share Th...覺得更好看的是作家選了哪些，中了哪些。像James Patterson的喜好顯然是書店裡被放在特別類型的小說，一本都沒中啦

＆Toni Morrison進榜的是A Mercy這本也很耐人尋味 XDToni Morrison Discusses 'A Mercy'還是好喜歡這本的最後。

btw, 有三個人提名的Only Good Indians好兇好毒好好看。Stephen Graham Jones推十本也是一本都沒中😂

“The Reformatory,” by Tananarive Due
“The Bear and the Nightingale,” by Katherine Arden
“Fortune Smiles,” by Adam Johnson
“World War Z,” by Max Brooks
“Dare Me,” by Megan Abbott
“Redshirts,” by John Scalzi
“Knockemstiff,” by Donald Ray Pollock
“The Lesser Dead,” by Christopher Buehlman
“Come Closer,” by Sara Gran
“FantasticLand,” by Mike Bockoven

記一下Jones的書單。

Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia’s Greatest Empire
好奇這本的切入點。

赫然發現shudder目前同時有漢尼拔、Preacher和The Terror。
Late Night with the Devil普通。

艾美獎The Sympathizer只入圍最佳男配角，而且是小勞勃道尼？有夠諷刺XDDDDD

當美國電影電視裡的亞洲人開始說自己的語言Hmmmmmm. 挺好奇怎麼不用Pachinko當例子XD
提語言然後這麼輕巧地跳過語言的社會意義也是很厲害。西語常常沒翻譯要怎麼說？或迪士尼Andor裡整段Andor童年關鍵記憶沒字幕，用「不用字幕觀眾就看得懂他們要表達什麼」是可以的喔？
(但很愛The Sympathizer那段語言大亂鬥。影集裡比這篇文選的片段更複雜也更好笑)

#BlackAtlanticsSeries

Sweet Home S3
......呃，這算爛尾吧？感覺是一小時半就可以演完的劇情結果有八小時長。
(後來和朋友討論到這部用情感來當辨識人類和怪物的分界……難道是種趨勢？秘密森林也走這種路線）

臺灣族群史解謎：揭開平埔、外省、客家、福佬的歷史謎團

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영화 볼 결심 (@decision_movie) • Instagram reel哎唷XDDD

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在市場的攤位吃東西。看他們出菜忍不住想到大熊餐廳……將近三十個品項但只有兩個鍋，客人又源源不絕。
結果看大熊餐廳都在看餐廳動線和員工動向和事後清潔的部分XD