turistas go home!

[intertribal]

The title is my reaction to Indiana Jones: The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  The above is also my reaction to every Indiana Jones movie, so I guess if you like Indiana Jones, you'll like it.

Let me just say though, that as someone who watched 9 FUCKING seasons of the X-Files, this sanitized, Americanized, and abridged version in 2 1/2 hours and M&Ms packaging just feels like a smack in the fucking face.

+ : every time Indiana Jones fails at something. 
- : every time Indiana Jones succeeds at something.
best character: crazy professor man + mutt
worst character: marion ravenwood + indiana jones
best impossibility: Indiana Jones gets pulled out of a sand trap by holding onto a snake that is somehow able to hold his entire weight!
worst impossibility: Indiana Jones survives a nuclear explosion by hiding in a refrigerator and doesn't die of cancer in three weeks!

Comments

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

That's why I explained it to you, so that we would both know what we're talking about. I think you mean much the same thing as unmarked when you talk about a hegemonic culture.

I dunno, you're just a person. You're Nadia. I don't give a shit how you're marked, and I'm sorry it's so important to you.

Yes, I suppose we all like to be comforted, and groups are comforting. It takes a lot of strength, arguably inhuman strength, to transcend them. It's like old-school Enlightenment. Or Christianity. Which have their roots in the same thing anyway.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

uhh...no, i'm partly wrong there. religions do create groups, obviously. i'm thinking of the idea of transcendence, or something. perhaps wrongly.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

If you don't have something, you want it. If you are not defined you are simply not. You are non-existent. The amount of people who actually see people for individuals is very small and I congratulate you on being one of those people.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it becomes painfully clear to me how little people see others as individuals, how much it's like...ingrained into their perception not to. I don't think it's worth feeling non-existent for, but obviously that doesn't do shit about the feeling, and I'm sorry. I probably can't truly understand that.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree that it's not worth feeling non-existent for. But I guess that's part of the reason I'm obsessed with world citizenship and being part of the human race, etc., because it's all I can belong to.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I think the ideas of world citizenship and belonging to the human race are kind of cool, and possibly better than the alternatives.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think they are.