tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post3815689737112406163..comments2023-10-28T06:24:47.456-04:00Comments on Song of a Reformed Headhunter: "The New Twenty" (2009)Jee Leonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979179110231643931noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post-43876127544804946042011-08-03T16:52:27.767-04:002011-08-03T16:52:27.767-04:00Hi Chris,
Thanks for adding your thoughts. Post-g...Hi Chris,<br /><br />Thanks for adding your thoughts. Post-gay and post-race are, to my mind, either ironic or hopeful terms. I guess the movie is more hopeful than I am. I think gay and race will always be with us. Appreciate you coming in on this.<br /><br />JeeJee Leonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01979179110231643931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19954746.post-53408918365130299702011-08-01T13:06:50.102-04:002011-08-01T13:06:50.102-04:00Chris Mason Johnson here, the writer-director of T...Chris Mason Johnson here, the writer-director of The New Twenty. Thanks for your mostly positive blogpost/review. I would like to make one point, though. You say in your last para that "despite the director's attempt to go 'beyond' sexual orientation and ethnicity, they slip back into the film in multifarious ways." That was, of course, exactly my intention, for them to slip back into the film in multifarious ways. I'm not naive enough to think that "post-race" and "post-gay" describe any kind of historical reality in any wholesome sense. They are ironic terms, hopeful terms, rhetorical stabs at something ten percent true, but they also certainly point toward mixed progress. That's what the movie's about: patriarchy in peril; patriarchy triumphant. Also: friendship between gays and straights without any of the usual rom-com tropes, a related theme.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com