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‘Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal’ movie review: A sincere Vijay Sethupathi and a superb Samantha deadlift this safe love triangle

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She thinks he is hers and hers only, as does she.

This tug of war gradually snowballs into a wrestle, where the two women fight it all out for the man. Our man, on the other hand, tries to defuse the situation, pacifying the ladies, sometimes taking the blame on himself. This is not Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal starring Nayanthara, Samantha and Vijay Sethupathi but Panchathanthiram that featured Simran, Ramya Krishnan and Kamal Haasan in the terrific ‘Vandhen Vandhen’ song.

This parallel between these two films is also where it differs. Unlike Panchathanthiram where a love triangle was just playful and suggestive, it is direct in Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal. And this steadfastness is what makes the Vignesh Shivan directorial scarcely enjoyable and utterly superficial. Oh, there is another parallel: Simran in that film was presented as a ‘homely’ woman, while Ramya Krishnan was the vamp. Though Samantha (who looks gorgeous and deadlifts most of the film) isn’t written as a vamp, her character does come across as an object of desire with very little emotional authenticity.

Let us face it: Vignesh Shivan is not a transgressive filmmaker. Actually, none in mainstream Tamil cinema, is. So, if such a love triangle were to be made in Tamil, exploring the mental state of a man and two women, the only logical resolution to your film would be to have a convenient ending, where the moral boundaries remain untouched and ideas exist merely as contemplations. Somewhere you would be aware that Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal wouldn’t be even half interesting of what K Balachander or Balu Mahendra had done in their films. But again, this isn’t a film that wants you to think but expects you to join in for a jolly ride, with a nadaswaram-heavy score by Anirudh.

Sure, but is the film at least entertaining? Absolutely not. Except for a few well-thought-out ideas, Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal ( KRK) remains firmly bland. This is a crime for a film that has three brilliant actors in Vijay Sethupathi, Nayanthara and Samantha who do not have much to do for the simple reason that the screenplay itself doesn’t have enough oil to keep the engine running.

Give credits where it’s due: Vignesh Shivan sets up the premise quite well about a boy named Rambo (Vijay Sethupathi), who is born to a Muslim mother and a Hindu father. After Rambo is born, his father dies and the mother gets a paralytic attack. He is soon regarded as the harbinger of bad luck and despair. So much so that rain stops for him, when Rambo steps out to get drenched. This superstition turns into belief. But Rambo’s mother (oddly named Minah Khalif) reminds him that “when it rains, it pours”.

There is a superb moment in KRK when Rambo gets to experience rain for the first time without being apologetic for who he is. The way Vignesh Shivan treats this moment, it is as if to suggest that Rambo is finally cleansed of his curse and kissed by the rain gods. This happens when the women of KRK — Kanmani (Nayanthara) and Khatija (Samantha) — express their love for him. Rambo calls them his “angels”, although one believes that the demon must be the lack of a weighty script. The first half is so long that, at one point, you lose track of what’s happening and start thinking about the calculations, given that the film has two top actresses.

So, while the ‘homely’ Kanmani gets the soulful ‘Naan Pizhai’ song, the pub-going Khatija gets the groovy ‘Dippam Dappam’. Of course, Rambo is in love with Kanmani during daytime and with Khatija at night. I hope you know why. Each of them gets a scene where the hero comes to the rescue of his woman. The manner in which Vignesh Shivan has conceived the women of KRK raises questionable doubts. Nayanthara as Kanmani can be seen as a representation of the everyday woman from the previous generation. She is single, has a sister and a brother with a developmental disability, and has an ancestral property under debt — if only the late actor Sujatha was around. Samantha as Khatija, on the other hand, is written as this generation’s woman dealing with issues such as domestic abuse from her boyfriend and lecherous looks from men. Even the way these ladies fall in love with Rambo feels like an easy route to solve the screenplay problems. You don’t have to look elsewhere. The 2020 Telugu film Krishna and His Leela handled this oddity rather beautifully.

But then there are a few instances when KRK comes truly alive as what Vignesh Shivan might have imagined, courtesy Vijay Sethupathi. There is a scene when Kanmani and Khatija confront Rambo in a temple. They ask him why he has been avoiding them, not knowing about the two-timing. Vijay doesn’t answer them. He just steps backwards, prostrating before them in the guise of seeking blessings from God. No other male actor would have agreed to this. The audience went nuts. There are some laugh-out-loud moments when Vignesh imagines popular love stories as a love triangle with his actors. Who would have thought that the iconic Titanic pose would have three instead of two? See, that is what KRK should have been. You also get a few scattered laughs here and there but these are definitely not enough to sustain your interest.

This aside, something needs to be said about Vijay Sethupathi and the astonishing ability he possesses to remain sincere to the character he plays. Just watch out for him in the end when someone asks how he could love two women at the same time. Vijay gives a lame explanation using the film’s title. But something about his voice, the way he says it, makes you feel it comes from the heart. He makes you believe. Perhaps people were right in pointing this out. KRK would have been even more interesting had it been a romance between Nayanthara and Samantha. Maybe.

Kaathuvaakula Rendu Kaadhal is currently running in theatres.

‘Harry Potter World’ to be Transfigured into Conversion Camp

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Picture a sunset. Glowing in cosmic beauty, you transcend. Now, imagine while you look out at God’s cummerbund, a small goat trots up to you. “Hey, little guy, how ya doing?” you ask this four-legged friend that has minus signs for eyes.

“I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth,” says the sacrificial animal.

“What?” you ask. “I mean, ‘maa,’” the goat states.

J.K. Rowling is the goat. In 2020, this weaver of magical yarns got hers snipped when she said the above quote. While she has earned the ire of the general public, she still wields considerable influence over the writing and production of the “Fantastic Beast” films, as well as the management of Universal theme park “Harry Potter World.” With this influence, she has campaigned to turn the popular site into a place young LGBTQ+ teens can go to “magic away the gay.” Being the ice cream man that I am, I got the scoop.

The popular Florida destination has long found itself at the forefront of whimsy and entertainment and fun. Young witches and wizards can pick a wand from Ollivanders, ride an animatronic Hypogriff, and even chug a pint of butterbeer. “And all that will be the same,” says park owner and born-again Slytherin David Yensin, “but now you’ll just receive a pamphlet on the evils of homosexuality along with your Hogwarts History textbooks.” Yensin, and the 14-headed corpobeast that represents J.K. Rowling’s public relations team, were emphatic in letting me know that not much about the amusement park would be different. “All the rides will go at the same speed, but we’ve had our Imagineers figure out a way to beam sped-up Brigham Young speeches into the rider’s brains as they go around loops,” reassured the fourth head on the soulless P.R. chimera.

“Wait a moment, don’t Imagineers work for Disney?” I asked, remembering the insipid portmanteau’s true meaning.

“It’s cute you think Disney doesn’t want a piece of the conversion therapy pie,” condescended the 10th head. “And how delicious it is!” they squealed in unison.

One of the many advantages of working for a school paper is all the places I get into for free. So, like the lucky little paper boy that I am, I received two tickets to see the new renovations at the park. At first, I assumed that the extra was just for redundancy’s sake, but a note on the back told me that it was for “Zivan’s Hopefully-Convertible-Possible Boyfriend.” When I commented on my heterosexuality out loud, the note, à la Tom Riddle’s Diary, morphed into “come on, just find someone unsuspecting. We need to know if it works.” Obviously, I could not, in good conscience, bring anyone but myself to conversion camp, so I shredded the second ticket and made my way to gator country.

I’m loathe to admit that, as evil as this place is, I had quite a good time. Wherever I turned, the production value was off the charts. One memorable performance was the Hogwarts Frog Choir’s rendition of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” retitled “Witches Will Have Fun Together, But Not so Much that They’ll Do Hand Stuff.” Afterwards, I went inside a Transfiguration classroom where we pretended to turn whistles into watches, pots into pencils, and Pride flags to table cloths. Following that, Potions class had us whipping up all sorts of delicious concoctions, like a citrus Polyjuice potion and chocolate-y Amortentia. When I asked what this had to do with conversion therapy, I was told that all the ingredients were requisitioned from nearby gay bars. “But that’s not conversion, that’s just stealing,” I protested.

“Sometimes the arm of God bends in ways we cannot anticipate,” said the little girl next to me, her eyes darkening as Hedwig’s Theme played ambiently from the rafters.

I maintain that what they are doing to Harry Potter World is demonstrably evil and harmful. J.K. Rowling has already done enough damage, and this will only magnify the hurt she has caused. While it really is quite fun to spin around in enchanted teapots and eat Elder wand churros, I implore those that would visit to avoid attending altogether, lest you get enchanted by the magic of homophobia. Like always, the most hateful people have the most money, and the best special effects.

Film fan watches 1,000 movies in coronavirus lockdown

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Phil Watts, from Somerset, crammed in 1,028 films after sometimes watching as many as seven in one day.

New movies to stream over the long weekend, from “Ambulance” to “Norm …

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A few weeks ago, I was reading the forthcoming thriller novel “Number One Fan” by Meg Elison. Elison is one of my favorite writers, and her voice is so captivating, I would follow her anywhere, including to the book’s rich setting of sci-fi conventions and fandom. I finished the book in record time. And I wish now I could go back there, back to the world of the book, which is not our world.

It’s a difficult time to write a list of movies to stream. It’s a difficult time to do anything, any of the tasks that daily living requires, including working our jobs, making and eating food, sending kids off to school.

To pretend that nothing has happened in the wake of yet another school shooting is disingenuous. Something happened. It’s awful. When I tried to comfort my child who loves to paint and draw, I told him that the world really needs art right now, maybe more than ever. And not only to reflect the world or make a statement about it, but sometimes to escape from it — and that’s OK.

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We read books for comfort. And we watch movies for that reason too, to be able to leave our lives for a little awhile, to dream about other lives, to get inspired and also, to be transported. It’s all right to be transported. It’s all right to take care of yourself by briefly zoning out. Check out so you can check back in later. Rest up so you can survive.

A bunch of new movies were released to streaming services last week and this weekend marks the return of beloved series “Stranger Things.” But after you’ve binged that, from a heart-warming documentary to mind-occupying thrillers to some major Lifetime, here are new movies streaming this long weekend to take your mind off the world: to distract, encourage or comfort.

Now streaming

1 “Ambulance” (Peacock)

Director-producer Michael Bay brings you “Speed” but in an ambulance. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a man (and relative) whom veteran Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) knows he shouldn’t ask for money help, but does. To deal with insurmountable medical bills, the two attempt to pull off a heist that inevitably goes wrong, hijacking an ambulance with a patient and EMT aboard. Bay and his team go a little drone-happy through the streets of Los Angeles, so have your dramamine handy.

May 27

2 “We Feed People” (Disney Plus)

From National Geographic Documentary Films, Ron Howard directs this portrait of chef José Andrés whose nonprofit World Central Kitchen is devoted to providing meals to those in need during emergencies. First started by Andrés in 2010, World Central Kitchen fed people in Haiti after the massive earthquake there, and has since been on the ground everywhere from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria to Kentucky in the wake of tornados. As Fred Rogers said: Look for the helpers. This documentary might be a place to look.

3 “Emergency” (Amazon Prime)

If you’re in the mood for a sharp, dark comedy that skewers the campus setting, perhaps enroll in “Emergency,” a film directed by Carey Williams and written by KD Dávila, adapted from their short film of the same name, which won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance in 2018. When a white girl nobody knows is discovered unconscious due to alcohol poisoning, a group of college students of color work to keep her – and themselves – safe. A lot of misunderstandings, confusion and tensions ensue in this smart and timely piece.

4 “Elizabeth: A Portraits in Part(s)” (Showtime)

Before he died in 2021, director Roger Mitchell filmed this documentary on Queen Elizabeth, the longest reigning British monarch and the longest serving female head of state in history. Though it doesn’t have the madcap romantic comedy of the film you may best know Mitchell from, “Notting Hill,” this documentary presents a behind the scenes look at Elizabeth, with tons of archival, often candid footage and interviews with Brits.

Saturday, May 28

5 “Sister With a Secret” (Lifetime)

Lifetime has several movies premiering this holiday weekend. This kidnapping thriller is the first. A young woman mysteriously disappears, and in the investigation and the rush to find her, more secrets are uncovered than anyone could have bargained for.

Sunday, May 29

6 “Lies My Sister Told Me” (Lifetime)

Continuing the sister theme, this unrelated film features everyone’s favorite trope: twins. Specifically, a woman, Tracy, institutionalized for mental health reasons who drugs her identical twin sister when the sister visits. Then Tracy assumes her identity in a kind of “The Parent Trap” gone wrong. But her sister’s life as a famous romance novelist isn’t as easy or drama-free as it seems. Neither is Tracy’s life. And she can only keep up the charade for so long.

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Monday, May 30

Norm Macdonald appears onstage at The 2012 Comedy Awards in New York, Saturday, April 28, 2012. (AP)

7 “Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special” (Netflix)

The former “Saturday Night Live” comic died in September 2021 of leukemia. It shocked fans, as Macdonald had not been public with his illness, but he had been battling leukemia for 9 years. Before his death — and in the beginning of the pandemic, while at home — he recorded his own last comedy special. As his longtime producing partner said: “He left this gift for us all.” Expect to laugh and probably, because we need to, to cry.

8 “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” (HBO Max)

The curse continues. After COVID production delays, a major recasting subbing Mads Mikkelsen in for Johnny Depp, and the ongoing adventures of scofflaw Ezra Miller, the movie’s debut buzz mainly focused on its scandals than the movie itself. That unfortunately played out at the box office. It’s the least successful of all the Wizarding World films, and is only the sixth high-grossing film of 2022. It’s perhaps telling that Warner Bros. slipped it onto its streaming platform with little fanfare on the last day of the long weekend.

Anyhow, that means now is the time to check out the film since it’s been delivered to you via streaming. In the film Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlists the help of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and a bunch of other magical types to oppose Gellert Grinewald (Mikkelsen), who has not only killed a magical creature in order to take its powers but is scheming to attain the office of Supreme Mugwump. Magical politicking and even an assassination attempt ensue.

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All 8 ‘Harry Potter’ films will return to these Louisville theaters in April

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. —

Some movie magic is coming back to Louisville. One of the most famous movie franchises in the world is returning to theaters soon.

Cinemark announced that all eight “Harry Potter” movies will return to select locations April 6-13.

(In the player above, “Daniel Radcliffe Reveals If He’ll Reprise ‘Harry Potter’ Role!”)

In the Louisville area, that includes the ones at the Mall of St. Matthews, Springhurst Towne Center and in Okolona on Preston Crossing Boulevard.

The movies will air in order:

April 6 – “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
April 7 – “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”
April 8 – “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”
April 9 – “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
April 10 – “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
April 11 – “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
April 12 – “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1”
April 13 – “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”

To get tickets and check showtimes, click here.

This celebration leads up to the release of “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” which will be in theatres on April 15.

Free movie in Gibson Park is June 3

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The Great Falls Park and Recreation department and the Gibson Park Snack Shack are hosting a movie in the park on June 3.

They’re showing Ghostbusters: Afterlife will begin at 8:30 p.m. in Gibson Park near the bandshell.

The movie is free.

The film will be presented by FunFlicks of Montana on a 32-foot viewing screen and concessions will be available for purchase through the Snack Shack.

For more information, call Park and Recreation, 406-771-1265 or Jonathan at the Snack Shack; 406-564-6620.

Feature Film, Released between 2021-01-01 and 2021-12-31 (Sorted by …

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23.

The Suicide Squad
(2021)

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Action, Adventure, Comedy

Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker, and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.

Director:
James Gunn
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Stars:
Margot Robbie,
Idris Elba,
John Cena,
Joel Kinnaman

Votes:
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What canceling J.K. Rowling means for the Harry Potter generation – World News

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One day, when my daughter was 11, she found a thick, cream-colored envelope on the doormat outside. The envelope bore a wax seal. Inside was an invitation in English, in some curlicued font, to attend Hogwarts on the upcoming September 1. Further instructions would follow.

Boundless excitement. At age 11 you know this can’t be real, but it was still thrilling. All my daughter’s friends denied vehemently that they were behind the mysterious initiative. As did their parents. We denied it, too, when she asked us, because it really wasn’t us. For months the mystery remained unsolved. It was only quite a while afterward (an eternity, especially in the world of children) that the mother of her classmate Michael Abutboul confessed that her son was behind the idea and had devised the marvelous invitation with her help.

I’m an editor of books for children and young adults. If that story had appeared in a book, I’d have written in the blurb on the jacket that it proves that “friendship is the greatest magic of all.” My children like to laugh at catchphrases like that.

My daughter was born in 1997, the year that also saw the birth of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.” It was the brink of the new millennium. It took a few years for the book to be translated into Hebrew, and another few years for my daughter to grow up a little. But from the moment those two things converged, it was overwhelming love. She read that book more than 45 times, could rattle off every bit of trivia from the series. In general, this marked the starting point for a girl who grew up at fantasy conventions, including Comic Con in London, including Cosplay, with great personal investment. Like many millennials, my daughter, too, matured with and from within Harry Potter.

But when the name of the author behind the books, J.K. Rowling, is mentioned today, she gets angry. “She’s TERF! If once you could believe that she expresses certain opinions out of ignorance, today it’s clear that these are simply her opinions! We’ve already tried a few times to explain to her where she’s wrong.”

My daughter declined to co-write this article with me. I told her its underlying thesis – that her generation is performing a sort of matricide on Rowling in order to liberate themselves from the powerful influence Harry Potter exerts on them – but she rejected it outright. From her point of view, literary theories aren’t germane here. There’s a right side: the LGBTQ community, especially those actively promoting the rights of the trans community and supporters from the whole fluid gender spectrum – and a wrong side, in this case the writer she once revered so much.

I suppose it was naïve to think that you could write an article on matricide together with your daughter.

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Your death is my life

In 1973, the American literary scholar Harold Bloom published “The Anxiety of Influence.” It presents the Freudian argument that every great poet, or one who aspires to greatness, must perform a metaphoric patricide on the great poet who preceded them and who influenced them, “so as to clear imaginative space for themselves.” The reverence for one’s forerunners is daunting, and in order to create something new, the novice poet must undermine by diverse means – for example, by misreading – the individual wielding the influence, whom Bloom called “the precursor.” According to Bloom, the “great inhibitor” who cast a shadow over all the poets who followed him, up to the 20th century, was John Milton (1608-1674), of whom Keats wrote in a letter, “Life to him would be death to me.”

The history of Israeli literature also provides classic examples of Bloom’s model. In a Freudian reading, the poet Haim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) can be considered the “precursor” against whom the literary circle of poets known as Yachdav (Together), led by Avraham Shlonsky, rebelled in order to carve a path to the new modernist Hebrew poetry. A generation passed, and Natan Zach “murdered” Nathan Alterman, the leading poet of the Yachdav collective, in his well-known article “Reflections on Alterman’s Poetry.”

Literary patricide not only “clears imaginative space”; it also helps the poet position himself as the leading voice of a new era. When Roy Hasan says of Zach that “he’s not a bad poet, but the distance between him and what people made of him is heaven and earth,” or terms Meir Wieseltier “an old codger,” he is well aware that he is locating himself in the literary dynasty of patricidal offspring. The venomous criticism leveled by Yehuda Vizan at veteran poet Ronny Someck can be read in the same way. It’s a critique by well-educated literary artists who are very familiar with Bloom’s theory and make clever use of it in order to insinuate themselves into Israel’s writing dynasty as the most glittering next best thing. Legitimate. Traditional, even.

Bloom’s theory was severely criticized, mainly for positing a white, male poetic lineage. The history of poetry, and of writing in general, according to Bloom, is a violent relay race involving fathers and sons. But what about the mothers and daughters? Where are the female literary creators in his Freudian theory?

From my daughter’s point of view, literary theories are irrelevant . There’s a right side: the LGBTQ community and its and supporters, and a wrong side, in this case the writer she once revered.

American literary scholars Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar responded to Bloom in their 1979 book “The Madwoman in the Attic.” Female authors, they argued, don’t have the privilege of being tormented by “the anxiety of influence.” What inhibits writing by women is a far more basic anxiety – an “anxiety of authorship.” Because writing was considered a male occupation for centuries, female authors were compelled to overcome not their precursors, but their own anxiety to the effect that they lacked authority and legitimacy to sound any voice at all. The way to overcome the anxiety of authorship, then, was in fact to draw on the dynasty of female writers from the past. Accordingly, these women thirst to draw legitimation for their creative work precisely from their great forerunners. In Israeli children’s literature, one can discern the embrace young female authors give Lea Goldberg and Miriam Yellin Shteklis and others of their generation. No one imagines riding roughshod over their work in order to establish themselves as their successors.

The clarifications begin

Over the past 12 years I worked as a chief editor of children’s and young adult books at a large Hebrew publishing house. I saw the profound and wide-ranging influence that the Harry Potter books exerted on young adult fiction. Some years, every second manuscript I received was a type of reformulation of the series – and the younger the writers, the more obvious it was that they were simply trying to rewrite what they had read and loved. They grew up with Harry Potter, wrote homages to the series, set up chat groups devoted exclusively to them and met at fantasy conventions dressed up as characters from the books.

In the meantime, J.K. Rowling became a legend – she and the coffee shop where she wrote the first book in order to save money heating her house. For a long time she seemed to be carrying her fame and glory impressively. A family women with both feet on the ground, without the mannerisms of stardom, the fifth woman in history to become a billionaire in her own right and who donated hundreds of millions to various causes and thus removed herself from the billionaires’ list.

But the maturation of the young fans brought with it critical thinking. Some of them discovered that the Harry Potter phenomenon is lacking precisely in the areas most important to them, with the preoccupations that define them as a generation: gender criticism, the LGBTQ world and multiculturalism.

Suddenly biting questions erupted: Why is there only one Jewish student at Hogwarts (Anthony Goldstein)? Why do the goblins – the bankers of the wizarding world – recall antisemitic caricatures? If Potter’s fellow student Cho Chang is Chinese, why does her name consist of two Korean surnames? Rowling responded with attempts at damage control aimed at proving that Potter’s world is in fact all-embracing and tolerant. As early as 2007, she made it clear that Hogwarts School headmaster Dumbledore is gay and even had an amorous relationship with his nemesis, the wizard Gellert Grindelwald, though that is not stated explicitly in the books.

As the years passed, however, allegations multiplied to the effect that in addition to the extensive knowledge Rowling displays about Western culture and mythology, the Harry Potter series is still characterized by the under-representation of other cultures and identities. In regard to gender roles and identities, too, Rowling’s protagonists are on the conservative side of the spectrum. Ron’s mother, Molly Weasley, cooks, cleans and scolds; Hermione, though considered admirable, is the stereotype of the diligent, fussy female student; and the partner Harry finally chooses, Ginny, is mainly the little sister of his best friend and an admirer of Harry. Hovering above all these issues is the blurring of the gender of Joanne Rowling herself, who goes by the name J.K. Rowling as an author, as though we haven’t progressed since the days of George Eliot, when a female writer still had to disguise herself as a man in order to succeed.

But that was only a prelude: The gradual decline in the relationship between Rowling and her critical millennial fans spiked into outright contempt on their part when the author began to speak out on social media about biological sex and transgender people.

This is an intergenerational battle. Potterheads are now in their 20s. They are performing an exorcism of the sorcery that bewitched them in their childhood in order to make a place for themselves, in order to stop writing ‘Harry Potter’ over and over.

Twitter wars, death threats

It started in March 2018 with a suspicious Like by the author in response to a tweet that referred to trans women as “men in dresses.” At first Rowling maintained that she had pressed Like accidentally – she said she was only a boomer who wanted to take a screenshot as part of her research for a book, and happened to hit the wrong button. But that Like was only the opening shot in an internet war during which Rowling unerringly positioned herself on the wrong side of the trans and LGBTQ struggle.

In June 2020, she responded on Twitter to an article that dealt with creating a safe space in the post-COVID world for “people who menstruate.” “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?” she tweeted mockingly. No one was amused. The need to distinguish between biological phenomena, such as menstruation, and gender is the core thesis of the trans community. By asserting that people who menstruate are necessarily women, Rowling is excluding trans people from the definition of “women” and defining some trans people mistakenly as women even though they define their gender identity as male.

The tweet sparked hundreds of thousands of comments, many of them from the generation that grew up with the Harry Potter books. From their perspective, the woman who wrote the modern fairy tale about a love that conquers all was disseminating hate and supporting the exclusion of a marginalized community.

In June 2020, shortly after that inflammatory tweet, Rowling published a long article on her website, which she shared on Twitter, entitled “TERF Wars” – referring to the acronym “trans-exclusionary radical feminist.” In the course of thousands of words, she elaborated on why she is concerned about the activity of the trans community, in part grounding that view in the violence she herself endured at the hands of her first husband, and a sexual assault she suffered. “I want trans women to be safe,” she wrote, and emphasized that she is not transphobic. “At the same time, I do not want to make natal girls and women less safe.” She warned that if “any man who believes or feels he’s a woman” is allowed into women’s bathrooms and changing rooms, “you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside.” The web piece sparked widespread derision. This time the stars of the “Harry Potter” movies also came out in support of the trans community.

Throughout the summer of 2020 – a time of a deadly pandemic and global lockdowns – it seemed as though all authors, intellectuals and English-language writers without exception had joined the fray. Some switched sides after initially supporting Rowling, having belatedly realized that by doing that – or by expressing opposition to cancel culture as a whole – they had inadvertently positioned themselves as enemies of the trans community. Writers such as Margaret Atwood and Stephen King, who signed a public letter together with Rowling decrying what they saw as cancel culture, hurried to make it clear – in the wake of furious reactions – that they definitely support the trans community. Another open letter, published in September 2020, which was signed by King, Neil Gaiman, John Green and others, expressed unequivocal support for the rights of trans and nonbinary people in the United States and Canada.

This battle is far from over. Rowling has not retracted her remarks. LGBTQ activists and their supporters are unleashing their heavy artillery against her, from calls for a boycott to, in one case at least, a public threat to place a bomb in her mailbox.

In September 2020, “Troubled Blood,” the fifth novel in the Cormoran Strike series, was published. Rowling conducted her research about trans women in connection with this book – which, like all the others in the series, she wrote under the pen name Robert Galbraith. (Spoiler) To everyone’s relief, the serial killer is not from the trans community, but is just a regular cisgender man who wears women’s clothing to facilitate his work. Reviewing the book in The Daily Telegraph, Jake Kerridge noted that the moral of the book “seems to be: never trust a man in a dress.”

Former fans from across the gender spectrum responded to the book’s publication under #RIPJKRowling, with the less vehement ones declaring that it’s not J.K. Rowling who died – it’s her career. They may have a point. Rowling was remarkably absent from a recent television special reuniting the stars of the “Harry Potter” films. The woman behind the magic was shown only in archival footage from 2019, before she first “misspoke.” The trailer for the third “Fantastic Beasts” film also shrunk her name down to near-invisibility.

It’s clear that Rowling doesn’t really understand what has happened. Her private life was part of the legend that was built around her: an economically disadvantaged woman who was a victim of male violence, a poor single mother whose talent rescued her from a bitter fate. Suddenly she’s a privileged boomer with feminism mutating before her eyes. Time and again she refers to the recent attacks on her as an expression of misogyny. She made this resoundingly clear in July 2021 when she wrote, after the threat to place a bomb in her mailbox and publication of her address by pro-trans community activists: “To be fair, when you can’t get a woman sacked, arrested or dropped by her publisher, and cancelling her only made her book sales go up, there’s really only one place to go.”

This is an intergenerational battle. The Potterheads – the children who grew up on Harry Potter – are now in their 20s. They are performing an exorcism of the sorcery that bewitched them in their childhood in order to make a place for themselves, in order to stop writing “Harry Potter” over and over. They are doing it by reexamining the books and the films through the cultural correctness filter. They seem to be almost happy to discover that the series they loved so much gets a failing grade in regard to multiculturalism and political correctness.

The final “avada kedavra” (the so-called killing curse, as per the Potter books) is the personal struggle involving J.K. Rowling herself. If she is transphobic, the magic can be shed and people can move on. Outwardly, the former fans are groaning in despair: Why can’t she just keep quiet? They will not admit that canceling her serves them on their path to leave a mark in the world. Perhaps as a feminist Rowling can find an egalitarian ray of light in the battle against her: Not only fathers need to be killed in order to make place for the young generation in the world – mothers need to die, too.

French Teaser Trailer for Hazanavicius’s Zombie Comedy ‘Coupez!’

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French Teaser Trailer for Hazanavicius’s Zombie Comedy ‘Coupez!’

by Alex Billington
April 15, 2022
Source: YouTube

Pom!! Pan Distribution in France has revealed a teaser trailer for the new zombie comedy from France titled Z (Comme Z) – which translates directly to Z (as in Z). This is also known as Final Cut, which is the title it had when it was announced as a premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. But when that fest went online-only, they pulled the film. Now its slated to premiere as the Opening Night film at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival – which is the perfect place to launch this hilarious, crazy fun zombie movie. Academy Award–winning writer-director Michel Hazanavicius brings one of the most innovative, joyful, and funniest love letters to film and filmmaking you’ll ever see. It’s a French remake of the Japanese box office hit One Cut of The Dead, going even deeper with its meta-ness by including the Japanese filmmakers watching them remake the film. Z stars Romain Duris, Berenice Bejo, Finnegan Oldfield, Matilda Lutz, Grégory Gadebois, Jean-Pascal Zadi. This should play BIG with Cannes’ audiences – it’s a blast.

Here’s the French teaser trailer (+ poster) for Michel Hazanavicius’s Coupez!, direct from YouTube:

In an abandoned building, a low-budget zombie horror movie is falling apart on set. The abusive director (Romain Duris) is already pushing the cast crew to the brink with obnoxious behavior when he reveals his plan to inject energy excitement into the project: unlocking a real-life ancient zombie curse. In a frenetic one-shot where body parts and fluids are flying, the actors fight the undead and their director for their lives before the film comes to a shocking conclusion and the credits roll…but is that the whole story? Z (comme Z), aka Coupez! or Final Cut, is written and directed by Oscar-winning French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius, director of the films OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies OSS 117: Lost in Rio, The Artist, The Search, Godard Mon Amour, and The Lost Prince previously. This is based on the original film One Cut of the Dead (カメラを止めるな！), created by Shin’ichirô Ueda and Ryoichi Wada. It was supposed to premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, but instead it will debut at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on Opening Night. The film will be released later this year in the US – no date is arranged. Stay tuned. First impression?

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