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invertedporcupine:

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First of all, Jesus Christ, this is next level.

Second of all, paging @kontextmaschine , because this seems like kontextmaschine-bait.\u00a0

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Well the movies made narratively clear that the bad guys deserved it; it wasn’t like “this guy was released on a TECHNICALITY, because a confession was BEATEN out of him, WHO’S TO SAY if he even did it”, no, the omniscient camera and thus the audience know that

In that way it’s a weird inversion of Eastwood’s association with revisionist westerns, the SF-set Dirty Harry films are later-set, later-filmed but decidedly pre-revisionist westerns

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