Andrew Sullivan: recommendation

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…Why? I watch it every year because it’s just so funny and stupid — and, as a tonic, if you’re weighed down by the world, especially if you’re weighed down by wokeness or the incredibly censorious attitude that we have, it’s just so great to sit down and watch that every now and again and see what they got away with. And just the sight gags. I’m a big fan of sight gags and of slapstick, and so Airplane! — I mean, I’m not saying it’s the greatest movie of all time or anything. I’m just saying when I think of movies I’m particularly fond of — The other one I would say that comes to mind, if I’m being totally serious, is this movie called Into Great Silence, which is a Philip Gröning documentary on the monastery of Chartreuse, the silent order, which has never accepted any outsider its entire history since the Middle Ages. He gets in and just films their life: their chanting, their work, the way they garden, the way they pray. This lasts for three hours and there are no words in it until the last 20 minutes, and you are riveted throughout. As an expression of spirituality, it’s an extraordinary film. Who’s the most interesting and underrated feminist thinker?…

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