The movie “A Christmas Story” is not about how a small Midwest family celebrates a single Christmas season. It’s about how white flight post WWII and the prosperity of the middle class for a short period of time. In this essay it is my intent to display to you how there are people out there who will - ThreadSky

riffpo.bsky.social • 146 days ago

The movie “A Christmas Story” is not about how a small Midwest family celebrates a single Christmas season. It’s about how white flight post WWII and the prosperity of the middle class for a short period of time. In this essay it is my intent to display to you how there are people out there who will

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preblemike.bsky.social•146 days ago

I guess I enjoy movies for all the wrong reasons.

Never occurred to me it was about "white flight."

JFC

onemorepelican.bsky.social•146 days ago

A Christmas Story & Christmas Vacation can both be seen as ironic inversions of boomer nostalgia revealing a deep bitterness towards achieving their supposed dream, as the patriarchal insistence on everything HAVING to meet an imaginary standard of 'perfect Christmas' makes everyone else miserable

cybersfreak.bsky.social•146 days ago

I thought it was a tale on not shooting your eye out.

riffpo.bsky.social•146 days ago

I think it’s more a treatise on the second amendment tbh.

ixothial.bsky.social•146 days ago

I thought it was a pole licking lesson.

riffpo.bsky.social•146 days ago

Doesn’t have to be Christmas to lick a pole.

cancelproof.bsky.social•146 days ago

I def licked a cold water tap outside after seeing this movie, and my panic hot breathe saved my ass the embarrassment of yelling MUMMMM around a frozen tongue. I was 5.

riffpo.bsky.social•146 days ago

A formative experience that you wouldn’t have had without this masterpiece.

misterenterprise.bsky.social•146 days ago

I thought it was about how destructive selfish arrogance is.

riffpo.bsky.social•146 days ago

steelytom1.bsky.social•146 days ago

I thought it was about a leg lamp

riffpo.bsky.social•146 days ago

Subtext to distract you from the main point which is that just because a movie has “Christmas” in the name does NOT mean that it is NECESSARILY a Christmas movie.

steelytom1.bsky.social•146 days ago

The best art is left open for interpretations. -Tom
The 2nd best art is the one with an f in front of it - Steph

sulkirk.bsky.social•146 days ago

Is this about Evolve?

riffpo.bsky.social•146 days ago

When isn’t it?

sulkirk.bsky.social•146 days ago

🤷‍♀️

onlydans.site•146 days ago

I thought it was an ad for Ovaltine

riffpo.bsky.social•146 days ago

God, Dan. I thought you were smarter than this.

onlydans.site•146 days ago

doom32x.bsky.social•145 days ago

"It's about how white flight post WWII and the property of the middle class for a short period of time."

Ummmmmmmmm....wot? That is not a complete statement.

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