Thread by @studentactivism

I think the idea that "everyone" should do ANYTHING at least once is deeply silly. (Trivially obvious exceptions excepted.)

https://twitter.com/filmdaze/status/1362136930637533191

I love Casablanca with all my heart, but one of the main characters is an unrepentant serial rapist, and the movie treats it as a charming foible. Deeply fucked up! Not for everybody!

The Apartment is a stone-cold gem, but also very much not for everybody, for a bunch of reasons. The Little Fugitive? Astonishingly good. Many would find it completely boring. And that's okay.

I can't think of a single movie—pre- or post-1970—that I'd insist that every person I love should watch, never mind complete strangers. People are different! They like different things!

The tweet I QTed was a response to a viral tweet in which someone said, basically, that old movies suck, and I understand the impulse to push back on that. I do. It's not a bad impulse.

But what specifically each of us loves is so contingent, so specific, so idiosyncratic. And it behooves us to remember that.

And yes, sure, it's mostly a figure of speech, and I'm almost certainly taking it too literally. But the way we frame things matters, and I'm constantly seeing people yelling at other people onhere because of framings like this.