10-22-2023, 05:37 PM
I'll keep this brief and just launch into my point: if we are ever going to have our own segment of culture, as in art music and film, then there needs to be an emphasis on the power of small groups of men, specifically a duo.
Many films have been released which appeal to us and people similar to us in personality. These films are usually tagged as "sigma" and "incel." While these films might be great, or at the very least more digestible than other modern kino, there is a subversive element to it. I don't mean crypto-Leftist rhetoric, but the more hidden subversion: the assumption that in the battle of man vs. society, the man must stand alone.
In this type of media, it is always a lonely man with no one to rely on, and if they DO have someone else, their only companion is a woman. The message being directed is
obvious: "You are helpless in this stand against higher authority, and the only cure for your problems is finding love." And that is genuinely what occurs: the girl in these stories are often not a motivation for taking actions but a depressant that calms down any righteous anger from the protagonist.
I could go on about these issues but I'll stop to give my solution: We create our own films in this genre except the protagonist has a best friend. The power of a duo should not be underrated; BAP has spent years emphasizing how many great deeds have been accomplished by two men who have each other's back. And it's not even unseen: in shonen anime, in buddy cop films, in high fantasy, there is often a masculine duo as the main characters. Yet, this duo never appears in films with anti-social themes.
Why? It's because they are afraid of it. They only show duos in pro-social contexts, as a friendship used to maintain the status quo. But to have the divine twins, the archetype of Castor and Pollux, fighting against the status quo is too dangerous for Hollywood to even play with. They want to hit a balance with disillusioned men by lying to them and giving them a false dichotomy: lashing out impotently alone or finding peace through the Longhouse. What they don't want is to inspire what will ACTUALLY make a difference, which is through the power of a brotherhood, which can be as big as a whole team but even as small as a duo.
To conclude: the "sigma incel" film genre is subversive but it is attractive for a good reason; we just need to fix it into something with proper fangs.
Many films have been released which appeal to us and people similar to us in personality. These films are usually tagged as "sigma" and "incel." While these films might be great, or at the very least more digestible than other modern kino, there is a subversive element to it. I don't mean crypto-Leftist rhetoric, but the more hidden subversion: the assumption that in the battle of man vs. society, the man must stand alone.
In this type of media, it is always a lonely man with no one to rely on, and if they DO have someone else, their only companion is a woman. The message being directed is
obvious: "You are helpless in this stand against higher authority, and the only cure for your problems is finding love." And that is genuinely what occurs: the girl in these stories are often not a motivation for taking actions but a depressant that calms down any righteous anger from the protagonist.
I could go on about these issues but I'll stop to give my solution: We create our own films in this genre except the protagonist has a best friend. The power of a duo should not be underrated; BAP has spent years emphasizing how many great deeds have been accomplished by two men who have each other's back. And it's not even unseen: in shonen anime, in buddy cop films, in high fantasy, there is often a masculine duo as the main characters. Yet, this duo never appears in films with anti-social themes.
Why? It's because they are afraid of it. They only show duos in pro-social contexts, as a friendship used to maintain the status quo. But to have the divine twins, the archetype of Castor and Pollux, fighting against the status quo is too dangerous for Hollywood to even play with. They want to hit a balance with disillusioned men by lying to them and giving them a false dichotomy: lashing out impotently alone or finding peace through the Longhouse. What they don't want is to inspire what will ACTUALLY make a difference, which is through the power of a brotherhood, which can be as big as a whole team but even as small as a duo.
To conclude: the "sigma incel" film genre is subversive but it is attractive for a good reason; we just need to fix it into something with proper fangs.