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hilarious that it writes cassie as "extremist" because she supports poc and gay people like what
Like really tho. One extremist calls to raise weapons against all arabs and the other one respects pronouns... This somehow doesn't seem like a completely fair comparison to me. Maybe I'm too extreme to the left myself 😂
@@cecilie... don't you see that asking someone to respect the way you want to be referred to is literal terrorism, bc you're telling me what to do which is the same as destroying my free speech which is what terrorism is. that's why when my friend whose legal name is gordon asked me to call him james bc he hates the name gordon i went completely apeshit, if i start respecting how people want to be referred to whats next? i have to stop calling people slurs?? slippery slope
She kind of is extreme in her views though. Her beliefs about the military are pretty messed up in the beginning. Also most people are just somewhere in between. Almost all of her beliefs align with the far left. She’s not extreme as in screaming her beliefs in the streets but she’s extreme as in far left on the political spectrum.
@@rosyreverie I don’t understand lol. how does she have “extreme leftist” views? like what? that we should respect peoples pronouns and not give into the dangerous racist concept that Arabs are demonic depraved terrorists who treat women like shit? as an Middle Eastern woman who would be considered far left and despises the military, Cassie’s views are extremely liberal to me and to many others on the left. the sole fact that she falls in love with someone who doesn’t even think she has the right to affordable insulin and listens when he actively tries to shut her up when she attempts to express the reasonings to her views is such a liberal thing it’s exhausting. she gives off very white liberal feminism lol.
@@rosyreverie that's being far left? I thought knowing that exclaiming "let's hunt some God damn Arabs!" Is inappropriate in a public place was just basic common decency. If you wanna say in the privacy of your own bedroom or your bunk were it's just you and your mates then go off, but not in public.
I sometimes feel that basic decency and manners died with my grandparents.
“be kind of extreme” oh yeah, she has a rainbow flag on her balcony and he's a r4cist sounds very balanced to me
Well I mean, that is how centrists see things, that someone wanting equity and someone wanting to violently harm the person who wants equity are both equally extreme and wrong and believing that they can compromise on human rights thus cementing them firmly as unwitting allies to the tyrannical and apathetic enemies to the oppressed.
“Fair and balanced”
@@cthulhutheendless1587 isn’t that the slogan of Fox News 😭
lol, they can "become more moderate" but I guess both being just a little racist?
KennieJD made a good point in her video that I think perfectly sums up this movie, which is that if your enemies-to-lovers story is dependent on one of them being a bigot, you're doing it wrong.
Counterpoint: She-Ra
I love Kennie ❤️❤️ her take was amazing
@@janiahwashington6958 facts
Stan Kennie she just never misses
The tweet about this movie that really gave me a chuckle said 'Purple hearts is for girls with racist boyfriends' and it's SO TRUE because he literally never changes at all, and it doesn't count that he sees humanity in someone he is both married to and grows attracted to. And the worst part is that I have known/seen SO MANY CASSIES in my life that are these liberal women who are radical then slowly pull back because they fell for some racist. Luke is still the same - we never see how being with Cassie could open his eyes to changing or adjusting at all - and doesn't regret anything and I'm sure he'd be racist in any argument with Cassie's mom too if it got heated enough.
The only way this is purple is if Luke's red bleeds into her blue. Not purple hearts, purple *heart*, singular.
There's a German saying - f you sit down to dinner with 5 Nazis, you're sitting at a table with 6 Nazis.
You can't marry a racist and still proclaim to be against racism when you accept their attitudes with a hug and a kiss.
Mmm, they're cute at first, but then they see the advocacy you do, and then they get taken aback because apparently brightly colored tennis skirts and multi colored mesh top + Y2K style halter tops are considered blasphemous to them, and it all just goes down hill. Also don't make the mistake of thinking you can trust such guys with the knowledge that the two friends you are closest to are gay and transgender, if your lucky they'll just end up outing your friends to their parents, if your unlucky they'll out them to whatever random friend or colleague they see fit and risking your friends having to deal with a random idiot coming up to them or worse.
True, I always say the white liberal woman is not your ally and my white friends are like “that’s not true” and like when you disagree with their “feminism” because your life experience was different than theirs , they know how to be racist.
@@aelinorholloway3669 That sounds VERY specific.
@@aelinorholloway3669 did you date a mormon
The thing about these movies is it always ends up with the conservative considered having compromised just by... Existing around anyone not conservative? But the liberals have to make huge swings. It's like compromising with an unjust man but with your marriage.
"meet me in the middle..."
#americanpoliticswithClinton
I didn’t get the point of the extreme political drama between them. It didn’t really add anything to the plot or move it forwards in any way. It was just random drama to beef up the time.
I think that’s how the conservatives also see these movies but the other way around.
I mean most media is liberal I can imagine it’s not a fun time usually for those guys to watch Seinfeld and be reminded that the characters are liberal.
@@wonderfulrose477 it was just done to caricature left-wing people
I just want to bring my perspective as a former military spouse. My ex-husband joined the Navy solely because of the health insurance and all because I got pregnant and my job at the time wouldn't give me insurance. We had already been in a relationship for 4 years when this happened and even though we had our problems, we were good. He joined, our lives did get a lot better than they were and it was all because of the benefits. Tricare may be shit but it is better than nothing. Well, time passed and we started to grow apart. And the thing that the military does is that it really brainwashes people. I begged for my ex to seek help, to see a therapist so he could talk about his deployments and heal but he simply wouldn't out of pride. He was fairly liberal before joining and dare I say, a feminist, but I don't know what the hell happened that he became conservative. Our views began to differ drastically until the point that I no longer felt comfortable being around him. If anything, I became even more liberal and feminist than I ever was. We eventually decided to end things and I realized our issues were deeper than I thought. We're still married because of my health issues and I need the insurance and extra money while I go back to school and get my life together to provide for my son, so this movie hit deep but not in the way it's supposed to. This movie made me cry because every day I feel like I'm in a prison in hell that I don't know when I'll get out of since I really need health insurance. I don't want to be tied to my ex any longer, I want my last name back, I need my independence but I can't because of how screwed up the system is in this country. And like they say, divorce is for the rich and not as easy as the movie says it is.
The most desperate people are the most exploitable. I'm sorry you lost your husband.
I'm so sorry this happened to you
Regarding your husband turning conservative, I don’t know if this is true but I’ve heard a lot of military bases have only Fox News blasting on the tvs
❤
I'm sorry you're going through this...I wish nothing but the best for you and your son
Also, let's not forget how this movie plays into the "white conservative man with vaguely racist views who ends up with the pretty Latina wife without ever challenging said vaguely racist views". Like, it's just kind of annoying how even when we aren't being straight up sexualized, we still aren't allowed to have enough self-respect to not be some white guy's fantasy.
"How can I be racist, my wife is latina! Which country is she from?? Uh.. I dunno"
Hmm gloria in modern family is another example. Idk why people glorify that couple ever.
This is going to sound stupid, but I'm Latina, and seeing that kind of representation on TV has always made me feel confused about myself. It should be that if I were sure of my identity, I would see the kind of Latina Carson portrays and criticize her depiction - yet, I feel stuck in a place where figuring out my identity has to take into account how it's perceived outside of people of my culture (aka America!). So then when I try to show a part of my identity, I feel partly influenced by whether what I show of myself would be considered "interesting" or "boring" depending on who I am with. The stupid part is when I think that if I hadn't seen the criticism on "Purple Hearts" before looking at the clips, I wonder if I would've internalized "Oh ok, I should sacrifice my beliefs of my heritage so I'll be more appealing! No more politics for me!" Also because I'm realizing I haven't practiced critical thinking or self-confidence in a while T_T
EDIT: Actually, I think I would've recognized the obvious bs the soldiers spewed out (what with the "fight for your ass/grab your ass" and the freaking disgusting comment that soldier made about k*lling Arab people). The problem with me comes when the movie purposefully romanticizes the protagonists' relationship, and where I lack the common sense to be like "ok its not about the relationship going to shit because of their opposing political viewpoints, it's that the relationship itself *is* shit and literally forgets about the soldier being fucking classist/racist/misogynist." But in retrospect, maybe that's a bit of an unfair judgement if the romance is literally set up to distract people from how crappy this man is??
@@maheenm.k1015 literally he's an old racist creep he could never stop making gross stereotypes abt Latinas
@@miau6451 That doesn't sound stupid at all. I also used to struggle sometimes with seeing white guys as the "bigger/more impressive fish to catch" as love interests, being a black teen. Then I started to self-reflect on why. Media portraying whiteness as the status quo is something that gets ingrained in us all, unless we learn to think & consume media critically like you said.
But the tropes are different with black girl politics: we're basically expected to save the world (including white people) single-handedly & always be a strong, angry, walking encyclopedia genius of overt politics. So I'm more happy in seeing black girls who can be soft, have flaws or just exist normally and express vulnerability.
the whole racism scene demonstrates the film’s failure to sell centrism by implying that racism is inherently conservative and anti-racism inherently liberal. By then insisting that the middle ground is correct, it’s calling anti-racism extreme and undesirable. If anything, the movie reaffirms the idea that centrism reinforces existing systems of oppression.
It’s also a pretty powerful way to antagonize conservative viewers, which seems to be the opposite of the creators’ intentions.
Racism IS inherently conservative. Conservatives have done nothing but bring poc done.
That's the point, Trevor. Centrism _does_ reinforce existing systems of oppression.
@@cam4636 is that the point of the movie?
@@cam4636 I know. I just think it’s weird that the movie admits the extreme flaws of centrism given that it’s trying to promote centrism and attract conservative viewers.
I think the most frustrating part of the central thesis of this film (and centrism in general) is that it treats being racist and calling out racism as two opposite ends of a political debate. As if "let's go kill some A-rabs!!!" and "let's not kill entire ethnicities" are two morally equivalent statements and that people with these opposing views just need to meet in the middle somehow. All this does is legitimize racism as a political stance and ask people on the left to prioritize the comfort of racists over the safety of people of color.
But unfortunately racism IS a part of politics... most conservatives (politicians) still endorse systemic oppression. Since racism has always been a thing, conservative political views still work around it. Obviously racism makes absolutely no sense and it's not 100% about politics, but if you were to ask someone who identifies with the left side of the pol. spectrum, they will wholeheartedly tell you that they're not racist, whereas if you were to ask a right leaning person about it, some would deny [they are, but they probably don't understand that, and they just want to make you like them more (I assume the mmc in Purple Hearts would be that type)] and some would agree immediately. You can basically assume someone's political views by their stance on racism in general...
@@unsavourycharlatan While I agree that systemic racism is inherently political since it relies heavily on politicians to maintain itself, I think its dangerous to assign "racism" to one side of a political debate entirely, for a few reasons. One, like I said in my OP, this allows people to think of racism as a political opinion that can be intellectually debated and/or defended depending on which side you fall on. And two, this implies that systemic racism is the only kind of racism that has its roots in "political" ideologies, and therefore progressive, left-leaning people cannot be racist and progressive policies are inherently anti-racist. Not to mention that this can easily allow people to overlook the ways in which racism affects people in less overtly political ways (cultural, environmental, etc).
Essentially what I was saying is that we need to stop thinking of racism as a political opinion that belongs only to one side of a spectrum. Yes, the Right is more overtly racist, and their policies do more actual harm to minority groups than the Left, which is why any debate between the two will never be morally balanced IMO, but we need to shift our thinking away from "this is a debate between racists and non-racists" and towards "this is a thing that adversely affects POC, let's debate the best way to fix that." Basically, we should only be "debating" policies, not whether or not racism is bad. Obviously, this is a pie-in-the-sky dream that relies on Right-wing people to acknowledge that racism even exists, let alone that it is embedded directly into all aspects of our society (and that it is bad), but I feel like that is the "coming together" that we should be striving towards, and where better to depict an unrealistic compromise than a saccharine Hallmark-style movie like this?
TLDR; all I meant was this movie vastly oversimplifies and excuses racism by boiling it down to one side of a political debate when really it permeates all layers of our culture and affects the thinking of people on the Left as well.
@@katiehicks3535 you make a good point and I completely agree with you! Tbh it's just plain hard to talk about racism when it is such a difficult concept to grasp and see it as an actual view on something as someone who isn't. But you're right, the movie truly does make left leaning people into almost "unhinged" people who are against many things, because, realistically, the fandom for the movie is probably mostly right wing and racist, and producing a movie where they don't even ACTUALLY and REALISTICALLY resolve conflicts and just barely brush up on it really does divide the two political views etc... Actually, it reminds me of someone who knows basic things about the politcal views made the movie.
@@unsavourycharlatan I agree! This movie kind of tells on itself by implying that Conservative=Racist and by never actually refuting any of Cassie's points. Her "extremism" is just that she brings these things up at what others deem to be an inappropriate time, while his "extremism" is that racism isn't that bad, actually. He never tells her that her opinions are wrong, just that she shouldn't say them. And in the end, they never imply that either of them have changed their mind, just that she's stopped bringing up "politics" so often. A mess overall!
@@katiehicks3535 exactly!
The film ended with Cassie becoming a NRA card-carrying, American flag waving, military wife who’ll end up in a Kevin Sorbo flick in twenty years where she plays a hostage needing to be saved from those depraved, demonic A-Rabs by a God-fearing WASP marine. 😌
Not the demonic A-Rabs 😭-
Kevin Sorbo gives me hives
its almost like being a centrist is just being a conservative
ask them about the 30% statistic and they'll immediately out themselves as conservative
I hate how the movie played into stereotypes of soldiers. Like most of the people I know who went military did it for college money, or to support their family. It would’ve been so easy to make that his motivation instead, and have the subtext be that the system failed both of them.
This movie is just a masterclass in wasted potential!
That’s exactly what I was thinking!! Like I don’t like the military but that doesn’t mean every soldier is a horrible person, this really could have went somewhere but NOPE
"go and teach THEM pronouns" hey look bud, you're doing it already! great work /s
To this day I’m mad that it didn’t end up being a movie critiquing the American health care system
So much wasted potential!
Probably the majority of the disagreeing comments I got on my video about this movie tried to make an argument to the effect of "the movie ISN'T pro-military because it shows bad things about the military (some soldiers being bigots, a soldier getting injured in action, and a soldier getting killed in action)" and "the movie ISN'T conservative because it shows the bad side of our healthcare system, Cassie being unable to afford insulin." And it just makes me want to tear my hair out, like did you guys not watch the movie?? These elements don't just exist in a vacuum!
Yes, those things ARE PRESENT, but the film does not criticize them! Yes, Armando is a bigot, but Luke silences Cassie when she tries to call him out and defends him further to her outside (and like you said, he has the last word on this in the movie, never refuted.) Yes, soldiers in the film get wounded and die in action, but this is never depicted as anything other than a grim reality of the job. All we see is Luke getting the support he needs for his recovery and Frankie's beautiful, solemn military funeral. No one ever dares question if it was worth it. And yes, Cassie is unable to afford insulin, but the only solutions the film offers are 'marry a marine' or 'become rich and famous.' It never questions the underlying problem. I'm glad you really explained why the 'hunting down Arabs' scene is only supported/excused by the film. People saying it's been "taken out of context" need to work on their media literacy.
Oh my- Hi Jane!
Hi Jane! I really agree with your comment; honestly, media literacy nowadays seems to be at an all-time low
You speak so eloquently. Like this may sound weird but your voice is very calming and would be great for radio and/or audiobook readings.
not weird! i get this a lot. i should really start a podcast
@@juliacudney hey PLEASE start a podcast you are so much fun to listen to
@@juliacudney Girl don't play with my heart like that... I need a Julia podcast NEE-OOOW!
@@juliacudney pls start a podcast 🤍
@@juliacudney PLEASE YEAH
That Halsey joke made me laugh really loudly.
i was proud of it
Like the film’s big ‘I love you’ ending literally had Cassie say everything. Luke just was there and input nothing 😭
that bothered me so much
The issue with these centrist narratives is that the person peddling harmful rhetoric never compromises and the progressive person just becomes more tolerant of intolerance because at the end of the day they're not affected. That's not meeting in the middle, that's just sprinting to the right.
Yes, well said!
"Why can't we just find the middle ground between oppression and having basic human rights, people are so uncivil and unwilling to compromise"
Cassie was piped down so good Luke got her saying America First. It was soooo bad.
This had me unexpectedly cracking up 😂😂😂
I wouldn't even call it a hallmark, I'd call it a film adaptation of one of those cheap romance novels you can get at the supermarket. I am of the personal belief that military romances inevitably fall into nationalism propaganda one way or the other, but purple hearts has definitely taken the cake as one of the least subtle.
lol relocate it to passionflix
Hard agree! You said it perfectly!
@@honestlythough7250 it would do better number there tbh, those clowns love a good racist gun movie
It actually was based off of a book by the same name so you're correct!
This movie felt very much like a conservative male fantasy instead of the "Enemies to Lovers" they were trying to peddle. I keep seeing guys on Tinder trying to distance their relationships from their political views because turns out supporting policies that harm women and minorities gets you no 🐈🍑💋, but also they just wanna be taken care of all the time. They want a woman to love them for who they are so they can stop having to change their habits to improve themselves (sice they're not doing it for them, the only value they see in it is "chicks dig it") and let themselves go to be fed and clothed by their wife. The fact that the male lead does literally nothing to induce any kind of romantic feelings besides "uwu I'm injured from battle 💪🩹 bathe me and pretend you love me" and one day she apparently just does exactly that. No conversation about their differences, no fight with a true make up where we can see they can communicate if not in a healthy way, maybe just a productive way that works for both. Just "Bathe a man and you will love him eventually".
Yes!!
Not only that but it’s a conservative male fantasy of CHALLENGE. I feel with media like this there’s seems to be what I call a “liberal conversion fetish” where she’s this hot deviant he wants to f*ck but must he must wear her down, groom, & change her because hes a real honorable man who KNOWS THE WORLD and she’s living in her fantasy. He take pride and pleasure in the process of saving this lost little lamb, turning her into the conservative (republican) housewife of HIS dreams. It’s still very gross and mysoginist but the way republican men talk about liberal women they’re attracted to line up with this accurately.
A Netflix movie referencing the social/political climate will ALWAYS have clunky, forced dialogue. And my god is it difficult to sit through.
The moment I watched reviews of this film, I knew I wanted to hear your opinion on it so desperately. Your one of the few UA-camrs who take romance movies aimed at girlies seriously. Your critique, opinions, hot takes, etc. are always in good faith and genuine.
(The movie is such a shit show from the clips I’ve seen on twitter and UA-cam)
:') i try thank youu
@@juliacudney your efforts aren’t in vain! We appreciate you!!!
This simply convinced me I need to watch dogfight
that was my motive
@@juliacudney I didn’t hear of Purple Heart before and still have no interest. But like… River Phoenix and period piece I’m in.
This is a minor point but America DOES go and teach pronouns to various people. That's called...teaching English. Most older children and adult language students know grammar terms because it's easier to put a sentence together when you know what each bit of it does.
Thanks for saying this. I’m so frustrated by some people just letting pronouns become some political issue just because transphobic people want them to be. We should teach kids pronouns in school, and we should be able to say the phrase “they can also refer to a gender neutral singular” without parents getting upset because that’s true even regardless of trans people, and it has been for a long time. (Getting upset at trans people is stupid anyways, but still) It’s ridiculously stupid to object to kids getting taught subjects in school, whether that’s accurate history or slightly advanced biology or grammar.
The fact that the scene just passes by without anyone mocking him for how dumb he sounds in the movie, to me, just proves that it’s pandering to conservatives.
As a non-native English speaker who had to learn English literature and grammar for what... 15 years, it always pisses me off when Americans (talking about the transphobic ones here) themselves do not know that they themselves use pronouns in their day to day life. Like, it's not a thing that was randomly invented because of trans/non-binary people.
So to hammer that point home, when anyone says they don't have pronouns, I just replace all the places where I'd use pronouns for them with their username. You don't get to use what you don't have.
they claimed they intended to make a movie where two extremists become more tolerant and moderate but they really just made a movie where one person becomes tolerant of the other’s extremism… and I don’t know if it’s really genuine, like if it would actually stick and Cassie has genuinely changed or if she’s just acting like it because she kind of has to, but either one sucks and neither one is a romantic movie to me.
"journey to the center of the two party system" absolutely sent me
I've watched mediocre Netflix movies just because Sofia Carson was in them but this one was a step too far. I couldn't make it past the intense misogyny of the first 5 minutes.
I couldn't make it past the first argument the leads had on screen. That's just not how you write dialogue, jesus Christ
For real, I'll just go back to Feel the Beat lol
Sofia carson did a very convincing job of looking pissed off while arguing about politics but i have to wonder why she wanted to be part of this movie after reading the script. Like i dont interpret this movie as normal? It seems like it has an aggressive agenda and i wouldnt expect to see her in a movie like that. Maybe im crazy though? I just seriously cant imagine watching it and not feeling frustrated by every character
wasn’t sofia involved in the production of this movie ??
@@damniwow8031 Yup. She was an Executive Producer on this.
To be honest, I think she's more of a centralist than what things like Descendants let on. During a lot of the interviews defending this movie, she says that she was drawn to it thanks to it showing "both sides coming to understand each other" and shit like that. It makes sense. She stays rather neutral about things and isn't involved in activism. Compare her to Dove Cameron. She's very outspoken about human rights for a lot of marginalized communities. Hell, her "Breakfast" music video talks about abortion and reproductive rights, which is a very controversial topic in the US now. All the while Sofia hasn't said a peep about shit like that on social media. I wouldn't be surprised if she becomes centre-right leaning when she hits her late 30s or 40s because of that fact alone. She reads like Cassie in the sense that she's someone who is more willing to compromise her beliefs as long as she gets something outta it. When you do that enough, you begin to take on those views yourself.
@@sorcerersapprentice little did we know this movie is her trying to cope with having a racist bf lol
@@sorcerersapprentice it was a joke. But imagine if it was real lol I would find it funny. Making a whole ass movie to show the world that "it is possible to compromise" and just be ripped to shreds by the whole internet cuz you just proved exactly the opposite.
@@sorcerersapprentice damn, what does "both sides need to understand and listen to each other" even mean?? There is nothing logical about racism and sexism etc... and I don't have to understand why people are those things. It is basic human decency to respect everyone the same way.
Yayyyyy new Julia Cudney video!
Slightly off topic but when you said "Would you pay football without a helmet" during the sponsored bit my European self was like "?? Yes???"
the whole "hunting down some goddamn arabs" scene is so ironic cuz like, yeah that's exactly what the us military is doing lol.
This just makes me want to watch Dogfight, the only River Phoenix movie I haven't watched. It's such a stark contrast between Eddie apologizing for being a dick, and Luke telling Cassie to sit down because she was calling out his shitty racist friend for being racist and shitty. You know that relationship wouldn't last one election cycle. Then again, with Cassie's 180 maybe she would end up quietly excusing Luke's friend's bigotry. And then probably ends up barefoot and pregnant less than a year later.
Also, I just want to point out, Cassie does all of this for just a year of healthcare coverage. A year!! Like, girl, is it worth it for just that short amount of time? But I guess it was because Cassie sleeps with Luke the night of that stupid dinner for idek what reason other than...Luke is hot?? I don't know. This movie is garbage. I'd rather watch Dogfight and stare at River's beautiful face.
Dogfight is still about some woman with a military men. The US military sucks ass and is more destructive than productive. But girl I guess
As a diabetic I’m going to say nah. Risking death is better than fraternizing with the military
Dogfight is amazing! Everyone should watch it at least once
i love how concise the title is
i genuinely had no idea dogfight (the show) was based on a movie so, i’m just now realising what stellar casting it was to have lindsay mendez play lili taylor’s role… the resemblance between the two is genuinely quite uncanny.
have i seen purple hearts? no.
am i going to watch this entire video? you bet!
IF THE SHOE IS SOLD BY A WOMAN OWNED BUSINESS
i'm an avid hallmark movie watcher (25% of the time they're genuinely alright rom-coms, 75% of the time they're terrible and hilariously bad) and what you pointed to here is something that they have done in a LOT of their movies: the female lead has to change for the man. whether she moves away from home, moves back TO her hometown, gets a new job, whatever it is, it's almost always the female character making a sweeping change at the behest of the guy. even though the changes aren't always necessarily bad for the woman's life, it always puts me off that she's making the choice BECAUSE of the guy. it feels so antiquated as a trope and i wish everyone would simply quit that and write good movies instead. @ movie executives hope this helps
Reading made me realize... when was the last time I saw a man drastically change his life for his love interest? The most I've seen is just them going, "Wow... I guess not all women are lying, cheating harlots ❤"
Except for Spirit of Christmas where the guy goes "I choose to stop being dead, for my hot realtor wife 😌"
also the message of "everything in moderation" doesnt fucking work with politics. the middle ground between a genocide driven by nationalist socialistic ideology and freedom and happiness for all people (no matter with which political framework thatd be possible, im inclined to think itd be something like socialism) is still....a little bit of a genocide. the middle ground between racism and liberation is still...a little bit of racism. in what world is that "the correct choice"? because its in the middle between two things??? (which is sitll stupid bc the one extreme is "killing people for their nationality and ethnicity" and the other one is "abolish police, give everyone a universal income and have as few social hirarchies as possible". i wonder if one of them might be worse than the other..? nah, surely not.
By "nationalist socialist" I assume you mean national socialist (Nazi) and not just, like, a nationalist who believes in wealth distribution, lol.
Not that important cause nationalists are bad regardless of economics but it threw me for a loop lol.
@@theMoporter well yeah you assumed correctly. im german and i just wasnt sure where to put what "istic" or "ist" in the english version of the word😬
I went into this movie being unaware of the difference of their uhhhh political views. I wasn’t expecting enemies to lovers I was expecting marriage of convenience turns into real feelings with a splash of angst.
safe to say I was disappointed
same
pretty much yea
honestly purple hearts didn’t need to be a film that stirred up this much controversy. it’s not even worth it over some dumb romance that will have people divided for a few months before it becomes a thing of the past. it’ll be one of those films nobody remembers. its like those movies you find at the bottom of the bargain bin at walmart, except it’ll be at the bottom of the bargain bin on netflix.
The set-up they give in the trailer made me expect an entirely different movie that had something to say about health care, human dignity, and the irony of tying people's ability to survive to their family's ability to kill/die for their government's wars. The fact that at first Cassie needs the health insurance for insulin of all things (famously overpriced due to capitalistic greed), and then surprise! they BOTH have to depend on it, all while lying about their relationship, made these themes seem almost too obvious to miss. I was actually excited to see where the movie went with it. I was disappointed.
Knew I was never gonna watch this movie after hearing that line about 💀 Arabs on TikTok, glad I get to see you review it tho!
What disappointed me the most is that I LOVE this trope, thefake marriage of convenience of it all, and I genuinely thought they wouldn't do Cassie dirty. especially seeing that Luke was an addict, I thought maybe they would make the military something he "needed" to get clean and put his life in order, but the discourse wouldn't be pro military. I want your version of purple heart too
Fake marriage to actual couple is honestly such a good trope. Especially if the partners are already friends/acquaintances.
This movie just ..ugh I think a lot of people believe that you can be on a relationship with someone with very different ideals with no problems. But that's not true. Even if you have different ideals, as a couple it's important to respect each others' opinions. But if you have opinions that actively hurt your partner? No exception will be enough. Like, this movie. They just did it so wrong!
The political stuff In the movie was unnecessary. You have a story about two people who don’t like each other that decide to get marry to take advantage of the benefits of his job, that’s it. I think that’s enough conflict to work on its own
This!! It’s could’ve been a great enemies to lovers in a better way but it’s hard to believe they could compromise on their values they feel strongly about
I knew you were going to reference Colors by Halsey as soon as you began reading the cast quotes about red and blue hearts becoming purple❤️♥️💙💜😂😭💀
They lost me on the terrible script, I was rolling my eyes on nearly every line, plus the directing, editing and cinematography of the whole movie felt off and unconnected. And I really just can’t stand Sofia Carson’s singing voice, why’d they make her a starving musician who goes viral??
I don't think she's that bad, it's just the music choices and genre they told her to go for didn't really fit her voice.
Completely agree! Her voice always sounds strained, which I think is just her style, but it doesn't sound good to me.
okay so it wasn’t just me then , cuz I was really over her singing voice in the movie , but in Descendants I didn’t mind it. idk what it is lmao.
@juice box ... Is... Is your definition of mediocre just having styles that don't fit your voice? Do you only think a vocalist is good if they can sing heavy metal and bubblegum pop and Gregorian choir arrangements?
Why are you being so hard on someone you've never met?
it's funny how this movie is supposed to be a story about two people from different political beliefs compromising for each other, but cassie's the only one who has to make any real changes. she sits down when the guy's (i forgot his name bc he's boring) army buddies say racist shit, she lets him live with her when he's injured, she lets him sleep in the bed, she doesn't kick his ass when he says something offensive anymore (when she probably should), she goes back to him despite everything in the end. meanwhile, the biggest changes he's made are accepting help for his injury and stopping the drug dealer.
i love how she's described as an 'extremist' on the opposite side when she's just a liberal who thinks people are owed basic human rights. like of course she was able to conform to his ideologies so easily, she practically started out the film as a moderate.
purple hearts isnt a good title for the movie, purple generally means a relatively similar amount of red and blue, but this clownery? this is magenta hearts
Nah, this is scarlet hearts
"i can connect dots, i swear i can" 😂😂😂
Me too, sis, but somehow some producers think this is unfathomable...
This isn't about "left" vs "right" politics. This isn't about any ideological position beyond openly hating minorities.
This is not a centrist position - most people do not find open bigotry tolerable - it is the compromise between espousing and opposing hate.
I can guarantee damn near any leftist could write more convincing centrist propaganda than any self-proclaimed "centrist". You can't encourage liberals or leftists to move towards the centre if your movie proves our stereotypes of the right to be correct and refutes none of our points, no matter how many boots the protagonist inexplicably licks.
Watching all the clips with the marine in them feels like watching a romcom about mike teevee. His whole political stance is "shoot shoot bang bang guns cool"
Films like this are atrocious! This idea that conservativism vs liberalism is just a "matter of opinion" as if conservatives are not actively pushing to take human rights away from minority people on a daily basis. As if they are not actively working to outlaw abortion, transgender rights, and gay marriage, and not to forget the atrocities being committed at the Mexican border. It's disgusting. I hate this film.
now see dove cameron would never do this to us
It feels very "The Taming of the Shrew" which doesn't seem like great framework for the theme they claim to be trying to promote...
I love that you're talking about Dogfight. I feel like no one ever talks about it but it deserves like 100 video essays
2 videos in 2 months?! Queen Julia is truly blessing us with content this summer :)
So...Dove Cameron seems more of a win as of late than Sofia Carson.
What's up with Dove Cameron? I stopped paying attention to her after she got rid of all her old music so I'm out of the loop.
@@unclewiley1986 She released a song called "Breakfast", which not only slaps, but the music video about a role reversal if men were treated how women are in regards to sexual harassment among other things and brings more awareness about abortion rights. Go check it out. It's dark, but a really interesting watch.
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the descendants gifs didn't save me from demonetization 😭 i could've re-edited the video to get rid of them, but i grew attached. i think they're funny
The most dissapointing part of this movie for me though is how big Sofia Carson's involvement is in it. Like she is such a strong advocate for human rights and I constantly see her speak out about stuff on her social media platforms. Yet somehow she was SUPER involved in this movie. She didn't just act in it. She was a part of this movie from its conception (over 5 years ago, according to herself) and is a producer on the movie. She at any point could have expressed how this movie is just not okay at several parts yet she is still out here promoting this movie like it's the best romance movie ever made and it's the piece of media she's most proud of being a part of. Really I've been a fan of her since Descendants came out and the way she talks about this movie feels so disconnected from like everything she has ever said about anything remotely political it's kind of jarring.
maybe her stupid conservative uncles finally got to her, now that she is famous
Watching that "out of context" scene gave me flashbacks to all the times I performed emotional labour, relived traumas, and tried to teach men about the experience of women and girls. And all it did was make me upset/retraumatized, no man ever changed how they felt, treated me or any woman better, and continued in their ingrained sexist behaviours. I never watched this movie but I am not at all surprised the lesson was "change for your man, he won't change for you". At least it's realistic when it comes to sexist, racist men.
I was just ranting about how much I didn’t like this movie yesterday after trying my best to watch it
I really enjoy your videos! I feel that you have an incredibly compelling way of reviewing media and telling stories! Generally, I don’t rewatch vids, but not only do yours stand up to multiple viewings, they are still generally entertaining! Thank you for creating this media!
was having a rough evening and this came out at exactly the right time thank you julia
Meet me in the middle says the unreasonable man, then he takes a step back.
I never saw this movie nor do I ever want to thanks to the Arab line completely turning me off and the concept being handled so poorly. But honestly, by the sounds of it, this movie seems like a product of the 2000s. This movie is extremely pro military and racist towards swana people. Back then, that would make a bit more sense. While I was a little kid during this time, from what I remember Americans tended to be more pro military and spout out shit like that either as a coping mechanism or ignorance thanks to 9/11. (Don't get it twisted. I'm NOT saying that those people were justified. They were still bigots. But that's more of the explanation.) Whereas in 2022, the average American is a lot more jaded when it comes to the military, less nationalistic and even centrists are a least a bit more socially aware. Hell, even the military is mostly comprised of poor Americans trying to find a job than patriotic zealots. If this was set in the 2000s, I wouldn't have an issue with it in that regard. But it's not. It's set in modern times, so the character's ideals and the timeline make no sense. (Seriously, what war are they even fighting? US troops were pulled out of Iraq eons ago. Same goes for Libya. Afghanistan was more recently...even if that's in South Asia and not in the Middle East, but whatever. Guess he could be talking about Syria or Yemen, but those aren't exactly conflicts that most Americans are aware of.)
But I will say that, sadly, that the situation happening here is realistic in the sense of her being swept more to the right. (Not the insulin thing, because I heard people say that's unlikely to happen in California.) I seen similar things play out IRL. Usually the girl gets swept up in the guy's bs and eventually takes on his beliefs thanks to uneven power dynamics. Still think Cassie was a spineless twit, though.
I look forward to your video essays with this format because I walk away with a great new theater/movie recommendation
i wish i could watch a version of purple hearts with Evie gifs all over the footage. i'm sure it'd be an improvement.
I always appreciate your uploads
I really love seeing your videos show up in my feed. You make fantastic content.
Appreciating the Dogfight love. I’ve never watched the movie but I adore the show!!!
i missed your videos, julia!! thank you for the upload (even though I was planning on never watching this movie haha)
can't believe this film is doing one of my favourite colours dirty like that
babe wake up, a new julia cudney video just dropped
I really enjoyed abother viewpoint on this film. I watched Kenny JD's beforehand and she made a lot of similar points, although I would argue less forgiving overall.
Ive loved the dogfight musical for years but have never seen the movie, but the "im sorry" scene made me want to se it instantly
Julia you are literally my favourite video essayist
I love the fact that you brought up the movie Dogfight. Such a beautiful movie.
Dogfight is one of my favorite movies, OMG. It's such a bittersweet movie
omg a julia cudney video!! :)
i can't believe this movie is as popular as it is, and not just from hate watches. how the hell are THIS many people falling for the military propaganda.
The number one thing I got from this is to watch Dog Fight because oh my god the chemistry between the leads are in those short clips.
unrelated but your hair looks so cute!!
perfect title
Haven’t fully watched the video yet but love the movie dog fight
I didn’t want to watch this but I was so curious. Thank you for your sacrifice
I watched dogfight because of this video and I don't regret it one bit, what a beautiful movie! Thank you for bringing it to my attention
I love this "____ is a garbage movie" in disguise 😋
well, i hadn't even seen that clip but now i'm genuinely disgusted. centrism is a disease.
anyways, great hair, julia!
I'm 37 seconds in & im subscribed I LOVE DOGFIGHT the musical !!!
The weirdest thing about the movie’s writing as opposed to the book is that Luke is not that conservative in the book. I randomly read it during a flight and I really don’t remember them having so many fights about their views, I don’t remember specifically him calling her a “liberal nut” which really irked me in the movie or joking about socialism and her tattoos. His character in the book didn’t need a great redemption arc because he wasn’t really painted as having such conservative views. He didn’t intervene in her discussion with Frankie to call her out, just caught up to her after hearing them talk and made his proposition. She was the one who had more information about him possibly being court martialed and blah blah. In the book he really is just ignorant about the issues on which they fight in the movie, which is a really different type of character than the one portrayed in the movie and who wouldn’t need such a redemption arc, only minor understanding about how the world works and developing some empathy. Also, in the book, Cassie has way more issues and fights with her mom because she doesn’t want to continue her lawyer journey and is pretty stupidly stubborn about it and has a weird relationship going on with one of her band members at the same time everything is going on and on which I think she cheats with Luke at some point, so her character has some morality flaws which are not to be seen in the movie. At the beginning, they are even having a conversation about how they should end things after he comes back and he suggests that the reason could by her cheating and she is very offended and claims she is not a cheater, so she has her hypocrisy moments. The movie’s Cassie seems pretty perfect in terms of morality and everything and is really a character that someone can look up to (apart from the fact that in the end she ends up with Luke who has not changed one bit). So, they made Cassie a liberal who lives by normal progressive principles and doesn’t do anything wrong, and made Luke way more insufferable and actually believing the things that people believed around him, so the possibility of them having a healthy relationship was pretty doomed from the start. I do think though that they made a great choice by not including her relationship with the band member because it was an awful plot and would have complicated everything, but could have included some more details about Cassie’s life that would knock her off the perfection pedestal, so she could meet him halfway. However, they decided to make him so far off the right wing agenda, that, even so, they couldn’t have worked. So it’s just weird that they chose to write them like that, I think the movie Cassie and book Luke would actually work and not be that bad, but the final product is just not it.
And I’m continuing my rant because I remembered his PTSD from the book and it’s clear that they botched his character in a way that was unrecoverable. Even their first fight in the bar is way more toned down and we learn as we read that he is way more complicated that in the movie and that his life and addiction fucked him up in a way that he found an escape through the military after buying their propaganda about building schools and hospitals and everything. There is no conversation about how she tweets for rights but doesn’t actually do anything because “guns are mean”, he really has no opinion of his own about it, so that’s why they don’t really have arguments. He can’t argue with her because he really is not informed about it. Moreover, in the book, his injury comes from an ambush, not a bomb, and he sees Frankie pass away next to him after being shot and he even closes his eyes, which results in some bad PTSD. He actually goes through some moments where he’s close to relapse on painkillers and that is also never addressed in the movie. He goes through a road of realisation and his idealistic views about the military are pretty much gone by the end. They focused so much on making Cassie a good character that people can root for that they ignored Luke altogether and made him a conservative shell. I would have much rather enjoyed some scenes in which his PTSD is addressed instead of so much singing, even though I love Sofia Carson and her voice. Him coming back as insufferable as before and not having an ounce of PTSD from what he saw is really not believable, so I can’t understand why the writer and Sofia, who was a part of the creation of the movie every step of the way, chose this direction. The plot of the book had a lot of potential and they really could have made their relationship work, but I think they were afraid to tackle real issues like PTSD from the military and his struggle with having to take painkillers for the injury as a recovering addict, and doubled down on more “marketable” progressive things such as her having those flags, the mention of the pronouns and her fight with Luke about immigration. Maybe if it hadn’t gone the route of every netflix movie, they really could have pointed out the way in which people with different views can get together after going through some sh t and understanding how the other one functions, buuuttt they didn’t.
This reminds me of a book that went viral recently on booktok for being absolutely terrible, it's called Everything's Fine
this was the only video i wanted to watch on purple hearts. i dont need to hear anyone else's opinions on this. just julia.
need to take the time to compliment the thumbnail. it's great!
I'm so glad Cassie's main character flaw of being such an annoying lib was resolved by the end of the movie, she really needed a good husband to give her some perspective/s
Ty for reminding me to watch Dogfight again
I only made it through about 20 minutes of this movie before it started giving me anxiety and I turned it off
new julia cudney im seated
I’m early?! Ahhh!!! I already know I’m going to love this!!