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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is Killer of Sheep (1978), a working-class drama about an African-American forced to take up a repulsive job at a slaughterhouse to support his family. It’s a shit job, but he has to make ends meet somehow. He just needs to stay out of trouble, but his desensitization to his job is also making him a jerk at home. Will he find a way out before it’s too late? I guess we’ll find out. God Damn Amerikkka: The Movie. This is the best0known and best-regarded film of director Charles Burnett, who specializes in dramas focused on black Americans.

After that is Om Shanti Om (2007), a Bollywood singing-dancing-action-comedy-crime epic about an actor who is killed in the 1970s, and reincarnated in 2007. He seeks out his killer for some payback, and looks for his previous life’s love, as well. A whole bunch of over-the-top melodrama, humor, action, and musical numbers follow from there, in the usual maximalist style of Indian masala films. This is the most popular film of director Farah Khan’s career so far, and the best-reviewed, being one of the highest-rated Indian films on Letterboxd. Let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:

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Be there, comrades!

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CWs for Killer of Sheep:

  • Cruelty to animals.
  • Animal corpses.
  • Slaughterhouse scenes.
  • Deaths of animals.
  • Carnism.
  • N-word.
  • Profanity.
  • Alcohol.
  • Smoking.

CWs for Om Shanti Om:

  • Sexual assault: the villain attempts to kiss a younger female character without her consent.
  • Someone struggles to breathe.
  • Someone is burned alive.
  • Cheating.
  • Ghosts.
  • Spitting.
  • Hospital scene.
  • Crying baby.
  • Someone is hit by a car.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Gun violence.

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