His film is essentially about that unsettling feeling when you know you don’t belong somewhere; when you know you’re unwanted or perhaps even wanted too much.

A young man

is walking down a suburban street, joking with someone on the phone about how he always gets lost because all the streets sound the same.

, where the song is used to tackle race relations in America’s current political state

This film is, of course, a criticism of all sides of the political spectrum and hints back to the song’s popularity during World War II.

The song was likely tailored towards British optimism, but I would think that rather than being used solely for the purpose of boosting morale, it was instead used as assurance of German weakness

Rose’s family appear at the start to be nice people, who believe they’re forward-thinking (“By the way, I would have voted for Obama for a third term if I could. Best president in my lifetime, hands down.”)

The movie also hints at the way that black culture can come in and out of trend and be co-opted by white society when Chris asks

Therefore, film music is an integral part of most horror films

composers of horror film scores typically avoid memorable melodies in favor of musical textures, and use atonality as well as destabilization of pitch or harmony with various musical techniques such as glissandi, tremolos, or tone clusters during especially suspenseful scenes

An important element of such a shift is a reduction in the inequality of economic opportunities

China’s high growth based on resource-intensive manufacturing, exports, and low-paid labor has largely reached its limits and has led to economic, social, and environmental imbalances

China is currently experiencing the largest COVID wave since the end of the national lockdown in March 2020

A Marxist system is concerned primarily with economic outcomes

The critical distinction is that the Chinese system is not only Marxist, it’s Marxist-Leninist

In our experience, many Westerners don’t understand what that means or why it matters

Collectively, communist states killed as many as 100 million people, more than all other repressive regimes combined during the same time period.

In China alone, Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward led to a man-made famine in which as many as 45 million people perished – the single biggest episode of mass murder in all of world history.

communist regimes also engaged in other forms of mass murder on an epic scale

The average lifespan of a Chinese person was mid 40’s and hospitals were a luxury mostly reserved for the wealthy

China was an underdeveloped country which was divided between numerous warlords, tribes, and hereditary landlord dynasties which fought among each other for power and wealth

Illiteracy was common and remote tribes practiced slavery

The failure of the Great Leap produced a division among the party leaders.

July 1, 1921: Inspired by the Russian Revolution, the Communist Party of China is formed

January 1, 1959: Fidel Castro overthrows the corrupt Fulgencio Batista regime, and Cuba becomes a Communist state

Russia’s October Revolution and become the first communist government