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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-05-11 06:53 pm

[ SECRET POST #3050 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3050 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Michael Keaton, Eddie Redmayne]


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[Touken Ranbu (DMM)]


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(Watership Down)


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[Republique]


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[Cardcaptor Sakura]


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[Donkey Kong Country (TV series)]


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[Türkisch für Anfänger]


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[Tom Waits (left), Mark Lanegan (right)]















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(Anonymous) 2015-05-11 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like a matter of definition then, since it seems you would call a story that is about politics/government as a political statement.

I see political statement as inherently having to be commentary on existing and contemporary political policy and government, or at very least social issue. If the author genuinely intended the gladitorial fights of Hunger Games to be commentary of society's desensitization to violence, that might be a message (though social, not really political). If her "privileged have all" setup directly invoked imagery from the 1% and Wallstreet controversies, then I'd say that's a political message, for example. But if the concept doesn't allude to a contemporary political issue which the author is intending to comment on, I wouldn't call it a political message.

(Anonymous) 2015-05-12 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
I agree that it's a definitional. But I would also say that I think something can be political in nature without necessarily being a political statement or a political message, and I think it can be political without having to do with specific political parties or ideologies. It can, for instance, be concerned with basic political principles and things of that nature; I would be very comfortable calling something that has to do with whether democracy is basically good or bad political, for instance, even if it doesn't come down on either side at all.
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[personal profile] chardmonster 2015-05-12 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
So let me get this straight. If Katniss doesn't stride into the arena wearing a Guy Fawkes mask this isn't a political message

Would it help make this more relevant if Peta worked at Panera, a modern bread establishment

(Anonymous) 2015-05-12 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
We found toast in a breadless place...