made me sad I don’t have a stumpy punk girlfriend, or that I fucked up joining those communities, etc., bad social skills, has an interesting relatively slow choreography-vision of violence, esp since the neo-nazis involved tend to assert total confidence over their ability to kill while also showing up with half-loaded guns.
I mean, if you really zoomed in on henchmen in videogames, this movie does that, presents an understanding power-structure from the top-down of what neo-nazis are, in like a rural area, the cadence of which is an ability to understand intimately the violence, which is also the source of horror-- the procedural understanding, slow transition to deathhouse grind with the nazis communicating tactically to each other, slow building to violent acts.
in the beginning even they play a song “fuck nazi punks” and the nazis throw beer but the show goes on, they're practical people. something about the violence inherent in cascading power structures and how these, improbably, exist with Patrick Stewart in backwoods Pennsylvania, allows for a grasp of nazism as it really seems, more than video game fare.
relentless picnic boys were saying “you’re in a situation where you wanna negotiate with the nazis and you think you can but you can’t because they’re nazis” and it’s like yeah, the time to act actually is a little ahead of their negotiation to get the jump on them
I'll expand on this a little to say... if nazism is really foremost ostensibly a power system, one of the best ways to view it is a unfolding in a crisis... you get some of the picture of its effectiveness (it's not that effective) but you also gain a sense of the aesthetics, which are the implied threats, in motion
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