"We Will Rise" & Indignation

[Midwest88]

“We Will Rise” is a commercial about Gail Marquis, a black lesbian who later played in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Team USA’s women’s basketball team.

youtube.com/watch?v=IVE-4BdvgUg

The commentary was alright and I saw where it was going with the whole women and black aspect, but then it just beats the viewer over the head when t came to LGBT “rights.” The entire thing played on “intersectionality” of Gail Marquis of being a woman, black and a homosexual all under University of Phoenix’s “We Will Rise” slogan. It groups racists, sexists and supposed bigots all in a tidy 1 minute commercial.

Indignation is a movie based on Philip Roth’s novel of the same name. I stumbled about the movie when I types in “indignation” in google search. It was one of the first results. Here’s the description of the movie -

Set against the backdrop of the Korean War, a working-class Jewish student, Marcus (Logan Lerman), leaves Newark, New Jersey to attend a small college in Ohio. There, he experiences a sexual awakening after meeting the elegant and wealthy Olivia (Sarah Gadon), and confronts the school’s dean (Tracy Letts) over the role of religion in academic life.

Upon reading the book’s description it become clearer -

At Winesburg College, Marcus becomes infatuated with a fellow student, Olivia Hutton, a survivor of a suicide attempt. The sexually inexperienced Marcus is bewildered when Olivia performs fellatio on him during their one and only date. Marcus’ mother objects to his dating someone who attempted suicide and makes him vow to end their relationship.

Marcus has an adversarial relationship with the dean of men, Hawes Caudwell. In a meeting in Dean Caudwell’s office, Marcus objects to the chapel attendance requirement on the grounds that he is an atheist. In this meeting, he quotes extensively from Bertrand Russell’s essay “Why I Am Not a Christian”. Later, the dean finds Marcus guilty of hiring another student to attend chapel in his place; when Marcus refuses to attend double the number of chapel services as punishment, the dean expels him. His expulsion allows the U.S. Army to draft him and send him to fight in Korea where he is killed in combat. Early in the novel, Marcus explains that he is dead and telling his story from the afterlife; later it is revealed that he is unconscious from his combat wounds and the morphine that has been administered.

I’m somewhat familiar with the author, Phillip Roth. He read his Everyman and it was rather nihilistic, dour read. It was about a man who had multiple divorces, at the end of his life, who’s in a relationship with his nurse. His set-up for Indignation seems so contrived.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indignation_(film)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indignation_(novel)

 

[utah_rose]

“We Will Rise” is a commercial about Gail Marquis, a black lesbian who later played in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Team USA’s women’s basketball team.

youtube.com/watch?v=IVE-4BdvgUg

The commentary was alright and I saw where it was going with the whole women and black aspect, but then it just beats the viewer over the head when t came to LGBT “rights.” The entire thing played on “intersectionality” of Gail Marquis of being a woman, black and a homosexual all under University of Phoenix’s “We Will Rise” slogan. It groups racists, sexists and supposed bigots all in a tidy 1 minute commercial.

Indignation is a movie based on Philip Roth’s novel of the same name. I stumbled about the movie when I types in “indignation” in google search. It was one of the first results. Here’s the description of the movie -

Upon reading the book’s description it become clearer -

I’m somewhat familiar with the author, Phillip Roth. He read his Everyman and it was rather nihilistic, dour read. It was about a man who had multiple divorces, at the end of his life, who’s in a relationship with his nurse. His set-up for Indignation seems so contrived.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indignation_(film)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indignation_(novel)

I’m glad you mentioned Indignation because I almost went to see it with a friend. She described it as a Jewish student attending a Protestant college.

Many of Phillip Rothschild books seem a little raw to me. I didn’t care for Portnoys Complaint and I think that was the only one I read.

It could have been an interesting book or movie if he had omitted the sex and atheistic view. And the first one you watched sounds typical of our times. If you object to any of this you’re naturally called a bigot because they refuse to consider any other views.