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[Anonymous No.14095006]

“Dickinson” dropped today for Apple TV. Is it a biopic worth watching? Will it enrich my understanding of Emily, and therefore the experience of reading her poetry?

[Anonymous No.14095049]

>>14095006
>Octaroon jew and a nog
Do you even have to ask

[Anonymous No.14095068]

>>14095049
Emily Dickinson was pretty Christian.

[Anonymous No.14095073]

>>14095068
I'm talking about the cast

[Anonymous No.14095088]

>>14095006
i liked him better when he was in guns n roses

[Anonymous No.14095094]

>>14095088
kek

[Anonymous No.14095096]

>Instead, this week we get Dickinson, a new series from Apple+ that grabs the word “biopic” and blows a mouthful of pot smoke in its face. What a sharp, delicious hit it turns out to be. This Emily (played with impeccable teenage whininess and punk-rock defiance by Hailee Steinfeld) isn’t the ghostly poetess of high-school textbooks. She doesn’t tiptoe up the stairs when guests ring the bell at the Homestead. She’s an opium-dosing, cross-dressing, open-mouthed kisser.
>Emily learns how to bake bread; the real Dickinson was famed for hers (well, in Amherst at least). That bread turns orgasmic when it rises and rises in a roaring oven while a female character comes. Anyone who’s read Dickinson knows she was fascinated by sex, but rather than portray her internally quivering at the thought of a vagina, Smith has her getting fingered in bed.
>Once, on one of my many visits to the homes of my idols, I wandered Dickinson’s Homestead alone, chasing the literal in the literary. It was snowing heavily, nearly New Year’s Eve, and the curator on duty gave me permission, as the house’s only guest, to head down the hall by myself for a minute. I glanced up the steps and imagined Dickinson hiding around the bend, listening to my footsteps and scribbling me a little note on the back of an old receipt, something she might drop out of her window in a basket. Dickinson’s Emily does that once, passing a note to Sue arranging to meet in the orchard, where they end up slipping their tongues into one another’s mouths. Damn, I like this Emily better than the one I thought I knew.

[Anonymous No.14095153]

>>14095096
this is why we need fascism

[Anonymous No.14095229]

>>14095006
What's with the early 2000s rapper looking guy?

[Anonymous No.14095299]

>>14095153
Based

[Anonymous No.14095431]

>>14095229
It is a historical fact that Emily Dickinson kept such diverse and swaggerific company, incel.

[Anonymous No.14095461]

>>14095229
Um, excuse me. That's Wiz Khalifa you NPC mouth breather.

[Anonymous No.14095512]

>>14095006
>that casting choice

[Anonymous No.14095763]

>>14095006
Have they updated this to the present-day or what?

[Anonymous No.14095776]

>>14095229
Wiz Khalifa. He’s playing ‘Death’ or some grim reaper-like character

[Anonymous No.14095802]

>>14095776
Whom Dickinson, incidentally, declares her love for.