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Kate
2021 · Film · 106 min
Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
A ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims.
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It literally just played last week in NYC in 70mm!
A few years back Netflix bought out the "Paris Theater" which is the oldest single screen theater in the city.
It was meant to allow fans to watch their newest movie releases in a theater format along with giveaways to get people in the mood.
I saw the debut of "Kate" a few days before it actually hit Netflix. (wonderful movie if you like John Wick. Mary Elizabeth Winstead is the female John Wick!)
They recently did some renovations and to celebrate they brought back a bunch of classics.
Oh I just checked: Funny enough its playing today! But unfortunately its sold out :/
[1]:https://www.paristheaternyc.com/films/showtimes/?filmId=HO00004291
I saw this happen live and I couldn't believe it. There was this Netflix movie last year called "Kate" that has a white female assassin killing a lot of asian people (it takes place in Tokyo). There were a handful of articles (first in places like Yahoo news and then sites like Slate.com) written about how this is racist and they all quoted people on twitter. Since I was following this movie heavily, I saw the tweets come in real time and the subsequent articles written a day later. In the end it all started from one tweet from a random user which then spread into a small handful other people making a similar comment and then leaving it at that. These tweets then got turned into multiple articles. I could not believe how crazy the whole thing was.
The original tweet author did not give permission for her thoughts to be published in so many articles and apparently endured a lot of harassment(She indicated this on subsequent tweets). She eventually deleted the tweet.
This was the original tweet: "Shame on Netflix for this. After this past year especially, to then release a film that is literally white people murdering Asian people based on stereotypes and fetishization??? Hard pass.”
If you google that quote you'll see how many articles quote that tweet.
There were no winners in this whole saga. The movie takes place in Tokyo so of course asian men are going to be the bad guys. So Netflix endured negative press for nothing. The press didn't actually change anything about the film, it obviously pissed off enough people that it caused them to start looking for the tweet author to harass her and finally she deleted her tweet. Who were the winners? The site owners making the money I guess. The whole thing really shows how much of a joke online media is. When regular establishment press is not that good either, what are people to do?
Maybe I'm just in some kind of weird minority (I also like modern art and brutalist architecture) but many of the TV shows I've most enjoyed watching over the last year have been Netflix originals. Arcane and Castlevania are both up there with the best western animation ever, The Witcher and Cobra Kai are great pulpy fun while still having compelling characters, and Kate is my favorite action movie.