I finally got a chance to watch the document Frusonas being streamed on Hulu.<\/p>\n
Fursona is\u00a0\u00a0 a\u00a0documentary\u00a0by first time\u00a0producer Dominic Rodriguez. This movie\u00a0is an attempt to explain\u00a0furry fandom\u00a0though the eyes of group of fursuiters.\u00a0 While the movie tries\u00a0to\u00a0deal with media sensationalism, the documentary is drag down\u00a0by\u00a0generalizations, questionable motivations and yellow journalism. The movie seems to fall into same mediocre reporting like\u00a0the sensationalist media not as sensational.<\/p>\n
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On the positive side, I love the portrayal\u00a0of\u00a0Freya, a fursuiter and married mother of\u00a0young girl.\u00a0 Sadly, the movie drowned her time by the overbearing\u00a0attention to single male fursuiters.<\/p>\n
First problem is\u00a0generalization by concentrating focus\u00a0on the other suiters featured in the film; it comes across to me,\u00a0to Rodriguez\u00a0furry artist, writers and\u00a0fans without fursuits. need not to apply;\u00a0 furthermore\u00a0 I also I object how\u00a0\u00a0Mr. Rodriguez\u00a0 turns to\u00a0 the more fringe elements\u00a0 by putting a lot to time\u00a0 and attention \u00a0to Boomer the Dog, and other furs like\u00a0 Chew Fox and Bad Dragon and of issue of sex. He shows a limited exposure\u00a0the wider\u00a0\u00a0 furry community by not show any meets and other conventions,\u00a0except\u00a0for a few clips at Anthrocon. This leads to a distorted vision of the fandom.<\/p>\n
A few examples I have are as follows.\u00a0First problem\u00a0was when one of the furs\u00a0talked\u00a0on the subject about history, he could only go back to 2000 and not the early day of the founding of the fandom in the 1980\u2019s.\u00a0 Dominic Rodriguez could had done\u00a0better research and looked up early founding father of the fandom like Mark Merlino, Rod\u00a0O\u2019Riley and Fred Patton. Another\u00a0fur, in disusing LGBT, claimed that the furry fandom is 80% LGBT, a misconception that is disproved by the surveys and academic grade studies by Fur Science.<\/p>\n
I also have to object to\u00a0the display in the documentary of illegal drug use.<\/p>\n
The documentary\u00a0turns direction and the goes off the rails halfway into the documentary when Dominic Rodriguez\u00a0turns his attention to \u00a0\u00a0Samuel Conway, also known as Kagemushi Goro or better known as Uncle Kage.\u00a0 \u00a0While I have some\u00a0serious\u00a0issues with Samuel Conway over his outlook of the media and parentalism, I saw Rodriguez\u00a0hitting blow the belt in is treatment\u00a0of Mr. Conway. Samuel Conway elected not to give\u00a0an interview for the documentary\u00a0so\u00a0Dominic turns to yellow journalism.\u00a0 Instead of finding\u00a0those who are close to\u00a0 Mr. Conway as an alternative, Rodriguez\u00a0 shows clips of Samuel Conway past panels, performance\u00a0 and\u00a0 video stream. I been to\u00a0 Mr. Conway\u2019s panel at Rainfurrest and\u00a0 seen videos on YouTube; \u00a0Dominic clearly\u00a0 ripped out of context\u00a0 to put Mr. Conway in a bad light. The rest of the movie is as low. \u00a0Much of the argument consist \u00a0of showing \u00a0the group of furs random Samuel Conway \u00a0video clip and documenting \u00a0their comments and\u00a0 Chew Fox\u00a0 giving her defense \u00a0of going on the Tyra Banks\u00a0show on. \u00a0I also found bothersome that Dominic Rodriguez goes in front of the camera. The movie is not about the furry fandom but \u00a0\u00a0documentary about Dominic Rodriguez documenting furry fandom and (I wonder) using Furry Fandom \u00a0\u00a0to break into the\u00a0 film festival circuit?. \u00a0It is to me as if\u00a0 Rodriguez\u00a0 is engaging in revenge cinema for being kicked out\u00a0 and banned from \u00a0Antrocon \u00a0for not following the rules.<\/p>\n
Over all I did not find this a satisfying \u00a0\u00a0explanation about our fandom , if I may borrow from\u00a0Aberguine of furries in the media, I give this a 50% for informational \u00a0accuracy \u00a0and\u00a0 50% the spirit \u00a0of the documentary. \u00a0\u00a0Unlike a certain vision casting Packrat who will go Ad Hominem \u00a0if you question is vision, I do not see this as the biggest \u00a0thing happening \u00a0to \u00a0the fandom\u00a0 or having any redeeming\u00a0 value to the fandom. There are better sources. I get the impression the POV seems to be on producer Rodriguez; the move should perhaps be renamed walking with Fursuiters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I finally got a chance to watch the document Frusonas being streamed on Hulu. Fursona is\u00a0\u00a0 a\u00a0documentary\u00a0by first time\u00a0producer Dominic Rodriguez. This movie\u00a0is an attempt to explain\u00a0furry fandom\u00a0though the eyes of group of fursuiters.\u00a0 While the movie tries\u00a0to\u00a0deal with media sensationalism, the documentary is drag down\u00a0by\u00a0generalizations, questionable motivations and yellow journalism. The movie seems to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,6,7],"tags":[234,233],"class_list":["post-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-furry","category-media","category-news","tag-dominic-rodriguez","tag-frusonas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/actonhe\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}