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Another Criminal Republican
He rode out of vision into legend. From Time Into Timelessness. Excellent documentary.
The American Book Of The Dead | Simulacra And Simulation | Tout Va Bien
The act of filmmaking as an act of objectification. See Zulawaski's La Femme Publique (1984)
We are living through the single greatest reduction of malarkey in history
Mary Is The Hero
Nothing's Changed. Happens Today. Nobody Learns. Ban Guns.
Masterpiece 10/10 | Herzog Sings Chatwin
Excellent 10/10 | Books Are Cultural DNA, The Code For Who We, As A Society Are.
il y a là cendre
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It's about Humans acting as G-d. She is like Dr. Frankenstein. She creates a monstrous flower that dopes people into psuedo happiness with dire results. The dog becomes the child victim (original book, little sister is first victim). She being a She also is a natural genetic breeder with a son who is turning into a little monster by preferring his father over his mother. She strives to live in harmony with both of her creations, and advance her career, unlike the other Dr. Frankenstein, who immediately attempts to murder his creation upon his creation waking up, and believing his creation dead, flees, also abandoning his studies, then eventually dedicating his life to hunting down his creation to kill. She fights for her flower, her career, and her son. This film is the female take on Frankstein. What if Dr. Frankenstein was a female in the here and now, with science backing the scientist, the lab outfitted with the most advanced resources in existence, and fellow scientists merrily part of the scientific process for humanity and career advancement? At the end of this film, everybody is presumed to be doped up and happy with bright futures, unlike the bleak icy cold ending of Frankenstein, where the Dr chases his Creation into the unknown icy wastes of earth, a long trail of misery behind, a long trail of more misery awaiting.
Wow forgot about that film, rated it a 9/10, underrated, definitely agree about the similar plot parallel
Within each of these spaces, products are packaged in containers, obscuring the actual object, displaying instead a myth that serves to drain history and communicate a constructed essence. The constant probing interjections of myth, as propagated by television, radio, grocery stores and shopping malls, shapes the substatic regions of the brain too deep to probe: white noise to the brain's white matter. White Noise to the brain's white movie screen. White Death.
mourn the dead / I have trouble imagining death / maybe there's no death as we know it / battery's dead
your death would leave an abyss in my life
your death would be more than an abyss
your death would be a profound depth
your death would leave a bigger hole
all plots move deathward / we edge nearer to death every time we plot / there are more people dead today than in the rest of world history
Gladys's death / her own death / Death / Death / these crowds were assembled in the name of death
tributes to the dead
the already dead
the future dead
the living dead amongst us
processions, songs, speeches, dialogues with the dead
recitations of the names of the dead
to become a crowd is to keep out death
to break off from the crowd is to risk death as an individual
cloud of deadly chemicals / two looters are dead / we're all aware there's no escape from death / Hitler is larger than death
the overwhelming horror would leave no room for your own death / and maybe you can kill death
three live deer at the Kung Fu Palace are dead / two of the men from the switching lot are dead
scared to death / deadly specter / death ship / there's a transitional state between death and rebirth / no longer in the land of the living
He's... Dead / Dead! / maybe once we stop denying death, we can proceed calmly to die
what if death is nothing but sound / we can picture the dead / it could cause death / I'm afraid of my death
everyone fears death / obsessed by death / I just fear death more than I love you
imagining yourself dead / imagining yourself dead? / I still imagine my death
I try to see myself dead regularly / death, disease, outer space / we are talking about death
maybe you can kill death / death without fear is an everyday thing / there's no death as we know it / is death the end then?
Definitely parallels Elon Musk, and Donald Trump, and Kanye West. Selfish, mistreat anyone outside of their milieu without a second thought, wreak havoc on everything and everyone in their vicinity, and commit murder to get rid of people who know the truth about them. Not merely evil, preternaturally stupid, their legitimacy propped up only by the deference of those around them. The result is an allegory for all of us living with the omnipresent Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Kanye West, and so many others. Under direct scrutiny from Blanc, all of the myths that Bron's friends and followers built up around him quickly vanish. Bron is not playing 4D chess. He doesn’t have a secret plan. He’s just bumbling along. The ultra-wealthy are increasingly empowered to exert their influence on politics and culture at least partially thanks to many of the rest of us who want them to, we are wrongly convinced that, by dint of their riches and power, they must know something we don’t.
This fandom is why people like Elon Musk can feel compelled not just by money but by popular adulation to over companies like Twitter, which only furthers their social influence. Peter Thiel is funding artists in New York City and politicians in Arizona because he thinks they’ll influence culture and politics toward his vision of a new right. Neither is going well for him. FTX founder and large political donor Sam Bankman-Fried at some point bought the boy-genius myth that he was selling to everyone else, lost a lot of money and landed himself in priso. Musk made an offer for Twitter because he wanted to punish people on twitter and now his companies and his own brand seem to be in freefall. Donald Trump ran for president so that he could immunize himself from mega-bankruptcy and financial investigations he was under for years, to show his dead father that he now controlled America (controlling America is the Holy Grail for Corporations), to crush all the people and civic institutions and laws he hated, tweeted through it and was tried for impeachment during his presidency and post-presidency is now hawking NFTs while still trying to dodge prosecutions. Ye, better known as Kanye West, embraced shocking behavior until it lost him lucrative business deals and, reportedly, billionaire status.
At some point, all of these men accrued enough capital that they found themselves surrounded by people who fanned their egos in the hopes of a kickback. But as they settled into these carefully constructed worlds that were built to reinforce their supposed genius, any creative spark or understanding of business or American culture that helped them in their journey to the top, was bound to dim and fizzle out. Influencer culture is wrecking America.
Russian troops have raped and tortured children in Ukraine, carried out a large number of executions, committed other war crimes, obliterated Ukraine's historic and cultural sites and civic institutions, thanks to Trump refusing to boost Ukraine, boosting and emboldening Putin, attacking and dividing NATO, blackmailing the Ukrainian government (leading to impeachment), and gutting and destabilizing America's democracy and geopolitical standing so bad that Putin felt comfortable launching the invasion, believing the US would never intervene because the US was complete chaos and crashing. And of course, as always, Democrats are cleaning up the mess.
Which is exactly why we need a female president...
"Why doesn't he have a car?"
The horse and buggy forces everybody to look at him. It forces the cars to slow down and make room for him. The horse and buggy enables him to control the road. It enables him to control how people are driving and where they are looking. In a horse and buggy he is the centre of attention, everybody has to slow down for him and make way for him. Like a King.
"Mr Gower was old in 1919 and looks exactly the same in 1945. No worse for the wear after 26 years."
At least half the human population fits this description. 45 has been the new 25 for 22+ years. Half the human populations looks 10-15+ years younger than their age
"Why are they singing Auld Lang Syne on Christmas Eve. Who does this?"
In addition to what calcaylor posted, the universality of the song, the lyrics match the situation, the town is saying farewell to another attempt by Potter to take over their bank and town, they are saying farewell and let's not think about times gone by and instead celebrate the future of our town
"The Depression was over in 1934?"
Already addressed by Otter
"How did George not manage to run into her in such a small town"
She went away to college
"How did Mary end up a spinster?"
There was only one man for her, George, and if he was never born, she would never marry, they were soul mates. She herself foreshadows her own Georgeless fate (rather be a spinster than marry somebody else):
George: Mary Hatch, why in the world did you ever marry a guy like me?
Mary: To keep from being an old maid.
George: You could have married Sam Wainwright, or anybody else in town.
Mary: I didn’t want anybody else in town. I want my baby to look like you.
"Was Uncle Billy an alcoholic"
Perhaps
"Mr Welch"
For the same reason George did not recognize Vi (the promiscuous classmate), their town was a small town but large enough for some people to not know eachother. In my own hood that I lived in for 30 years, most of the people did not and do know each other, neighbours never spoke to eachother (and still don't)
"If he just bought land he would have been wealthy."
He had no money nor did his family have money, and buying land does not magically make one wealthy
Agreed, the family in the film represents everything wrong with America. Ralph was a sociopath. Abandoned his friend, refused to get help for his friend, lied about his friend (resulting in his friend being punished), etc. And he wanted a gun for what, to "defend" the house and kill animals.
Trash compacted to death by Helen in Vanity's Mirror, an excellent episode of Friday The 13th: The Series
Too many to name, the real question is what went wrong with the film he made with Rob Lowe, Illegally Yours (1988). It's the only Bogdanovich film that fails for me.
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