Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
You on Letterboxd?
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GhostofKinski
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No, what is it?
Edit: I just looked it up. Is it better (Christ I hope so) than Tubi?
Edit: I just looked it up. Is it better (Christ I hope so) than Tubi?
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Oh yeah its not a streaming channel or anything, just a free social platform for film lovers (maintain watchlists, make/share lists, write reviews, discover films, etc). We've got a few Dissensus folks on there. If you have an analytic personality, or if you just want to discover films and read reviews, you might really appreciate it.
GhostofKinski
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Sounds cool.
Before I was married my longest relationship was with a filmmaker. Living with her was one hell of a film education. Probably four nights a week we would watch two films a night.
From Maya Deren to Cassavettes to Godard to Kurosawa…she really introduced me to a ton. After we broke up one of my ways of getting over it was having memberships at Cinema Village & the Anthology Film Archives where I think at one stretch I spent a month straight of just watching cinema every day.
I haven’t set foot in a movie theatre since 2012-13 i think. That is because of the meat grinder of a job I took more than anything else.
Still love film but mainly just watch Netflix or Amazon Prime these days.
At one time I would leap at a forum with film as its topic.
Honestly though, as much fun as this site has been. I’m noticing the time taken away from reading actual books & since I post & read almost everything from my old iPhone.
I’m not crazy about being as glued to the device.
Before I was married my longest relationship was with a filmmaker. Living with her was one hell of a film education. Probably four nights a week we would watch two films a night.
From Maya Deren to Cassavettes to Godard to Kurosawa…she really introduced me to a ton. After we broke up one of my ways of getting over it was having memberships at Cinema Village & the Anthology Film Archives where I think at one stretch I spent a month straight of just watching cinema every day.
I haven’t set foot in a movie theatre since 2012-13 i think. That is because of the meat grinder of a job I took more than anything else.
Still love film but mainly just watch Netflix or Amazon Prime these days.
At one time I would leap at a forum with film as its topic.
Honestly though, as much fun as this site has been. I’m noticing the time taken away from reading actual books & since I post & read almost everything from my old iPhone.
I’m not crazy about being as glued to the device.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Re: film, you ever try Kanopy? It’s like criterion but it’s free if you have a public library account
sus
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Rewatched the other day. It's Christian propaganda sure but it's very effective Christian propaganda. Jasper's character always touches me, like he's the only sane person left in the world, the only one who's found a way to be happy and enjoy his life while also making it mean something.
sus
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The Baby Diego stuff is hysterical.
Theo's character is very archetypal, you see it in The Last Of Us too, or the Mandalorian. Men tasked with escorting a child—shepherds of spring, if you want to use that word. Saint Cristobals.
Probably based in part on golden age of cinema tropes: the cynic with a heart of gold. Han Solo types with chosen children to renew and fertilize the mud, to end a plague, to bring the system back into balance.
Often these men fail to have Faith, but love a woman who has Faith (e.g. Julian) and that Faith transfers when the woman makes an ultimate sacrifice. See e.g. Tess, blowing herself up to allow escape in Last Of Us.
Theo's character is very archetypal, you see it in The Last Of Us too, or the Mandalorian. Men tasked with escorting a child—shepherds of spring, if you want to use that word. Saint Cristobals.
Probably based in part on golden age of cinema tropes: the cynic with a heart of gold. Han Solo types with chosen children to renew and fertilize the mud, to end a plague, to bring the system back into balance.
Often these men fail to have Faith, but love a woman who has Faith (e.g. Julian) and that Faith transfers when the woman makes an ultimate sacrifice. See e.g. Tess, blowing herself up to allow escape in Last Of Us.
sus
Moderator
I thought this GLK piece on plummeting birthrates was surprisingly good and openminded for the New Yorker; it namechecks Children of Men at one point
It's interesting that for our parents generation, population boom was the greatest fear, whereas now it's flipped.
It's interesting that for our parents generation, population boom was the greatest fear, whereas now it's flipped.
GhostofKinski
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That scene! Preceded by some great action/camera work hits hard.
@theo, I agree with you and the analogies.
He very much fits the archetype. He brings something special though and makes it his own. I don’t want to name the person who coined this as it might be polarizing but this guy defined depression as, the loss of all illusions in life.
sus
Moderator
I think that's right but I'm not sure "illusions" is a neutral enough word
I tend to be pretty American-pragmatist in my thought, and to the pragmatists, a true thought is a useful thought, a thought which leads an organism to flourish.
One of the paradoxes of faith, that the American pragmatists endlessly dance around and sometimes stare-down directly, is that it seems to lead to better life outcomes, even if its claims aren't scientifically falsifiable.
I tend to think the Bearded Man In The Sky baggage can be more or less thrown out, but there's something about faith that is like a music of the spheres, a kind of perfect ideal, a belief in another world, a world that could be, a world perhaps we are slowly moving toward (and falling back from, and picking ourselves up from, and trudging toward again).
version
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THE VITAL ILLUSION
@sus recently mentioned that thing that happens from time to time when several threads start to converge on a single territory and I think it's been happening again across the Elm Street, Dunning Kruger, and Liberalism threads. All three are at least partly dealing with the necessity of illusion...
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