Train Stations

[version]

What i like about train stations is that the platforms are like stages and you see the people arranged across them in limbo, doing nothing. Like a funny beckett play. They were better before smartphones obviously but thats true of everything. Its not easy doing nothing it can induce extrrme self consciousness

There's that strange bit in one of the Matrix films where Neo gets trapped in a subway station by the 'Trainman' program.

 

[Murphy]

What i like about train stations is that the platforms are like stages and you see the people arranged across them in limbo, doing nothing. Like a funny beckett play. They were better before smartphones obviously but thats true of everything. Its not easy doing nothing it can induce extrrme self consciousness

Voice of the Moon has a version of this but more period focused - bustle of families, carabinieri, bonnets, kids, except each moment is a glimpse as opposed to linear scanning, a couple here, a group there, a pair of twins skipping

No clips probably for the best

 

[Murphy]

 

[IdleRich]

Love the end of Balananov's Morphine when he's fucked and everything is fucked - the revolution is bringing the world down around their ears - and he stumbles into a cinema amongst all the madness to watch a Lumiere Brothers train film.

 

[Murphy]

Never seen it unfortunately but it has its own mythos in opiated worlds, seems a way off any streaming platforms too, a tad annoying

 

[IdleRich]

One of my favourite of his films, the book (by Bulgakov) is a comedy but the film is much darker albeit with funny moments

 

[IdleRich]

It's on YouTube with subs!

 

[IdleRich]

I love that scene at 28 min when he has to smear test the colonel's wife and she is smoking through her holder and generally eroticising the exam.

 

[sufi]

what do we have to say about train stations?

If airports represented the 2oth C vision for the future - tannoys, secure zones, tax breaks and wipeable plastic surfaces, what do train stations represent or rather why do we want to connect with the 19th C vision of the future - cattle trucks, whistles and gravel?

and what about

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[william_kent]

"Stations of Despair"

In Japan, a handful of train stations are known as zetsubo no eki, or “stations of despair.” There’s nothing wrong with these stations themselves, though, and the towns they’re in aren’t dirty, dangerous, or otherwise anything to fear. So why the abandon-all-hope designation? Because they’re places where some people get stuck having to spend the night after the last train, but nobody really wants to.

To qualify as a station of despair, a station has to be the last stop on its line, in a remote area, but also on a line that has a major population center and entertainment district somewhere. Basically, if there’s a neighborhood where people are getting drunk, then trying to take the train line home but falling asleep and missing their stop, only to wake up at the end of the line in the middle of nowhere with no way to get home until the next morning, then that’s a station of despair.

Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at the end of Tokyo’s Chuo Rapid Line

As another sign that you’re far from the big city, Otsuki Station has a woody, log cabin-type aesthetic going on.

 

[IdleRich]

If airports represented the 2oth C vision for the future - tannoys, secure zones, tax breaks and wipeable plastic surfaces, what do train stations represent or rather why do we want to connect with the 19th C vision of the future - cattle trucks, whistles and gravel?

and what about

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Cos sometimes the older way is better... I mean, not if you want to go to Japan but you know what I'm saying.

I wish planes were like trains, you just rock up, buy a ticket and then wandered to your seat in your own time. I get the impression it was more like that in the 60s.

 

[sufi]

Cos sometimes the older way is better... I mean, not if you want to go to Japan but you know what I'm saying.

I wish planes were like trains, you just rock up, buy a ticket and then wandered to your seat in your own time. I get the impression it was more like that in the 60s.

seems like trains have tried to become more and more like planes over the years - they abandoned all the old terminology like ticket collectors and cardboard sarnies in favor of stewards and at seat trolley service

 

[IdleRich]

And now when they have barriers you can't even wave your hankies like in the railway children

 

[sufi]

There's that strange bit in one of the Matrix films where Neo gets trapped in a subway station by the 'Trainman' program.

 

[version]

There's a haunting scene at the end of the Bertolucci film I was on about where the protagonist goes to the station to get the train home from the town he's been staying in and, as he waits on the platform, the camera moves down to the tracks and they're all rusted and overgrown, as though a train hasn't been through in years.

 

[william_kent]

Taiwanese train stations are the best!



see those little lights embedded in the platform?



they turn RED when a train is approaching the platform!

and this Taiwanese subway station had full on acid visuals on the half hour every hour:

 

[william_kent]

I have to admit I was getting "mixed messages" from this Taiwanese train station:

 

[kid charlemagne]

@vershy versh there are two sequences with trains in american friend.... lots of great train sequences in films.... the first one is american friend is really great tho.... no words spoken, but so quickly it is shown how the man catches on to bruno ganz being there to kill him

 

[catalog]

Untouchables one is good

 

[The King of Pussy Gettin]

Dosso railway station, never used.