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How Spider-Man Shows Us the Beautiful Power of Beginner's Mind
If you’re like most people, when a shocking thing happens you instantly go into anger, fight, or some other emotional reaction. Just like Doctor Strange did in the 2016 Marvel movie.... knives out wake up dead man good spiritual film
Recently, I saw knives out wake up dead man on Netflix and was surprised at how poignant and special some of the scenes with the earnest priest were. In many ways, it kind of reminds me of how this Uptrusting platform is trying to be.... Have you seen the movie "A Hidden Light"? It’s about an Austrian peasant who simply refuses to join the Nazi wehrmacht. He’s just like "No, I just don’t want to. I heard they’re killing cripples, and that’s not my thing".... A powerful modern archetype for this is the first Black Panther Marvel movie, where Spoilers below—don’t keep reading if you don’t want the movie spoiled: Killmonger the villain is truly a villain whose methods of achieving his goals are deplorable (giving guns and weapons to... - dave...
I’ve heard a few folks say things like "… and then they recreated the same imbalance in its opposite" about the Barbie movie, and my recollection of the film was that they seemed to do that on purpose, call it out, and start moving towards a synthesis / new choice at the end.... - onI think Lalo, from Better Call Saul, is the only deeply embodied villain I've ever seen portrayed on television. He's embodied in both the sense that he has strong physical energy in every scene, and also importantly the way the character seems to navigate the world through intelligent, but 'non-conscious' actions. He's like, a Taoist hero.by
oh yes, good point, I don't think of Thanos as taoist because he's kinda against the natural order, but there's something really potent in the peace he has after accomplishing his goal — his willingness to submit himself to his snap, and his attitude of retiring to be a farmer.... - TTL...
It's funny because movies use a lot of shortcuts to imply the sex act anyway, so if we're just trying to find shortcut signals to intimacy, I'm sure we could be more creative!... I like how the Catholic commentary is woven in, there's something real and stakesy and human about wrestling with guilt and transcendence and different metaphysical and religious beliefs, without it needing to make a particular "gotcha" point about religion Yes!... - BRITTcOiN...
- Leannasaurus...
I have also sat through, and watched films that featured a spoken language that I understood very little of. Many of these movies were older films (from 1950's up to current day) that put a lot more of the focus on the physical elements such as the cinematography, the emotion of... - ballz2dwallz...
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lol these two don’t know they can laugh at tropic thunder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KymaI0op3N8
- GregF...
Is the movie theater experience dead?
As someone who grew up going to movies multiple times a week - I'm starting to worry that the end is nigh. I'm aware many have said movies are dead at different times over the past 30 years - and they've all been wrong...... - joshua...
Agreed about the Knives Out movie. It works brilliantly as a piece of detective fiction, and also has something more interesting to say than most. It reminds me of Ernest Becker's Denial of Death where he takes an existential view that everything humans do from ambitious... - nat...
So I did ask GPT and it refers to this erotic energy as charged energy, which I like. Here's what I got: To your question about media and cultural narratives: I do think there are some, though they’re often subtle or framed in non-explicit terms....