SubJeff on 12/9/2020 at 14:39
Quote Posted by demagogue
Learning a language allows you to
travel through time?
That's not quite what it is though, is it? It
changes your perspective.I thought you'd appreciate this more than most, living in Japan and learning Japanese.
froghawk on 12/9/2020 at 15:07
Quote Posted by SubJeff
U wat m8?
Have you ever sat down and read the script for Alien on its own? Because I have, and it's an empty shell. On paper, it's a pretty standard and uninteresting horror movie. Once you add Giger's art design and Scott's direction, though, it becomes transcendent.
And yes, the weirding modules did feel like the most bizarre choice in the Lynch Dune to me after reading the book. A very strange and random plot element to add and place great importance on.
demagogue on 13/9/2020 at 01:09
Quote Posted by SubJeff
That's not quite what it is though, is it? It
changes your perspective.I thought you'd appreciate this more than most, living in Japan and learning Japanese.
Change in perspective is fine. 'Scool even, and I would have been really into if that's all it'd been. In Japanese, they use the same word, ao, to cover blue and green as the same color (bluish-green anyway; the green of plants gets another, properly 'green' word). So the 'go' color on traffic lights (which look like they look in any country, maybe just a touch more bluish than the US version, but still clearly "green" in English) is called ao / blue. At this point, I've internalized that color, so a 'go' traffic light "looks ao" to me, the same color as the ao sky. Fine. But I don't see one color now! It's still two colors, or rather it's still the same spectrum of color from green into blue. I just reflexively know what to call it in Japanese vs. what to reflexively call it in English. (Edit: I might grant it blurs the line between green and blue where, after being trained for a while, you might not see where one "turns into" the other though, at least not as clearly and sharply; I could see switching back and forth between both perspectives after spending time in the US vs. Japan, the same way I'll switch back and forth, often confusing, between driving on the left and right side of the road.)
And here, yeah, a change in perspective on
time would be fine by itself... Like they
measure it in really weird divisions that affects how it "feels" to wait for some "period", or even that there's a continuum between one's past and present experience, so that past experience is still a living "part of" right now as if it's the same extended moment. Something like that would be cool. But that's a whole lot different than
f*cking talking to yourself or others 20 years in the future! That's not just a different perspective on raw sensory data coming into your brain, but you literally have new data coming in God knows how,
that also happens to violate basic relativity, which would even be okay if there were magic scifi tech doing it and not just vanilla neurons... I didn't like that part.
Sulphur on 13/9/2020 at 05:03
Sapir-Whorf has legit uses for speculative fiction, like if we had a more linguistic-focused Speaker for the Dead, for example. I see the wiki quotes 1984 as one method of using it, and that's great, because it deals with psychology and language instead of violating relativistic timeframes.
rachel on 13/9/2020 at 14:06
Got around to watching "Midway" (2019) on Prime. Great flick in terms of research and terrific work on the CGI, the SBD Dauntless and all the ships are spectacular... I loved the attention to detail given to the flight and dive scenes, crazy to think a lot of the stunts shown are not Hollywood spectacle, but actually happened!
Sadly it gets bogged down by an uninspired script and kinda wooden performances, and probably the typical problem of trying to cram to much stuff in a single movie: it goes through the Pearl attack, the Doolittle raid, the Marshall Island & Coral Sea campaigns to build up to the actual Midway climax... That's a lot for two hours.
Still, better than "Pearl Harbor", and it would be unfair to dismiss it by association. It's definitely worth a watch.
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Thirith on 15/9/2020 at 06:28
I'm afraid Tenet was wasted on me. It's definitely fine craftsmanship, but I found the story and characters to be hollow and unengaging, and IMO it's the worst-written Christopher Nolan film to date.
henke on 16/9/2020 at 18:33
I know it's been said before ITT but... Cobra Kai is great.
SubJeff on 16/9/2020 at 21:27
Yeah it is, but it's hella dark sometimes. Crease. Jeepers.
And it's all actually very sad/tragic isn't it?
froghawk on 17/9/2020 at 00:38
I'm Thinking of Ending Things is the best new film I've seen in quite a long time.
demagogue on 17/9/2020 at 02:34
I was going to write something about that one. The big "puzzle" by itself isn't all that spectacular. Kaufman already basically gives it away 13 minutes in, but the movie doesn't really get full into it until the last 20 minutes or so, which makes it a bit lopsided, although that's maybe necessary.
But where I think the movie really shines is in all the mini-puzzles the big puzzle introduces to every scene for the guy looking back on his life, especially the self-referential and more metaphorical ones. It's really hard to talk about that movie in the abstract though. You have to talk through examples. Anyway, if I get some time it's on my list to give my own reading of it.
