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Vivarium 8/10

I think what the author was really trying to say was most people fall into a banal and pointless existence with few mundane pleasures.

Grand Prix (1966), 8/10

Loved the audio and visuals, story dragged a bit and the movie didn't need to be 3 hours long.

Bleakness of real life and the amount of MCU and DC action shoved down our throats for the past 10-15 years has made me move to less action/violence in movies.

Definitely not just because I'm getting older

don't really watch action movies or thrillers or whatever. seems like a very cheap kind of thrill. explosions and well-choreographed fighting/shooting scenes aren't really why i sit down to watch a movie of an evening.

do not think there is much correlation between representations of violence and actual violence, however. extremely shaky reasoning from cultural conservatives on these kinds of topics (not that NRA-bought conservatives in america are kicking up a fuss about this particular topic ...)

i think a far bigger danger is the social ecosystems that one can find online that normalise violent behaviour, whether for sociopathic reasons (incels, etc.) or ideological ones (alt-right, etc.)

no well-adjusted person is going to start thinking it's okay to shoot a schoolkid in the face with an AR-15 because 'i saw it on a videogame'. people need healthy human contact and to feel as though they belong to a community/society.

the problem, as we have seen repeatedly, is that it's entirely possible now to spend every waking hour on toxic discord channels or consuming extremist content. look at the charlie kirk shooter: the guy's entire worldview was basically a pellmell grab-bag of random internet memery. he assassinated a guy basically because he thought it would get him some +post karma on a discord server somewhere.

Last edited by uziq (2026-01-06 07:34:36)