Ich bin da auch immer etwas hin und hergerissen wenn ich mal wieder auf Amazon die neueste Kapitalismuskritik sehe, aber am Ende sind das nun mal die reichweitenstärksten Plattformen, wenn man sowas selber finanzieren und veröffentlichen würde würde es niemand sehen…
Man merkt aber schon, dass Serien wie the Boys zwar fleißig gegen Fox/Disney/etc schiessen, aber zufällig vergessen wer uns unsere ganzen billigen Produkte bringt die dort beworben werden.
Ich schaue gerade die neue Staffel White Lotus und finde sie mal wieder überragend. Habe durch mein Umfeld leider häufig Kontakt zu ähnlichen Leuten und bin immer wieder schockiert wie perfekt diese Serie deren Verhalten abbildet, kritisiert und persifliert. Trotzdem geht man aus der Serie raus und denkt sich: das sind ja alles irgendwie furchtbare Menschen, aber am Ende sind sie doch eben Menschlich und ihr Versagen verständlich, auch wenn ihr Verhalten deshalb natürlich nicht weniger verwerflich ist.
Außerdem lese ich gerade Noli Me Tangere von José Rizal. Ist in den Philippinen wohl ein Klassiker, den jedes Kind gelesen haben muss. Bis jetzt kann ich sagen, aus gutem Grund. Packend geschriebene Sozial- und Kolonialismuskritik aus einem Teil der Welt, über den ich bisher kaum etwas wusste. Besonders die spanischen Kolonialherren und ihre katholischen Priester werden heftig kritisiert. Die Handlung erinnert mich ein wenig a den Graf von Monte Christo, auch hier ist der Hauptcharakter ein Verlorener Sohn der heimkehrt, veränderte Zustände vorfindet und Rache üben muss. Trotzdem schafft es Noli Me Tangere sein eigenes Ding zu sein, besonders durch sein fantastisches Setting.
BONUS: Da das Buch so alt ist, gibt es es auf Project Gutenberg kostenfrei als ebook: Noli Me Tangere
Auch spanned: José Rizal ist durch seine Werke mitverantwortlich für die Philippinische Revolution gegen die Spanier und wurde deshalb von den Spaniern hingerichtet. Ein faszinierender Mann… José Rizal
I feel like the original quote applies here pretty well, no real need to change it…
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
Another company Microsoft bought and ran into the ground. It’s really incredible that they managed to get their lunch stolen. They had basically a monopoly and gave it away without a fight. Hell, the colloquialism for video calling someone was to Skype them for a looong time.
And then one small competitor comes along and it’s all gone. How can you fuck up this bad? Especially during the pandemic, in which they should have further entrenched their monopoly…
Don’t be daft. These people dream of making movies and love doing it. They know if they don’t do it under the terms the studio demands, the movie doesn’t get made. They have no leverage and will be replaced by someone willing to work on the studios terms if they don’t agree.
So they can either work in a field they are very passionate about and be exploited, or do some soul crushing bullshit job in an office like the rest of us.
That is the German name for flea markets. It’s when people sell old stuff they don’t want or need anymore in their garden/some square/the street.
Guess the creators are Germans…
Fuck Banksy he’s a sellout and not a graffiti artist. There is no deeper meaning behind his wannabe deep, wannabe social critic shit, just pretentious bullshit for instagram aesthetics. The only things he’s good at are marketing and selling himself to rich twats with questionable taste. Even my 80 yr old grandma, who is as much a part of the establishment as it gets, is a big fan.
He also could be considered a plagiarist. Check out blek le rat, he did his style and a lot of his images before banksy was even a thing.
R.I.P King Robbo, he knew all along.
So basically what they are saying is that Europe is quite innovative, they just don’t have a capitalist enough culture and enough money in venture capital to exploit that innovation as much as the US?
Seems like a win for Europe to me, most shit venture capitalists touch turns into toxic garbage and most unicorns fucking suck.
Fair enough, I haven’t seen it yet. Also didn’t really notice how Decaprio heavy the list was until your comment.
No particular order. Also, it’s movies that I watched, can’t speak on essentials that I might be missing.
It’s kinda hard to make a list on essentials tho. Because your personal taste obviously plays a big role. I can’t see my girlfriend liking more than 10 percent of those…
Schindlers List
Gladiator
No country for old men
The grand Budapest hotel
The big Lebowski
The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers
Star Wars (the original one)
Requiem for a dream
Pulp fiction
The good, the bad, the ugly
The lives of others
La vita é Bella
All quiet on the western front (1930 version)
The dark knight
The Truman Show
2001: Space odyssey
Alien
7 Samurai
Princess Mononoke
Trainspotting
Boyz N the Hood
Scarface
The Godfather 1, 2
The Matrix
Clockwork Orange
Shutter Island
Kingdom of Heaven
Wolf of Wall Street
Honorable mentions because they are popular and everybody always talks about them (I like a lot of them, too. Don’t consider them essentials tho):
Inception
Interstellar
Fight Club
Harry Potter
Return of the King
Rest of Star Wars (whatever people consider the good ones at last)
Saving Private Ryan
Django Unchained
Toy Story
The Lion King
Don’t forget about all the Nazis with their robot dogs that make up the police force over there.
There just isn’t another way to keep the place nice and safe without them.
It is so much easier and comfortable to just close your eyes to the troubles of the world, but it also means that you won’t see what’s coming and will not be able to act. So this sort of sensory overload with negativity and craziness is kinda the point. The more people are tuned out and overwhelmed, the easier it is for assholes like Musk and Trump to push their agenda through. It’s also talked about in 1984, where the quote comes from