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  • memfree@piefed.socialtomovies@piefed.social•What is a movie you didn't "get" the first time, but appreciated on a rewatch?English
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    2 天前

    I’ve come back to mention a few others that hit different re-watching as an adult: Zulu, Khartoum, Kim, Gunga Din, and basically any other grand epic where the Brits are portrayed as gallant heroes battling uncivilzied local populations – until you look at it in terms of colonialism and see the Brits as pompous captialists parroting government lines about their own greatness and glossing over the legitimate reasons the locals want the colonizers gone.

    Unrelated: everyone watches the movie Falling Down as if the lead is our Hero, but try watching it (as I did) seeing him as the unhinged villian.

  • memfree@piefed.socialtomovies@piefed.social•What is a movie you didn't "get" the first time, but appreciated on a rewatch?English
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    2 天前

    The Deer Hunter. I first saw it when I was in my early teens and didn’t care about the guys, the wedding, hunting, or any of the opening activities. I was not looking at the characters nor how they were reacting nor noticing themes.

    I watched it again in my 40s and thought it was really good. The way the men communicate (and don’t), the things that failed to stay the same for the characters, the loss, and everything – it all felt deeply poignant. I still thought the movie was a bit too slow, but I finally ‘got’ why people respected it.

    I had a similar experience with Lawernce of Arabia, but I liked that one as a youth and on re-watch was amazed at everything that went over my head, which made the adult viewing much better and cemented it in my mind as one of the best movies of all time. Another of the best is The Man Who Would Be King, but I’ve always abjectly adored that one.

  • memfree@piefed.socialtoTelevision@piefed.social•‘A new space to play in’: can vertical dramas save the UK’s TV sector?English
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    2 天前

    Perhaps if my eyes were rotated 90 degrees on my forehead, I’d appreciate vertical images, but since they are situated to binocularly scan a horizon, I’d rather stick with wide formats, thank you. Extremely old movies were square and you could sometimes notice dark corners due to the circular aspect of light that had entered the lens failing to reach the edges of the negative. Films gradually got wider and wider. That’s generally been a good thing, though I think we’ve passed a maximum for easy enjoyment without needing to move your head to track motion on theater screens.

    I might back up to 16x9, but I certainly don’t want to see 6x13.

  • memfree@piefed.socialtomemes@lemmy.world•well was fun knowing you...English
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    8 天前

    But the point of Fermi’s Paradox is that we are not seeing evidence of alien intelligence anywhere. We don’t expect it here on earth, but we look out in space and see no light/radio/other waves that look like messages; no energy bursts or other anomalies that don’t have better explainations (though some have no explaination at all). The Great Filter is simply a hypothesis – like the Dark Forest – as to why we don’t see evidence of intelligent life in space.

    If we went back to caves, we’d have great-filtered ourselves.

  • memfree@piefed.socialtoaww@lemmy.world•Fluffiest dog detectorEnglish
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    10 天前

    I would make sure the owner knows about this behavior. Napping is probably the pup’s coping mechanism to deal with a potentially scary/chaotic/dangerous new environment, BUT there might be a medical issue. If the pup is sleepy/low-energy all the time or is in pain such that moving hurts, the owner will probably want to tell their veterinarian.