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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Life

waking life is a truly incredible picture. this segment is notable, but the rest of the movie is MUCH better.

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
  1. Waking Life is an excellent movie that every coming of age adolescent should watch. Preferably during their first few times experimenting with a hallucinogen, but that's certainly not required.

  2. Alex Jones got drunk on investigative journalism success. It is not a stretch to say that he and Michael Moore were very similar and on similar paths at one point in history (circa Waking Life, 1999-2001.). . Turns out one of them is both batshit crazy and great at mass manipulation, while the other is still righteous but struggles to get noticed.

If you didn't know this, it's important to hear. It's important to know that someone seemingly righteous right now can be revealed to be a lunatic piece of shit loser down the line.

Their message can be righteous. Power corrupts, and manipulators often barely know they're manipulating. They know they're succeeding. They're drunk on it and they stumble onward into grotesque success.

I won't give spoilers, but another classic psychonaut movie of this era is, IMO, Keanu Reeves best performance. It is also rotoscoped and trippy and about hallucinogens. Alex Jones has a similarly small role, scene here.

  1. A Scanner Darkly is an S tier movie. has drugged up Robert Downy, has Winona Ryder, Woody Harrelson, and again Keanu's best performance. His character is addicted to a fictional addictive hallucinogen. His space cadet demeanor between bill and Ted and actual actor is blurred expertly... It's such a sleeper banger film.

Sincerely if you're like 16 to 25 and just getting into drugs... Watch both of these movies. I promise Alex Jones has nothing to do with them other than that he was actual kinda a liberal beacon at the turn of the millennium. Weird to recount.

What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me - into us - clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can't any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone's sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we'll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too.

This disjointed drunken ramble was brought to you by beer.

Go watch Waking Life, yes. But go watch A Scanner Darkly. Both have rotoscoped Alex Jones being Liberal. The latter is a better film.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 12 hours ago

Oh shit, I never realised that was Jones in A Scanner Darkly.

But yes, it's such a good film. Definitely in my top 10 of all time.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

lmao i'm so happy that you replied so thoroughly, but i'm gonna have to have another look after i sober up, too. when i first saw your reply, i thought GPT. but i don't think gpt formats like it's drunk, too lol

edit - but apparently we both agree that Waknig Life is worth watching, so we're already off to a good start

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

📽️ Why A Scanner Darkly is a good film

🕴️ Keanu is an agent.

💊 Robert Downy is on drugs

😉

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m not the person you replied to, but I was taught to write very formally in school and while writing legal position papers at work and llms mimic a style that was drilled into me. It’s really frustrating, but other than swearing or making a dumb joke, I don’t know how to make it clear that I’m a person (and tbh, the former won’t work for long and the latter is already outdated).

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i've done the same, and old markup formatting makes shit look stupid unless you take time to comb over it in preview. it's kinda part of the reason i don't like it that lemmy won't let you do ninja edits.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t know if I just blocked the troublemakers early, but I haven’t seen any of the sniping over edits that was occasionally there on Reddit, at least. But yeah, I get annoyed when I have to edit a whole comment just because of formatting or a typo.

i don't think i ever saw one of those edits go unnoticed, though, and they were usually pretty funny whether intentional or not. i just want 30 seconds or so to go 'oh fuck' and add a hyphen sometimes.