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::: spoiler Transcription A Bluesky post from "Slippy", @damnslippy.slippy.me, with a profile picture of a woman with short, purple hair holding a knife: Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they \*can\* talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them." :::

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[–] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Gröning proposed the idea for the film to the monks in 1984, but the Carthusians said they wanted time to think about it. They responded to him 16 years later

[message left on read]

... 16 years later

"yo. u up?"

[–] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I really love the idea that the monks spent 16 years in silence contemplating Grönings proposal until they finally came to a conclusion. This is Jedi Master level of weirdness.

In reality they probably forgot about it and he brought it up again after all that time.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Or the guy that hated it finally died lol

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

they make this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartreuse_(liqueur) one of the best fuckin things ever made

[–] plyth@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago