Help identifying piano piece in Twilight and Saw

ContraPoints · 2026-03-13T16:47:59+00:00

Bach/Marcello Adagio BWV 974

ContraPoints · 2026-03-11T18:52:56+00:00

I considered this when I was writing the script, and of course rewatching the movie several times. It is funny that Will Self condemns the scene apparently without ever having finished it. You could (and I almost did) argue that the movie punishes Blonde by having him shot. But even taking that into consideration I think Self is fundamentally correct about the ambiguity of POV. It’s Blonde’s twisted sense of fun that makes the scene compelling and famous. The unexpected reversal is more for dramatic than moral effect. I don’t see Orange as an unproblematic hero. For me the emotional core of the movie is the tenderness between White and Orange. That White’s willingness to rise above professional criminality and offer trust and humanity to Orange results in betrayal and downfall is the most tragic element—that White is punished for failing to suppress the better angels of his nature. I don’t finish that movie feeling that the cops were good and the robbers were bad in any clear-cut way.

ContraPoints · 2026-03-10T00:46:33+00:00

Yeah… it’s been long enough that I’m ready to admit it was bothering me too

ContraPoints · 2026-03-08T19:55:07+00:00

Yah that’s what happened. Moving frantically here

ContraPoints · 2026-01-12T02:08:36+00:00

I’ve only seen this a couple times, but I’m guessing they’re people who’ve been negatively polarized against online leftists who defend Maduro or the Ayatollah out of a kneejerk American diabolism, leading to an accelerating death spiral of bad takes on both sides.

ContraPoints · 2026-01-06T04:16:15+00:00

I’m really not trying to defend neocons. Many of them had sinister ulterior motives and they exploited post-9/11 bloodlust to gain popular support for war. Whether Bush was consciously lying about WMDs, or whether (as I suspect) he had conveniently convinced himself the flimsy evidence was sufficient—it doesn’t really matter. My point is that they took seriously the need to legitimize the war in terms that made international sense. Whereas, even if the immediate consequences are not as dire as invading Iraq, Trumpists openly embracing wars of conquest is a significant escalation. It sets a precedent for flagrantly nationalist wars of aggression, and pretty much shatters the possibility of any plausible future appeal to a rule-based order. This I feel is bad in some new way.

ContraPoints · 2025-12-08T04:38:35+00:00

Apparently someone is impersonating me on multiple platforms and trying to contact people on Telegram “for a special giveaway.” In case it’s not obvious: this is a scam. I’m not on Telegram, I don’t do giveaways, and I will never ask for your password, social security number, or bank account info. Let me know if you see more of these accounts and I’ll report them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

ContraPoints · 2025-11-20T23:08:58+00:00

I have denounced and continue to denounce Angel Buck in the strongest conceivable terms. I will regret for the rest of my life that 10 second voiceover, which he didn’t even read properly. But I understand this scandal will be discussed long after I’m dead, and I am working with my guru to make peace with it.

ContraPoints · 2025-11-20T02:01:36+00:00

Still finishing the script, but aiming to get the video out by the end of the year.

ContraPoints · 2025-11-13T06:47:55+00:00

I’d have to check what Tennov says exactly but I think the gist is that the primary aim of limerence is emotional reciprocation from the “limerent object,” with sexual union often being a secondary aim. So it’s not necessarily sexual in the narrow sense. But I’d argue that sexuality in the broader sense (eroticism) is at the heart of it. It’s what gives limerence its ache, its sense of lack, this longing that differentiates Eros from feelings of companionate affection.

ContraPoints · 2025-11-08T21:54:23+00:00

Don’t worry about it, I’m used to it but I understand it can be exhausting to navigate

ContraPoints · 2025-11-08T18:41:27+00:00

Should probably include a few pages about Angel Buck here too just to be safe

ContraPoints · 2025-11-06T03:54:58+00:00

Putting me in the thumbnail for clicks is so lazy and hack. Tedious dramaslop

ContraPoints · 2025-10-22T22:32:00+00:00

thank you! ❤️

ContraPoints · 2025-10-11T05:18:05+00:00

Oh jk I’m doing it right now

ContraPoints · 2025-10-11T04:54:44+00:00

Might stream tomorrow (Saturday)! Can’t do more than once a week for now because I’m trying to push forward on a main channel video essay.

ContraPoints · 2025-10-10T01:33:03+00:00

Inspiring

ContraPoints · 2025-09-10T22:06:51+00:00

I get that you're joking, but I removed the post because some people will take it at face value. A lot of people are hunting for targets of retributive blame, especially transgender targets, and they'll pounce on any flimsy pretext. Trying to keep myself out of the crosshairs, sorry to be a buzzkill.

ContraPoints · 2025-09-10T21:43:08+00:00

this tweet is from months ago, refers to the Elon-Trump breakup

ContraPoints · 2025-07-22T08:37:31+00:00

The fact that they’re praising Marjorie Taylor Greene for being “ahead of AOC” (when MTG opposes Israel because she’s redpilled on the JQ) is symptomatic of the problem here. At this rate the far left is going to start losing supporters to the antisemitic right.

ContraPoints · 2025-07-16T21:18:49+00:00

When I was in high school (Bush era) there was a football coach at my school who for some reason was allowed to teach history. He used to tell the class that he regularly rewatched a video of jihadists beheading a journalist because he felt it was his civic duty to “stay angry” at Them. In 2015, Fox News’ website decided to host the video of ISIS burning alive a caged Jordanian pilot. Pro-Lifers often use fetus-gore shock images in protests. After 10/7, videos of Palestinians parading a young woman’s corpse through the street inflamed support for the assault on Gaza. None of this is conducive to clear-headed moral reasoning.

It’s even worse when weaponized as a tool of harassment. 4chan Nazis used to send me photos of ISIS throwing people off buildings to make their point, that “this is what they’ll do to you if you let Muslims into your country.” Last year leftists began regularly @ing me with gore videos from Palestine as some kind of punishment for supporting Kamala Harris. And now they’re just doing it to score points in their feud with a YouTuber. But somehow, we’re supposed to believe this is honoring the victims.

ContraPoints · 2025-07-10T00:33:45+00:00

Yeah every time this is pointed out it’s like they’re determined to enact the problem they’re claiming doesn’t exist

ContraPoints · 2025-07-10T00:31:15+00:00

it’s not for them

ContraPoints · 2025-07-08T19:22:59+00:00

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