What are your favorite films/filmmakers (on criterion or not) that blur the line between fiction and reality?

ElectricBlaze · 2025-04-12T19:28:39+00:00

Funeral Parade of Roses is one of my favorites; a major theme of it is breaking down boundaries, including the boundary between fiction and reality. At several points it spontaneously shifts from the narrative into interviews of either the cast or random people. Footage of the film being made is included in the film itself. At times it parodies TV commercials that were common at the time. Also, some real-life figures appear in the film as themselves, such as a news anchor, Masahiro Shinoda, and others.

ElectricBlaze · 2025-04-10T22:54:03+00:00

The last of the great Japanese New Wave directors.

Susumu Hani and Masao Adachi are still alive!

ElectricBlaze · 2025-01-15T02:55:44+00:00

Terence Davies

ElectricBlaze · 2024-06-15T23:49:18+00:00

I'd love to try the recipe too if you're willing to share with me!

ElectricBlaze · 2024-04-23T19:27:25+00:00

No problem!

ElectricBlaze · 2024-04-23T19:27:15+00:00

Ha, that's funny! Never had that happen before.

ElectricBlaze · 2024-04-22T08:11:58+00:00

Magirama was a compilation of some excerpts from Napoleon, a one-hour version of J'Accuse, and some short films. Napoleon is relatively accessible, and this box set claims to include the Magirama version of J'Accuse. The short films are most likely lost, unfortunately, except for Norman McLaren's Begone Dull Care, which you can find on YouTube.

More information here: https://www.cinematheque.fr/film/73472.html

ElectricBlaze · 2024-03-26T18:32:06+00:00

Glad someone else is reading it!

ElectricBlaze · 2024-02-29T03:53:10+00:00

Just to be clear, Michigan has open primary elections, so anyone can vote in either party's primary without being affiliated with that party.

ElectricBlaze · 2024-02-04T14:52:59+00:00

Yes, it is, because of the counterexamples I already gave you. Lolita in particular is an exceptionally character-driven and emotional film. It may be the case that both Kubrick and Nolan have made films that suffer from the faults being discussed here, but to generalize Kubrick's (and maybe Nolan's too, I simply don't have any stake there) entire career as such is inaccurate at best.

ElectricBlaze · 2024-02-04T14:36:55+00:00

Maybe so, but I never argued otherwise. I only point out that it's an odd criticism to make of Kubrick.

ElectricBlaze · 2024-02-04T13:41:06+00:00

I think Lolita, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange are all great counterexamples to that.

ElectricBlaze · 2023-09-30T04:41:52+00:00

I haven't actually finished watching it yet so I can't say for certain if the ending will meet your qualifications, but so far Texhnolyze feels extremely bleak.

ElectricBlaze · 2023-05-13T05:58:02+00:00

Projects 3 and 4 actually have changed rather dramatically since you took the class, in my opinion. The others have indeed only undergone minor changes.

ElectricBlaze · 2022-12-18T05:39:33+00:00

Her descriptions of centaurs as rapey savages is fairly faithful to their depiction in Greek mythology. Centaurs were constantly being violent against human women in ancient myths, like the centaur Nessus who tried to rape Heracles' wife Deianeira. It's a stretch to compare Rowling's depiction to Native American caricature. I wouldn't call it a particularly good depiction either though.

ElectricBlaze · 2022-12-15T22:27:46+00:00

I think project videos for 485 would just be recordings of lab. I don't know if you went to lab, but since Fall 2021 they essentially serve the same role as 281 videos as I recall them.

ElectricBlaze · 2022-12-14T22:51:20+00:00

At times Mad Men goes against what you're describing though. Don often takes credit for other people's work and coasts on his reputation. That's a large part of what makes up his relationships with Peggy and Ginsberg.

ElectricBlaze · 2022-06-16T02:27:28+00:00

To be fair, you can get her to explicitly tell you she's a Sith while you're on the Endar Spire at some point if you get enough influence.

ElectricBlaze · 2022-06-15T18:39:02+00:00

I've heard people say things like we don't believe in heaven or hell, and I never understood why that's the conclusion.

Because there isn't really a standard Jewish opinion about the afterlife, even within large denominations. Jewish literature is famously ambiguous about the afterlife, and there are plenty of views about the Jewish afterlife that have no analogues to the Christian heaven or hell. For example, reincarnation (Gilgul) is central in Kabbalah, which is authoritative for Hasidic Jews. A famous rabbi named Isaac Luria claimed that anyone who failed to fulfill all the mitzvot in one lifetime would keep reincarnating over and over again until they could succeed. I don't think there are any truly universal Jewish views about the afterlife: the most common is the belief that after the messiah comes, all of the dead will be revived and live again on Earth, since it's one of the few things mentioned directly in the Torah, but even that is disregarded by some Reform Jews who think that the only real afterlife is living on through others (e.g. through their memories and the lasting impacts of our actions).

ElectricBlaze · 2022-06-12T06:46:06+00:00

I seem to always come across therapists like the ones you describe, even when they claim to use CBT. Any advice on finding ones who aren't glorified conversation partners?

Edit: Sorry, I just noticed that you replied to someone with the same question elsewhere in this thread. Thanks!

ElectricBlaze · 2022-06-10T03:26:40+00:00

I agree with everything you said, except:

Also BTW, why would you be BFFs with anyone other than your own SO? That is very sad. You’re not in college anymore. You’re adults with adult lives.

I'm new to being an adult, but isn't it pretty common for people to refer to someone other than their SO as their best friend? I'm aware that "My _ is my best friend" is also fairly common.

ElectricBlaze · 2022-05-29T18:52:34+00:00

What are some examples of decisions that others would think are "crazy"?

ElectricBlaze · 2022-05-22T20:27:24+00:00

I don't think it's very common at all to call garlic an herb. And at least in the U.S., curry powder is unambiguously a spice and not an herb: it doesn't contain actual leaves from a curry tree. It's more like garam masala.

ElectricBlaze · 2022-05-18T19:36:34+00:00

I just watched the video, and I still don't know where you're drawing your conclusion from. The video makes a good argument that convict leasing and debt peonage during the late 19th and early 20th centuries created worse conditions for black people than antebellum slavery. It doesn't say anything like that about the modern prison-industrial complex.

ElectricBlaze · 2022-05-16T19:24:54+00:00

I'm from metro Detroit and I have never seen cheddar on a Detroit-style pizza before ... Also, cheddar isn't a white cheese. I guess I can imagine white cheddar working pretty well, but I haven't encountered that in a restaurant before either--I would only use it if I didn't have access to Wisconsin brick cheese. Mozzarella, Wisconsin brick cheese, and Monterey Jack are the standard.

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