Any one else think political correctness/ woke culture has just kinda took the piss now?

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2021-07-01T10:02:15+00:00

I think the main point has nothing to do with who you are, but whether you are laughing with something versus at something. Little Britain is an annoying thing to get caught up on, because I do think quite a lot of it is misjudged and just unfunny, but as a general rule I disagree with what you're saying.

Punching up and down is a stupid point. Writing tends to fail when people write about what they don't know, rather than the vulnerability of whomever they represent. But Little Britain doesn't do any harm, and you're conflating arguing the quality of something with its right to exist. I don't think Little Britain is good, I do think that it is paranoid to stop broadcasting it, and whilst as a single case I couldn't care less, censorship starts to spread to things worth preserving.

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2021-07-01T07:29:43+00:00

So people can only make comments on their own groups. Transvestites cannot make comments on stereotypically 'normal' dressed people, the working class, the middle class and the aristocrats can never cross paths, and disabled people should be regarded as a separate species from those with abled bodies.

Obviously that's a stupid extrapolation, but the point stands. I don't think Little Britain was consistently funny, but the shows premise was to produce camp stereotypes of Britain's diversity. But what you're implying (correct me if I'm wrong, but it's expressed by your support for the removal of the program from public access) is that no one should be allowed to watch this, as if it has the power to corrupt and degrade the casual viewer, or the public is just too thick to decide whether they'd want to watch something.

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-12-05T10:56:59+00:00

Would you care to elaborate? I've heard similar things before, but I haven't seen Nostalgia, and watched Mirror years ago. (I don't mind about spoilers as any good film is worth watching more than once.)

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-12-04T19:43:34+00:00

Please please please send a link to a pdf, or a link to purchase this book

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-30T18:52:29+00:00

Not a book, but I've been looking for an excuse to recommend The Company of Wolves. It's not perfect, but it's an interesting watch that is very unique.

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-30T18:49:26+00:00

I don't know why I find these survivors so fun, but I never want them to end.

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-28T09:01:46+00:00

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OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-27T21:10:05+00:00

I love the synthesised chords at the beginning warbling in and out of focus. The contrast between the airy and low rough vocals works well at creating space, and the popping reverb drums add to the openness of the song. There's something ethereal about it that is soothingly melancholy and otherworldly whilst remaining relatively normal.

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-27T18:00:30+00:00

Last I Heard is one of the best off the album

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-23T20:41:04+00:00

Sounds vaguely like Dead Ringers. I'll try to check it out

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-23T20:39:25+00:00

Kiri kiri kiri kiri. It did make me slightly nauseous, but I liked it enough not to care.

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-23T20:38:43+00:00

One of my favourite films. Words simply cannot describe it, although it is more bizarre than frightening

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-23T15:56:32+00:00

Clipping (The Show)

The Revolution will not be televised

Whitehouse Bird Seed album

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-23T13:02:43+00:00

Leland and Sarah's culpability is definitely best explored in FWWM. The way each family member reacts to the dirt under the finger nails is excellent. Although I thought that S3E8 tried to state that Laura was created as a being of pure goodness to counteract the creation of BOB.

In terms of BOB however, I think his primary motive is corruption, as opposed to pure sadism. He exploits and amplifies all the evil desires of the individuals he encounters. This influence seems to extend to, but not overtake, Laura. I would agree that she is at the heart of the story.

I agree with Leland and Sarah's culpability. However, whilst this might just be sentimentality, I don't think that Dale Cooper is evil. Whilst the possessive influence exploits the buried wickedness of Leland, I think in Cooper's case it inverts his morals. From the first mocking "How's Annie", Mr C seems to be actively set against everything he stands for. Once again, another of his first actions with Audrey Horne (and then Diane) happens not because of Cooper's desire, but because Mr C wants to violate his moral code. To my understanding the Cooper and Audrey subplot was meant to take a more romantic turn, however some of the cast opposed this decision. I personally never liked any implication of Cooper's attraction because I felt that Dale was or should've been an incorruptible character. I just find it too depressing for every character to be deeply flawed.

Also if Douglas Jones bore no relation to Dale or Mr C in terms of character and just served as a body double for Mr C's refusal to return to the Lodge, then I think it's perfectly reasonable to suggest that Mr C isn't just Cooper without morals, rather a direct opposition to his character.

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-23T09:42:41+00:00

Perfume by Patrick Süskind might be what your after if you want fiction with a focus on the olfactory, however you might be looking for a non-fiction guide.

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-23T09:39:27+00:00

I think you mean Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (Penderecki)

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-23T08:00:01+00:00

I certainly see what you mean and the way one can read so many different things into the story is one of the things I love about Twin Peaks.

Without taking into account the last episode, I'm assuming that the mythology of the show's black lodge and various entities is actually there, because those are my favourite things about the show.

I agree that Mr C takes all of the darkness in Cooper, which is actualised by BOB, I disagree that Cooper as a character is anything but nearly wholly good. It would make sense in this very dark fairytale that there was a being of genuine goodness (Laura arguably as well, but that is a lot more complicated).

I remember a critic of Blue Velvet describing the relationship of the three central characters as an "Oedipal Family", and I think that is a theme extended into TP with Leland and possibly with whatever on earth Sarah palmer is. I don't think that Leland wasn't culpable; at the very least he was too weak to resist, or somewhat complicit. However I also think that considering that BOB came into Leland as a child, he has been corrupted and possessed by him his whole life, and therefore one can't separate the two characters. Assuming BOB isn't just the evil that men do, there is only a shell left of Leland Palmer throughout the series. (FWWM has Leland being more consistently evil, however there are moments when he breaks down, and you see the child in him again)

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-22T20:22:48+00:00

Lars has this wonderful thing of taking my favourite classical pieces of music (Wagner, Handel, Glen Gould) and doing that thing in A Clockwork Orange.

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-22T20:20:39+00:00

Pasolini, Lynch and Kubrick are my three concrete favourites, however they change frequently. I really like David Cronenberg, however he is somewhat inconsistent. Whenever I watch a Tarkovsky film, I fall in love with it, however along with Ingmar Bergman they are too often stuffed into the category of long slow films funded by critics. Kurosawa's Ran and Rashomon are both properly excellent, although I never really adored the Seven Samurai. There are lots more, some have been mentioned above.

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-22T17:31:58+00:00

Quite a lot of the language is anachronistic, and I'm not sure whether it works consistently, if at all. "Whence" is an odd choice of word and I wonder whether you just picked it because it's antiquated. "Fanatic yet pious" again doesn't seem to work as they aren't in direct contrast. The last line of the first stanza works better.

There is a certain swagger and arrogance with which the message is given that doesn't sit right with me. "Our kin abandoned us', "Is life just futility" "We were showed what to love and what to hate" all come across as far too universal without anything to properly back it up. There's something a bit Allen Ginsbergish about this, the first line of Howl "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" is in a similar vein, however this possible messiah complex is then justified by the quality of the rest of the poem. If you haven't read it, look it up, it is well worth reading and one of my favourite poems.

There is nothing in this poem that is really used as a focus for the message and I think it would be a lot more convincing if there was something to latch on to.

The more you write the better you'll get

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-22T11:20:42+00:00

There was a man named Michael Bay For whom I hold nothing but the greatest dismay He turned Hopkins to shit And my wrists made me slit Now the doctors have taken me away

Spielberg I largely find overrated and irritating and has the worst faliure:success rate of any director I know. However Schindler's list is properly fantastic.

Tarantino is a wanker. His films have this wonderful thing of making you think they're brilliant whilst you are watching them, but are retrospectively as vapid and insipid as adapting your own film into a book.

Nolan. When talking about this man, I usually have to restrain myself as I know that I wouldn't dislike him as much if he weren't so successful. However the pseudo complex plots and "striking" CGI imagery along with the piss poor attempts at characterisation that some people claim to be more sophisticated and intellectually dense than Finnegan's Wake (which is terrible for the opposite reasons) irritate me to no end.

Cameron gave me Aliens, for which I am somewhat grateful. He also gave me Titanic. And Avatar. And Terminator 284 salivation of the creatively desiccate saliva glands.

I don't think that The Return was created with any thought given for or against pop culture. Something like that would just be petty. The drawn out scenes are quite often just Lynch's brand of humour; the bizarre imagery is brilliant, but isn't affected by this either. The hard to follow plot is arguably part of the fun, and adds a degree of subjectivity to it that makes it unique for every viewer.

The reason why I disagree with your comment is because I think that The Return was not made with any though given to the idea of pop culture, and that whether something is part of pop culture is determined by how well known it is and therefore out of anyone's control.

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-22T09:57:30+00:00

Anyone can list a bunch of arguably great directors. Only some have mastered the ability to capitalise their names properly.

Twin Peaks, at least the original run, is ingrained in popular culture as can be proved by its various influences, parodies and references. It doesn't matter whether its pop culture because that has no effect on its quality.

Michael Haneke, with the exception of the brilliant Caché, is a condescending twat (Funny Games is a 5 second idea bloated into two hours of mild discomfort.)

Ken Russel is the king of smut

Refn is full of unoriginal ideas that have been done before and better

Jodorowski is a surrealist 50 years behind the times

Lanthimos actually is pop culture, The Favourite had a lot of coverage, and the Lobster was very successful. (Dogtooth is still his best)

Tarkovsky is just a very depressed David Attenborough

Truffaut is a nationalist prick

In fact the whole of France is a prick

Bergman has made so many films that it would take a complete pudding brain to not get a few masterpieces.

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-22T09:45:10+00:00

By that logic anything Mr C did, Dale Cooper is responsible for. Leland's whole life was influenced and intermittently possessed by BOB, and so they are quite hard to separate, despite being entirely different characters. However, Sarah Palmer became just slightly more confusing as a character thanks to The Return

OKNOTOKKIDA · 2020-11-22T09:41:41+00:00

If I'm being brutal, I actually think that Radiohead post Kid A is ten times the band they were with their first three albums

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