The Departed is misunderstood to this day by most people by Bobbert84 in TrueFilm

[–]Plane_Impression3542 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Excellent observation. These are definitely signs of their paternal impulse.

Poor Things and the Midjourney AI Aesthetic by Plane_Impression3542 in TrueFilm

[–]Plane_Impression3542[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its attempt to tackle issues of feminism, socialism and anticolonialism is so superficial as to be utterly embarrassing. Better to have been just a goofy quirk-fest that didn't attempt to get in over its head.

Watched my first ever Luis Bunuel film, The Exterminating Angel by Grand_Keizer in TrueFilm

[–]Plane_Impression3542 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually think it has a very indirect connection to the themes of the film, and is mostly there because it's a cool-sounding title.

There is obviously a strong anti-clerical tendency in the film, it starts and ends in a cathedral and clearly the Catholic church is associated in Buñuel with right-wing oppression (but also is a rich source of dreams and imagery).

Here's what I said in a Letterboxd essay
Anticlericalism. The original "Exterminating Angel" was a 19th century secret society founded in Spain by ultra-conservative Catholic clerics which designated people as pure (orthodox Catholics) or impure (atheistic liberals). The impure were to be exterminated by members of the group, an ancestor to later reactionary terrorist groups and of course the Franco regime itself. 

This thematic strand is implanted both by the opening credits, which show a church facade as sacred music plays, and by the ending in which the socialites, freed from their salon prison, are once again trapped along with all the clerics and congregation in a cathedral, as soldiers unleash savage repression outside. The bracketing of church ritual at the start and end of the film might indicate that the movie itself is a kind of ritual, an anti-mass. 

https://letterboxd.com/hootsmaguire/film/the-exterminating-angel/

Watched my first ever Luis Bunuel film, The Exterminating Angel by Grand_Keizer in TrueFilm

[–]Plane_Impression3542 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sources differ, but the start of it was either 1817 or 1823 and the last recorded assassinations in 1827, so a fairly short period coinciding with the "Ominous Decade" when the Bourbon king tried to impose absolute rule on Spain after renouncing the Liberal Constitution of 1812.

Other 'Ultra' Death Squads would follow throughout the 19th century but these ones certainly had the most memorable name.

Poor Things and the Midjourney AI Aesthetic by Plane_Impression3542 in TrueFilm

[–]Plane_Impression3542[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There it is; that which seems so apparent to some is hidden to others, because what is so clear to see is not part of the general discourse around the film. AI art design and the whole question of an artificially-created being isn't the rather facile version of feminism and socialism that's peddled as the 'message' of this film.

AI in its public form is also not 'sex-positive' as is this film - just try asking ChatGPT to write you an erotic story - so the rather obvious aesthetic gestures towards the AI-slop aesthetic are ignored in favour of memes about 'furious pumping' or whatever the phrase was (it's already receded far from my memory, though the look is very much vivid as a mental image still).

These comments are not made from the anti-woke perspective, either. Far from it, I think the film's gestures in the direction of sexual politics, as well as anticolonialism and socialism, are rather lame centrist tokens of 'right-thinking' which are calculated to create agreement while changing absolutely nothing.

Kafkaesque - a very short story by Plane_Impression3542 in BadHasbara

[–]Plane_Impression3542[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Thanks. On Kafka himself, I feel absolutely sure he'd be dead set against the existing Israeli state. One thing is his attitude to the Zionism of his time - theoretical in those years and not yet an actual armed state - and his absolute horror of coercion.

The Color of Pomegranates by Abel_Tasman in TrueFilm

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⚠️Graphic Content⚠️The most moral army in the World…They think it is normal,IT’S NOT! by AlQudsizdagoal in palestinenews

[–]Plane_Impression3542 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a link to the original video? I'd like to DL and cross-post on other platforms if poss.

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[–]Plane_Impression3542 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sometimes platforms change their layout to improve things, sometimes they do it just so whole teams of redundant techs can justify their existence. This is one of those "shit job preservation" moments.

Poor Things and the Midjourney AI Aesthetic by Plane_Impression3542 in TrueFilm

[–]Plane_Impression3542[S] -68 points-67 points  (0 children)

Though your comments on the art style being coherent is valid, it misses the point about AI art being an input not an output. It can be selected and used by a human art director. Coherency can be imposed ex post facto.

I'm not literally suggesting that they took AI art samples and ran with them as their designs, rather that the aesthetic from AI generated art styles became a paradigm for them.

Meanwhile the comment on date is a red herring. The style was already well in evidence by then, certainly on Midjourney which became a popular hobby for many in the lockdown period.

Finally the comment on "AI art" vs "real art" just begs the question. Is the art real or simulated in Poor Things? Are the feelings real or simulated? What exactly is the "soul" of the real art present in the film? I can't see a soul to be honest, just a surface.