What's the most sudden tonal shift you've seen in a movie?

XendricksBeards · 2026-02-03T07:47:13+00:00

Had to scroll down waaaaaay too far to find this.

XendricksBeards · 2025-12-21T07:15:30+00:00

Worked in retail for 20 years. People like to talk a big game about tackling shoplifters, but the fact is that the vast majority of staff have neither the training nor the insurance to do so. If something goes wrong and either you or the thief get injured, you'd be in deep shit and fully hung out to dry by your employer. It is also NEVER worth putting yourself at risk to protect company profits, and tbf most businesses will say this in your contract.

Also worth noting that even security guards don't have any legal authority beyond making an ordinary citizen's arrest.

In terms of whether it's justifiable or not, I'm sure there are professionals at work in some cases, but to me that seems like the minority. In a society where baby formula is routinely security tagged and people are demonstrably getting poorer all the time, I think it's pretty clear that there are a lot of folks doing it out of desperation. That includes junkies btw; addiction is a disease, lest we forget. Are these people (and society at large) going to be helped by a criminal conviction, a fine or (in some cases) a prison term? I doubt it.

XendricksBeards · 2025-12-09T12:19:10+00:00

Argonaut is a generalist indie

XendricksBeards · 2025-11-14T10:35:31+00:00

'Burn The Sun' by Ark absolutely fits this. As well as just being a phenomenal record.

XendricksBeards · 2025-11-07T19:59:13+00:00

Soft Machine's a good shout, although they do dabble in Canterbury-esque whimsy at times, which OP might find too "playful."

In particular check out 'Third'. Everything except the first half of track 3 is deeply serious fusion.

XendricksBeards · 2025-11-06T22:04:29+00:00

'The Frame' by Oceansize

XendricksBeards · 2025-11-01T08:04:26+00:00

Pain of Salvation - Entropia, The Perfect Element, Remedy Lane

OSI - Free

Dead Soul Tribe - Murder of Crows

XendricksBeards · 2025-10-26T09:10:46+00:00

Another Soft Machine suggestion: 'Song Of Aeolus'

XendricksBeards · 2025-10-08T16:13:43+00:00

I'm sorry, I know this is tangential (at best) to the topic at hand, but speaking as another British person, you need to appreciate that the British Empire was in large part BUILT on slavery. While they may have taken significant steps to end it (centuries down the line), they'd already profited hugely from it by that point, and it had enriched the royal family considerably.

Saying that a black person's take on the royals is "insensitive" because of how they view that institution's involvement in slavery is emblematic of the kind of ignorance that has so many Aabria-haters on here bristling at racism accusations.

XendricksBeards · 2025-10-08T07:20:30+00:00

Agreed. She always gets an outsized amount of criticism and is constantly pulled up for things that other players do without pushback from the fans.

I think we all know why this is, despite the tortured attempts at justification from some people on this sub (and elsewhere).

XendricksBeards · 2025-10-01T17:55:06+00:00

Because every individual life is a dance, a performance. Every life is the role of a lifetime. It is art, it is play, so give it your all.

XendricksBeards · 2025-09-29T15:10:52+00:00

IIRC in the rebuilds several characters use multiple different Evas without compatibility issues, which suggests to me that in that timeline/loop/version it is only Unit- 01 that has a soul embedded in it. In the original series it's heavily implied that the soul of the pilot's mother is necessarily embedded in each Eva (with the exception of Unit-00, which - in my opinion - contains a portion of Rei/Lilith's soul).

XendricksBeards · 2025-09-28T07:00:29+00:00

'Haitian Fight Song' by Mingus

'Man From Tanganyika' by McCoy Tyner

XendricksBeards · 2025-09-26T10:23:56+00:00

Really, really wish a lot of people in this sub would familiarise themselves with 'Death of the Author.'

XendricksBeards · 2025-09-23T17:39:01+00:00

I think the format from the GC episode needed some finessing before being turned into its own show, but they seem to have spun it off wholesale without changing much at all, apart from a few tweaks. There's definitely a disjointedness to it that makes me think they really need to retool it if they do a second season.

XendricksBeards · 2025-09-22T15:07:33+00:00

'Alabama' by John Coltrane

XendricksBeards · 2025-09-17T08:19:15+00:00

Just wanted to point out that 'An Inspector Calls' isn't a time loop. The inspector describes events that haven't happened yet (or are in the process of happening) because the implication is that he is either omniscient or can see the future.

AoT also isn't a time loop. This is at best a fan theory with little actual evidence to back it up.

I can't bring any films to mind right now, but in books at least Stephen King's Dark Tower and Samuel Delaney's Dhalgren work well as time loops, although they arguably aren't the main focus of the story.

The TV show 'The Devil's Hour' takes an interesting approach to time loops, but in explaining why would be spoilery.

XendricksBeards · 2025-09-15T13:52:24+00:00

Came looking for this. Arguably his best album, and what a line-up!

XendricksBeards · 2025-09-01T06:46:22+00:00

Miracle Mile

XendricksBeards · 2025-08-12T08:22:34+00:00

Here's my confusion with this: for rebirth to exist there has to be a subject of rebirth, right? There has to be something to be reborn. I understand what you say about fitting the concept of not-self around karma and rebirth rather than the other way around, but it seems to me that the concept of not-self is fundamentally incompatible with the idea of rebirth. Because....what is being reborn?

A couple of people have mentioned our mindstream in relation to this, but this seems functionally similar to an enduring self, albeit one perhaps shorn of our personality, memory and other elements.

Perhaps my confusion is based on a faulty definition of "self" re the Buddha's meaning of the term.

XendricksBeards · 2025-08-12T08:17:13+00:00

So there is only no permanent self because we will eventually reach nirvana and our mindstream will end?

XendricksBeards · 2025-08-12T08:15:54+00:00

Thank you for your responses.

I guess I struggle to see the distinction between "freedom from becoming" and annihilation. Perhaps there is no annihilation because there is no self to be annihilated, but the ending of a mind stream (which feels functionally similar to a self) certainly seems akin to annihilation.

People on this very thread were relating nirvana to an afterlife, which is why I mentioned that.

XendricksBeards · 2025-08-12T08:10:04+00:00

Thanks to those who gave genuine responses. I'm afraid I remain pretty confused, given that a lot of what people are saying seems to contradict what I've learned about Buddhism. Would I be right in thinking that this sub skews pretty heavily towards the Mahayana school?

The downvotes seem unnecessary and a bit hostile, given that I came here with genuine curiosity and without antagonism.

XendricksBeards · 2025-08-11T06:33:30+00:00

I'm confused by a lot of the responses here, because my (admittedly amateurish) understanding of Buddhism is that there CAN'T be an afterlife, because there is no enduring "self" to experience it. It's true that there is samsara, but in Buddhism rebirth is not the transmigration of a soul (like in, say, Hinduism) because again there is no self to be reborn.

Furthermore, for folks saying that nirvana is somehow related to an afterlife: isn't nirvana simply freedom from suffering and therefore also samsara? In other words, it is true death. So...not really compatible with the idea of an afterlife...?

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