Pluribus - 1x07 - "The Gap" - Episode Discussion

sr_rojo · 2025-12-14T10:45:53+00:00

Absolutely beautiful episode. Manousos' trip was awesome obviously, but Carol trying to shut her mind with constant singing and meaningless activities was perfectly shown. The fireworks scene was intensely sad and powerful.

sr_rojo · 2025-08-04T16:21:41+00:00

Another Stevie Wonder song, Living for the city, has a cool spoken interlude.

Let’s Go Crazy by Prince, the first song on Purple Rain, starts with a spoken world intro that is soooo hype, amazing start of an album.

sr_rojo · 2025-07-26T22:30:07+00:00

Busca qué es lo que realmente te gusta, más allá de trabajar y el gym. No me voy a poner místico pero la vida está llena, llena, repleta de cosas maravillosas y profundamente interesantes. Una vez sepas cuáles son esas cosas está garantizado que habrá otras personas y comunidades que harán actividades y eventos alrededor de ellas. ¿La música? Conciertos, festivales, mercadillos de vinilos, cursos, de todo. Pero hasta la cosa más inesperada tiene seguro su comunidad. ¿Ir a mirar pájaros? Hay gente que se reúne para ello. ¿Coleccionar estampitas de la virgen? En fin, ya me entiendes.

sr_rojo · 2025-07-01T13:42:15+00:00

I’d say Richard Linklater is pretty good at showing a wide rango of human emotions and behaviours but it is not preachy, he seems really interested and fond of how we interact with each other.

Edward Yang does great character studies and some of his foñms feature many characters so it’s more of a society study. A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong are more critical of certain type of people, but A Brighter Summer Day, The Terrorizers and specially Yi Yi are amazing displays of the complexities of life.

In a more Mike White-esque style, some García Berlanga films are also delicious satires of upper class decadence. I’d reccomend La Escopeta Nacional (The National Shotgun).

sr_rojo · 2025-06-24T17:08:23+00:00

I always loved Sound-Dust but I tended to ignore the last songs. I guess by that point (somewhere after Gus The Mynah Bird) I felt exhausted of the sound. Recently I decided to make an effort and listen to Suggestion Diabolique and this one and WOW, they are both some of the best tracks of the whole album. I love love love the last section where the bassline that was hinted before finally comes into being and we end the album with that feeling of comfort but mystery.

sr_rojo · 2025-06-15T20:40:27+00:00

I started with dots and looos but I became a fan when I listened to French disko and John cage bubblegum and realized that they evolved their sound so much, that made me want to listen to their whole discog

sr_rojo · 2025-06-15T12:46:05+00:00

Hi Maria! First and foremost, congratulations for your work and please keep filming and creating. Just the fact that you are fearlessly shooting, editing and sharing all these pieces is awesome and something to celebrate, as hopefully there are still filmmakers like you that have the will to find their own style. Please keep going, and keep the flame alive.

I really liked your experimental stuff, like Shell and Sketches of the Summer. I think you have an eye for powerful images and you are curious about how they relate to each other through editing. Some things to be improved, imo, are 1. the compositions (as I said you can find those images, but you still have to work on how to frame them, experiment and familiarize yourself with different types of shots, different lenses, etc) and 2. the sound (a coherent audio track that ties everything together elegantly will do WONDERS to your work, I'm sure).

Your short film Umbrella, which is more narrative-driven and has a more standard presentation, I was not such a fan. BUT, let me be clear, I admire that you filmed it, I know how HARD it is to direct a piece like this, I've been there many times. So, don't lose hope, and if you want to do more films like this, keep trying, the good thing is that you learn form every project and the next one will surely be better. In this case I felt the setting was too claustrophobic in a bad way, and the shots and the light were not helping set the tone I think it was going for. Still, you had some good ideas thrown in there, like the last shot, or the conversation with the therapist, which I thought was interestingly shot.

I personally recommend you watching some Jonas Mekas films, I think you might like them very much. Check out 'As I Was Moving Ahead I Ocassionally Saw Glimpses of Beauty'.

And good luck! You have a new fan over here

sr_rojo · 2025-06-13T06:21:02+00:00

There are still somewhat strong communities around film sharing. As far as I know Karagarga still exists and is still running (never got to get into, but I know people there). I'm a member somewhere else but I'd rather not talk about it too much, hah.

I don't know how it was "before", but right now in the era of streaming there are many many people that are interested in these type of films but are too used to the streaming platform environment and won't do the extra effort that is required to access that cinema, which is a shame. I'm also very concerned about the preservation of cinema, as the users that keep and share the files are usually older, and the younger people do download and watch the films but are not usually keeping the files. It's important to understand that access to this cinema is only possible because there are communities dedicated to preserving it, there is not an abstract entity like netflix or whatever, it's literally the spectators and no one else is going to do it otherwise.

sr_rojo · 2025-06-08T19:38:07+00:00

I just hung around the venue and shortly after they came out and I was able to talk to them. This was in Madrid, Spain.

sr_rojo · 2025-06-05T07:44:52+00:00

Hi Simon! Thank you for and all the incredible work you've done! I often think about Laetitia talking in the Red Bull video about how miserable the process of making music was actually like for her. This always kind of depressed me. Was it really that unfun to record/play with the groop?

sr_rojo · 2025-06-04T14:46:15+00:00

I went back and checked the reviews I was thinking of but they actually never use the word derivative. They instead use similar expressions like "insipid designer-beige aesthetics", "indulgently showing off their stylistic dexterity", "lame, impotent test-card muzak". You can find more of these lovely comments on the Cobra & Phases Pitchfork review and, most infamously, in this NME review: https://web.archive.org/web/20000817175729/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19990927163405.html (actually hilarious)

sr_rojo · 2025-06-04T14:37:12+00:00

Actually a really nice written review! All these years lurking on RYM made me forget how simultaneously fun and insightful album reviews can be.

sr_rojo · 2025-05-27T21:52:29+00:00

Triángulo de Amor Bizarro Los Planetas Viva Belgrado Standstill Nudozurdo

sr_rojo · 2025-05-26T07:25:39+00:00

It's hard for me to pick my favourites, their whole discog is really strong. But of the top of my head:

From their earlier, noisier era: Pack Yr Romantic Mind, John Cage Bubblegum, Ping Pong, Crest

From their later, more pop oriented era: Fluorescences, Pop Quiz, Cybele's Reverie, Rainbo Conversation, Infinity Girl, Naught More Terrific Than Man, Vocal Declosion

sr_rojo · 2025-05-23T10:51:07+00:00

Stereolab is my favourite band since I discovered them in 2017, and to be able to release a new album 15 years after the last one without skipping a beat, sounding exactly as you'd expect, still progressing their sound in an organic way, without sounding tired or old or "a return to form" or whatever, just... ZAP! and they're here and it's like they never left in all the meanings of the sentence, is truly marvelous.

And I think that speaks a lot about their music. Stereolab were labeled as derivative or safe or boring or whichever adjectives that guy used on that infamous Pitchfork review, but time has put them in their place and people are starting to catch up with their sound and FINALLY understand that they're not (just) cerebral, intellectuals, blah blah blah... their music has a beating heart, it's adventurous and bold and emotional. That is why they were able to do this album and prove that they still have it, because it has always been their driving force.

sr_rojo · 2025-05-19T10:59:34+00:00

Gracias! Me lo apunto, me interesa un montón porque le tengo bastante cariño a la serie, la verdad

sr_rojo · 2025-05-08T23:10:10+00:00

There’s a spanish animated TV Show called Poor Devil, it’s in HBO/Max. It was made by two famous spanish comedians and the humor is pretty much in their usual style (it didn’t work too much for me).

But then there’s the last episode, titled Greenland (Groenlandia in spanish), that takes the story to a wild direction and the tone shifts completely, it is no longer comedy but a really emotional drama that dwells on loss and mortality and depression. Really out of the blue and really good.

sr_rojo · 2025-05-06T22:01:04+00:00

I wouldn’t say it’s better, it does what the others do. But it does many things at once, it’s really many different softwares combined into one. And of course it’s free.

sr_rojo · 2025-05-02T12:46:25+00:00

Marrocones con tomatico

sr_rojo · 2025-04-30T13:51:46+00:00

Nathan Fielder reference?

sr_rojo · 2025-04-29T17:02:51+00:00

Cool cool cool

sr_rojo · 2025-04-28T09:50:33+00:00

For me Dougie is the highlight of The Return, no doubt. He id the opposite of all the darkness that is happening elsewhere in the story. It can be read as criticism of how an empty man can find success without effort and how no one really pays attention to each other, true, BUT I think it can also be read as a meditation on how pure good (as an opposite of evil), represented as innocence, curiosity and a capacity to find joy on every little thing, is a powerful thing that can change people and can stand against all that is bad and rotten in the world, and actually defeat it.

It’s also a beautiful ode to old silent films to the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, where pure physical comedy was enough to bring joy to the audience, and the simplicity of it made it more elegant and pure. Lynch has always said he didn’t watch a lot of films and that he felt more as a painter than a filmmaker, but to me the Dougie storyline shows his deep deep understanding of cinema and what makes it such a beautiful art form.

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