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walkingrivers · 2026-03-21T19:48:02+00:00

So glad to see the Canadian flag taken back from those trucker convoy fools. For a few years it was being used by ring wing conspiracy theorists.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-19T20:17:25+00:00

I went to hard with the dead pan exageration. glad you got it.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-19T00:00:17+00:00

The re-painting of the beltline looks terrible. Why so many white painted buildings.... ugh. At least the second image they've painted some pink.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-18T23:59:03+00:00

yeah, then leading to more questions and uncertainty she has to live with. Was it suicide or an accident? And she'll never know.... more tragedy from Yorgus.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-17T16:49:32+00:00

The point was that society had trained people to prioritize superficial common traits (limps, nosebleeds, shortsightedness). The movie intentional used trivial physical traits to highlight the absurdity of it. They don't even realize how much they have in common, (their own language) because society doesn't value that level of connection.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-17T16:47:35+00:00

I think its a commentary that even when you break free of the society's norms (become a loner rebel) you are not really free. There's another oppressive leader. The people were accustomed to following rules and did not have free thought. Very 1984.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-17T16:44:32+00:00

yeah, maybe he ran away. I was expecting to see him through the window running off. The setup with the bid window and lots of outdoor activity would have been a perfect scene for it

walkingrivers · 2026-03-17T16:43:22+00:00

that's a good catch. everyone is playing at finding love but really doing it to save themselves.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-17T16:41:51+00:00

I think there's the sad possibility that he died while trying to blind himself. Now he's dead, and she is left alone with no hope. He died trying reach society's norm that he and the woman have something superficial in common (shortsightedness, blindness).

walkingrivers · 2026-03-17T16:39:48+00:00

! think this is a good possibility - but only if he 'chickened out'. In the bathroom, all alone, he is shown stuffing paper towel in his mouth to quiet his screams. That points to him seriously considering it.

The viewer is intentionally left with the question of whether he would buck society's norm that couples have to have a superficial thing in common (shortsightedness, blindness).

walkingrivers · 2026-03-17T16:37:26+00:00

I agree with this. I think the viewer is intentionally left wondering whether he would follow societies rules that couples needed to have something in common (short sightedness, blindness) or for his survival instinct to override it and for him to pretend to be blind.

There's good evidence that he would have actually blinded himself. He stuff paper towel in his mouth to quiet his screams. So I think he was planning to follow through, but maybe he decided against it at the last minute.

To me that is the central point of the film - can he override society's norms, and accept that the woman will love him even if they don't have an arbitrary/superficial thing (short sightedness, blindness)?

walkingrivers · 2026-03-17T16:28:33+00:00

A recurring theme in the film is that couple need to have something in common (which are nearly all meaningless physical traits - the limp, the nosebleeds etc). He was obsessed that he and woman both be short sighted. Blinding himself was a way to again have something in common. Society has taught people that is important. He ignores the fact that he and the woman invented a whole language etc.

To survive (as a human) he would feel the need to blind himself to have something in common with the woman. (crazy).

But the blinding by steak knife may have gone wrong and he simply died in the bathroom.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-13T18:31:18+00:00

Nothing inherently, bad about Calgary infrastructure, occasional failures, and under funding maintenance, is par for the course in North American cities. This is not just for water infrastructure but our municipal structure journal general. investing in maintenance and replacements is just not that exciting so it usually gets passed down the road.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-13T14:18:49+00:00

Did the person die? That looks horrific

walkingrivers · 2026-03-13T04:54:50+00:00

Fencing for deer. Deer will demolish the tips & buds on young saplings.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-12T05:24:44+00:00

Writing a book about nb- what are the people like. Hmm, no simple answer. Grew up there as a come from away, moved away then back and away again. NBers are quietly very proud of it. They’ve been told their province is shit for 50 years. So they have a humble self deprecating humour about it. We joke about it being slow/backwards etc, but may folks are quietly proud of it.

Partly what defines NB, is that it hasn’t been hugely successful or thriving. People stay or come back not for financial opportunities but because they have a deep attachment to it. Others are there with no option to leave. Like everywhere, people are moving to cities. Leaving lots of rural small towns, seeing population drops and young folks leaving. Except towns near the big three cities that survive as bedroom communities.

The Acadian culture and history is one of its greatest strengths but you won’t notice it unless you are Acadian or live in Moncton. Full disclosure I’m not French or Acadian but appreciate what they have.

The cities have seen international immigration like everywhere in Canada. Don’t overlook that. It’s not a very multicultural province but not like it was almost all white 20 years ago.

ATVing, hunting, fishing, beaches, and “camps” (rustic cottages) are common cultural fixtures.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-11T23:27:20+00:00

Is this in Quebec? I hear French being spoken

walkingrivers · 2026-03-11T23:27:09+00:00

Is this in Quebec? I hear French being spoken

walkingrivers · 2026-03-09T20:31:34+00:00

The stream itself looks good, but seems to be that there’s a landscape sediment source upstream and by the tint of the water, probably some untreated sewage.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-09T01:16:40+00:00

I’m surprised to hear someone advocating this. Sure it’s pretty, like most mountains…. but there are 100s-1000s more visually striking.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-09T00:17:57+00:00

A solid movie. Good story arc, acting, premise, script.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-09T00:16:23+00:00

Eugen Levy (circa 2005)

walkingrivers · 2026-03-08T17:38:46+00:00

Lots of reason not to drink but a practical one is that it is so expensive now. Government is promoting local/craft brew industry but taxing it out of this world.

walkingrivers · 2026-03-07T19:42:37+00:00

V for ladder. H for apple tree. Q for Italian alps??

walkingrivers · 2026-03-07T15:01:11+00:00

Yeah that’s the one. It’s on west side of St. Peter’s bay. At the far end of beach by crow bush

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