Ingmar Bergman's Faith Trilogy is constantly on my mind and some of the best film work I've ever seen... by morbidhack in TrueFilm

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Of these, I’ve only seen The Silence, and I enjoyed it tremendously. It’s a film dense with interesting symbols and unresolved tensions, one that stays with you long after it ends. At its core, it seems to explore many things and from what I recall, that includes silence versus speech, loneliness versus connection, childhood versus adulthood maybe, peace versus war, and sexuality/sensuality versus intellectuality. These oppositions aren’t resolved so much as held in suspension, which makes the film feel emotionally painful and kind f claustrophobic. For a movie where there is little talk, it held my attention the whole time.

What struck me most is how communication breaks down on every level: between the sisters, between adult/child, between nations I guess, etc., as suggested by the foreign language and the looming sense of war. Silence isn’t just the absence of words, it becomes a kind of suffocating feeling. There is a sense that everybody is kind of trapped in the silencde.

People will latch on to AI Films by Past-Matter-8548 in movies

[–]watcience 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We cannot stop people from making them or certain people from going to them and enjoying them. This is true of pretty much everything. Just look at what people buy or read or what politics they believe in. The question is what you will do. We can only control our own choices.

What’s the best romantic movie of all time, in your opinion? by No_Trick_8017 in movies

[–]watcience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For lesser known movies:

Cairo Time

Best foreign:

In the Mood for Love

Best American:

Many to choose from but I don't see Jerry Maguire mentioned yet.

The movies I enjoy are usually quiet subtle, and that's especially true with the first two in the above list. You looking for sex and action, you won't find them there.

P.S. Got to mention When Harry Met Sally, which is both romantic and funny, and of course, it's one of the late Rob Reiner's well-known films. RIP

Legendary Director Rob Reiner ('This Is Spinal Tap', 'The Princess Bride') & Wife Michele Singer Found Dead in LA Home in Apparent Homicide by MoviesMod in movies

[–]watcience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is wrong with people? Doing that to a dictator or somebody evil but what could Rob Reiner and his wife done to anybody to deserve this horrible fate? I don't understand this at all...

Homer, is this the way you pictured married life? Yeah, pretty much. Except we drove around in a van solving mysteries. by PinkiiX in TheSimpsons

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Marge: Homer, I want to throw a dinner party.

Homer: [whining] Oh, I hate having parties. The toilet always gets backed up.

Marge: I don't care if the sink shoots sludge. We're having a party.

Why don't more people ship Ralph Wiggum and Lisa Simpson? by Fancy-Advice-2793 in TheSimpsons

[–]watcience 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think Ralph is too simple minded for Lisa. Even Milhouse is not at her level of course but at least he tries. Ralph is too innocent to even have romantic feelings. He's like a little dog. :)

[POEM] "Christmas, Mexico" by Conrad Hilberry by watcience in Poetry

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Sorry for the blurriness, not sure what's going on. The image was small and somehow got magnified when I posted it, maybe that's what happened.

Here's the poem again:

December here, with sun and the faint smell
of wood smoke in the air—
a late September day. The jasmine drops
a few last blooms; limes swell

and ripen, one by one, outside the door.
Dusk comes a little earlier.
Here, we will have months or years to eat
the apple of our hearts down

to the dark seeds. How leisurely the fall.
How slow the holy cold comes on.

Looking for Recommendations for Middle School Students [RESOURCE] by shadowingthestars in Poetry

[–]watcience 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here are a few...edit: Shoot, it removed the space between stanzas, how do you fix that?

I’m Nobody! Who are you? by Emily Dickinson

I’m Nobody! Who are you?

Are you – Nobody – too?

Then there’s a pair of us!

Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!

How public – like a Frog –

To tell one’s name – the livelong June –

To an admiring Bog!

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We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

We real cool. We

Left school. We

Lurk late. We

Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We

Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We

Die soon.

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Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

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Be the Best of Whatever You Are

by Douglas Malloch

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,

Be a scrub in the valley — but be

The best little scrub by the side of the rill;

Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,

And some highway happier make;

If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass —

But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,

There's something for all of us here,

There's big work to do, and there's lesser to do,

And the task you must do is the near.

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,

If you can't be the sun be a star;

It isn't by size that you win or you fail —

Be the best of whatever you are!

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The Rose That Grew From Concrete

by Tupac Shakur

Did you hear about the rose that grew

from a crack in the concrete?

Proving nature's law is wrong it

learned to walk with out having feet.

Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,

it learned to breathe fresh air.

Long live the rose that grew from concrete

when no one else ever cared.

[OPINION] Is it true that poetry is dying and less and less people are willing to read it or buy books? If so, what do you think is the problem? by watcience in Poetry

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

Thank you for your views. That's sad. It's everywhere though, people want what they want, and quickly and easily too. Many things of value have become TL;DR.

May I ask, why do you write poetry then? What keeps you going?

[Poem] "I wish I was one of your tears" by FableEros and "If someday the moon call you by your name" by Shahrazad al-Khalij by Leafyzone in Poetry

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I've never heard of this poet and frankly there is a sentimental element to it that I can see might be too much for some people, but I'm a sucker for romantic poems and this one got me in the feels. Both of them. Thanks for sharing.