Fishin' in the stream of consciousness (all-purpose, no topic chat thread)

ooh, i love high quality film analysis. if you've watched it, can you give me a summary of what he covers in the dancer in the dark one? that film gave me my first panic attack so i'm somewhat sensitive to content about it but also really love hearing people be negative about von trier

 

I think you might not like this video. I don't think the guy has done any reviews of films he didn't like. He's also very heavy on movie clips to show what he's talking about, and while it's not as oppressive as watching the actual film by any means, it's still extremely grim and sad.

He does a lot of discussion and comparison about musicals in general to demonstrate his points about this one. There's a lot about things like camera movement, color palette, saturation, as well as genre conventions and history and overall structure. He discusses a few of Von Trier's particular ideas about film as they apply to the movie, but it's not very much about the director really. It's more about what the movie specifically has to say about musicals. It wasn't at all negative about Von Trier, Dancer in the Dark, or even musicals as a genre.

 

Is falling in love like. A real thing that happens to people or is that just in movies???

 

It happened to my father. I don't know that it happens to everyone, but I was a teenager so I definitely remember seeing it happen.

 

I’ve fallen in love before. We met on the internet and ended up talking for hours daily. When we finally met and then he had to go, I cried in public and didn’t even care because I had such a good reason.

 

I think it's happened to me? I've fallen in love (or what seems fairly equivalent to falling in love) with a couple people (including my husband!). It didn't happen a lot, only like 2 - 3 times.

 

I've fallen in love. Hard. Sometimes it ends better than others.

 

Love is complicated, but I’ve fallen for people before.

Spoiler

Note- not everyone experiences romantic attraction, and not everyone who does “falls in love.” Or does so the same as everyone else.

 

Me too...the only reason I mentioned my dad instead of me is that in his case they were still married when he passed away.

 

Weird little twine story by Porpentine, whose odd twine creations I've particularly enjoyed:

ALL I WANT IS FOR ALL OF MY FRIENDS TO BECOME INSANELY POWERFUL

Important instructions from info page: "please turn on your speakers and your monitor and your mouse and your keyboard when you play this"

Spoiler: content warnings, mild spoilers

Many varieties of gore, self-harm, death. All in a dream-distant and absurdist spirit. None of the harm sticks. I thought it was pretty easy to gloss over everything unpleasant, but those aren't my triggers.

Spoiler: sensory warnings, mild spoilers

Sudden music eventually. It always startles me a little but not unpleasantly. The music is for the mood, not necessary to complete the story if you'd rather not. At one point the screen will abruptly become much brighter but there's no flashing.

I would also like this for all my friends. Whether or not you want to play the game, please go forth and have an insanely powerful day.

 

i walked into the room where study hall usually is and there were two people making out in it. when i walked in they stopped and just glared at me and we had a very short conversation, which went as follows:

 

witnessed for you.

if they were making out in a classroom/study room, it's their own fault they got interrupted!

 

Driving in dreams is always terrible for me

 

I’m always driving from the back seat in dreams. I’m pretty sure that irl if it were possible for me to reach the wheel at all, it would be possible to get into the front seat without letting go of it. But that’s never an option in my dreams.

I’m genuinely still so excited every time I think about how that particular weird nightmare is fairly common. Getting lost while late for a midterm for a class you forgot you had is a little more obvious, but driving from the back seat of a car would not have been something I would have ever guessed was not just me.

 

My driving dreams are especially stressful since it always occurs to me once I'm moving that I don't actually know how to drive.

 

Ive never had a driving dream that i can remember.

 

my driving dreams always involve either the breaks not working or the breaks barely working. it's very stressful and i usually have like 5+ hit and runs