We Are All Willing On The Catastrophe

[Clinamenic]

Yes, where Matt Dillon plays a hubristic serial killer and that guy who played Hitler in Downfall plays Virgil, but called Virg in the film. Its premium provocation, in my mind. The things they do with corpses in that film...

 

[Clinamenic]

And another extravagant use of a Bowie song in a von Trier film. The one in Breaking the Waves gave me chills both times I saw it.

 

[Clinamenic]

Overbearing depression as a crucible for extravagant narcissism and heavy-handed provocation.

 

[Clinamenic]

High-brow trolling.

Bruno Gans is the actor who plays Virgil.

 

[Clinamenic]

its a film?

Forgot to mention that Matt Dillon's serial killer deals with some kind of obsessive-compulsive condition. There was a memorable scene where, after committing a murder in a household, he goes back into his car, frets about any potential bloodstains he overlooked inside, goes back in to double check, goes back into his car, frets again, goes back inside to triple check, and then leaves.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I've just realised you're talking about Matt Dillon and not Matt Damon.

 

[Clinamenic]

That would've been interesting. Will goes Hunting.

 

[Clinamenic]

Not sure if Damon has it in him, honestly. Although I may not have guessed that about Dillon either.

 

[Clinamenic]

One scene has Dillon in a birds nest at a shooting field, terrorizing his wife and ultimately sniping his presumable step-son, both of whom he brought there for a picnic, and then forcing his wife to spoon feed her dead son a bite of apple pie, finally killing her and arranging their corpses into a bird's-eye assemblage.

 

[version]

 

[linebaugh]

where from?

 

[WashYourHands]

Gareth Southgate

googling the quote threw up this (not that I’ve read it all yet)

Covid-19 and the Apocalypse: Religious and Secular Perspectives

The current Covid-19 pandemic has led to existential crises. One way of finding meaning in this is through apocalyptic narratives. We differentiate between religious (based upon eschatology) and secular apocalypticism (based upon radical political and ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[version]

where from?

Baudrillard, Carnival and Cannibal.

 

[version]

"The premise of Season is that you play a traveller recording the last moments of different cultures before they're washed away," reads the PlayStation blog. The third-person, adventure bicycle game explores a Studio Ghibli-like graphical world, documenting it rather than trying to prevent the imminent collapse from happening.



The gameplay is centered around biking, exploring, recording photographs or audio, and encountering local people. The player character is there in the critical moment, just as everything is about to change. You are not there to stop the change but to bear witness to it, to make recordings and attempt to understand what is being lost before it’s gone.

The mission is similar to making a time capsule, deciding what would capture the spirit of the time period and carry it onwards. It’s a strong action to perform in the face of an uncertain future. The feeling that the good times are over is even more pervasive now than it was when we started working on Season many years ago.

 

[linebaugh]

Baudrillard, Carnival and Cannibal.

Do you prefer that one over America?

 

[version]

Do you prefer that one over America?

Haven't read it yet. It's quite pricey and I'm hoping it comes down before I pick up a copy. I preferred Illusion of the End, the one I read recently, to America, but they're both good.

 

[luka]

grapejuice likes that one thats called terminal strategies or seomthign

 

[luka]

fatal strategies

 

[version]

Yeah, Fatal Strategies. I've just started Simulacra and Simulation.

 

[yyaldrin]