Public Mistake
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They told me you couldn't compare Madame Bovary and Fargo. They were absolutely right. But I did it anyway.
What's up? I have articles about everything, Soft Boys, Alien, Twitter, I might write something about avodado spread, IDK.
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Out-Tweet the Void
The biggest step of my transition from awkward young human to confident person was to learn when to stop trying to say something. To remain silent. I'm the geeky kid that felt that he could say something in class and be rewarded for it. I was the textbook definition of a trained monkey who couldn't get enough of vocal rewards.
By Public Mistake6 years ago in 01
Am I a Soft Boy?
For as long as I was able to look for categories of belonging in books, on the television, movies, fashion articles, I had always managed to discard those as proper descriptors for who I felt I was. You can’t put people in a box, you can’t just sum a whole human person up by a couple of token pieces of clothes, commonly-used expressions, vaguely ascribed character traits and call off 150 years of painstaking psycho-analysis. That is my hardcore belief that, whatever happens, there is more than meets the eye with every person I’ve met, than any bullshit denominator could say about them. Even when I do judge someone based on the facial hair that dangles off their membrane, there’s always this moment when I stop being a garbage piece of judgmental weirdo once I actually talk to the non-ironical type-writer user, manbun-sporting milk-and-sugar-with-a-dash-of-coffee drinking guy.
By Public Mistake6 years ago in Humans
'Spirited Away' and 'Alien'
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." Through the Looking Glass. In the beginning of Spirited Away, Chihiro witnesses subtle changes in her parents behavior, as their curiosity for an abandoned theme park grows. They start to forget about Chihiro and end up feasting on unexplained food that just appeared in a restaurant. As their eating the food grows more disgusting and piglike, they slowly turn into pigs, to the horror of Chihiro.
By Public Mistake6 years ago in Futurism
Your Voight-Kampff Test Indicates You Saw Nothing at Hiroshima
During the first minutes of the classic cyber-punk Noir Blade Runner, we’re introduced to the rules of the universe through the interview of a replicant. The Voight-Kampff test is built to reveal “artificiality” in those probed. It’s a combination of questions and a censor that focuses on the subject’s eye, it is supposed to help the Blade Runner to do his job. Though the premise would offer a satisfying nail-bitter in a cyberpunk world already filled with grandiose landscapes, daring visuals, and haunting music, the movie goes further than that and explores what would happen if one of those replicants thought they were human and didn’t know their precious memories were implanted artificially. We’re shown Deckard, the main Blade Runner doing the Voight-Kampff test for hours on the main female character, precisely because Rachel believes in her own human self, her own memory makes it that hard for the test to corner whatever artificiality it is supposed to get to. How do you tell someone who tells the truth from someone who is convinced they are telling the truth? But Blade Runner goes farther. Ultimately, and with an ending that gave us one of the best monologue and sympathetic villain, the movie asks if the distinction between human and non-human, real memories and fake ones, matters in the first place.
By Public Mistake6 years ago in Geeks