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Re: Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?

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Post by muzani »

hh3k0 wrote: post #177
muzani wrote: post #19

Jiro Dreams of Sushi. It highlights the true nature of mastery, how deep it goes, and what an actual master looks like. One of the chefs needed 10 years of experience before they would let him do the egg sushi. There's the deep networks that support it too, the master fishmongers, the master rice planters, and all the master brokers in between who knew how to find the good stuff.

> One of the chefs needed 10 years of experience before they would let him do the egg sushi. That only ever struck me as extremely pretentious, to be perfectly honest. The chef in question needing 10 years of experience before they would let him do the egg sushi strikes me as essentially the same harmful mentality the Japanese have toward productivity, thinking that clocking in as many hours as possible equals produc…

You'll have to watch the documentary for context. I don't think the time was the requirement, but more the level of expertise. And it surprised me that egg sushi was the most difficult one to get right. Upon being able to do it, the chef was considered a shokunin (master/craftsman/artisan), but it didn't mean that they were at the peak.

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Post by andresgottlieb »

grecy wrote: post #79
trykondev wrote: post #27

My answer might sound like a joke, but I'm being sincere -- the Adam Sandler movie "Click" had a profound impact on me. I saw that movie in theatres on a total whim when I was a teenager. After watching the movie, I felt extremely emotionally affected -- I literally spent the drive home sobbing. I felt so moved by how the movie showed time passing by, especially as the main character started to lose control of how qu…

Both Click and "The Family Man" with Nic Cage had that same impact on me.

Exactly the same for me

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Post by kls »

gedy wrote: post #288
kls wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I literally walked away from that movie and said to my buddy, that I watched it with "WTF, I feel like I just got mentally raped", it is really that powerful of a movie. It disturbs me that a human mind could conceive of that story.

The scene with the women walking past holding the dead pigeon really flipped me out.

one word Eben. The fact that he found Eben, and thought that it was him in angel form and put him under his bed and would take him out at night to talk to him, that was some really twisted crap.

Funny story I dated this girl off and on, and she went away to college. Well she caught her boyfriend over there cheating on her and she called me and asked me to come over for the weekend a few weeks later (I was a good rebound guy). Anyways, we go to rent movies, because one still rented them back then, and I see the reflecting skin so I was like oh lets get this, and I tell her it is really messed up. Well we get back, one thing leads to another and we never watch the movie, so I really never got to tell her how much the movie disturbed me, just really had a high level, this movie is crazy talk at the video store. Well the weekend comes and goes, I go home which is about 2 hours away and 3 days later I get a call from her, which can pretty much be boiled down to: "What the fuck is wrong with you! Loose my number". Maybe 5 years later, we cross paths in a bar in our hometown and we are talking and one of the first things she brings up is the movie and tells me, that about 5 of her girlfriends came over to hang out and they decided to watch it as she had not returned it yet. She said the most awkward part was her explaining to her friends that she had not selected the movie but this guy, that lives 2 hours away who she does this on again, off again thing with was over and picked it out. They pretty much convinced her that I was a serial killer for having selected that movie for viewing. At the bar, I did get to relay to her, my experience of first watching it, and that I had planned to explain to her that the movie was fucked up and had a profound impact on me, as I did not have a lot of empathy for people in my teens and 20's and I had kind of did her shitty after our first round of dating. Instead I got the cold hand due to the possibility that I could have been a serial killer. I figure it was Karma having her laugh, at my expense.

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Post by indigodaddy »

indigodaddy wrote: post #175

Before The Rain about love and war in Macedonia. Amazing and impactful film. Time of the Gypsies by Emir Kusturica - just go in cold to this, one of my favorite movies. Featuring musical score from the incomparable Gorman Bregovic. Enemy by Villeneuve (or literally anything from this director; also check out the compelling Incendies, and Sicario of course; Prisoners is also amazing) Literally pick any movie from Iran…

*Goran Bregovic (was too late to edit)

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Post by juniper_strong »

throwaway092837 wrote: post #287
juniper_strong wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure how either of those support your point about the term toxic masculinity. I claimed, "he has said he doesn't believe in the term toxic masculinity". In your first link, he is asked, "We hear the term “toxic masculinity” a lot these days. As someone who writes a lot about manhood, what does it mean to you?". He answers, "Oh boy, I’m not sure if I really believe in it". Sounds to me like he doesn't believe…

As I said "He criticized the term, for being poorly defined, not the concept". >We hear the term “toxic masculinity” a lot these days. As someone who writes a lot about manhood, what does it mean to you? >Oh boy, I’m not sure if I really believe in it. >Why? >It seems like a label put on a certain type of behavior from the outside. It’s just such a vague term that it’s hard to address.

So he doesn't believe in the term toxic masculinity. What is the argument you are making here, exactly?

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Post by mod »

aitchnyu wrote: post #129
morpheuskafka wrote: post #96

Going in a slightly different direction, the two saddest films I have ever seen are 火垂るの墓 / Grave of the Fireflies (1988 - Ghibli - Japan) and Hiss Dokhtarha Faryad Nemizanad / Hush! Girls Don't Scream (2013 - Iran). In both of them you can feel the exact moment when the protagonist loses hope and it really hits you. Both of them deserve a pretty strong warning--I guess the second one more of a true "trigger warning"…

Prior to this, I was relatively meh after hearing about the aggression towards civilians till I saw this "kids" movie. In India, they taught us the atom bombs were the biggest tragedy on humanity but I learned of something worse inflicted in next order of magnitude.

Your comment made me think of a movie (which is off epic of these anime films) called Kids.

I saw it as a teenager and thought it was very sad, though I don't remember a lot of details today.

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