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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For me, the most unsettling part was how one of the most important scenes in the movie happens off camera.

I was like "Wait... Did I MISS that?" Nope. It just happens off camera.

No spoilers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That's close to how it happens in the book. I believe there's a single paragraph revealing that >!Moss was killed.!< Then the story moves along.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Fyi your way of doing spoilers isn't showing up for me, here's how they work on my client:

spoilerThis is a spoiler

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reddit-style angle-bracket-exclamation-point spoiler tags do not work on desktop Lemmy or, to my knowledge, any mobile app besides Sync. Lemmy spoiler tags work a little differently:

Text next to the arrowText inside the spoiler which can be multiple lines * and can contain *formatting* * and other such niceties

which produces this

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which can be multiple lines

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The angle-bracket spoilers also work on the eternity client, as it's just forked from some older reddit client. I made a spoiler oopsy recently with it.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

They said the main story was supposed to be the sheriff's. The other guy's just kinda took over too much.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I remember MASH being devoid of music as well.

Is there a list of movies that have no or very little music?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

“Creep” has no music and it made it so much better for me. I really enjoyed that film.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That laughter track, however…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think they are referring to the movie, which (I believe) did not have a laugh track.

If you can find it there was a DVD release of the tv series where the laugh track could be disabled. It's so much better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Only the American release of the TV show had the laugh track. Whole different show without, isn't it?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Music in a movie instructs you on how you are supposed to feel about what's going on. Even if the music is telling you to feel uncomfortable, it's comforting to have that instruction. No music, no comfort.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Maybe the filmmaker realized that even narrative is comforting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

No Comfort for Musicless Films

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe because psychopathy is not a diagnosis. Psychopath is a popular or sometimes criminalism term, it's definition is vague and its use is not very strict. In mental health there's antisocial personality disorder and psychopathic traits in personality testing. But there's no single definition of what being a "psychopath" is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

It's probably about how beliavable in their experience the behaviour of the characters are.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm reminded of an old meme, it was a message taped to a dorm's clothes dryer: "Whoever took my wet clothes out of the dryer and put yours in, you're an asshole. Unfortunately for you, so am I. You can find your clothes outside frozen in the snowbank. Problem with that? Room 214."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's too bad that Room 214 had that run of inexplicable bad luck after that. It was probably just the haunting, though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bullies don't like picking on people that stand up for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You get that from a poster? That's dangerously irresponsible advice for someone who's being bullied. 😶

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

No, that's a reasonable response.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I would've put in something like "I did something to your clothes. Have fun finding out what"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I've run into more Patrick Batemans than Anton Chigurhs in my career.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I can relate.

My profession isn’t known for its empathy.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah but how many of them snapped and killed some people? I think that's part of why that movie did well: it portrays a personality type that many can relate to. But it doesn't mean that taking the extra step from someone who just doesn't give a shit about others to someone willing to stab them to death is realistic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I heard Todd from breaking bad was the best depiction of a psychopath in media. He's not just outright evil like Anton he just doesn't really have feelings of guilt or remorse like normal people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how genius a performance that was? Pre-Breaking Bad, I had no feelings about Jesse Plemons one way or the other. Now, every time I see him in something, I immediately think "What's this personified incarnation of evil up to now?"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I don't think Anton was outright evil. I don't think you consider yourself evil for swatting a fly. To Anton people who crossed him were no different than flies to be swatted. And of course killing (or trying to kill) some people, like Moss, were just part of the job. He was simply violent because it was in his nature.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I think "killing people like they were flies" disqualifies you from anything above "neutral" on the morality chart, like pretty handily too.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I thought the Bateman we saw was his fugue dissociated interpretation

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I think we see during war times just how many latent psychopaths we have amongst us.

I think a lot of people are fine with making others suffer or die when they gain something for it (status, survival, money).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

When did science tell you that, though? That sounds like a reinterpretation was made somewhere along the way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've heard that last paragraph so many times and I can't describe the pain I get in my eyes from them rolling so far back in my head.

Typically this shit comes from theists who can only find meaning in life if it comes in the form of some dusty old book written by unknown people some 2000 years ago.

Theism tells people their lives only matter to serve some made up deity for the hope of some eternal peace after they die. It's a socially acceptable cult praying on people who are lost, think they hold no self worth, or can't handle the existential terror of death.

You don't need theism to have meaning in life. The meaning of your life is the one you give to yourself, bereft of any outside influences. Nobody's life should be beholden to anyone else's standards or expectations.

We're all pointless. This life is all we get. Don't waste it trying to find some grandiose meaning. Just live it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

We are not pointless at all, and I'm sorry you feel that way. What I wrote has nothing to do with theism or deitys or cults. :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

i think the concept of death is relaxing. guaranteed that one day it will be over and you can rest

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Science also tells everyone they are pointless pieces of dust

Can you cite any studies? Because that sounds more like philosophy territory.

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