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'If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.' - Ben Wheatley --- There was a very upsetting article I recently read that argued for the NECESSITY of reimagining every work of fiction or even non-fiction because 'Heroes then are not the same as heroes now.' In the original Iliad and Odyssey, Ulysses is depicted as a man who revels in his own cleverness, seems to have little regard at all for lives that get in the way of his goals, and hold nothing too sacred when it comes to social niceties of today. He leaves women who are infatuated with him, he plunders and schemes, and eventually he murders wholesale a group of courtiers to get his wife back. So he needs to be softened, he needs to be changed. We the modern audience are too dumb to accept anyone who isn't entirely heroic as a

I deleted my account and all my info. Facebook for a while to me was my repository for photographs, my hangout with old friends, my source of info for niche stuff like upcoming films and games. But I'm done. To begin with there's a new 'spam' filter which means if you post more than four times then Facebook will prevent you from posting for 76 hours. So if you for instance run a group and want to post more than four times? You're banned for a long time without any discussion. Then I got the strikes on my channel for advocating violence...because I posted a screenshot of Christopher Lambert holding a gun. And today some keyboard warrior decided to dox me and harass my family because of a disagreement over a film. He claimed to be part of the Department of Justice and I have my doubts but to imagine some unhinged wacko could find out my address and phone number and might do any number of horrible things to me was disturbing. So I'm done. I scrubbed my account. Another avenue

'If you look at a duck, the bill and the body are large and textured. The key to the duck is the eye. If the eye were placed on the beak or in the middle of the body, it would get lost or compete with other features. It is perfectly placed to anchor the duck.' - David Lynch -- I tried to watch the movie Infinity Pool. Directed by Brandon Cronenberg (the son of one of my favorite directors David Cronenberg) I was looking forward to a moody and inventive surrealist tale. I barely got into it before I quit. Not because of violence or heavy-handed messaging or anything else besides a feeling of malaise brought on by the utterly subpar directing. Brandon seems convinced that unless the person behind the camera is DIRECTING in fiery capital letters then a film isn't working properly. Here we have potentially an atmospheric slow burn decent into madness, but half the opening shots are literally spun upside down because THE WORLD IS INVERTED. The production doesn't allow the actors or