#Empathy in Film

[ulkaralakbarova]

"Suze: A Heartwarming Journey of Empathy, Healing, and Unconditional Love - A Must-Watch Indie Film Gem"

Michaela Watkins (left) and Charlie Gillespie (right) in “Suze” ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Independent Cinema: A Spotlight on “Suze” As we consistently emphasize at http://www.moviemovesme.com, our primary aim is to shed light on, celebrate, and prioritize independent cinema. Some may question the downsides of big studio films. While such inquiries remain pertinent, it’s crucial to acknowledge…

[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

[texaschainsawmascara]

The Misfits (1961)

[gregor-samsung]

Олык марий пылвомыш вате-влак [Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari] (Aleksei Fedorchenko, 2012)

[rubyof-thesea]

oh look, an emotionally neglectful/abusive parent suddenly being nice to the scapegoat child as soon as they realize they’ll no longer be able to force their child to have a relationship with them🙄

[rhaelynn]

**some of my tags below mildly spoil the video’s content; if you found this post through any of them, do proceed with caution!**

I don’t watch video essays very often, but imho this one is fantastic—so I thought I’d share here!!

The video analysed the purpose, function(ing), and long-term effect of the Hunger Games on both Capitol and District citizens, in ABOSAS and the main series, and broke down its structure (and by extension, Panem) to A TEE.

Do check out the channel as well!! There’s another video made on Wandavision that I really like also (translation: I FELT SEEN), and in general I quite like the way they structure their arguments/points.

[infodump-matchmaking]

REQUEST: film cameras (history and mechanics), film development (darkroom equipment, chemicals, procedures)

OFFER: the psychology and neuroscience of empathy. Did a PhD and dissertation on this topic, might as well put that knowledge to use by helping writers be accurate about it!

[artist-issues]

Some of You Have Not Seen E.T. In a Long Time

and you think it’s just a semi-weird but cult-classic 80s sci-fi movie, and you don’t revisit it, if you ever saw it at all.

But let me help you with that.

That movie is so good.

It’s about a little boy named Elliott who is immature, and one of the worst parts of his particular immaturity is that he only cares about how he feels. At the beginning of the movie he tries to tell his family about the creature he saw in the backyard, but when they don’t react the way he wants them to, he throws uncomfortable facts about his absent father in his mom’s face. She gets upset, and Elliott’s big brother says,

And what does the backyard creature turn out to be? An ALIEN. A word which means both “visitor from another planet” and “completely foreign, outside of your own experience.”

they literally name him “the EXTRA-Terrestrial.” Because that’s what he teaches the little boy—how to feel what other people feel, outside of himself. Instead of just focusing on his own little world and how he feels.

The alien literally has a heart that you can see from the outside of his body.

The alien literally has empathy powers. He makes Elliott feel exactly what he’s feeling—or vice-versa. When he sees a hurt, the alien immediately tries to heal it. When he starts dying, so does Elliott.

The little boy has to learn to communicate, to care about what someone else cares about, and to let go of someone even though it hurts because it’s what’s best for them.

The E in E.T. stands for empathy, go back and WATCH IT.

the movie is shot mostly from a short perspective, so the audience can feel what the kid characters are feeling, just like the kid characters are learning to feel what their loved ones might feel.

E.T.‘s character design is all big eyes and glowing heart—what else would personify “observe other people and feel for them?”—while the bad guys in the movie, the government, come in dressed as astronauts—and you cannot see their faces. You can’t connect with them.

The leader of the government is only shown from the hip down, accompanied by the sounds of jingling keys, until he talks to Elliott about why he wants to study E.T.—then suddenly, because he’s getting down on Elliott’s level and explaining how he feels, he’s the only one who’s face you can actually see, and you realize that the keys were symbolizing how much he wanted to unlock the secrets of the universe all along. But you don’t get to know that until Elliott connects with this character, who is explaining how he feels.

It is set on Halloween. (When everyone wears masks.)

If you haven’t seen this movie in a long time, or ever, and you think it’s just the weird Spielberg Alien Movie, go and watch it. That’s how you make a movie, people

[thedeafprophet]

I forgot how much the death in the first Knives Out movie emotionally wreckes me

[mariocki]

The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

"I thought you said if we destroyed the brain, it'd die?"

"It worked in the movie!"

"Well, it ain't working now, Frank."

"You mean the movie lied?"

[albertayebisackey]

“Movies are a machine that generates empathy.” – Roger Ebert

[lasnevadaslaborunion]

I have never understood the hostility that (some) fans of big streamers have towards people who are enthusiastic about lore.

I only got into the DSMP because I liked the characters and wanted a change of pace from the kinds of books I was reading for my English degree. I get so much more joy out of watching and analyzing interesting storytelling than I do from almost anything these people do out-of-character. I don't see anything wrong with that.

It's not disrespectful to the streamers to engage only with the parts of their content that you enjoy, as long as you're not being rude about it and pressuring them to produce content that doesn't make them happy to create. Somebody else will be entertained. That doesn't have to be you.

[lesbianwyllravengard]

I always have one male professor every semester who sucks absolute ass and is the worst human ever but that's my fault for majoring in film where terrible people are incubated in old film strips and sent to infest the general population I guess.

[gregor-samsung]

Олык марий пылвомыш вате-влак [Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari] (Aleksei Fedorchenko, 2012)

[hp-lonesome-actual-art]

Another batch or Mr. Puzzles quick sketches. I kept forgetting to draw his side pocket in the last couple ones. Random character featured in the little comic-ish Live Interview is some version of doodlesona. Can’t guarantee the dialogue will be believable/sound in character for Puzzles because honestly I’m still working on understanding his talking style and when he sarcastically jokes around or when he chooses to be serious and drop performance act. But in the off chance you wanna read it goes from left to right with reading

[teklarain]

down to the core ghibli/miyazaki films are about true unwavering love. whether it’s familial, romantic, or platonic love.

that’s what makes those animes so special and unique.