#Hypnotricking

[tickingispleasure]

The german Therapist

"Willkommen, bitte setzen Sie sich. Wir werden gleich beginnen. Oh- Ihr Name klingt amerikanisch. Sie sprechen englisch?"

"Yes..."

"Alright then. Welcome to the session. Today we want to try to get into your head through hypnosis right? Is there any reason why you would prefer this way?"

"It's like... I'm suffering from depression and OCD since.. I don't know maybe forever? I've tried different therapies but nothing works. Maybe you can get inside my head. I've heard german hypnotists and therapists know what they doing..."

"Of course we know that!" - smiling -

Alright then. Just lay back and relax. We'll start lightly with a little spiral flashing light. Just watch the dark and light pattern changing into another and breath deeply. You said you've had a few therapy sessions with others? Do you know the counting tactic? Like-"

"Yeah I know... Breathe in 1-2-3-4

Breathe out 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8

And repeating. "

"That's right. Okay then. Watch the spiral and breathe. Try to relax a bit."

"You're doing very god. Already so calm. So relaxed. So sleepy."

"Calm... Relaxed... Sleepy..."

"Breathe deeply and watch the light. Get deeper into the dark"

"Deeper... Into... Dark..."

"You're doing so well. It's delightful to see you sink more and more. Deeper and deeper into the dark."

"Deeper... Into.... Dark..."

"What's that? Your voice already sounds so dreamy? You have a very special talent. Relaxing so fast isn't for everyone. I think you own a reward for being such a good patient...."

"You see I intensed the light a bit. I guess you already felt it but just for the information:

The brighter the light the emptier the brain.

And we need to empty your brain first. I need to order your thoughts so we can evaluate your problems. Are you listening? Hmmm... "

"Empty...."

"Sehr interessant... Das scheint nicht Ihre erste Hypnose zu sein..."

"Empty..."

"Don't forget to breathe. You need to stay with me a little longer. I think you aren't deep enough?"

"Not deep enough..."

"So beautiful to see your eyes fixed on the screen. You want to see brighter lights do you? Lights will make you more blank. More empty. Thoughtless and relaxed."

"Thoughtless and relaxed...."

"That's right... I will turn it brighter. Watch the light and sink into the dark. You're being a very good patient. Very good."

"I am a good patient..."

"Right. You are a good patient and you love being a good patient do you?"

"I love being a good patient"

"Breathe. Breathe deep and repeat. Let your brain turn off. You don't need to think anymore. You need to turn of your mind. Turn off your thoughts. Everytime I'm showing you a new spiral it looks like the light is getting brighter.

The brighter the light the emptier the brain

Bright lights make you empty

Darkness sucks you down

Into a very

Blissful

SLEEP"

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"Good patient, come back and watch the spiral."

"It feels good to be empty"

"It feels good to be empty"

"It feels nice to be blank"

"It feels nice to be blank"

"It feels hot to give up control"

"I-it feels hot.. To give up... Control..?"

"SLEEP"

"Come back and watch the spiral."

"It feels good to be empty"

"It feels good to be empty"

"It feels nice to be blank"

"It feels nice to be blank"

"It feels hot to give up control"

"I-itt f-feels hot to... Give up... C-control.."

"SLEEP"

"So ein guter Patient..."

"It feels good to be empty"

"It feels good to be empty"

"It feels nice to be blank"

"It feels nice to be blank"

"It feels hot to give up control"

"It ffeels hot tto gigivee up ccontrroll"

"SLEEP"

"You're being a very good patient. You let me inside your head so easily. It would be such a waste not to use this... Use you... You are listening to every sweet word I'm whispering to you do you?"

"Yes Doctor"

"That's right. And you feel very hot do you?"

"Yes Doctor"

"Maybe you should strip down your clothes and watch the spiral again. It will help you control the heating the right way."

"Strip and watch spiral...."

"That's right... Ohh you're so beautiful. How your empty eyes staring at the screen. So far away. So submissive. Like good patients should be. Breathe sweetheart. Breathe deeply. We're almost there."

"Breathe deep..."

"Alright... I know you love these lights but we need to change the spiral now. But it won't be a problem. In fact you will sink even faster into the spiral and do you know why? Because I'm giving you a fixpoint. The very middle of the spiral. Watch it and stare at it. Think about how it is even possible that it turn into itself. Think about how silly that is."

"How silly to even think about something like this..."

"Silly to even want to think"

"... even want to... sink...."

"That's right. You're making me proud. You realized that it's over. You don't need thoughts. You don't need to think. All you need is to sink. Watching the spiral. Getting emptier and emptier until no thoughts are left. Just getting into a stupid, empty doll. "

"stupid... Emtpy... Doll?"

"SINK"

- to be continued -

[dweemeister]

2020 Movie Odyssey

For those who are not aware, my “Movie Odyssey” consists of all films that I have seen for the first time in their entirety. Rewatches do not count. What follows is a list of every film - feature- and short-length - that were a part of the 2020 edition of My Movie Odyssey.

A good many of these are MGM/Popeye short films that are shown on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on Saturday. Other short films - including the Oscar-nominated short film packages shown in theaters every year before the Academy Awards - also appear. But I saw more features (124; defined as a film over forty minutes in length) than I did short films (97). With no Viet Film Fest this year and fewer obligations to watch recent releases, this year’s Movie Odyssey skewed harder towards older movies than in a long time.

I’m no longer as prolific as I may have been back in my undergrad days in watching movies, but I definitely saw my share of great, good, mediocre, and bad movies in 2020. You’ll notice that most of the 10/10 ratings are clumped near the beginning of the year - there’s not a particular reason for that.

Thanks for being a part of the Movie Odyssey, everyone. Whether we saw a movie together in a theater (before they closed), you read a review of mine, or if we discussed a movie in some conversation anywhere, you have been part of this journey. I look forward to the 2021 iteration, and I hope it’s just as exciting - if not more - as this year was!

Without further ado, the films of the 2020 Movie Odyssey, in the order that they were completed:

JANUARY

The Irishman (2019) – 10/10

The Duke Is Tops (1938) – 5/10

Destroy All Monsters (1968, Japan) – 7/10

Parasite (2019, South Korea) – 10/10

Sinners’ Holiday (1930) – 6/10

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974, Japan) – 5/10

Wimmin Is a Myskery (1940 short) – 6/10

The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018) – 6/10

The Trial (1962) – 10/10

1917 (2019) – 9/10

Tale of the Vienna Woods (1934 short) – 7/10

Nurse-Mates (1940 short) – 6/10

Weathering with You (2019, Japan) – 6.5/10

Klaus (2019) – 7/10

Edge of the City (1957) – 7.5/10

The Unwelcome Guest (1945 short) – 7/10

Fightin’ Pals (1940 short) – 5/10

The Winning Ticket (1938 short) – 6/10

Doing Impossikible Stunts (1940 short) – 5/10

Little Women (2019) – 8.5/10 (2020’s 31 Days of Oscar begins)

FEBRUARY

The African Queen (1951) – 10/10

Hair Love (2019 short) – 8.5/10

Dcera (2019 short, Czech Republic) – 7.5/10

Sister (2018 short) – 8/10

Mémorable (2019 short, France) – 9/10

Kitbull (2019 short) – 8/10

Henrietta Bulkowski (2019 short) – 6/10*

The Bird & the Whale (2018 short) – 7/10*

Hors piste (2019 short, France) – 7/10*

Maestro (2019 short, France) – 6/10*

Marriage Story (2019) – 8/10

A Sister (2018 short, Belgium) – 9/10

Brotherhood (2018 short, Tunisia/Canada/Qatar/Sweden) – 7.5/10

The Neighbors’ Window (2019 short) – 6/10

Saria (2019 short) – 8/10

Nefta Football Club (2018 short, Tunisia/France/Algeria) – 8/10

In the Absence (2018 short, South Korea) – 9.5/10

St. Louis Superman (2019 short) – 7/10

Jojo Rabbit (2019) – 6/10

I Lost My Body (2019, France) – 8/10

Live Overtakes Me (2019 short) – 6/10

Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) (2019 short, United Kingdom) – 8.5/10

Born Free (1966) – 7.5/10

Empire of the Sun (1987) – 6/10

Road to Utopia (1945) – 7/10

The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) – 7.5/10 (31 Days of Oscar ends)

*Part of the Oscar-nominated animated short film package as honorable mentions, not nominees.

MARCH

The Shop on Main Street (1965, Czechoslovakia) – 10/10

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) – 7/10

Northwest Hounded Police (1946 short) – 8/10

Wimmin Hadn’t Oughta Drive (1940 short) – 6/10

Princess from the Moon (1987, Japan) – 6/10

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936 short) – 9/10

The Shooting of Dan McGoo (1945 short) – 8/10

Puttin’ on the Act (1940 short) – 7/10

Major Dundee (1965) – 6/10

This Gun for Hire (1942) – 7/10

Emitaï (1971, Senegal) – 9/10

War of the Worlds (2005) – 6.5/10

Popeye Meets William Tell (1940 short) – 6/10

Murder Most Foul (1964) – 7/10

Circus Clown (1934) – 6/10

Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917 short) – 5/10

Bumping into Broadway (1919 short) – 8/10

Next Aisle Over (1919 short) – 6.5/10

APRIL

A Sammy in Siberia (1919 short) – 6/10

Young Mr. Jazz (1919 short) – 6/10

I Do (1921 short) – 7.5/10

Persona (1966, Sweden) – 8.5/10

The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018) – 7/10

Frankie and Johnny (1966) – 5.5/10

Death of a Cyclist (1955, Spain) – 7.5/10

The Car of Tomorrow (1951 short) – 6.5/10

Poopdeck Pappy (1940 short) – 7/10

New York, New York (1977) – 6.5/10

A Letter to Three Wives (1949) – 10/10

Diego Maradona (2019, United Kingdom) – 7.5/10

Blackboard Jumble (1957 short) – 6/10

Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep (1940 short) – 6/10

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) – 4.5/10

The Scar of Shame (1927) – 8/10

One Hour with You (1932) – 8/10

Gosford Park (2001) – 7.5/10

Cry of the City (1948) – 6/10

Deliverance (1972) – 7.5/10

I Am Somebody (1970 short) – 9/10

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (1963) – 8/10

Le Silence de la Mer (1949, France) – 7/10

McFarland, USA (2015) – 7/10

The Man Who Never Was (1956) – 7.5/10

Cock-a-Doodle Dog (1951 short) – 6/10

Problem Pappy (1941 short) – 6/10

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946) – 7/10

Fireman, Save My Child! (1932) ��� 5/10

MAY

Babe: Pig in the City (1998) – 6/10

The Bear and the Beavers (1942 short) – 6/10

Quiet! Pleeze (1941 short) – 6/10

Elmer, the Great (1933) – 7/10

Alibi Ike (1935) – 6/10

Body and Soul (1925) – 7.5/10

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) – 4/10

The Bear and the Hare (1948 short) – 6/10

Olive’s Sweepstake Ticket (1941 short) – 6/10

Ceddo (1977, Senegal) – 6.5/10

Stars in My Crown (1950) – 8.5/10

The Big City (1963, India) – 8/10

Bear Raid Warden (1944 short) – 6/10

Flies Ain’t Human (1941 short) – 6/10

The Last Unicorn (1982) – 5/10

Age 13 (1955 short) – 3/10

Barney’s Hungry Cousin (1953 short) – 6/10

Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle (1941 short) – 6/10

JUNE

Lance (2020) – 7/10

Olive’s Boithday Presink (1941 short) – 6/10

The Phenix City Story (1955) – 7.5/10

Be Water (2020) – 7/10

Ordet (1955, Denmark) – 10/10

My Dream Is Yours (1949) – 7/10

The Dragon Painter (1919) – 6/10

The Silver Cord (1933) – 6/10

Caballero Droopy (1952 short) – 7/10

Pest Pilot (1941 short) – 6/10

Aaron Loves Angela (1975) – 5/10

Goggle Fishing Bear (1949 short) – 6/10

I’ll Never Crow Again (1941 short) – 6.5/10

Best in Show (2000) – 7/10

JULY

The Comancheros (1961) – 6.5/10

Cobs and Robbers (1953 short) – 7/10

The Mighty Navy (1941 short) – 7/10

Hamilton (2020) – 7/10

Once Upon a Time in America (1984) – 9.5/10

The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) – 6.5/10

Busybody Bear (1952 short) – 6/10

Nix on Hypnotricks (1941 short) – 6/10

The Steel Helmet (1951) – 7.5/10

The Princess and the Pirate (1944) – 7/10

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (2015) – 8/10

Deputy Droopy (1955 short) – 6.5/10

Kickin’ the Conga Round (1942 short) – 6/10

Shoes (1916) – 8/10

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972, Japan) – 7.5/10

When Worlds Collide (1951) – 7/10

Tokyo Olympiad (1965, Japan) – 9.5/10

Wichita (1955) – 7/10

AUGUST

Pinky (1949) – 6.5/10

Floyd Norman: An Animated Life (2016) – 6/10

Insiang (1976, Philippines) – 7.5/10

Arrowsmith (1931) – 5/10

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947) – 6/10

Blue Hawaii (1961) – 6/10

Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959, India) – 9/10

I Am Not Your Negro (2016) – 8.5/10

Doggone Tired (1949 short) – 7/10

Blunder Below (1942 short) – 6/10

Saludos Amigos (1942) – 5/10

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972, Japan) – 7/10

The Little Colonel (1935) – 7/10

Malcolm X (1992) – 9/10

SEPTEMBER

Murder at the Gallop (1963) – 7/10

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972, Japan) – 7/10

Mädchen in Uniform (1931, Germany) – 9/10

The T.A.M.I Show (1964) – 9/10

The Chump Champ (1950 short) – 6/10

Fleets of Stren’th (1942 short) – 6/10

Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) – 6/10

Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (1970) – 8/10

Melody Time (1948) – 6/10

Red Dawn (1984) – 4/10

Olivia (1951, France) – 8.5/10

Droopy’s Double Trouble (1951 short) – 7/10

Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an’ Peep-eye (1942 short) – 6/10

The River (1938 short) – 7.5/10

The Crimson Kimono (1959) – 7/10

Sleepwalking Land (2008, Mozambique) – 8/10

The First Bad Man (1955 short) – 5/10

Many Tanks (1942 short) – 6/10

Marona’s Fantastic Tale (2019, France) – 8.5/10

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972, Japan) – 7/10

OCTOBER

Ramona (1928) – 6/10

The Peachy Cobbler (1950 short) – 6/10

Baby Wants a Bottleship (1942 short) – 6/10

House of Bamboo (1955) – 6.5/10

Ride the Wild Surf (1964) – 6/10

Red Hot Riding Hood (1943 short) – 9.5/10

Alona on the Sarong Seas (1942 short) – 6/10

New Orleans (1947) – 6.5/10

Mad Monster Party? (1967) – 6.5/10

Sheep Wrecked (1958 short) – 6/10

A Hull of a Mess (1942 short) – 6/10

El Camino (1963, Spain) – 7/10

One Cab’s Family (1952 short) – 6/10

Cartoons Ain’t Human (1943 short) – 6/10

The Haunting (1963) – 9.5/10

Dead of Night (1945) – 8/10

From Beyond the Grave (1974) – 7.5/10

NOVEMBER

Heir Bear (1953 short) – 6/10

Me Musical Nephews (1942 short) – 8/10

The Virgin Suicides (1999) – 8/10

The Impossible Possum (1954 short) – 6/10

Too Weak to Work (1943 short) – 6/10

Flower Drum Song (1961) – 7/10

The Little Bantamweight (1938 short) – 6/10

A Jolly Good Furlough (1943 short) – 6.5/10

Plymouth Adventure (1952) – 6/10

The Daydreamer (1966) – 6/10

Wolfwalkers (2020 – 8.5/10

Little Gravel Voice (1942 short) – 6/10

Ration Fer the Duration (1943 short) – 6/10

DECEMBER

X-Men: First Class (2011) – 7/10

Out-Foxed (1949 short) – 7/10

Wood-Peckin’ (1943 short) – 6/10

Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955) – 6/10

The Magic Flute (1975, Sweden) – 7.5/10

Poor Little Me (1934 short) – 5/10

 Spinach Fer Britain (1943 short) – 6/10

The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005, Mongolia) – 8.5/10

The Battle of the Century (1927 short) – 8/10

It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) – 7.5/10

Burrow (2020 short) – 7/10

Soul (2020) – 8/10

Her Honor the Mare (1943 short) – 6/10

Kiss of Death (1947) – 8/10

[herthereeverywhere]

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