#guilliermo del toro

[seasideretreat]

I have nothing to say

I have had a psychotic era; I am autistic, but I don't believe these things define me: in fact, I don't think they say anything about me. There really isn't that much to do. We live in a world where all the power is in the hands of oligarchs, but the heroes of the past, I don't know who they are, have secured some basic freedom for us, and professionals, maybe politicians, maybe intellectuals, conduct themselves in such a way to make sure everything keeps going right. But there really isn't anything gained. We were better off when the world just consisted of a couple of splendid cities in which the slaves worked for the small aristocracy. For some sick reason, we live in a world where everyone is equal. Where everyone has to work. And yet, even St. Paul wrote: "He who does not work, neither shall he eat." Why wouldn't I be content being a part of a beautiful world in which my master could compose the most splendid poetry as made sure he was free from cares? I would probably have plenty of time off. We see, we live in a world built on the shoulders of the African-American slave. That is a foul situation, not something to be proud of. The Trans-Atlantic slave trade was the first step of the industrial revolution, of the foobar-world order we live in today, in which everyone is supported to continue his sinful lifestyle.

However, there is nothing I cherish more than my freedom. All wars were fought over freedom, my freedom. If I lose my freedom, everyone loses. As Hegel said: everything is the history of freedom. And yet we see that there is a meanness in this world, and freedom plays a trick on itself. People can be hypnotized by the lure of adventure. People think if they don't behave like monsters, there will be nothing to do anymore. Violence is the only industry that needs every man. But a man of God can work out. I have seen this today. This is my new meditation, and tomorrow I will have another one. Doing one of those nice Biblestudy courses on-line is the first step to a better world. If everybody did guided meditations, there would be hope.

I am not saying we should kill time by pondering existence. Thinking is not possible for everybody. Oh, I am surely demented. But neither I am saying that HAVE to do Biblestudy courses, or guided meditations. In fact, it won't change anything, except make us a bit stronger. I am reading Jack Kerouac and fairy tales. I enjoy the fairy tales a lot. I think the fairy tales will truly give me the chance to become a raconteur again. They say I was a raconteur when I was a kid; honestly, I find nothing more charming than a raconteur. I really liked the character of Sebastian J. Cricket in Guilliermo del Toro's Pinocchio. And he refers to himself as a raconteur. It is the kind of skill that you can use when you are not conscious of it, but when you try to control it, it is truly hard. You know, usefulness is truly overrated. The better thing is strength. As Bruce Springsteen says: only the strong survive. We must strive for strength with everything we got. It is a thing, to bring peace to your mind, but then it is equally prudent to take some time to rest: verily, it is smoother than you realize. In fact, my dad said this when I was in a bad way because of my psychosis, he said: you are processing, as I was lying incapacitated in the chair with a blanket over my face to stop the pain. As I say, it is smooth. We really don't have to do anything. We don't have to work out. But we can develop ourselves. It is my dream to become a priest, but I don't want to be dependant on a church: and all the courses at the university are of course either protestant or catholic. And I figured at a time: I am just going to do the catholic one, you know, be learned. Or: I'll do the Protestant one, you know, be stalwart. But now I guess I'll just read that Theology textbook I bought on the Kindle app, which is "theologically neutral". Learn it by myself.

Life is smiling at me. I see chances for my spiritual development as well as my professional one. But if war comes, I won't be ready. Of course, I play chess, but that is incomparable to the complexity of mounting a campaign. And yes, I try to read Marx at times, but I find it a rotten book, and I think communism exists more in our imagination than in reality. I guess I'll just try to really get into those Let's Plays I have been making, play some really good games. I have been doing a Let's Play of Expeditions: Conquistador and it is truly exhilarating. Fighting those rebels on Hispaniola really made me tense. In any event I have thought it was a lot like acting, you know, playing the game, but now I see it more accurately a work out: of course, there are elements of acting, such as the importance of understanding, but it's way more mechanical than acting on stage, you know, there is much more restraint; but it also differs markedly from chess, because most games call on many human qualities, whereas chess only calls on cold calculation (and psychological warfare). Oh, well, the contours of simple astutement are relative to the entire subtlety of sheer knowledge, that sends us with a wail into the realm of simple analysis, which forms us and rescinds us, to some extent, to become circular divisors of the eternal world that wants to combine us into a behemoth which is only a natural course of the renunciatory modality of vehement nature. The architecture of sheer multiplicity in ordinality is sheer, but the requirements of particularity are set in stone: therefore, the ordinary requittal of the main storyline of work is reproved. Something must be denied, or acquired, and we can build segments in the endless structure of meritorious descent and the main construction of simple automaticity. But something is done, to repair the remainder of the autochtonous whispering of the main structure of reality and we are lost in the contours of syntagmatic opportunity; and we do what we do, but there is a structure in the dark that moves aggressively against the repurposes of the eternal mania of ordinary existence that helps to reposition us in the vehemence of ordinary repercussions: and so something may happen that retraces our steps from the origin back to the limit: and this makes us hope again that something may happen in the vicinity of sheer work that helps us retain a semblance of the simple eternity of reality. And so it ever goes on, in silence, or in noise. But nobody really knows where it goes. The essences of weird creativity is nothing. I make sense of many ordinary things, but I scarcely know anything about the Roman Empire. Well, I know Marcus Aurelius was an emperor and a stoic philosopher, but really he said not so great a noble word, and he was not a very rigorous thinker. I don't know. It's nice to be normal, but someone may be abnormal and think he is; he does not know what is real and what is absurd, and so he is stuck in limbo. He does his best. Really, he does, but it is only heartbreak and precipitation. I am stuck in being myself and I really do what I really do. And yet, there is a colour of statement in the structure of ordinary reality that I set forth in genera and the constant song of something is let down by real things. This is what I really need, perhaps: a feeling of using ordinary noises, in the silence that makes something authoritarian, and this is the thing that we need, but there is a lot of sound, and nobody knows what this truly is, because we are stuck with it. I don't know. The silence of things obscures the essence of the higher reality that I have found and that I am making clear; the ordinality is made universal, however. So the noises continue in the alleyway, and we are stuck in reversal. The thing go yet on, so the thing we see can happen and may be real. I have yet to see the things that really happen, but I do what I can.

You know there is something good coming. We may insist upon the relativity of ordinary events, but something good is coming. Let us insist upon the repetitious segmentation of real things, the objectivity that is granted to us in silence. I will perhaps start writing history tomorrow.

[edjovni]

Trying new things

[laststandx3]

I’m a simple person, I watch Guilliermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and I cry for 2 hours

[cafeleningrad]

Tell me more about this non-US movies list 👀

With pleasure, dear anon! :D  (I've to apologize to have kept you waiting. First I needed to put some order in my list before it ended up in a disordered mess of every title coming up in mind.)

Some titles and filmographies like Amélie, Parasite, Old Boy or Studio Ghibli, or Guilliermo del Toro were left out as they're already well known (but always worth a watch ;)). Although I might also have set foot into the trap of choosing the usual famous suspects of the respective national cinemas. ^^"

COMEDY (some with tendency to Dramedy)

Mine vaganti [Italy, dir.Ferzan Ozpetek (2001)]

I'm a cyborg and that's okay [South Korea, dir. Park Chan-wook (2006)]

Tampopo [Japan, dir. Juzo Itami (1985)]

Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre [France, dir. Alain Chabat (2002)]The best comic book adaptation 5eva! Period.

Tokyo Godfathers [Japan, dir. Satoshi Kon (2003)]

Qu'est ce qu'no a fait au Bon Dieu? [France, dir.Phillipe de Chauveron (2014)]

Parada [Serbia, dir.Srđan Dragojević (2011)]

Sing Street [Ireland, dir. John Carney (2016)]

Y tu Mamá También [Mexico, dir. Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón (2001)]

Don Camillo [Italy, various directors (1952-1983), film series]

Breakfast on Pluto [Ireland-Uk, dir. Neil Jordan (2005)]

The Lobster [Greece-UK-France, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos (2015)](Be warned for dark and macabre humor)

DRAMA

Wadjda [Saudia-Arabia, dir. haifa al-Mansour (2012)]

Rafiki [Kenya, dir. Wanuri Kahiu (2018)]

La source des femmes [French-Belgium-Italy-Morocco, dir. Radu Mihăileanu (2001)]

Politiki kouzína [Greece, dir. Tassos Boulmetis (2003)]

In the Mood for Love [Hong Kong, dir. Love Wong Kar-Wai (2000)]

Shoplifters [Japan, dir.Hirokazu Kore-eda (2018)]

Three Fingers for Marseilles [South Africa, dir. Zethu Dlomo (2017)]

Burning [South Korea, dir. Lee Chang-Dong (2018)]

Michael Collins [Ireland, dir. Neil Jordan (1996)] I know, shame for cliché pick

Hana-Bi [Japan, dir. Takeshi Kitano (1997)]

Das weiße Band [Germany-Austria, dir. Michael Haneke (2009)]

ANIMATED DRAMA

Loving Vincent [Poland-UK, dir.Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman (2017) (animated movie)]

Persepolis [Iran-France, dir.Vincent Paronnaud (2001)](I highly recommend reading the original Graphic Novel by Marjane Satrapi, a fantastic work)

The Breadwinner [Canada-Ireland-Luxemburg, dir. Nora Twomey (2017)]

The Belladonna of Sadness [Japan, dir. Eiichi Yamamoto (1973)] (Warning for explicit content, various forms of violence!)

ACTION/Lively

Bad Genius [Thailand, dir. Nattawut Poonpiriya (2017)]

Summer Wars [Japan, dir.Mamoru Hosada (2009)]

Come drink with me [Hong Kong, dir.King Hu (1966)]

HORROR/THRILLER

The Wailing [South Korea, dir.Na Hong-jin (2016)]

Posession [France-West Germany, dir. Andrzej Żuławski (1981)]

Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari [Germany, dir.Robert Wiene (1920)]

M - eine Stadt jagt einen Mörder [Germany, dir.Fritz Lang (1931)]

La Piel que habito [Spain, dir. Pedro Almodóvar (2011)]

Perfect Blue [Japan, dir. Satoshi Kon (1997)]

The Killing of a Sacred Deer [Ireland-UK, Yorgos Lanthismos (2017)]

Memories of a murder [South Korea, dir. Won Shin-yun (2017)]

Häxan [Denmark, Benjamin Christensen (1922)]

La Piscine [France-Italy, dir. Jacques Deray (1963)]

FANTASY / FAIRY TALES

Tři oříšky pro Popelku [Czechslovakia-East Germany, dir. Václav Vorlíček (1973)] (A Christmas classic ♥)

Gräns [Sweden, dir. Ali Abbasi (2018)]

Kiriku et la Sorcière [France-Belgium-Luxemburg, dir. Michel Ocelot (1998), animated movie]

On drakón [Russia, dir. Indar Dzhendubaev (2015)]

Where's Mama? [China, artistic dir. Te Wei (1960), short film] (It's gorgeous!) 

Drengen der Ville Vaere Bjorn [France-Denmark, dir.Jannick Astrup (2001)]

Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed [Germany, dir. Lotte Reiniger (1926), animated movie]

SHOWS

Naked Director [Japan, 2019-?]

Real Humans [Sweden, 2012-2014] Don't confuse it with the +#@! BBC reboot, the original is way better.

Mia amica geniale [Italy, 2018-?]

Big recommendation to aso read the original books.

Lilyhammer [Norway-US (yes, I confess, I'm cheating a bit here but I love this show), 2012-2015]

Top of the Lake [Australia-UK, 2013-?]

Babylon Berlin [Germany, 2017-? ]

Filmographies I would generally like to recommend

Lucía Puenzo [Argentina]

Aki Kaurismäki [Finalnd]

Nanni Moretti [Italy]

Mario Bava [Italy] (The classic Giallo to-go-to-name ;))

Akira Kurosawa [Japan]

Haifa al-Mansour [Saudi-Arabia]

Pedro Almodóvar [Spain]

Ingmar Bergmann [Sweden]

Alfonso Cuarón [Mexico]

Cheng Pei-Pei [Chinese actress, my personal favourite as she wrote Wuxia history ♥]

Everyone's welcome to add their recommendations, and much needed additions to this list. :D

Update: Please check out the notes! Some kind souls have added great titles.

[oceanssapart]

what’s ur 5 favorite movies?

i dont watch a lot of movies but but but i do have solid faves:

whip it (2009) dir. drew barrymore - thematically the same as lady bird but with roller derby and it’s 12451450955x better and i just love it so much i LOVE IT

arrival (2016) dir. denis villeneuve - i wish i could watch this for the first time again

the parent trap (1998) dir. nancy meyers - my comfort movie

pacific rim (2013) dir. guilliermo del toro - drift compatibility really is the single most romantic concept of all time and also cancelling the apocalypse never fails to make me cry

idk. probably the old guard (2020) dir. gina prince-bythewood? i watched it 6 times in a week and im obsessed with the concept and the found family

[shoggoth88]

I can't wait for them to get married

he’s so much

[elm0sh]

This made me cry

[narcissart]

[theinstrumentalities]

"Long, Long Time Ago" by Javier Navarrete, from Pan's Labyrinth

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