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Moana 2 (2024)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Moana 2 has several scenes depicting extreme lightning at night, including one sequence where a character fights against bolts of lightning. These scenes are predictable for the most part, but the flashing is severe, and the individual moments of flashing in these scenes are hard to brace for. Important story beats will be missed if you cover your eyes during these scenes.

The vast majority of this film takes place on the open sea, so several scenes feature some rocking on the sea. There are also high-speed chase scenes and scenes following flying characters through complex maneuvers.

Flashing Lights: 9/10. Motion Sickness: 5/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: This film features a sequence with a lot of large fantastical sphincters expelling gross fluids all over people, and more scenes using gross-out humor with animal secretions.

Video ID: Admin Brandon's review and evaluation of Moana 2

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3 Idiots (2009) - Rajkumar Hirani

“Even a circus lion learns to sit in fear of the whip, but you call such lion well trained, not well educated.”

3 Idiots is an ironic title because it’s a film full of wisdom. But where there is wisdom, there is controversies. This was especially true to the Asian community on family expectations with career. To have an education is not the same as being well educated.

Rancho is the symbolic character of genuine learning. But more interestingly, we see his two relatable friends. One needs to graduate for his family. One wishes not to graduate at all. Their story is a tug-and-pull of being practical and being free.

One thing is for sure. We need to do better for our students. 3 Idiots is not just a fairytale of rags to riches, but a reality that poverty can reduce education to an escape. A love of learning flourishes from an environment that it is safe to learn.

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Image description: The cover and table of contents for The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die, written by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A. Rosen, illustrated by Marten Norr. Description ends.

People with low spoons, someone just recommended this cookbook to me, so I thought I'd pass it on.

I always look at cookbooks for people who have no energy/time to do elaborate meal preparations, and roll my eyes. Like, you want me to stay on my feet for long enough to prepare 15 different ingredients from scratch, and use 5 different pots and pans, when I have chronic fatigue and no dishwasher?

These people seem to get it, though. It's very simple in places. It's basically the cookbook for people who think, 'I'm really bored of those same five low-spoons meals I eat, but I can't think of anything else to cook that won't exhaust me'.

And it's free!

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Patrick Kelleher (February 19, 2024). "Yes, trans women can breastfeed too. Here’s why it’s safe, healthy and good for both mum and baby." PinkNews. https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/19/trans-women-breastfeeding-explainer-research/

tl;dr One study was about how transgender women can produce milk. Another study found that the nutritional value of their milk is the same. This news article also tells the stories of some families who do this for their babies. It quotes one of these mothers, Twitch streamer and PhD student Nominal Naomi, who said,

"If you’re trans, you can be a mother. You can be a father. You can be a parent. You can actually have a family and this life – this dream is possible for you, and you can even breastfeed your kids [...] The only thing that’s stopping you is other people’s hate and vitriol, and I don’t want to let that get in the way of me loving my family as best I can."

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Snow White (2025)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Snow White has a few scenes with lightning effects, with a couple of brief moments of severe strobing. During the villain's transformation scene, there is lightning that continues until about 20 seconds into the following scene.

All of the camera work is either stationary or very smooth.

Flashing Lights: 6/10. Motion Sickness: 1/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: A graphic threat of violence is made against the protagonist, the same one as in the original film.

Video ID: Brandon's review and evaluation of Snow White (2025)

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Soul (2022) - Pete Docter

“Your spark isn’t your soul’s purpose.”

Is life really all about finding our purpose? When we’re kids, we’re taught to dream big, discover our passion and hence, ourselves. But when we don’t find that thing we want to do for the “rest of our lives”, we can feel like a failure.

Soul is a journey of this unborn soul called 22 who doesn’t want to live. But by chance, she’s able to travel to Earth and experience life. She wasn’t fascinated by the “purposes” we think like playing music, teaching or barbering. Instead, she enjoyed eating, walking and feeling a cool breeze.

A spark is not a life-defining purpose. It’s simply the little moments that make us happy we’re alive. 22 never needed to find her purpose to live because it’s living itself that is the purpose.

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This is a slide from a presentation that I did together with my partner @who-is-page: "You Are Not A Museum Piece: Putting Yourself Out There In The Alterhuman Community." You can watch the whole presentation on Youtube here.

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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 has frequent and severe strobe effects, mainly involving electrical arcs and flashes when a character teleports during action sequences. These flashes happen a lot. There are emergency lights, both the kind you see on emergency vehicles and in buildings with alarms going off. One brief moment has several severe camera flashes.

There is a lot of action at high speeds, including flying. There are multiple skydiving scenes.

Flashing Lights: 10/10. Motion Sickness: 7/10.

Video ID: Admin Brandon's review and evaluation of Sonic the Hedgehog 3

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Little Forest (2019) - Soon-rye Yim

“When things are hard, remember the scent of the land, the wind, and the sun here.”

This film was like a breeze in a desert. In a nutshell, this movie is a story that in a world of chaos, we find solace in food. When we’re sad, we look for comfort bites. When we’re happy, we share meals with others. When we’re satisfyingly tired, nothing is better than a hot dinner.

But of course, we get busy that food feels like something automatic. We resolve to frozen microwave snacks and chew on it without giving it much thought. We simply eat to get full, but not nourished.

The Little Forest brings us back to that time where food, as it was scarce, was cherished. Even though we’re not all farmers, everyone has their own little forest: the place which nourishes or depletes them. Hye-won left the city Seoul. Why? Because she was hungry.

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Wicked Movie is going to make a trillion dollars its opening weekend and everyone will leave the theater the angriest they’ve ever been in their lives because no one except for me and my beloved mutuals knows that despite having runtime longer than the whole stage musical it is a Part One that only covers the first act

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Zinnia Jones (May 31, 2021). "Early use of masculinizing steroid oxandrolone in trans boys can add 2 more inches of height compared to testosterone." Gender Analysis. Live link. Archive.

The above blog post is about a study about looking for more suitable sorts of puberty blocking and hormone therapy for transmasculine youth. It found a treatment that is more effective for letting them grow up to be a couple inches taller, if they start it early, at age thirteen or fourteen. It's about this study:

Grimstad, F. W., Knoll, M. M., & Jacobson, J. D. (2021). "Oxandrolone Use in Trans-Masculine Youth Appears to Increase Adult Height: Preliminary Evidence." LGBT health, 8(4), 300–306. https://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2020.0355

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Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Mufasa: The Lion King has a few scenes with lightning strobes at varying severity. These flashes always happen during scenes when it is raining, so the rain works as a good warning that there may be flashes in this scene. The rest of the film has no strobe effects.

There are some high-speed chase scenes, including shaking POV shots, flying, and water-based peril. There is some action at extreme heights.

Flashing Lights: 4/10. Motion Sickness: 5/10.

Video ID: Admin Brandon's review and evaluation of Mufasa: The Lion King

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Soooo I started reading Dungeon Meshi a while ago and....I need him I fear.

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