Cool short film, very odd but touching

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:57 pm

peeplj wrote:To try to do a brief summary of my previous post, I do think you have to ask yourself who the real villain is:

1. is it the dupe who trashes their life out trying to meet an impossible dream?

2. is the media itself to blame; i.e. are movies and TV somehow inherently bad? or

3. should we blame those who are producing the images and creating the myth of that impossible dream, and thereby comfortably lining their own pockets?

As is true in almost every aspect of modern life, to fully understand what you are seeing, you need only find the money and then follow it and observe where it goes.

--James

There is a fourth option: that neither the dupe nor the predator is solely to blame, but that each share the blame to a greater or lesser degree. Truth is, after all, a three edged sword.

Will O'B · Post by **Will O'B** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 2:40 pm

I am a creation of my culture, moreso than I as an individual create my culture. In allowing others to falsely identify who I am as an individual, and in striving to mirror that false identity, I destroy my uniqueness.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:51 pm

I decided not to watch it yet because it might bring me out of my "school-girl" giddiness engendered by the suction-cup thread.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:09 pm

Flyingcursor wrote:I decided not to watch it yet because it might bring me out of my "school-girl" giddiness engendered by the suction-cup thread.

You make a hot school girl. What's your number?

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:55 pm

djm wrote:
anniemcu wrote:all the more likely that impressionable ones will fall prey to it
"There's one born every minute," as they used to say. At what point do we absolve the individual for being a vain, selfish, irresponsible idiot in the first place? While we may very well look askance at those who purvey to the weak, there's really no excuse for being weak in the first place. I am presently working this angle with St. Peter and will let you know how it works out.

djm

I trust you have a good warm weather wardrobe.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:34 pm

Cranberry wrote:
Flyingcursor wrote:I decided not to watch it yet because it might bring me out of my "school-girl" giddiness engendered by the suction-cup thread.
You make a hot school girl. What's your number?

If I'm make a hot school girl I would be interested in seeing what your elementary school girls looked like

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:13 pm

i saw it as the average day teen tries to portray themselves as someone they see on the Television, and sooner or later they will wreck themselves trying too hard to be someone on TV. i think it is about you should be yourself, not some fake person on TV.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 3:21 pm

Flyingcursor wrote:
Cranberry wrote:
Flyingcursor wrote:I decided not to watch it yet because it might bring me out of my "school-girl" giddiness engendered by the suction-cup thread.
You make a hot school girl. What's your number?
If I'm make a hot school girl I would be interested in seeing what your elementary school girls looked like

Well, the Fubgub triplets and I were best of friends. We would play on the playground together all the time.

Here is Helda:

Her sisters Melda and Gelda looked exactly the same, except that Melda was missing an eyeball and Gelda had fangs instead of teeth.

I miss them. Their mother killed them for reasons unknown when we were in fourth grade.