Hotarubi no Mori e (cute one-shot with predictable twist ending, no real reason for anyone to watch it)
Movies:
Prince Avalanche: beautiful visuals of a burnt but recovering nature, pretty good OST by Explosions in the Sky, story was kinda an awkward buddy flick which felt almost deliberately dumb. Recommended as nature/scenery porn.
The Princess Bride: fun and enjoyable, and now I will understand references to it.
Mediastan: sort of an awkward exploration of Wikileaks trying to find people to write articles on its cables.
Anime: Shin Sekai Yori is essentially several layers of unintended consequences placed into a puzzling world. It has three arcs following Saki Watanabe’s early life in a society with psychokinesis, lots of hidden rules, and somewhat questionable morality.
In order to prevent humans sebz xvyyvat bar nabgure jvgu gurve cbjref, gurl unir orra trargvpnyyl zbqvsvrq gb frys-qrfgehpg hcba qbvat fb. Juvyr vg znxrf zheqre fbzrjung yrff pbairavrag va-fgbel, vg qbrf abg fgbc gur pbzzvggrrf gung eha gur fbpvrgl sebz ryvzvangvat crbcyr ivn pngf bgure bgure ebhaqnobhg zrnaf. The indirectness of the action gung pnhfrf fbzrbar’f qrngu can apparently be rather thin.
Television and Movies Thread
Anime, descending order of quality:
Hellsing Ultimate (review)
Wolf Children (review)
From Up on Poppy Hill (review)
Hotarubi no Mori e (cute one-shot with predictable twist ending, no real reason for anyone to watch it)
Movies:
Prince Avalanche: beautiful visuals of a burnt but recovering nature, pretty good OST by Explosions in the Sky, story was kinda an awkward buddy flick which felt almost deliberately dumb. Recommended as nature/scenery porn.
The Princess Bride: fun and enjoyable, and now I will understand references to it.
Mediastan: sort of an awkward exploration of Wikileaks trying to find people to write articles on its cables.
Anime: Shin Sekai Yori is essentially several layers of unintended consequences placed into a puzzling world. It has three arcs following Saki Watanabe’s early life in a society with psychokinesis, lots of hidden rules, and somewhat questionable morality.
In order to prevent humans sebz xvyyvat bar nabgure jvgu gurve cbjref, gurl unir orra trargvpnyyl zbqvsvrq gb frys-qrfgehpg hcba qbvat fb. Juvyr vg znxrf zheqre fbzrjung yrff pbairavrag va-fgbel, vg qbrf abg fgbc gur pbzzvggrrf gung eha gur fbpvrgl sebz ryvzvangvat crbcyr ivn pngf bgure bgure ebhaqnobhg zrnaf. The indirectness of the action gung pnhfrf fbzrbar’f qrngu can apparently be rather thin.
A subtly wrong word ends up being very important.
So, Thor: The Dark World, transhumanism and violently incompatible value systems.
Ohg svefg, n dhvpx qvterffvba nobhg gur D Pbagvahhz sebz Fgne Gerx. Gurl’er n enpr bs orvatf jvgu frrzvatyl-tbqyvxr cbjref, ohg va erprag lrnef V’ir ernyvfrq gurer’f n fgebat fhttrfgvba gung gurl’er n cbfg-fvathynevgl fbpvrgl. Ng fbzr cbvag gurl znqr n pbyyrpgvir qrpvfvba gb nffhzr gur frrzvatyl-bzavcbgrag fgngr gurl abj bpphcl, naq unir pbagvahrq gb bpphcl hapbhagrq nrbaf. Jurarire zbegnyf ivrj gur D Pbagvahhz, vg’f va gur sbez bs fbzr fbeg bs aneengvir zrgncubevpny raivebazrag gung snyyf jvguva gurve novyvgl gb pbzceruraq.
V’ir orra guvaxvat gur Nftneqvnaf va Gube unir fbzrguvat fvzvyne tbvat ba. Gurl’er curabzranyyl cbjreshy orvatf (ol uhzna fgnaqneqf), naq znal unir havdhr snagnfgvpny novyvgvrf gung ybbx yvxr zntvp. Urvzqnyy, sbe rknzcyr, pna ivrj rirel fbhy va gur havirefr. Gurer’f guvf haqrepheerag bs gur jubyr ehaavat-nebhaq-yvxr-Abefr-Zlgubybtl-pbfcynlref orvat whfg jung vg ybbxf yvxr sebz n zbegny fgnaqcbvag.
Fb, gb gur vapbzcngvoyr inyhrf nfcrpg. Gur nagntbavfgf, gur “qnex ryirf” (qrrcyl qvfnccbvagrq abar bs gurz jvryqrq qhny fpvzvgnef, ol gur jnl; gung jbhyq unir znqr zl 13-lrne-byq frys irel unccl), ner gelvat gb cyhatr gur havirefr vagb qnexarff. Gur vqrn vf gung gurl cerqngr “gur yvtug”. Gurl’er sebz n gvzr jura gur jubyr havirefr jnf va qnexarff, naq gur irel rkvfgrapr bs yvtug vf nangurzn gb gurz. Gurl qrfpevor vg nf n “cbvfbarq havirefr”, naq frr gurve tbny nf erfgbevat vg gb vgf angheny fgngr.
V unir gb pbasrff n pregnva nzbhag bs flzcngul sbe gurz ba guvf fpber, naq V vzntvar V cebonoyl jba’g or gur bayl YJre gb rkuvovg guvf erfcbafr. Gurl’er rffragvnyyl yvivat va n havirefr juvpu vf ng bqqf jvgu gurve inyhr flfgrz. Vs lbh jrag guebhtu gur fpevcg fhofgvghgvat “qnex(arff)” jvgu “yvtug” naq ivpr irefn, nyy bs n fhqqra gurl qba’g ybbx dhvgr fb ivyynvabhf. Nf sne nf gurl’er pbaprearq, gurl jrer yvivat va n havirefr gung jnf zber be yrff svar, naq nyy bs n fhqqra guvf ubeevoyr curabzraba fcevatf vagb orvat gung pbasyvpgf jvgu gurve inyhrf, naq fcnjaf n jubyr ohapu bs fcrpvrf gung jubyrurnegrqyl qrsraq vg, naq jub nyy raq hc gelvat gb renqvpngr gur qnex ryirf.