Why do movie makers have such low faith in humanity?

[belamyi]

Ethan Hawke looks like he sleeps in a kiln.

Hollywood treatment to allow actors stay in line in the screen space allowed to them, treatment shared with Roberts and Bacon.

And that Tesla scene is crappy and stupid... they were driven all to the same spot to form an orderly line?

I had imagined something more classic, like a heap of cars crashing against and over each other.

 

[belamyi]

Countries with the Highest Rates of Violent Gun Death (Homicides) per 100k residents in 2019​

Country	Firearm-related death rate
El Salvador	36.16
Venezuela	36.06
Guatemala	32.58
Colombia	25.16
United States Virgin Islands	23.46
Brazil	22.72
Puerto Rico	20.89

Meaning that the US is still 13 points behind the head of the G7 of countries on the verge of falling to failed state status?

 

[belamyi]

For faith in Humanity...
Has anyone ever watched this?

It's a riot of a comedy...

Oh, and what about this rom-pom...

 

[belamyi]

It is useless to discuss with the average American type, whatever his political leanings or instruction, about something that goes against the American spirit: America is founded over the no-boundaries, no-wrong, always-up, everything's-gonna-be-alright program setting... anything falling beyond it simply does not compute. It's Old-World pessimism, past Dark Ages...
It's like trying to speak to a WWII fighter about the Vietnam War, or to 1990 Greenspan about 2009.

Whatever wrong there is or ever was in the world falls into two categories: if it's racism, plutocracy, corruption, inequality, authority abuse and the like inside its own borders..: we-will-fight, we-will-overcome-it, we-will-prevail-like-we-always-did (despite Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan, Black America, Healthcare system...), everything's-gonna-be-alright; for everything else: it is not America.

 

[belamyi]

I like to browse the Quora discussions because people stirr there all the shit in the world that, at least, you must be aware it exists, just in case your own Destiny has disposed that some day it will reach you: one question I read this very week dealt with American self-centeredness, a discussion which Americans take as mere hate and American-bashing, but that is simply fascinating in that Americans can't help being like that, at least to a certain degree, or at the very least for a brief time of cluelessness in their lives.

When you build such a huge bubble that one of the biggest companies in the world can derive its wealth and power merely from national (and backyard, that is, Canadian) business, surpassing global companies established in dozens of countries around the world, like Carrefour;

when people have 9 million km2 and over 300 million people to which to sell or among whom keep inventing new lives and even identities;

when global movements against financial gambling do not exist until a local bunch decides to 'oKKupy' Wall Street;

when there is such geographical variety and vast extension that even viruses must toil to manage to drop their shit inside all the communities available for them to behave like those communities themselves behave on a macro escale,

you can not expect things and people to be otherwise.

 

[belamyi]

I forgot to add that something is wrong or right, funny or hateful, according to how it may sound to Americans... or how the political interest of the moment may decide that it must sound.

 

[belamyi]

The infectious faith in and optimism about "The Future" of the American is nothing but their systemic annihilation of the past: "it does not matter who and what or when you were whatever, just start over again; something is destroyed, we'll rebuild or replace... since The Past is gone, and The Future is not here yet, does not yet exist, all we have is The Present".

America took the worst part of the best part of human nature as its foundation and guide: the puerile "anything-is-possible-whenever-in-whatever-way... eventually in all places at the same time LOL".

Of course, "The Real World" has always been working behind that and, while the great American unwashed operates according to that program, the better-knowing "happy few" simply aspire to build in America what The Past had not allowed them to enjoy in Europe, Asia, Africa...

 

[belamyi]

^ ... because others had already occupied that place, excluding anyone else for the ages to come. So here we have that 9km2 Island brimming with resources and possibilities, to emulate what others already did, and achieve what they never could.

 

[Alistair]

^ your mind just constantly runs wild, doesn’t it?

And I don’t mean that in any kind of mean way.

 

[belamyi]

^ your mind just constantly runs wild, doesn’t it?

And I don’t mean that in any kind of mean way.

Like mental diarrhoea, as [stressed/upset] Spaniards would say?

*9 Million km2 "Island"

I do not mean all that I always say in any kind of mean or threatening, "activist", way... it may just be that I am passionate helpless Spaniard, crumbling bit to bit, and fascinated about the world around... for as long as I can keep my head up and swimming around it LOL

 

[belamyi]

It is useless to discuss with the average American type, whatever his political leanings or instruction, about something that goes against the American spirit: America is founded over the no-boundaries, no-wrong, always-up, everything's-gonna-be-alright program setting... anything falling beyond it simply does not compute. It's Old-World pessimism, past Dark Ages...
It's like trying to speak to a WWII fighter about the Vietnam War, or to 1990 Greenspan about 2009.

Or Wittgenstein's lion