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I was watching Killing of a Sacred Deer again. Everything in the movie is about normal human relations, except it's not. All the relations are varying degrees of abnormal. But the thing that struck me is nearly nothing in the movie is really related to the world we know, in the sense there are no references to people, places, or things (there is a reference to the movie "Groundhog Day", although I almost wish there wasn't even that anchoring). It's like a world out of time, a world that can be built around anything that it wants to be. Too many times we feel quite accurately that the world we live in is contrived, convoluted and trapped. Things are at once much more complicated and more simpler than they should actually be. The idiotic explanations are too simple while the solutions are too complicated.

Life is as difficult, as generic, as original, and authentic as we choose to make it. As you grow older you see the same patterns, the same shit, turn over and over again ... or as many say, the pendulum swing from one side to the other, as if the human enigma is actively chasing and transferring between itself. This is the condition... or ignorance, of ignoring history. These things happen because of our ignorance, our genetic programming to be redundant, and the fact that the average human can only understand through the crude brutality of experience. As the song goes ... over and over again my friend.

Let's try to get out of the contrived, convoluted trap that is set out for us by the fear mongers, the war profiteers, the corporate thieves, the racists, the nationalists, the idiot makers before us.

Peace on the STEEM Blockchain @ClumsySilverDad

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I loved "The Lobster" by the same director. Lo-fi sci-fi is one of my favourite genres! I've seen the trailer to "Killing of a sacred deer" and that convinced me that I'd need to be in the right frame of mind to watch it. It's on my must watch list. I'm glad the film left an impression on you.

Yes, they both are tremendous, I've seen each 3x I think. Lanthimos' new movie this year is The Favourite, haven't seen it yet.

Oh! Going to add that to my must watch list.

we think a lot of this misunderstanding in the world will be fixed by the slow extinction of big government. i have friends of all cultures and locations, and the fear mongering is quickly disappearing with fact checking technology, and with btc leading the new front. and us being able to just IM across the world. we're becoming one people again.

great response, ty, peace (-:

Shame on me, i saw it last year but i don't remember anything!hahahaha
Check Dogtooth also, i think you will like it:)

Yes, I'm almost afraid to watch that one, seems very sexually explicit. Of course The Lobster is amazing, but pretty incredible how different the camera work and over lapping dialogue is in Killing of a Sacred Deer. Haven't seen The Favourite yet.

Yes it is kind of hardcore but also very interesting idea and thought provoking. I haven't watch Favourite too but i will, nice to see Lanthimos being so creative:)

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