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Samsara (2006)
by Sicovitol • 19 May 2009 • Rating: 0.0/5 • 0 comments
Samsara is a movie that's all about beauty, in all aspects, deep and wide, so watch it to mainly with your spirit, as the eye is surely going to be satisfied.
This is the first Tibetan movie I've ever seen. And it blew me away. Samsara is pure art, there is not much point in discussing the cast or the story. It is a deep movie, rest assured. What may be overlooked by the western eye is actually of paramount importance in this film. Meaning a westerner could easily overlook the main character's (the monk Tashi) starting point in the story and get tangled in the love and life story that follows.
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movies • recommendations • religion
The Wrestler (2008) review
by Sicovitol • 09 March 2009 • Rating: 0.0/5 • 0 comments
Ragged glory - words that best describe The Wrestler. Its magnificent showcase by Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream) makes this film special, within the realm of all things so ugly they turn into beautiful.
From the sub-hollywoodian America, the real America, the one that stirs mixed feelings of nausea and fascination in those strangers who saw it, magisterially exposed, to the actual projection of what is, for this America, nothing less than sport: wrestling, grotesque monkey-like behaviour on which the filmmaker demands attention: even such activity requires effort and sacrifice, so to speak. The genius of the film resides exactly in the subliminal, continuous suggestion of this "so to speak".
Read more »The ultimate weight loss plan
by Sicovitol • 31 December 2008 • Rating: 5.0/5 • 0 comments
Lose weight? Nothing simpler!
So, you finally admitted to yourself that you might have a slight weight problem. Meaning you're just a tad overweight. No too much, obviously. OK, maybe too much. Anyway, you've become aware that it's no longer cool to just ignore the fact that the clothes no longer fit you and others call you names. Like "fatty".
Read more »modern living • degeneration • self development
Religulous (2008) review
by Sicovitol • 31 December 2008 • Rating: 0.0/5 • 0 comments
Religulous is directed by the same fellow that did "Borat" and it's co-authored and presented by Bill Maher, a Catholic Jew crossbreed. What's to be expected from such a mixture?
Yet another bitter "comedy" about this very world, regarded as a final product of religions for the masses. The true genius of the movie resides in the critique of the religion of man, the metaphysics left aside, with divine (!) modesty, where it belongs: the ineffable realm of the "I don't know". If it would have given to the usual atheistic crap, "Religulous" would have been crap itself. In turn, it achieves bitter magnificence.
Read more »movies • religion • degeneration • New World Order • recommendations
Zeitgeist Addendum (2008) review
by Sicovitol • 31 December 2008 • Rating: 5.0/5 • 0 comments
Controversial, this one, as was to be expected. The Google PR of 7 for the movie's website goes to prove that it got many people talking, regardless of the angle each takes on it. And that kind of distribution is always a sign of success. Here are some potentially useful points of view on it.
Failure of epistemology
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What it is to be normal
by Sicovitol • 07 December 2008 • Rating: 0.0/5 • 0 comments
To be sane. Can this still be achieved? Should it be defined by statistical means as the state of the majority?
We've been thought to dream, "dare to dream", we're encouraged to go forth and dream of things. We've been told we're all beautiful and smart. We've been lied to. And no one tells us to be good. And that dreams are sometimes dangerous chimeras robbing you of your very life, especially when dreaming the trivial that cannot be acquired. That's not normal.
Read more »literature • philosophy • life • self development
Degeneration
by Sicovitol • 07 December 2008 • Rating: 0.0/5 • 0 comments
Affects everything around us, us. There used to be moments I could not escape the feeling that we are racing on the downward spiral at full speed. Now the sensation is almost uninterrupted. Everywhere I look, all around, I see the signs of it.
It is as if we were about to become a great race at some not so particular or identifiable point, then everything began to crumble or, rather, melt down. I can't look at the greatest buildings of this world without instantly acknowledging the hunger that still ravages most of our fellow men. I am now unable to enjoy all the benefits of this so called civilization without reminiscing that progress only improved our personal hygiene, really. We're still the same beasts we were centuries ago.
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Types of ad consumers on the web
by Sicovitol • 06 December 2008 • Rating: 5.0/5 • 0 comments
Better said, types of "victims" you can pick when advertising on your website. Talking about advertising that requires positive action in the form of clicks and about who you should target with it so that the clicks will abound.
1. The Confused
It's that (third world country) guy who just found about the "net" from his coworkers or his own children and goes online from his work computer or his children's. He's fascinated and confused, distrusting, yet enthusiastic. He's so candid he's attracted by strong colors and likes sites looking as Yahoo! did ten years ago. He is utterly incapable of discerning between a link and some underlined text, let alone a link and a link within an Adsense ad. He can be an extraordinarily bright individual, but he's simply illiterate when it comes to online culture. He's the ideal victim for MFAs and one of the best for online advertising generally.
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The thing about personal development
by Sicovitol • 06 December 2008 • Rating: 5.0/5 • 0 comments
It's so damned personal!
Yup, personal development still is, unbelievably, so darned personal. Self betterment still is so much about the actual "self". "Personal" and "self" still are the keywords here. Who'd have thought that with all this new technology one would still have to take personal development personally? Shameful.
Read more »modern living • self development • web • degeneration • fun
Micro-blogging
by Sicovitol • 02 December 2008 • Rating: 5.0/5 • 0 comments
Public micro-blogging is exactly the crap that was missing for an even more irrelevant web in an even more hysteric world.
Who doesn't need such useful information and insight:
11:45 just crapped. you?
11:46 http://tinyurl.com/7dgfd9
11:47 wiped ass. you?
11:48 forgot. any one knows what's a kundera?
modern living • information overload • web • blog • degeneration
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