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Horrors of Malformed Men / 江戸川乱歩全集　恐怖奇形人間 (1969)

Blu-ray 2018

What a strange film this is. Not many tales end with lovers committing suicide via an explosion while their severed limbs still hold hands.

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Kraftwerk icons for Mac OS, ~2000. (Source.)

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A good lesson in listening to your body

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The Eyam Plague

Back in September of 1665, the small village of Eyam (located in England) became host to a deadly plague.

A bale of cloth containing fleas with the plague arrived at Eyam. It came from London where this disease had already taken thousands of lives. A tailor’s assistant called George Viccars was said to have opened the bale and hung the cloth in front of the hearth to dry, unwittingly stirring the disease-ridden fleas contained within the parcel. 

George died and the disease started to spread. The small village had an estimated population of 350 people. Many wanted to leave and get away from the plague but ultimately decided that in order to keep the disease from spreading, they would quarantine themselves. No one was allowed in our outside of the village. Many were reluctant but decided to stay, effectively choosing death but sparing nearby communities who had not been introduced to the disease.

Ultimately 260 people died but thousands of other lives were spared.

HERE is a very detailed source going over the Eyam Plague. It goes into accounts of people who lived there and their stories. I highly recommend reading this

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Cinema without people: On the Silver Globe (1988, Andrej Zulawski, dir.)

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“It’s the nation that does not permit you to live.”

Death by Hanging (1968), dir. Nagisa Ōshima

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The context of the film is vital as it is relevant more than ever. The film is about an ethnic Korean in Japan who is set to be executed by hanging. Koreans have historically lived as marginalized members in Japan and have been heavily discriminated against despite many of them having all the makings of citizenship by being born and brought up in Japan. Oshima examines how the state legitimizes violence and racism as it permeates in the Japanese conscious of who is deemed worthy of life and who is not. An underlying theme is that guilty or innocent by state-set terms of criminality, marginalized people are guilty at birth.

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we really don’t talk enough about the fact paris hilton’s sex tape opens with a dedication to 9/11???

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Fully and utterly obsessed with every single aspect of this scene

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Giannina Oteto

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Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop

I was a police officer for nearly ten years and I was a bastard. We all were.

”This essay has been kicking around in my head for years now and I’ve never felt confident enough to write it. It’s a time in my life I’m ashamed of. It’s a time that I hurt people and, through inaction, allowed others to be hurt. It’s a time that I acted as a violent agent of capitalism and white supremacy. Under the guise of public safety, I personally ruined people’s lives but in so doing, made the public no safer… so did the family members and close friends of mine who also bore the badge alongside me.

But enough is enough.

The reforms aren’t working. Incrementalism isn’t happening. Unarmed Black, indigenous, and people of color are being killed by cops in the streets and the police are savagely attacking the people protesting these murders.

American policing is a thick blue tumor strangling the life from our communities and if you don’t believe it when the poor and the marginalized say it, if you don’t believe it when you see cops across the country shooting journalists with less-lethal bullets and caustic chemicals, maybe you’ll believe it when you hear it straight from the pig’s mouth.”

>>Copied here in case anyone gets paywalled when they click the above. The full article is…a lot.<<

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