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The Game (The Cold, 1984)

"The sign says no physical exertion! Is it safe?"

"Oh, come on, baby! Of course it's safe - I had a vasectomy."

"Well, in that case..."

#the game #the cold #1984 #horror film #bill rebane #american cinema #independent cinema #william arthur #larry dreyfus #tom blair #jim iaquinta #carol perry #wally flaherty #don arthur #debbie martin #lori minnetti #randy hicks #ronnie hicks #pamela rohleder #aaron harper #j. d. beckman #alan g. rainer #bottom of the barrel zero budget indie nonsense from deepest darkest Wisconsin. Rebane had been making horror films for more than 20 years #at this point but you'd be forgiven for thinking the man had never been behind a camera in his life; a kind of budget reimagining of The #Most Dangerous Game‚ where three elderly billionaires pay some young idiots to hang out at their mansion (very clearly an off season hotel)#so they can spook them a little bit. murder and mayhem follows but it's mostly confined to the temperature dropping every so often (thus #that alternate video title). absolute garbage script and sub professional acting‚ this is still surprisingly fun if only in a 'is this a #real film that cost real money?' kind of way. ends with a series of poorly thought out twists which make less and less sense until a final #shot which feels more like a middle finger to the audience than anything else. pure trash but of interest to those fools (like myself) who #get their kicks from obscure indie horror. oh also the soundtrack is almost entirely honky tonk piano. because of course it is

Neighbours 2021 Finale (ep.8751)//Debbie’s flashback to Julie’s death in 1994 (ep.2251)

#neighboursedit #neighbourstv #spoilers/#harlow robinson #terese willis #debbie martin #julie robinson #(yes i know she was julie martin but for tagging purposes on the blog i tag as julie robinson. to keep her in the family)#really thought i might have been on to something. guess im not #mitziedits

Andrew's Death Anxiety

What structures and why in the lives of older men are meaningful to them by preference rather than necessity?

Andrew, 67, once declared that he hated their shared home and preferred to spend his time traveling, which led Anna, 62, to move out. They both have no family and are on their own. What will Andrew gain from this life-changing event that has destroyed his entire life so far?

What Andrew presented a collision between two different meaning systems operating on different time horizons.

Andrew’s travel is meaningful in a short-to-medium temporal band. It produces intensity, orientation, identity confirmation, and relief from anticipatory death anxiety. Travel compresses time giving novelty, movement, contingency. It keeps mortality abstract. As long as the body is moving, death feels postponed. That is why it works now.

A shared home with Anna operates on a long temporal band. It is not intense, not novel, not immediately rewarding. Its meaning does not show up emotionally. It shows up structurally, later, when dependency returns. Old age is not a romantic idea; it is a regression to vulnerability. Meaning then reverts to what can regulate fear, sickness, loss, and finitude when stimulation no longer works. These two meanings are not competing on the same axis. Travel answers the question, How do I stay alive-feeling now? A shared home answers the question, Who will still be there when aliveness collapses into need?

Being “67” is not sentimental. It’s brutally realistic. Meaning reorganizes when autonomy erodes. What mattered at 40 often becomes irrelevant at 70. What felt optional becomes existential. However Andrew’s fear of death is not contradicted by his preference for travel. It explains it. Travel is a defense against temporal closure. Home is an admission that time wins. Choosing home early means accepting dependency before it is forced. Many people avoid that acceptance for as long as possible.

Andrew is choosing meaning that suspends time in contrast to meaning that anticipates time. Neither is “wrong.” But only one of them scales with entropy. Meanings formed to manage anxiety tend to fail precisely when anxiety becomes unavoidable. Meanings formed around mutual dependency tend to grow heavier and more real the less choice remains. The concern is whether there will still be a structure of meaning left when trips stop working. Meaning that cannot survive dependency is not meaning; it is postponement.