#extra favorite

[daisies-and-cosmos]

art by Marillumine

[chouhatsumimi]

今日日

(きょうび, kyoubi)

Nowadays

(As if reading 日 wasn’t already confusing enough!)

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Zöe Rose by Mark Velasquez

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Dee Hess photographed by Peter Basch (c. 1956)

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Daisies - 1966

We watched this film recently, I've seen nothing quite like it before but I can see how it influenced other films. It's a wild film, and I really enjoyed it. It's by a female director with lesbian themes.

(trailer and full film download link from archive.org below)

Description from Archive.org

A satirical, wild and irreverent story of rebellion, Vera Chytilová’s classic of surrealist cinema is perhaps also the most adventurous and anarchic Czech movie of the 1960s. Two young women, both named Marie, revolt against a degenerate, decayed and oppressive society, attacking symbols of wealth and bourgeois culture. Defiant feminist statement? Nihilistic, avant-garde comedy? A riotous, punk-rock poem of a film that is both hilarious and mind-warpingly innovative, it remains a cinematic enigma and its influence is still felt today.

It has been remastered in 4k if you want to find that version but the best version available online is from the blu-ray disk from archive.org that I have linked below. (the download will be slow) We got our copy from our local library.

https://archive.org/download/daisies-1966/Daisies_1966_SR_1080p_BluRay_x265_HEVC_AAC-SARTRE.mkv

play back in VLC and subtitles are available in English and others.

Here's the trailer:

(it says it was removed but it will play)

[daisies-and-cosmos]

Yumna Al-Arashi

[chouhatsumimi]

Ajin ch. 62 vocab

草むしり；くさむしり；kusamushiri; weeding

二手；ふたて；futate; two groups  (can also be literally ‘two hands’)

お手並み拝見；おてなみはいけん；o te nami haiken; “Let’s see what you’ve got”/”Show me what you’ve got” To be honest I wouldn’t have expected Takahashi to know a phrase like this, it sounds way too formal. Maybe the formality’s ironic, given what it means.

反射的；はんしゃてき；hansha-teki; reflexive, reflexing.  Like a reflexive movement, one performed involuntarily.

分身；ぶんしん; bunshin; ‘one’s other self’  is a great definition in this context XD

丸腰；まるごし；marugoshi; unarmed, without weapons Because your hips are round... if you’re not armed...??

出世；しゅっせ；shusse; success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence

正当；せいとう；seitou; just; justifiable; right; due; proper; equitable; reasonable; legitimate; legal; lawful​

[chouhatsumimi]

Words from Mainichi Shinbun, 10/11/18

加害者 [かがいしゃ (kagaisha)]

assailant, perpetrator, wrong-doer, aggressor

要求 [ようきゅう (youkyuu)]

demand, firm request, requisition, requirement, desire

水準 [すいじゅん (suijun)]

level, standard

water level

苦慮 [くりょ (kuryo)]

racking one's brains, worrying oneself, being anxious

書簡, 書翰 [しょかん (shokan)]

letter, note, epistle, correspondence

支持 [しじ (shiji)]

support, backing, endorsement, approval

啓発 [けいはつ (keihatsu)]

enlightenment, development, edification, public awareness, illumination, education, inspiration

粛清 [しゅくせい (shukusei)]

(political) purge

帯びる [おびる (obiru)]

to wear (sword, decoration, etc.), to carry

to be entrusted (e.g. with a mission), to take on

趣旨, 主旨 [しゅし (shushi)]

meaning, point (e.g. of a statement), gist, effect

goal, intent, object, aim, point

占有 [せんゆう (sen'yuu)]

possession, occupation, occupancy

離脱 [りだつ (ridatsu)]

withdrawal, secession, separation, breakaway

横領 [おうりょう (ouryou)]

embezzlement, misappropriation, usurpation