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Annihilation is Confusing (or, why it's so fun to watch) - Duration: 5:27.
- How long did you think you were inside?
Annihilation is a film fueled by mystery. It follows the story of a former soldier
turned cellular biologist and grieving widow, Lena, whose presumed dead husband,
Kane, suddenly returns from a covert military operation with little to no
memory of his experience, only for him and Lena to be taken by the military as
a strange phenomenon known simply as 'The Shimmer' slowly engulfs the southern
coast and morphs everything within its boundary beyond comprehension.
Looking to find a way to help her husband Lena joins the latest expedition
into the Shimmer and witnesses all of its strange oddities firsthand. It's a
plot filled with all sorts of vagaries that, admittedly, had me scratching my
head in confusion, but it hooked me nonetheless. There's just something about
its dreamlike tone, its complex themes, and the way it twists the familiar into the
unknown that stuck with me. And today, I want to talk about why this makes
Annihilation so fun to watch. And yes, potential spoilers ahead, as well as a
content warning for disturbing imagery.
Annihilation's visual and aural design gives its sci-fi approach a tangible sense of unreality.
The Shimmer around which the story is set is littered with a rainbow of hues and tones, from its
hypnotic boundary wall to the multicolored light flares inside. The
landscapes within are similarly refracted, with the dense green forests
and grasslands looking as if they've been broken down into a cacophony of
blues, reds, yellows, pinks, and so on. The wildlife within the Shimmer strikes
an uncanny balance of being recognizably terrestrial, and yet, distinctly alien,
ranging from the oddly beautiful, to the hauntingly ominous,
to the downright terrifying.
This is emphasized by the soundtrack and the cinematography, whose deep synths and
surreal imagery respectively add to the dense atmosphere and help build a
harrowing dread in the audience. The film's visual and aural designs blend
together to give the film an almost dreamlike quality that toes the line
between morbidly fascinating and nightmarish. And it's all in service of
the existential focus of the film. Now, it's hard to talk about Annihilation's
themes, without completely spoiling it, and I do feel that this is one of those
films that is best seen knowing as little as possible, so I'll do my best not to go
into too much detail. Although, if yous want, I could do a thematic analysis of the
film later, but then again I feel like there's probably more than enough people
who've done a better job of that than I could. But, I'm getting off topic here.
Annihilation's core themes can be hard to decipher, and there are many ways in
which to interpret it, such as seeing it as an analogy for cancer, or addiction, or
even infidelity. And I think the clever thing about the movie is that it's built
to accommodate these varying interpretations under its broad yet
specific thematic through line, which is life's inherent tendency toward
self-destruction, or, one might say, self annihilation.
Ha! Get it, it's like the name of the film!
Ha ha, ha . . .
Uh, anyway . . .
Cancer is your body destroying itself, addiction is
impulse destroying your body, and infidelity is impulse destroying your
relationships. The film was keenly interested in exploring every facet of
this idea, even using it to comment on the nature of humanity, our aversion
toward the unknown and change, and even the nature of alien life, whether or not
they would comprehend concepts such as destruction, if they would view it the
same way we do, and so much more. Like I said, it's hard to describe without
explicitly spoiling the film, but to say simply, It manages to touch on a wide
variety of subjects whilst exploring existential ideas in such a way that
keeps you on the edge of your seat, and leaves you to wonder about, well, life.
That being said, it does have its problems. The pacing often feels off,
bouncing from scenes that pass in the blink of an eye to ones that drag on
forever, especially in the first act. Many of the characters are just, there, with
only two of them ever really feeling like they have any kind of character.
Even Lena, though having a few scenes that show off a genuine personality, just
feels blank most of the time. The dialogue can be clunky, throwing out
random tidbits of actually unnecessary exposition, and lines that drag on for
a sentence or two too long. And, strangely enough for a sci-fi film, the
explanations for the Shimmer's phenomenons, at times, just seem
convoluted for the sake of being convoluted. But, while I can understand
how these problems may ruin some people's experience, for me these
weaknesses are vastly outweighed by the film's strengths. Despite its flaws, I
found Annihilation to be a captivating movie. It's one whose uncanny setting,
nightmarishly fantastical creatures, and haunting soundtrack and imagery build a
dense atmosphere of intrigue and mystery I couldn't pull away from, and whose
musings on the very nature of life itself lingered in my mind long after
the credits rolled. At the end of the day, Annihilation is a movie that, ironically,
gets more and more beautiful, the more you break it down. And for me, that's what
makes it, so fun to watch.
And yeah, those are my thoughts. Let me know what yous
think, if yous agree, disagree, what your favorite sci-fi movie is, if that bear
was the scariest fucking thing you've seen all year (it certainly was for me),
etc, and thanks for watching! If yous enjoyed this, and wanna see more,
check out my last video, where I break down Made In Abyss' infamous Lord of Dawn,
and what makes him such a great villain. Or check out my video on Violet Evergarden,
and why its slow pacing and emotional storytelling make it so fun to watch.
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"Football is truly the most extraordinary lens of society" - Duration: 10:36.
I am the David Goldblatt who writes about football; I wrote a book in 2006 called 'The
Ball is Round: A Global History of Football' , which is a comprehensive sociological, cultural,
economic, technological, sporting history of the game around the world and that launched
me on a career of writing, broadcasting and teaching about the history and sociology of
football.
Since then I published a book on the history of Brazilian Football called 'Futebol Nation'
and I published a book on football in England called 'The game of our lives', the making
and the meaning of English Football.
Sometimes I'm a visiting professor of football history in the United States, at a college
at Los Angeles, and I'm a journalist and a broadcaster, writing on football, politics
and sport.
I had wanted to write a history of the world, from since I knew it was such a thing as a
history of the world and, with football, I suddenly realized: here is my way in, because
football is everywhere and yet at the same time, football is different everywhere.
So, if what you are interested in is comparative sociology, football is just truly the most
extraordinary lens and I realized it would allow me to study almost anywhere in the world.
So, between 1999 and 2002, I realized, 'this is the groove I'm going to be in for some
time'.
What an interesting question!
I enjoy being a teacher more than anything.
That's what gives me the most straight forward joy in my life.
Because what is the point of knowing all this stuff if you can´t share with other people.
So I find teaching the most fun.
What bring me the most deep satisfaction professionally is writing.
Nothing compares to writing, because it´s the hardest thing of all to do.
Because with writing you really have to put yourself on the line, there is no way to escape.
I find that both scary and incredibly satisfactory.
Eduardo Galeano, the Uruguayan writer and novelist, who wrote 'Football in sun and
shadow'.
In England, for many years, football was not a subject that academics or intellectuals
would bother to engage themselves with, whereas of course in Latin America, in Brazil, Argentina,
Uruguay, for a hundred years, the very best writers and intellectuals, of course, have
been engaged with football.
Galeano, for me, was like, on one hand a total hero, because he showed the way for me and
what was possible; and also a great challenge, because 'Football in sun and shadow' is
a great book.
There is no way it's the history of football.
So, it was kind of like a gauntlet being thrown down and saying, 'Ok, Galeano, you've
set the standard and agenda, now let's see if I can match it'.
That's an interesting question.
Biographies in football are amongst the worst books in the world.
I generally don't read footballers' biographies because they are inauthentic, cliché and
they never tell you the stuff you really want to know.
I don't mean in terms of scandal, I mean in terms of emotion.
Because to express the emotions of a life in football, is really difficult and the caliber
and the quality of the writing is not very good.
So, I'm slightly like 'do I really want to buy or write a biography of anyone?
I tell who I'd really loved writing about is Zidane.
If I had to pick one player, who for me just personally captures what I love about football,
but who I also think it's an interesting and enigmatic character, I would love to spend
a day with Zidane.
There is not enough politics in football, on the contrary.
The illusion on the which the football industry is operating for the last hundred years is
somehow sport and politics do not mix.
And let me just say now: this is not true!
The people who have said for the last hundred years that sport and politics do not mix,
what they really mean is 'your politics don't mix, but mine are ok, because I come
from a position of unreflected privilege, so my stuff isn't political.
Let me give you an example on this.
The Olympics, the classic example of 'sport and politics don't mix'.
What is actually the Olympics originally all about?
From Pierre de Coubertin, who says 'the Olympics are a display of manly virtue',
for which our reward is the polite applause of women.
So, you think sport is a way of which we are expressing masculine aristocratic dominance
over the world.
That's not political, but other people who want to say 'how about women and people
of color and the disabled being part of sport?, they are political.
It is the worst and most appalling form of hypocrisy from the powerful and the privileged
designed to make sure that the marginalized and excluded don't speak.
And I would say, we need more of that.
Look at the nature of the global football industry.
Where are fans in that?
Who is representing their interests, the people who actually make football happen, without
which it's all just a ball in the back of the net?
How come we don't have a say?
Where is our power in there?
Where is the politics of that?
there really is a surge in women's participation and interest in football globally.
I just think that is a sociological fact; if you look at the number of women actually
playing the game at a grassroots level…
In England, for example, the fastest growing sport is women's football, particularly
amongst young women.
We now have professional leagues, in many places around the world.
We have a level of television coverage for the women's World Cup and the European Championships
and its equivalent.
Just walk into a football stadium these days!
I'm not saying that they are 50/50, but it's clearly shifting.
In Britain, from 5-7% of the audience being female to -if you go to a club like Crystal
Palace or Leicester- at least a quarter of the crowd.
Even more amazingly, I went to see the Portland Timbers in the United States and 40% of the
crowd are women.
I've never been to a men's professional game where women are 40% of the crowd.
And what I think it's going on here is: when you study the history of football, you
find that when a group of people who have not been playing football before suddenly
get the chance to, you get football fever, people go mad for it!
This happened among young boys in Spain at the turn of the 20th century, it's happening
among the English working classes in the 1880's.
So, it's the real thing and it only just began.
Let's have this conversation in another decade and no one will go 'why are we bothering
with women's football?'
It will be like: 'how did we spending so long ignoring it?'
It's the future.
It's a big question.
Generally football is badly managed.
Obviously, there are clubs and football associations that are all well-managed, it's not 100%.
Looking at a global rather than an European perspective, football is riddled with malpractice
and corruption.
Right at the moment, we have senior executives from Conmebol and from the leading Latin American
Football Associations, as well as Senior Executives from Torneos y Competencias and Fox America
who are all on trial in New York for a wide variety of forms of bribery concerned with
TV rights and so on.
And as we know, that it's just the tip of the iceberg.
I would be here all day if I went through how bad football management, particularly
at the level of football associations is.
So, football seriously needs other models from other places.
Is sport the place to go?
There is a lot of very badly managed other sports as well, which are also full of terrible
forms of corruption; volleyball is notorious in this regard, global cricket is riddle with
match fixing…
Where does one go for an alternative?
One has to look to the best of what there is in football ,rather than going outside
of it, as far as I can see.
Because, German clubs are very well managed, the German football association although we
know that its involvement in getting the 2006 world cup was bending the rules beyond bending.
But broadly it's a pretty well run FA, clubs are not in debt, there is proper licensing.
There is something to be learned there, rather than going to other sports which to me are
not offering much of an example to us.
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Christina Aguilera Says New Single 'Infatuation' Is About Ex Who Turned Out To Be Gay - Duration: 2:44.
On the season premiere of "Untucked," the after show of "RuPaul s Drag Race," Christina
Aguilera revealed that her 2002 song, "Infatuation," was actually about an ex-boyfriend who turned
out to be gay.
"It was heartbreaking because I found out he played for your team, not mine," she revealed.
"He s gonna see this, he s gonna be mad," "Drag Race" star Vanessa Vanjie Mateo quipped.
"I hope so, girl," the 37-year-old singer replied.
Aguilera also shared that her song 2002 song, "Fighter," was also about a former flame.
"Was that about someone? asked contestant Monique Heart. Girl, you read him for the
back row. When you said, You tried to take a joy ride and came down in flames, I said,
Oooh. She read him.'
The pop star replied, "Of course it was! He deserved it."
These aren't the only songs that are said to be about Aguilera's past relationships.
On her 2006 album, "Back to Basics," she has a song titled "F.U.S.S.," which many fans
believe stands for "F**k You Scott Storch."
Storch, a record producer, and Aguilera worked on "Fighter and Can t Hold Us Down" together,
but in "F.U.S.S.," she notes that there is "a bridge that s been burned." At the end
of the song, she declares, "Still got the album out, ha!"
While with the "Rupaul's Drag Race" contestants, Aguilera talked about coming up in the industry
and alluded to her time collaborating with Storch.
"We all have come from some journey. I m sure we ve all had a painful place and a struggle
or something. And I think that s really relevant," she noted. "And that s a part of my music
and a part of where I came from.
Aguilera added, Being taking advantage of [by the guy for whom I] created Fighter, growing
up in this business at a young age, you can just imagine being around older men a lot
and dishonest people. And it s really hard."
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What is EFT? - Duration: 6:47.
Hi I'm Penny Hill with EFT tapping for stress relief. So what is EFT and why
would you want to do it? EFT stands for emotional freedom
techniques. EFT is a simple but profoundly effective set of tools to
decrease stress and increase feelings of well-being. in EFT we tap on the
endpoints of the body's energy meridians while we are thinking about something
that bothers us. The combination of these two actions produces amazing results.
Stuck emotional energy is released and even problems of long standing can be
resolved in a relatively short period of time.
Tapping helps you feel better fast studies show 30 minutes of tapping can
reduce the stress hormone cortisol up to 25%! Which is a huge difference. EFT is
easily learned and can be used as a self help technique. Sessions with
practitioners, though, can produce even deeper changes because YOU don't know
what you don't know! A practitioner provides a mirror and asks questions
you'd never ask of yourself. Combined with tapping on the body this
can produce relatively quick, easy but deep, shifts in your perception. In the
early years of the development of EFT the results people were getting with it
were so astounding that the phrase "try it on everything" got quite a bit of
traction and what people discovered was that it helped with almost everything.
From difficult emotions, troubling memories, physical discomforts, to sports
performance, fears of public speaking, chronic health issues, the little and not
so little fears that stop people from going places and doing things, people
were getting amazing results in far shorter amounts of time than had been
seen before. But how is that possible? How can one technique affect so many
different areas of our life, our health and development? The answer lies in our
emotions and in our brains. This is a bit involved to cover quickly but here it is
in a nutshell.
We are emotional beings. When our feelings overwhelm our ability to
cognitively process them, that energy still has to go somewhere. And the only
place for it to go is in our bodies. Where it sits until such time as it can
be released and processed safely. What I call turning painful memories into plain
memories. A lot of stress can come at us quickly from life events like marriages
and divorces, births and deaths, loss of jobs or spouses, car accidents, major
health diagnoses, but there is a lot of stored emotional energy in our
subconscious, which is effectively our body, that we are consciously unaware of.
EFT creates a safe container for all this energy to be released. So that was a
little bit about emotions. Now here's a little bit about brains. In brain science
there is a principle called Hebb's law. Hebb's law states 'neurons that fire
together wire together.' Every time we have a thought we are literally building
a bigger pathway for it in the brain. We don't so much have beliefs as we have
brain habits. Since thoughts and feelings go together,
when we release stuck emotional energy with tapping we release the thoughts
that were tied to it as well. Now we have the choice to have new thoughts and
build a new neural network that supports a new point of view.
So I hope that wasn't too scary or overwhelming. And you don't need to know
any of that stuff to tap. I just like to know how stuff works and I thought you
might like to as well. I think what we're doing with tapping can be described as
releasing the past in the present and reclaiming our futures. So if you would like
to know some more about tapping I invite you to go to my website which is Calm
Health Ease dot com and there you can download my free report which is: Change
Your Brain and Get Relief Now or you can just register and that will give you
access to more resources on my page including a quick how to tap tutorial
video and two links that will take you, to two different places, where you can
download the entire manual for EFT for free. So you can start your journey of
tapping right away and whether you go a little bit down that pathway or you go a
long way I would be thrilled to be part of your journey. I hope our paths cross
soon and until then I wish for you a joyful heart.
Be well.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger: GOP is dying - Duration: 8:06.
25%.
So the Is are about to overtake
the Rs.
That decline of Republican
registration caused a state
assemblyman named Chad mays to
join forces with Arnold
schwarzenegger at an event
called new wave California where
I was one of the speakers along
with schwarzenegger and Ohio
governor John Kasich.
After our respective speeches, I
sat down with the terminate door
tore to talk politics.
>> You famously said that the
Republican partydoor
tore to talk politics.
>> You famously said that the
Republican party has a rob at
the box office.
I heard you equate the goop with
GOP with the titanic.
Explain.
>> I told the Republican party
like ten years agogoop with
GOP with the titanic.
Explain.
>> I told the Republican party
like ten years agooop with
GOP with the titanic.
Explain.
>> I told the Republican party
like ten years ago with
GOP with the titanic.
Explain.
>> I told the Republican party
like ten years ago with
GOP with the titanic.
Explain.
>> I told the Republican party
like ten years ago with GOP
with the titanic.
Explain.
>> I told the Republican party
like ten years agowith GOP
with the titanic.
Explain.
>> I told the Republican party
like ten years agoith GOP
with the titanic.
Explain.
>> I told the Republican party
like ten years agoth GOP
with the titanic.
Explain.
>> I told the Republican party
like ten years ago GOP
with the titanic.
Explain.
>> I told the Republican party
like ten years ago GOP with
the titanic.
Explain.
>> I told the Republican party
like ten years agogop with
the titanic.
Explain.
>> I told the Republican party
like ten years ago they are
dying at the box office.
I said it because their policies
weren't really including
everybody.
So that you have everyone
interested.
Like for instance women, a
million women left within a few
years because we did not address
as a party health care issues,
we didn't address education
issues, we did not address three
issues very important to women
and we were losing them because
we weren't addressing these
issues.
So I said the way you are going
by anti-health care reform and
being so -- you are dying at the
box office.
Since then the party is only 26%overall.
And so it is dying like the
titanic.
The only thing is that we don't
have to go under completely.
We don't have to wait for that
moment.
Let's change.
And let's go back to this kind
of like big tent idea of Ronald
Reagan.
>> Independents are about to
overtake Republicans in
California.
What can California to
differently?
>> I think independents will
take over the Republicans, they
will take over the Democrats
also because I think that people
in general I would say are up
Seth about the fact that
Democrats are too far to the
left and they are getting stuck
in their ideology and
Republicans too far to the
right.
And I think this is why we have
helped to some extent here in
California with getting rid far gerrymandering
and open
primaries.
But we still have the problem
that the democratic and
Republican party put certain
weight behind people.
And those are usually extreme
people.
>> I've heard you say Washington
head of
the balance committee, they
balanced the budget, got rid of
the debt and actually had a
surplus.
I mean it is unbelievable to
think about today to have a
surplus.
They have completely wiped out
the surplus right now and almost
$21 trillion debt.
Who is going to pay that off?
So that is why I say John
Kasich, go back to Washington
and kick some butt and
straighten out the mess.
>> Do you want him back in 2020?
>> I told him he should run in
2020.
The running should start now.
>> You want him to run against
president trump?
>> I think he should run against
president trump and he should
show American people an
alternative.
>> Do you think he could beat
trump?
Doesn't it come full circle to
how there has been an exodus of
independent thinkers?
They are left with a hard core
base.
Could Kasich beat him?
>> I think that I look at it a
little bit differently.
I think eventually the people
will judge the president before
they go to the polls by his
performance.
So if trump does a great job,
there is no reason to replace
him because the people will be
happy and they will say he went
through the list of things that
he has promised, wehave
immigration reform, hemts care
reform, a booming economy and he
is attacking education problem.
He is working on all of the
things.
And he is doing a great job.
Bang, he is back in again and he
should be.
But what I'm saying is that John
Kasich is the great alternative.
Should he not perform, because
we don't know yet, we're only
one year into his term, so does
he not perform, John Kasich
would be a great Republican
alternative and better than that
the Democrats will put up
because the Democrats don't have
anybody.
He is the best next guy this
line.
>> President trump has been in
office for about 400 days and
has made only one trip to
California.
Has hebaed so happy that he only
made one trip.
The very fact that he doesn't
want us to write-off the state
tax is a direct attack on
californians.
So I don't think he cares about
California.
And I think California sdntd
care about him.
>> You addressed education,
environment, health care.
Those are not cornerstones of
Republican platforms these days.
Do you think the party can win
on those issues?
>> I think it is extremely
important to just look at the
problems that we have in the
United States.
So it is great when you talk
about that we must be number one
economically.
But at the same time, you have
to recognize that we are number
one already economically.
But then in school and
education, we are 39th in the
world.
39th is absurd.
And why?
Because our education system
really sucks.
And we need to do something
about it.
I mean, it is absolutely
inexcusable that we have to have
for instance affirmative action.
Affirmative action means that I
have not treated all the
children equally, I have not
given them an equal chance.
I've not given them equal
textbooks, equal amount of
money, equal computers, equal
quality teachers and so on and
so forth.
And I saw it first hand when I
was governor.
There are schools here this
don't have by far the same thing
that they have in Beverly hills.
It is unfair and that is a major
problem.
And this is why certain kids are
falling behind.
It is insulting.
So I say we have to work on and
take on this challenge of equal
education and great education at
every level so that we can fill
those 6 million unfilled jobs
that the United States has right
now and they cannot fill it
because the people are not
educated enough.
That is crazy.
So I think that it didn't matter
if you are a Republican or
Democrat, they got to get
together and solve this problem.
>> You still have the fire in
the belly.
That is obvious.
Is there any political future
for you, direct involvement in
politics?
>> No, you know, I'm not looking
for running for office or
anything like that.
I just happen to be as
passionate about those issues
because I'm not just a talker
about politics.
I was governor.
And I saw firsthand the problems
that we have.
And how those problems actually
can be solved if both parties
work together.
And so what I'm trying to do is
to say to the Democrats and
Republicans, ease off from those
political corners that you are
stuck in and come to the middle
and try to solve the problem
that the American people need to
have those problems solved.
We cannot go another 20 years
with no immigration reform or
education reform or health care
reform.
We need every American insured
and figure out a system that is
fair for everybody so you don't
punish those that already bought
the insurance.
So a lot of things need to be
tackled.
I don't look it as a Republican
or democratic issue.
They are just people issues.
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