Well, you kind of liked my reasoning about Miles' behavior from the point of view of a journalist (me), so I'll continue.
So, many people were also outraged that Miles didn't turn around and leave at the very beginning, when the dying dude told him what was going on in the asylum. To begin with, a journalist should not take someone's word for it. It is the duty of a journalist to listen to as many opinions as possible, to take them into account, so that later, having made sure of everything personally, to present objective reality, without evaluation (if we do not touch the genre of opinion journalism, this is a little different). That is, he couldn't just believe that dude, write down his words, turn around and go home.
And, as we know, Upshur used to be a military journalist — he published unacceptable materials about Afghanistan, for which he was fired. What is military journalism in general? Yes, the fact that a reporter has to climb into the very hell. Imagine if military journalists listened to a couple of random, the first people they met about the horrors of war, and then just left? "Well, why should I check everything and find evidence of other people's words, they can kill me there, lol" — with this approach, it would not be just a billion fakes about various armed conflicts in the world (and not only), and maybe journalism did not exist in principle; it would all be just jaundice the press, where they publish some rumors and someone's ideas. And that's why, thanks to his old training as a war reporter, Miles does not leave, but goes on to see all the hell happening firsthand. Otherwise, he probably would have just fallen in his own eyes.
I don't know, maybe I just want to justify Miles so much, but in my opinion, everything is very logical, especially when you understand what it really feels like to be a journalist when you are taught this.
P.S. Thanks to the user for the comment under my last post, which supported my idea and developed it in the right direction !!!
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everyone I told I was watching breaking bad that had seen it told me I was gonna hate walter by the end, but am I wrong for rooting him until the last second? you gotta do what you gotta do and he did every time. can’t be mad at that
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had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing
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FYI every purchase of any of The Adventure Zone music on Griffin McElroy's Bandcamp will be entirely donated to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund for the rest of 2023. His music is set at 'name your price', and the McElroys are also going to match the donations.
If you've listened to even a bit of any TAZ campaign, you surely know what a fantastic musician Griffin is, and there is no better time to purchase his music than now.
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changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by “nature’s revenge”; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, “the unknown.” Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying “I would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.” But I don’t know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.
I don’t actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.
Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you can’t look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Don’t Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.
No idea if this is anything. (I haven’t seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.
But the thing I’m thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think they’ll have a little sympathy, but they probably won’t. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, weren’t you?
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I must not respond to the bad take. Responding to the bad take is the mind-killer. Responding to the bad take is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the bad take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the bad take has gone there will be nothing. Only I (and my good takes) will remain.
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