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This 1972 documentary was sent to my attention this morning, and it totally changed the video that I planned to do. We can talk about the release of 33 hostages and other nonsense, some other time. This Orson Wells documentary warns of a technological future, and one they drastically underestimated, especially in the area of A.I.

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L Manville
L Manville
22 days ago

Matt, if you haven’t seen Citizen Kane, it’s the best film I’ve ever seen. The directing. The lighting. The cinematography (whatever that means, lol). Every nuance is masterful. It’s in black and white, which some people find distracting. I could care less. Television was b&w when I was a kid!

Another really great film from the 30’s is Bringing Up Baby. It’s a comedy with A. Hepburn and C. Grant. She’s a socialite and has a leopard named Baby. And he thinks she’s the bee’s knees, eventually.

For a recent film that is exceptional — the Korean film (with English subtitles) Parasite was so good I got lost in it. It was pretty violent/gory, not usually my thing. However, it didn’t overwhelm the overall impressive storyline. The way Bong Joon Ho microscopically examines his characters and displays them for his audience is fascinating. The truth drop about class struggle and who the parasites really are — becomes clear. That film really opened my eyes. As did the director’s TV series, Snowpiercier. Jennifer Connelly as the conductor = sociopathic creep — I had no idea she could act that good.

Meg P
Meg P
22 days ago
Reply to  L Manville

Parasite was a good one. However once it got really gory I had to turn it off. I can’t watch that stuff. If you haven’t started watching severance yet, it’s really good. I don’t watch tv because it’s so bad, but severance is something i look forward to watching every day.

Meg P
Meg P
22 days ago
Reply to  Meg P

Also…I would never do this because I love supporting apple. but if people want to see severance without supporting apple, they could get a vpn and download the series on pirate bay. I wouldn’t dream of it though…

Mishko from Amsterdam
Mishko from Amsterdam
22 days ago
Reply to  Meg P

Yaarrr!!

Mishko from Amsterdam
Mishko from Amsterdam
22 days ago
Reply to  Meg P

Try Branded (2012) with Jeffrey Tambor.
Is about parasitic attachments but etheric / astral.
“A bizarre, futuristic satire on marketing and advertising set in Russia”

Meg P
Meg P
21 days ago

yes it’s good!

James Hawke
James Hawke
22 days ago
Reply to  L Manville

even rich men eventually face their existential crisis of meaning, emptiness and futility.

Mishko from Amsterdam
Mishko from Amsterdam
22 days ago
Reply to  James Hawke

“Only spirituality can save this world.” -Paul Romano
“Worry about yo’ self.” -Matt McKinley

Anne Mulhare
Anne Mulhare
21 days ago
Reply to  L Manville

Parasite, the film I watched in the cinema with friends & strangers in Cambridge, UK, in early Spring of 2020.
Right before the world was told to become self-sabotaging & the darkside was given free rein.
Horrible, insane, isolating, fear multiplying.
My residual emotion about that time is anger.

Parasite is a film with insight into the lowliest parts of the human condition.

Films create a pattern for the masses to follow.

Lorraine Wingate
Lorraine Wingate
22 days ago

Thank you for being you Matt.I have been trying for 3 years to find 1 person willing to listen to you.My family believe I’m losing my mind.Congratulations😁😁😁😁I haven’t lost it,I left it on the ship.😘

Mishko from Amsterdam
Mishko from Amsterdam
22 days ago

In 2024 I was a month in Slovenia on vacation (I live in the NL).
Met a local guy in a bar over there who shares our refined taste.
Was a pleasant surprise I do admit.

Kevin Morley
Kevin Morley
22 days ago

Yes. Truth in old films. Matt keep it going. Just watched metropolis for the 3rd time. It’s so good. I’m convinced this is a truth bomb.

Mishko from Amsterdam
Mishko from Amsterdam
22 days ago
Reply to  Kevin Morley

Masterful psychological SciFi thriller.

Off topic: I very much recommend Beyond The Black Rainbow
Psychological horror about the extremes in hallucinogens.

Russ Gary
22 days ago

As telling as future shock was, for example, predicting that work trucks would have air conditioning, automatic transmissions, power steering etc. (at that time, you got a 3 on the tree with a motor between the seat, they were not even close on others. A short list of what it predicted that went the other way custom designed psychedelics that would give the exact tailored experience.
Then there’s conservative businessman families openly trading wives and kids back and forth depending on how their jobs assigned them around the country.

The guy that wrote that last part couldn’t possibly have even a basic understanding, of how a wife’s mind works. Then, now. And always.

James Hawke
James Hawke
22 days ago

“Every corner of the globe…”? Curious. Globes are spheres are they not? Technocratic visions have long been sowed into the pop culture. That way we would all expect to head to that kind of dystopia as if that kind of future was inevitable. Blade Runner, anyone?

Mishko from Amsterdam
Mishko from Amsterdam
22 days ago
Reply to  James Hawke

Fractal corners? =D

PETER
PETER
22 days ago

Matt, an 8-track tape didn’t necessarily have only 8 songs, it was essentially the same magnetic tape that was used in reel-to-reel tapes, cut to a certain length, and each of the 8 tracks on the tape was used, 2 at a time, to create 4 segments of stereo recording.
A 4-track tape is simply a less-used name for the common cassette tape everyone used from the 70’s into the early 2000’s. These were also rarely called by their trade name “Compact Cassette”.

randy desnoyers
randy desnoyers
21 days ago
Reply to  PETER

Additionally the 8 track was invented to play quadrophonic music. Which never caught on. Neither did hearing a big clunk noise in the middle of a song.

Mishko from Amsterdam
Mishko from Amsterdam
22 days ago

I like how the opening shows that mover and shaker in a busy part of an airport.
He is going places but spares a bit of time for us. Nice of him.

Erin Phelps
22 days ago

Awesome presentation Matt!!! …Erin

Astro
Astro
21 days ago

Thanks Matt. Is it just me, or did previous epochs (like the 1940s and 1970s) spend more effort discussing the future than is done presently? Sure there is sci fi fiction today, which often explores the future, but is anyone watching documentaries about what the 2040s might bring?

Justin Freeman
Justin Freeman
21 days ago

Hey Matt, stop recording in 4k… You idiot. Lower the video quality… Lower it all the way to 144p.. idiot. You’d save Rodney hours of his life uploading a file you make 9GB into 100megabites. Idiot. Stop being an idiot, idiot… Also get a puppy

Jeff Edmundson
Jeff Edmundson
21 days ago

Trump #45 and #47. 4+5=9 4+7+11. 911.

melanie yates
melanie yates
20 days ago

Armonic Technique – to move a society along faster than it can respond-Steiner says it is demonic.

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