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It’s vanished though, right?

If people die by the hundreds every day and no one gives a fuck anymore, does it even happen?

Ukraine is so last year daaahling, it’s all Israel these days.

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"Nothing suffocates you more than

The passing of everyday human events

And isolation is the oxygen mask

You make your children breathe in to survive

But I'm not a slave

To a god that doesn't exist

And I'm not a slave

To a world that doesn't give a shit

And when we were good

You just closed your eyes

So when we are bad

We'll scar your minds

Fight, fight, fight, fight."

- Marilyn Manson's 'Fight Song'

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You may well get a Manson morning going in my house yet.

Watched The Platform last night as i try and watch as much Spanish language stuff as i can to help with the language. Pretty powerful!

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I expect it will be remade by several countries. Super glad you watch. Nice to share things underneath the highway.

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Another Spanish sci-fi is 'Timecrimes', better than the trailer appears - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XuWoe9NSic

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English movies (you'll know) by Spanish directors (as encouragement to watch their home language movies):

Alfonso Cuaron - Children of Men, Gravity, Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban

JA Bayona - The Impossible, A Monster Calls, Jurassic World

Alejandro G. Iñárritu - 21 Grams, Birdman, The Revenant, Babel

Pablo Larraín - Jackie (Natalie Portman), Spencer

Cary Joji Fukunaga - Beast of No Nation, Jane Eyre, No Time to Die (007) and the series True Detective, Maniac

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Best Spanish Movies ranked (but for learning Spanish, and best lockdown movie, is #14. 'Language Lessons'):

1. Roma (Mexico servant drama 2018 - Dir Alfonso Cuaron) Netflix

2. Biutiful (Mexico family drama 2010 - Dir Alejandro G. Iñárritu)

3. Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia dark colonial drama 2015 - Dir Ciro Guerra)

4. Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Mexico surreal drama 2022 - Dir Alejandro G. Iñárritu) cleverest movie of 2022 so not an easy watch

5. The Orphanage (Spain horror 2007 – Dir JA Bayona)

6. The Club (Chile religious child abuse crime drama 2015 – Dir Pablo Larraín, stars Antonia Zegers)

7. The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina drama mystery romance 2009)

8. Everybody Knows (Spain drama 2018 - Dir Asghar Farhadi, stars Penélope Cruz)

9. Amores Perros (Mexico drama 2000 - Dir Alejandro G. Iñárritu)

10. History of the Occult (Argentina dialogue mystery thriller 2020 - debut Dir Cristian Ponce)

12. Argentina, 1985 (Argentina political legal biopic 2022 - Dir Santiago Mitre)

13. Silent Light (Mexico love drama 2007 - Dir Carlos Reygadas)

14. Language Lessons (USA but Spanish American grief drama 2021 - Dir Natalie Morales)

15. New Order (Mexico revolution servant drama 2020 - Dir Michel Franco)

16. Pain and Glory (Spain - Dir Pedro Almodóvar)

17. All About My Mother (Spain - Dir Pedro Almodóvar, stars Penélope Cruz)

18. Memories of My Father (Spain set Colombia family political drama 2020 - Dir Fernando Trueba)

19. Wild Tales (Argentina thriller short stories 2014)

20. The Good Boss (Spain dramedy 2021 – Dir Fernando León de Aranoa)

22. The Endless Trench (Spain war drama 2019 - Dir Goenaga, Arregi & Garano) Netflix

23. Sin Nombre (Mexico immigrant drama 2009 – Dir Cary Joji Fukunaga)

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quite a few of those I've already seen, but there's about 50% no :) nice one!!!

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You good human.

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