NoYank. Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29515560/

• Watch: https://www.iq.com/play/the-bionic-life-episode-1-143t6lfgm7w and on similar sites you can easily find

This is the near future. Gene-editing technology has developed rapidly. A scientific life form called "humanoid" has been created. The physiological structure of humanoids is almost the same as that of humans. The only difference is that the neurons in their brains have been gene-edited in a certain way. They have a sole initial obsession that must be obeyed. They can be loyal spouses until the end of their life. They can be meek and filial children. They can be employees loyal to their boss. These custom-made humanoids started to circulate as commercial goods in the worldwide. Even in some countries where production and selling of humanoids are illegal, there are still outlaws who bring humanoids into their country without permission and sell them secretly. Along with the wide spread of humanoids, their risks gradually emerge. More and more people started to be addicted to the fake emotions provided by humanoids. And for humanoids themselves, their thoughts and emotions are easily deformed under the restriction of the initial obsession. Many malignant incidents happened due to that. In the face of the more and more serious situation, the international society quickly held a meeting. The production ban and recall of humanoids were approved unanimously. According to the agreement, all nations will stop producing humanoids immediately. They should also recall and centrally manage all the humanoids in their country.

This fantasy adventure series is set in the 7th Century and follows the lives of the occupants of the Carpathian basin, at the time before the union of Slav tribes.

The Slavs, the most expensive Slovak TV series to date, is described as a “fictional reconstruction of a historical period with fantastic and supernatural elements”, inspired by Slovak and Ukrainian myths and fairy tales.

Trailer: https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=U5fq444m1B4 – https://invidious.slipfox.xyz/watch?v=U5fq444m1B4 – https://yt.drgnz.club/watch?v=U5fq444m1B4 – https://iv.nboeck.de/watch?v=U5fq444m1B4 – https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=U5fq444m1B4

Watch: https://moviesjoy.is/tv/the-slavs-104290

This show is making a splash in Russia right now. There are 8 episode, about 52 minutes each.

• Wikipedia: In the late 1980s, when “perestroika” was taking place in the USSR and the era of the Soviet Union was about to collapse, life became unstable and very different. The 1980s brought not only freedom, but also waves of crime on the city streets. While some young people began to ‘grew up’ on the streets, others found it difficult to find their place in this unpredictable reality.

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28429213/

• Trailer: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CDYwliWsAa8

• Watch: https://moviesjoy.is/tv/boys-word-blood-on-the-asphalt-105061

Most countries have a canon of Great or Classic national literature.

Chinese actress and director Jia Ling (贾玲) has been trending on Weibo thanks to her upcoming film YOLO (热辣滚烫) and her remarkable weight loss transformation.

Jia Ling is a famous Chinese comedian actress, known for her annual Spring Festival Gala performances. She has been especially successful in the previous years as she made her directorial debut in 2021 with the award-winning box office hit Hi, Mom (Chinese title Hi, Li Huanying 你好,李焕英), in which she also stars as the female protagonist. That same year, audiences saw her as Wu Ge in Embrace Again (穿过寒冬拥抱你).

It has been a while since we’ve heard from Jia Ling, but on January 11, she resurfaced with a Weibo post in which she explained her absence from the limelight.

In her post, Jia wrote that she has spent the entire year working on the YOLO (热辣滚烫) movie, for which she lost a staggering 100 pounds (50 kg). Just as with Hi, Mum, Jia is both the director of YOLO and the lead actress.

According to Jia, it was a tiring and “hungry” year, during which she ended up “looking like a boxer.” She added that the movie, set to premiere during the Spring Festival, is not necessarily about weight loss at all, but about learning to love yourself.

Within a single day, Jia Ling’s post received nearly 60,000 replies and over 855,000 likes.....

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13492196/ – This is the untold story of a generation; chronicling a hotel frequented by Charlie Chaplin, Konrad Adenauer, and Adolf Hitler

Trailer: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XD_MLvGrGCY / https://vid.priv.au/watch?v=XD_MLvGrGCY / https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=XD_MLvGrGCY / https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=XD_MLvGrGCY / https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=XD_MLvGrGCY

IMDB: 7.2 out of 10 at the time of posting. Back to his golden age before the events of "Money Heist," Berlin and a masterful gang gather in Paris to plan one of his most ambitious robberies ever.

Wikipedia: eight episodes, "The Daily Beast's Noel Murray felt the plot and new characters did not hold up to the original Money Heist."

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1475608

nevermind, already been done

The moral of the story is to be really mean and inconsiderate of people around you. That plus wishful thinking + Protestant work ethic will make you heroic. That's the entire point, repeated over and over again throughout the film.

It's just constant, really obvious repetition of lines like – "I'm torn between that and the loathing of the self-respect I might lose if I don't do it. I suppose the word is pride. I, uh... I feel that I failed, mentally especially."

Here's a dialogue from it –

You really don't get it, do you? What this is like for us? We're broke. The time, the emotional toll. I mean, it's been years, Diana.

Well, suck it up. We're a team, right?

Wow.

Your superiority complex is really screwed up, you know that?

Yeah. Well, everyone should have a superiority complex. Everyone should feel like the star of their own life.

I'm not even interpreting: it's explicitly trying to glorify pride and using other people for your ego. That's the whole gist of the story, more than I can get across in a few quotes.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1349205

Yesterday I made the mistake of watching random comedians on youtube. One guy I saw had an audience of thousands of people in Australia, and he told nothing except painfully racist anti-China jokes. (Yes, it might have been the algorithm being like: "You like China? Well, howabout a comedian advocating genocide on China?") Everyone on hexbear knows that this is typical for comedians because the audiences at comedy shows tend to be drunk bourgeois scum, etc., etc.

But it's not just comedy. How many movies have you seen or books have you read where any of the characters, at any point, says something incredibly basic like: "capitalism bad, communism good." I'm not even sure Soviet or Chinese movies go that far (with the notable exception of Eisenstein's films...which were made before 1945). Plenty of works of art might imply that there is something corrupt about the military, police, or the powers-that-be, but they will never say that the system is the problem and that a better system exists. One very rare exception I can think of is The Battle of Algiers.

Also think about the dogshit novels Americans have to read in school: Animal Farm or To Kill A Mockingbird. The moral of both stories is basically: "Opposing the system is futile. Accept the system." Nabokov is hailed as the greatest novelist of the latter half of the 20th century, but he's basically a highbrow version of Ayn Rand, and repeatedly condemns communism by name in his books. We also know that the CIA had (and has) its fingers in every pie, and that the PMC also knows that it's not allowed to "get political," i.e., provide context. Even when it comes to classical Russian literature, Dostoevsky is probably the most popular in the USA, and the guy is a reactionary Christian monarchist who recycles the openings to his novels and is apparently nowhere near as popular in Russia.

I've just also been thinking about the greatest works of Statesian literature, how they are few and far between, how they were all written before 1945, and how they rarely were recognized for their greatness until long after their authors were dead. Steinbeck is one exception. The Grapes of Wrath is great (it was also written before 1945), but doesn't advocate for a better system. Poe and Melville are as good as the best writers from any other country, and Melville specifically inveighs against colonialism in his earlier novels, but both of these dudes were dead before they were recognized as titans. (Melville enjoyed some early success but then faded into obscurity long before he finished Moby Dick.) Are any post-1945 Statesian writers as good as Poe or Melville? Maybe just Octavia Butler, who was dead before she was a household name AFAIK. She advocates for communism in Parable of the Sower, but has to hide it behind mystical language ("God is change"). Sorry To Bother You is one possible cinematic exception, but it never goes beyond saying that the system sucks.

I'm wrapping up a trilogy of novels at the moment, and they are blatantly pro-communist, and I'm just preparing myself for the fact that they are almost certainly not going to be a success, not just because of the numbers involved (millions of books published every year), but because of the passionate anti-communism in western countries. These books don't have people saying "capitalism bad, communism good." But they do have workers and peasants forming Soviets (even though they aren't called Soviets), and I know from experience that even if as a writer you never turn to the camera and say "capitalism bad, communism good," readers will still pick up on the fact that something is wrong, from a capitalist perspective—that workers aren't capable of doing anything on our own, we need guidance from our enlightened masters, "human nature" is futile to oppose. I think there's just a dialectical materialist style of writing that liberals and fascists pick up on without necessarily knowing that they're picking up on it (because they spend their entire lives asleep).

Also I thought about this because I just saw and liked Trumbo, even though I was like: the blacklist never ended lol, where is my biopic about Paul Robeson, a Black colossus who never backed down from praising Stalin? Even if your job is dog shit picker upper (which I have done), you’ll lose that job if you praise Stalin.

And yes, this is a Arby's.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=LEp9UvQAa5c&listen=1

https://yt.drgnz.club/watch?v=LEp9UvQAa5c&listen=1

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=LEp9UvQAa5c&listen=1

https://invidious.io.lol/watch?v=LEp9UvQAa5c&listen=1

https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=LEp9UvQAa5c&listen=1

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=ZczP_mqJyYI&listen=1

https://invidious.asir.dev/watch?v=ZczP_mqJyYI&listen=1

https://iv.nboeck.de/watch?v=ZczP_mqJyYI&listen=1

https://onion.tube/watch?v=ZczP_mqJyYI&listen=1

https://anontube.lvkaszus.pl/watch?v=ZczP_mqJyYI&listen=1

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=-fo-8DWe6gE&listen=1

https://invidious.asir.dev/watch?v=-fo-8DWe6gE&listen=1

https://iv.nboeck.de/watch?v=-fo-8DWe6gE&listen=1

https://onion.tube/watch?v=-fo-8DWe6gE&listen=1

https://anontube.lvkaszus.pl/watch?v=-fo-8DWe6gE&listen=1

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=LTll8PHXZ2k&listen=1

https://invidious.asir.dev/watch?v=LTll8PHXZ2k&listen=1

https://iv.nboeck.de/watch?v=LTll8PHXZ2k&listen=1

https://onion.tube/watch?v=LTll8PHXZ2k&listen=1

https://anontube.lvkaszus.pl/watch?v=LTll8PHXZ2k&listen=1

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=slH62Y55GrQ&listen=1

https://invidious.asir.dev/watch?v=slH62Y55GrQ&listen=1

https://iv.nboeck.de/watch?v=slH62Y55GrQ&listen=1

https://onion.tube/watch?v=slH62Y55GrQ&listen=1

https://anontube.lvkaszus.pl/watch?v=slH62Y55GrQ&listen=1

The Pogues – Boys from the County Hell (1984) https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XQKETnoQQKY&listen=1

The Pogues – A Pair of Brown Eyes (1985) https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=zNtQ5AnRlz8&listen=1

The Pogues – Dirty Old Town (1985) https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=s11BuatTuXk&listen=1

The Pogues – Sally MacLennane (1985) https://onion.tube/watch?v=ym-Oz0TMSb0&listen=1

The Pogues – A Rainy Night in Soho (1986) https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=PSyL-TrD_2g&listen=1

The Pogues – Fairytale of New York ft Kirsty MacColl (1987) https://yewtu.be/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8&listen=1

The Pogues & the Dubliners – The Irish Rover (1987) https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=yAEFKjqPtlU&listen=1

The Pogues – If I Should Fall from Grace With God (1988) https://yewtu.be/watch?v=B4v6aNjGFFk&listen=1

Shane MacGowan and the Popes – That Woman’s Got Me Drinking (1994) https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0YdYJbGwM4A&listen=1

Shane MacGowan and the Popes with Sinéad O’Connor – Haunted (1994) https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=_q7307IWwr4&listen=1

e.g. if you execute vlc https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/countries/kp.m3u, you get channels from North Korea

It seems to have thousands of channels available; I think it's around 6000. That's some world culture right there. Enjoy.

He also refers to his own culture in the past tense smh

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259534/ – 9.2 rating

Runtime 2h15m

The fantastic story of Rama, a young prince who has been banished to the forest by his stepmother. He is under the protection of his wife Sita and his brother Lakshman. When a powerful demon king Ravan abducts Sita, Rama reduces into tears and sorrow but he stays strong and fights. He must fight warrior demons, control his sorrow and fight until his wife is free.

• IMDB – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27208330/ –8.7 out of 10

A guy who is struggling financially and trying to pay for his father's healthcare gets drawn into a violent crime family in the northeast

Highly recommended, provided you're ok with rough, intense crime stuff