@cb_swartz_art@WildBillWellman It isn’t thinking the audience is dumb. It’s like reading. You can understand things when the letters are arranged in order to make words, but “marnod awreng athornyd len.” 180 is part of grammar of cinema.
@cb_swartz_art@WildBillWellman The 180 “rule” is to aid comprehension not to enforce conformity. Breaking it only works if it’s motivated and has a reason. This isn’t. It’s just a sign of something that doesn’t understand why there are rules in the first place.
@cb_swartz_art@WildBillWellman Immersed means absorbed. You can get metaphorical whiplash just from watching without it pulling you in or engaging you. 180 degree rule is basic film making.
@ThreeJacques@TheRealJamieKay Ariane has garnered press in le minded for Epstein links, which were business. He wasn’t directly (as far as we know) involved in alleged torture of minors.
@ThreeJacques@TheRealJamieKay Has it not occurred to you’re only seeing the stress on Randy Andy because he’s British? We can hold him accountable. The outrage in Norway towards Mette-Marit is similarly louder within Norwegian shores. Edmond Rothschild bank is Swiss, CEO Ariane is French… 1/2
@ChrisCWright1 Pinker has only argued effectively that we should be grateful for the advances we have, not that things couldn’t or could be better. Mainly because the former is based on what is and the latter is not.
@AuContraire9@C_Kavanagh Consciousness is required to differentiate things. Absent of consciousness you still have the overall thing (the universe) and process but no purpose - just a total unfolding of cause and effect. The falling of rain is only distinguished from other phenomena by mind.
@AuContraire9@C_Kavanagh I’m not, personally, convinced by the idea of telos if it means purpose or goal. I buy into the idea of a strictly causal universe (in a quantum sense) as an unfolding of cause and effect, but not that this is directed or has an end “purpose” as it presupposes supernatural…