@NationalPhilad2@Paul_Heron_ As a non American used to seeing the tree lined, picket fence version of residential areas, the housing developments and town on the edge of an empty desert/scrubland seemed so alien and unusual.
@NationalPhilad2@Paul_Heron_ Great film. Really shatters the idyllic representation of suburbia so prevalent in films of that period. Also skewers the liberal mindset if I remember correctly. The lady running the rec centre is so useless and ineffectual. Pity this film is forgotten now.
Something revealing about using examples that are 50 years out of date. I bet a huge proportion of foreigners will never know who they are. Phil Lynott and Paul McGrath were integrated into a virtually homogeneous Ireland and a cohesive culture. The average black kid in Ongar Dublin with an Afro-London accent doesn't know or care about Thin Lizzy, Italia 90, Johnny Logan, Gay Byrne, or indeed Michael Collins. They don't recognise the Irish mammy stereotype, but the African "auntie" figure. They don't really identify with Ireland and thus don't know or care about Phil Lynott, Pope 79, Stardust, Bobby Sands, 1916, an Gorta Mór, Battle of Kinsale, or the Children of Lir. That is our lore and history, and they are understandably not interested.
@NaoiseDolan Trans/gender ideology is indeed "excluding entire populations from reality" every single person on the planet aside from this tiny minority is forced to deny reality and affirm a delusion.
@caulmick@IrishMailSunday Call it what it is, a large scale organised human trafficking operation. The guys in Libya simply transport people for a fee. While the Irish Govt actively clear out natives to make way for the migrants. Yet the Libyan traffickers are criminals but the Irish Govt are not?
@Paul_Heron_ You get the same sensation as you did as a child where an ordinary corner of a room or a gap in a hedge in the darkness at night gave you the feeling that ghosts or some kind of negative energy resided there.
@Paul_Heron_ Even something a simple as a hallway is imbued with such a sense of dread. I think that's why I connected with his films so much as a youngster. The charged and frightening atmosphere of ordinary spaces and things like hallways, ceiling fans, trees, a photograph on a wall.
@ManDearSir@JayMcdz52850 Its so utterly in your face. So obvious and forced and yet normies don't even seem to notice it? Too many times I've said to someone "what's with all the brown people in ads" and the reply is "what do you mean? I haven't really noticed it"
@danobrien20 You can easily tell how pathetically under the American thumb Euros are by the way the vast majority of Journalists and Politicians are terrified of talking about Nordstream when we all know that they know. But they haven't got the balls to say it
@danobrien20 US destroys a vital piece of European energy infrastructure and forces Euros to buy from them instead of Russia at higher rates
"It is in Europe's own interests"