In order to get to the trial of life and death, or the heart of the law, the laws of these individual "hearts" must go through a trial of life and death of their own. Divine law is the trial which comes about spontaneously. This is why Hercules, the hero of the first nations, epitomized the birth of law, since he is that whose nature is to overcome the trials.
When the late father's song is passed around as an earworm, it is Western qua folklore at its most splendid.
One needs an outsider in order to investigate what is within. For what is within the within, one needs an outsider's outsider.
Maci, a hired escort: It's kinda weird having cameras around, right?
Nathan Fielder: We could turn them off if you want.
M: laughs Could we?
NF: Do you want to?
M: Does that defeat the purpose?
NF: What's the purpose?
M: You're filming something. It's kinda the purpose, right?
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NF: We do have this drone. It'd be cool to get a drone shot, maybe.
Nathan Fielder's just fucking brilliant TV show has always been built around the unity of…
We all know that Cinema is merely an illusion of motion through a rapid succession of still images. Toshio Matsumoto sees the edges of this illusion not as a barrier, but as an easily crossed threshold between reality and reality-adjacent. In other words, the minimum frame rate required to replicate a moving image of reality is not a requirement in itself for cinema to reside in. He makes the viewer painfully aware that a cinematographic image that moves across the…
