Ciro Santilli
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= Adam Curtis
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<Ciro Santilli> really loved his <documentary> called <Can't get you out of my head by Adam Curtis (2021)>, and then proceeded to basically watch all of this films.
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= Can't get you out of my head by Adam Curtis (2021)
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<Ciro Santilli> was touched by this, and then watched several other documentaries by Curtis.
Part of Ciro asks if it is all a big conspiracy theory. But it feels and sounds so right.
Notably the part of the <governments have lost all power to companies>, and can't do anything meaningful anymore to actually represent the people, because <globalization reduces the power of governments>.
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Beautifully argued at: <Can't get you out of my head by Adam Curtis (2021)>.
= Roberto Rossellini
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His films <Blaise Pascal (1972)> and <Cartesius (1974)> have the greatest scenery and wardrobe ever. The eerie horror movie soundtrack is also very interesting. Ciro was weirdly reminded of <Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)>.
= Blaise Pascal (1972)
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<IMDb>: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066839/
Episodes of the life of <Blaise Pascal>.
= Cartesius (1974)
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<IMDb>: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161382/
This film is really good.
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= Business film
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<Ciro Santilli> defines a "<business film>" as a film about business, enterprises or entrepreneurship. <Political thrillers> are closed related as well.
This is one of his favorite <film genres>!
Some lists:
* https://www.99signals.com/movies-entrepreneur-watch-inspiration Hit and miss.
* https://www.imdb.com/list/ls033563570/ Best Business Movies and Documentaries by scott_dowle
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Great reports to how 2022-<Ciro Santilli> views how <OurBigBook.com> could go. Ciro can't help to feel that he is a mixture of both of the vision, tech and people guy. Not as extreme as any of them, but more like a well rounded (and less good individually) version of each. <High flying bird vs gophers>.
Reviews:
* https://www.techradar.com/reviews/netflixs-drama-about-the-making-of-spotify-has-no-right-to-be-this-good-the-playlist
* https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/y51zgm/netflixs_drama_about_the_making_of_spotify_has_no/
= The Dropout
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It is good to watch the Out For blood in Silicon Valley (2019) documentary after this to see how the characters look like in real life. Many feel amazingly cast, very close to the original. The only great exception is the Indian dude, who is completely different. Was it that hard to find some indian dude who looked and felt a little more like the real one?
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= Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
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Best quote at 00:23:01: <matters of small concern should be treated seriously>.
= The Godfather
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzCodipONmNiROhYCUWyz_U interview with Walter Murch by <Web of Stories>. He worked on sound design for all <The Godfather> films, and tells some interesting details about it. He's just super nice in general otherwise. E.g.:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4OK8__gfGo talks about the sound design for the restaurant scene in <The Godfather Part II (1974)>
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= The Godfather (1972)
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= The Godfather Part II (1974)
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= The Godfather Part III (1990)
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This film is an abomination and disgrace to the bilogy.
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= Good documentary film
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= How to Fix a Drug Scandal (2020)
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= Annie Dookhan
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One is reminded of <Nick Leeson>.
= Drama film
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= Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
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Ciro can relate strongly to the level of passion depicted in this film: <Don't be a pussy>{full}. It almost feels like a <business film> in that a sense, where the startup is the authors career and passions.
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= Film about genius
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= Amadeus
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= Mystery film
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= Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
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= Political film
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* https://newrepublic.com/article/173376/100-political-films-new-republic-list https://archive.ph/SJCgo The 100 Most Significant Political Films of All Time
by The New Republic
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= Edge Of Darkness
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= Charlie Wilson's War
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= The Right Stuff (1983)
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Ah, <Ciro Santilli> was not expecting this. What a unique mixture of humour, technology, politics and bravery. No wonder it was a <it's Popular Now It Sucks>[box flop], there's something good about this film.
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Chanbara (チャンバラ).
Those movies are "all the same". A quasi lone superhuman samurai with a good inside but painful problems helping out random people, mostly villagers in trouble and bitches in debt.
= The best samurai movies of all time
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_and_Cub[Lone Wolf and Cub (1972-)]. Suio style... Ogami Itto. Cute Japanese boy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagyu[Wagyu... beef recipe]?
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This is a <neologism> by <Ciro Santilli>, it refers to the fact that <Zatoichi> was not fully blind, but extremely hard of sight, which makes him:
* too capable for the blind people, who did not trust him
* too incapable for non-blind people, who despised him
and metaphorically refers to similar situations where a person or group of people are in the middle of two groups and not part of either of them.
A related thing that comes to mind is <Aum Shinrikyo>'s <Prophet> <Shoko Asahara>, who was semi blind, and would bully the fully blind people of his school for blind people.
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= Avatar: The Way of Water
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Some criticisms:
* <mind uploading>
= Film about artificial intelligence
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And by artificial intelligence, read of course (non-human-identical) <artificial general intelligence>.
Today-2022, this is placed under the <science fiction film> category. But maybe this might change during <Ciro Santilli>'s own lifetime?
The basic criteria of "is a film about artificial intelligence good or not" to <Ciro Santilli> is: does the AI inhabit humanoid, or fully human looking, bodies? Bodies is a bad sign due to:
* <the best science fiction works deeply explore the consequences of one single technology>: efficient humanoid bodies are a second technological breakthrough besides AI itself. The first AI will obviously be a supercomputer without a body
* it is hard to imagine that the AI wouldn't organize itself as one huge central computer and R&D/command center. Perhaps there will be need for a few separate ones to optimize usage of natural resources, and to have some redundance in case a nuke blows the region, but there would be very very few of the think tanks. But having big centers is fundamental, because you centralize all the flow of ideas and their combination leading to new better outcomes for the AI. The mobile robot actors controlled by this center, if any exist, would then be slaves with some degree of autonomy and infinitely less computational powerful than the think tank.
= Film depicting artificial intelligence
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This is a tag for <films> that depict some sort of <artificial general intelligence>, but in which that is not the primary focus of the film.
= Moon (2009)
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= Primer (2004)
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<high budget movies are shit>[Low budget].
Things that can be understood are boring.
<Aaron Swartz> agrees: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/looperexplained "Next week we'll explain Primer." He never did though :'-(
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= Limtless (2011)
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That makes <Ciro Santilli> most mad about this film is the fact that the dude was passionate about writing, and when he became a <genius>, rather than write the best novels ever written, he decided instead to play the <stock market> instead. This paints an accurate picture of 2020's society, where finance jobs make infinitely more money than other real engineering jobs, and end up attracting much of the talent.
Another enraging thing is how his girlfriend starts liking him again once he is a genius, and instead of telling her to fuck off, he stays with her.
The other really bad thing is the ending. He fixed the drug by himself? He scared off De Niro just like that?
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= The Matrix (1999)
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<Ciro Santilli> just keep watching that a gazillion times whenever it showed on TV.
All action scenes are useless crap, but the premise with Ciro's precious <simulation hypothesis> subject, related <physics and the illusion of life>.
It is a shame that the key premise of using human bodies to produce energy is completely and impossibly stupid. You would obviously get more energy by directing burning the food you feed into humans.
If the film had been made later, maybe the much more plausible concept of <AI alignment> would would have been used instead. What a shame.
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* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aau8qa3xgFs Neo takes the blue pill mashup with Office Space with <deepfake> faces
= Transcendence (2014)
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The premise that "we can't make <AGI>, but we know enough about the <human brain> to upload on to a computer" is flawed. Edit: after reading <Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom (2014)>, <Ciro Santilli> was convinced otherwise. What is flawed is of course just the "extracting <connectome> with macroscopic probes part". A <post mortem connectome extraction with microtome> is much more believable. But of course they weren't going to show fake slices of Jonny Depp's brain, are they? Famous actor bodies are sacred! What a huge lost opportunity. On the other hand however, the scale of the first <connectome> extraction would be arguably too huge to be undertaken by a random pair of rogue researchers. The same would also likely apply to any first time human brain connectome. It would much more likely be a huge public effort, much like the <Human Genome Project>.
But this film does have the merit of exploring how an AGI might act to take over the AGI might act to take over the world once created, notably by creating its own physical research laboratory. Though it doesn't feel likely that it could go under the radar for 2 years given the energetic requirements of the research. Even the terrorists find it before the <FBI>!
I also wish they had shown the <dildo> (or more likely, direct stimulation!) computerized Jonny Depp used to use with his wife before he managed to re-synthesized his body. But you know, 18+ would cut too much profits. Ah, what a shame.
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= War film
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= The Message (1976)
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The film starts off with more interesting "near the revelation" stuff. But then it degrades into religious wars. Ciro was reminded notably of <Romance of the Three Kingdoms (1994 TV series)s>.
= Full Metal Jacket
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= Film by country
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Our definition is: about which culture a film is. Not who paid for it.
= Japanese film
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= Ciro Santilli's film tastes
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<Ciro Santilli> has already watched all <the best films of all time>[the best films in history], and as a result any of those new movies that is full of clichés and has no innovative aspect at all (99.99999% of all modern movies) makes Ciro want to puke and to start <Googling> <TV Tropes> to classify as many clichés as possible.
Good movies are those that teach you mechanisms of the real world. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief[Willing suspension of disbelief] must be maintained at all costs.
Or of what could happen a world where a single sci-fi element is added and explored to its limits.
Love is not an interesting aspect of the world. You solve your love life <ourbigbook com/motivation>[at university], Tinder or Tango.
The actually interesting aspects of the world are:
* <business film>
* war
* <crime film>[crime]
* government
* science
Movies with a lot of action scenes, with exception of some war movies, are <shit>.
The <Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism> must be close to Cynicism max at all times. Movies with pure good and pure bad are <shit>.
Knowing spoilers has no effect in the film's enjoyment. The interest of storyline concepts is all that matters, visuals and acting are useless.
In a multi-language film, when two foreign characters speak English to each other when they obviously would have spoken their native language, that is a crime. Original language + subtitles is a must!
= High budget movies are shit
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Movies that are very expensive to make tend to be bad, because they have to make returns and thus appeal to a large amorphous population without any specialization, i.e. the <lowest common denominator> but in <TV Tropes> terminology rather than <mathematics>: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LowestCommonDenominator[].
See e.g.:
* <Primer (2004)>
* <the Man From Earth (2007)>
* <Pirates (2005)>
Looking down the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biggest_box-office_bombs[largest flops of all time list] didn't help much, only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(film)[Heaven's gate] appears reasonable from the top 20.
On <TV Tropes>: <it's Popular Now It Sucks>.
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* There will be blood (2007). <ciro Santilli's film tastes>[business and cynicism]. Also great music.
* Don't Look Up (2021). <politics>.
= Army of the shadows (1969)
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One of the most nerve wrecking movies ever made. Until they decide to rescue their colleague from jail, then it just becomes too surreal.
= Trainspotting (1996)
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= Very good film
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= The Man From Earth (2007)
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<high budget movies are shit>[Low budget].
Good theory of <Jesus>.
List of similar feeling films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwYwFoanrNg 11 Underrated Hard Sci-fi Movies by Marvelous Videos (2021)
= The best films of all time
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= The best movies of all time
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There is only a very fine difference between a <very good film>, and <the best films of all time>. Perhaps it is something to do on how epic the subject matter is? It is often very hard to tell, and switches between the categories are also possible.
= Once upon a time in the west (1968)
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Has the best opening scene of all time.
Top quotes:
* 3 evil guys: looks like we're short one horse. The good guy, shaking his head: you brought two too many.
* "So, you found out you're not a businessman after all." dialogue, see: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/characters/nm0000314
= Battle of Algiers (1966)
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There's nothing like seeing the hypocrisy of the <France>["Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité"] people destroyed.
Interesting how Algeria now supports https://www.france24.com/en/20190712-37-countries-defend-china-over-xinjiang-un-letter[China's Xinjiang policy in 2019]. But of course, https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/dictatorships-tend-to-work-together[dictatorships tend to work together]
<Ciro Santilli's father>, an avid history reader, and in particular interested in the <military dictatorship in Brazil> through which he lived, once told Ciro how the French torture doctrine was directly adopted by Brazillian military, e.g. then even invited general Paul Aussaresses who had served in Algeria, to help them out with <espionage>[intelligence] operations and give courses. Bro, <fuck> that.
But of course, the <Americans> https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/guantanamo-bay[weren't too far behind in Guantanamo].
= Dr. Strangelove
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= Dr. Strangelove (1964)
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= The Criterion Collection
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Respect, big respect to those people.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man[The Wicker Man (1973)]
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{description=One <American> culture thing this clarified to <Ciro Santilli> is that they are known for is being part of the 50% off sale at Barnes & Noble.}
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= Bad film
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Many bad films have good aspects. They just didn't cross the elusive threshold of a <good film>.
= IMDb
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The organic <Usenet> origins are quite hardcore!
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