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Night Watch
Ночной дозор
2004 · Film · 114 min
Part of World of Watches Collection
Directed by Timur Bekmambetov
Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage
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I don't recall much about the movie, except that I enjoyed it at the time, but I was wondering if the title had a relationship to a different book[0].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(Discworld)
From the headline I thought this was going to be about night watch the book[0] (I have only seen the movies)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(Lukyanenko_novel)
I'll belatedly second the recommendation of the "City Watch" series. I found "Night Watch" to be particularly enjoyable.
With the vocabulary changing from asperger to general "autism spectrum disorder" its a bit of a guess on my part, but in case it gets worse for him during puberty and the shoe fits i can highly recommend Atwoods complete guide to asperger. You might not figure out how social interactions work, but how you work is an open book you just have to look at.
In general, more selfreflection was a game changer for me, especially when it came to depression. Thinking about how being wrong would look like, especially despite you "knowing" to be right. So for example starting with a right conclusion but missing some shades of grey (or worse viewing it as black and white instead of a better and worse spectrum) leading you to drawing the wrong conclusions. So ego in form of cognitive biases and the traps they create, the limits of your brain and memory and all. The nice thing is, you can frame it as: at the end of the day, you do prefer being right over thinking you are right, right? After all, why would you willingly cling to a wrong conclusion?
Meditation (see sam harris waking up for a rational take on the topic) is also very helpful with all the tunnel vision and stress. Because the former can come with its own problems. Once you spend more brain power on analyzing situations and problems you loose sight of the actual boring problem you wanted to solve. Which leaves you stuck at trivial tasks. Or you develop "solutions" that you cant keep going day in and out.
edit: If he likes fantasy novels, he might want to check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(Lukyanenko_novel) once he is older. Despite the light vs dark its not classical fantasy. You see, there are others among us who are able to see the shades of grey of reality and channel power from that. The movies are a waste of time.
They led me to go read the books, the metro series of books is great if you like post-apoc. And if you enjoy them, try the Night Watch/World of Watches series. It's supernatural, focused on a quasi-governmental department that keeps the peace between the light and the dark magic communities, very gritty. The Nightwatch/Daywatch films are really good too, such a shame they never made the third.
There's a certain mind set in all of the Russian literature I've read that I find extremely appealing. I haven't read that much, but found that same mindset even in the older stuff like War and Peace, or Master and Margarita.
> Sure, you have to transform the coordinates to the output. But still, better to render fonts at the final resolution; they'll always look better than if scaled after rendering.
The font will look better but you have zero guarantee that the subtitles will be better too. Furthermore, you will lose any artistic value that the creator intended.
For example, go get the Russian movie Night Watch and watch it with the original subtitles hardcoded and as a separate file. The director insisted on doing the subtitles himself and he used them for great artistic effect throughout the movie [1]. Watch it with scaling and aspect ratio stretching to see how nicely rendered, crisp high resolution fonts can be inferior to a pixelated, stretched version created with intent by an artist.
[1] http://readingsounds.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/NightWatch-Header.jpg
By "stories about vampires" GP probably means Lukyanenko's "* Watch" series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Lukyanenko#Series
"Night Watch" the movie made some splashes even in the West, IIRC. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMHQsjgQDrA
Try Sergei Lukyanenko (multiple spellings). Most of his works are not translated in English (German has many more), but at least the Night Watch and Day Watch are. They were both made into movies too, though the movies absolutely sucked comparing to the books.
> Each week, a renowned Russian Science Fiction writer like Sergey Lukyanenko [...]
Wow. That's the guy who wrote Night Watch, one of the best sci-fi/fantasy movies I've watched in the last 10 years: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403358/
There is a great sci-fi/fantasy series of novels I can recommend if you're interested in this topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_%28Russian_novel%29
In the second book (Day Watch), the story is continued from the point of view of the "bad guys" from the first book, and the reader slowly understands that it's not simple good/evil, all characters have their own complex emotions and motivations.
Warning however - skip the movie, it really really sucked.