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Synchronic
2020 · Film · 102 min
Directed by Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson
Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
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TV series:
- Dark Angel. I somehow missed this during it's original broadcast run, and only just now went back and watched it. I don't think it's streaming anywhere legit, so I went the bittorrent route. I really enjoyed it. Season One is definitely stronger than Season Two, but it kept me pretty engaged for the entire series.
- Max Headroom. I'd seen the entire series before, but I went back for a re-watch. I love this show.
- Person of Interest. Same deal, I'd seen the entire run previously, but did a complete re-watch.
Movies:
I don't think I watched any contemporary movies this year. I mostly watched old cyberpunk movies and "cyberpunk adjacent" sci-fi. Not sure anything I watched was exactly great but a couple stood out as interesting at least (in various ways)
- 964 Pinocchio
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man
- New Rose Hotel
Also saw an interesting psychological horror / thriller titled "Open 24 Hours" that wasn't bad. And a movie titled "Synchronic" that was pretty good.
Informative / educational videos:
- N.J. Wildberger's "History of Mathematics" series
Uhm I don't want to say too much and shoot my own foot here, haha I just said that defensively as a precaution for the link to not get instantly dismissed.
But basically, the same type of crowd as the new age hippie DMT psychonauts meeting machine elves and tripping through multiple layers of perception on LSD are completely obsessed with the pineal gland. They're also angry at water infrastructure, the whole flouride thing, thinks it's government sheepherding. I guess there's a market for podcasting mumbo jumbo related to all this spiritual stuff, like is the pineal gland the gateway to enlightenment and so on.
Personally, I don't care, didn't see anything, not gonna touch it, well I just did, oversimplifying groups of people can get disrespectful but I mean it in a funny way. Haha ;) It's a very interesting topic but I really actually just saw a film on netflix the other day that used the pineal gland as a plot device, Synchronic, so I just found it curious and this and another article I chose between is the only reading I've done about it
Just a note, but the movies from the other guys are a bit different Resolution and the Endless are more lovecraftian (which is why I got into them). Something in the dirt is similar to synchronic but I didn't like it as much, and it's done in a more documentary style. Only one I've still to see is Spring which is a horror/love story.
Needle in a Haystack is also a great timetravel movie IMO, and it is unlike any I've seen before. I really recommend that if you like time travel. It's focused around a romance but it works really well.
Synchronic is one of those sleeper movies, where the first viewing is ok/not bad....but - for me - i like it more every time that i see it!