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Vanishing Waves
Aurora
2012 · Film · 120 min
Directed by Kristina Buožytė
RomanceScience FictionThriller
Lucas is a scientist who works near the European experimental project that focus on advanced ‘human neuron research’. The project is to transfer neuron information from one human mind to another. Lukas is chosen to connect his mind with a comatose woman he named Aurora.
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The problem is that most school shooters are angry young men imitating the violent acts they saw on TV. To be clear, I don't mean they're watching violent fiction and reenacting it, I mean they're watching regular ol' news and getting inspiration. I mean, let's be clear here, the news is better at glorifying the acts of violent weirdos than actual writers are, mostly because fiction writers have an actual conscience. And there's a lot of people desperate for some kind of fame, which all these school shooters are getting.
Think about how you didn't really hear about movie theater shootings until someone shot up the one in Aurora. Now they're more common. There is a huge element of social contagion because shooters are very much copying each other's work.
Which would suggest that we would see a rise in CEO assassinations over time[0]. But the thing is, it's also legitimately harder to assassinate a CEO than shoot up a school. Schools are soft targets with predictable schedules for their occupancy. A CEO might be in 20 different countries over the course of a month; you'd have to engage in a LOT of cyberstalking to even have a chance of catching a CEO in your hometown. And not to mention, they usually have security detail specifically to prevent this exact thing from happening.
But who knows. There's a lot of people pissed off about corporate power, in every country, across party lines. It only takes one security fuck-up.
[0] This is what the phrase "propaganda of the deed" refers to
"Forest of the Gods" is a very good film.
But there are a few Lithuanian films that are my all-time favourites (besides "Forest of the Gods"):
1. "The Ancient Woods": https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/487463-the-ancient-woods
"The Ancient Woods" is, perhaps, the best film I ever watched—it is actually a documentary.
It has one shot with a human and there are no human voices in the whole film.
It is a love letter to the "untouched nature" (of Lithuania).
2. "The Collectress": https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/56074-kolekcionier
3. "You Am I": https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/12681-a-esi-tu
4. "Vanishing Waves": https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/133764-aurora
5. "The Summer of Sungaile": https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/310568-the-summer-of-sangaile
And some to not use too much the brain and have a fun time:
* "Redirected" (by the way, in English): https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/190469-redirected-u-lietuv
* "Patriotai" ("Patriots"): https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/408809-patriotai
* "How Saul and Paul Robbed Them All": https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/349954-how-saul-and-paul-robbed-them-all
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Just to add to your comments, the events on (the book) "Forest of the Gods" (which the film is based on) are based on the real experience of the main character, "the Professor" [1].
There are some criticism on whether the events are 100% faithful to the reality [2], but indifferent to that, it is a hell of a piece of art!
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balys_Sruoga
[2]: I am sorry, but I don't remember where I got that information. It is not that important, anyhow.
Corpus Christi is a good recent one I loved.
I love watching movies in local language, will have to look into these.
Others being Aurora and Parasite.