i live in a fucking sitcom. I’m delivering packages to people in the building and a nice lady gave me some chocolate as a thank you for lifting all the heavy stuff. I’m like thanks yippee and eat it without hesitation and it tasted like burnt dirt. so i knock on her door and ask her where that candy was from and she said it was a 40mg edible. this was 15 mins ago
Fun fact! Having a job every day is actually a fairly new thing.
In olden times, people had daily chores and other things to do but their workload/ daily working hours was actually much lower than it is today. Even in farming communities.
The concept of working super hard every day actually comes from capitalism, which in turn comes from Puritanical ideology.
The Puritans believed in salvation through work and in no play.
Early capitalists adopted this ideology because it meant higher productivity and therefore more money if their factories were running near constantly.
The idea of needing to be continuously productive in order to be useful/ allowed things like food and shelter, is actually quite an insidious ideal that is deeply rooted in the American culture.
4 day work weeks have actually proven to be more productive than the 5 day week. But corporations won’t adopt it willingly because it means less of a stranglehold on their workers.
i used to hate “meta” films and tv shows because i had never seen it done competently but now that i’ve done a module on metafiction for my degree i actually think we’re not seeing meta get utilised to nearly enough of its potential. we could have films where an acknowledgement or confrontation of the fact that these are characters moving through the motions of a predetermined storyline could be used to thrill or to horrify, a feeling of being watched *back*, but instead the general concensus seems to be that 4th wall breaks can only be funny :( i thought deadpool was fun on my first watch but in hindsight i hate the effect that movie had on popular cinema
too often we’re seeing “meta” moments onscreen written by people with a contempt for storytelling and a desire to make fun of and undermine the art form. we need meta jokes written by someone with a passion for the craft. we need more films made by people who read books
