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1. fabiob+S3[view] [source] 2024-12-28 10:28:55
>>exitb+(OP)
My wife considers “show, don’t tell” shows confusing and just bad. More dialogue, better the show.

She chooses to watch shows in which characters address each other with full names and say their intentions out loud. My brain hurts.

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2. strogo+R5[view] [source] 2024-12-28 10:54:15
>>fabiob+S3
One of my favourite films is called Upstream Color.

Below is not a spoiler, but I like to avoid reading anything about a good film before watching it, and I recommend to do the same here. You like it or you don’t.

This film has no staged speech that tries to explain anything. The little dialogue that it has is what would naturally arise given the situation. For the same reason, most characters have no names or no full names. No situation in which they would formally introduce themselves takes place.

Do I fully understand it immediately, or even after watching it once? No. Does it mean I dislike it? Rather the opposite. Actually, I enjoy being treated as an adult who can make conclusions without having given any pre-digested explanation.

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3. john-t+LT3[view] [source] 2024-12-29 23:52:53
>>strogo+R5
Strong agree: Upstream Color is poetry

Stanley Kubrick did something similar in `2001: A Space Odyssey`. In a scene where staff were being transported in a taxi... on the moon... 100% of the dialog is meaningless. They're discussing the merits of this or that sandwich, not how wonderful the Earth looks from space, or overcoming technical challenges.

It's so refreshing to be living in an environment vs being spoon fed.

Even better is very old or even silent movies ("M" is fantastic: modern-ish thriller from 1931 where sound is a character; Metropolis)

Also dialog-less movies: `Koyaanisqatsi` is incredibly beautiful and has a specific plot, even if there's no understandable dialog nor words.

In theaters _right now_ is `Flow`. No dialog, and no _human_ characters! It's all animated cats and dogs and other animals. It's startling how directly the characters transmit their goals and agenda and emotions.

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