My parents tell me this a lot for app season. Shoot for the stars and if not you’ll land on the clouds. I mean it’s partly true but if you have no resources to get up off of the ground in the first place, that quote doesn’t mean a damn thing.
Take me for an example, my parents want me to shotgun to T5’s because I’m “smart” when literally everyone I’m competing against is smart. To make things easier on them, I advised them to put me in a larger public school all 4 years to increase my rank and get fee waivers but they won’t budge. I told them about all the extracurriculars I wanted to do, all they had to do was drive me there. And they still couldn’t do it; another excuse every time .So I had to resort to every extracurricular by myself. I literally had to do everything for myself. I had to pay for my own SAT tests bc there no fee waivers at a private school, I had to apply via QB by myself, I had to run on 3-4 hours of sleep busting my ass off during the summer because I was the only one involved. I had no one tell me anything about Science Olympiad, USCAMO none of that...and when I found out about some competitions it was money that no one could afford anyways; so I’m at a disadvantage still. But now they (my parents) have the audacity to turn around and get mad because I’m not a damn prestige whore. They just think it’s as easy as oh because your smart you’ll get in.
I probably saw this somewhere between 1999-2004, but even those years could be off. It's been a long time. It could be a theatrical movie or made for TV, but I'm pretty sure it involved sports in some way. Although even that could be wrong. All I really remember from the movie is the coin flip and the fact that they placed a cup over the coin, and the fact that it finally falls near the end of the movie.
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A number of years ago I remember catching an article that mentioned that some studio or director had made some indie project available on Youtube (?) and it was a really unsettling film that I think had no dialogue whatsoever.
There's only one camera shot, which is at this high angle, looking out over a suburban living room. There's a family in it. A door on the left, a couch center stage, someone doing the ironing. A coat rack by the door. In the back you can see an entryway arch to another part of the house. A family is just sitting or standing there with really stiff, uncanny motions.
It may have been shot as if it was a play, given the single camera angle and the lack of any decorations or walls along the "fourth wall"
At several points there's a knock on the door, and the family just woodenly stares at the door and then continues on. Several times this visitor knocks and all they do is slowly swing their heads to stare at it and nobody ever comes in. It's got this "Waiting for Godot" type surrealism going on. I think at one point the father grabs his hat off the rack, leaves. Nothing happens some more. He comes back, sits back on the couch.
I think it was black and white, or at least very washed out. Openings and endings imitating a proper black and white silent movie, zooming in through the theater over the seats to focus on the stage, with the curtains opening, flicking title as if from a projector. Released as two videos (?), over an hour long in all. I think it may have had a french title.
It's possible the characters were puppets, but there's this miniature-y thing going on because of the camera angle and it may have been actual actors with like a slight tilt-shift? I think it may even have been done in one shot too.
At one point the entire scene is bathed in an ominous red light.
And the actors had anthropomorphized mice heads? Like it was a family of animal people. Mom was a suburban bipedal animal, dad was in a suit.
I haven't seen this thing in years, watched it once and basically haven't thought about it since but it's driving me absolutely crazy to not be able to find this thing. My memory of it is so distinctly unsettling with its uncanny surrealism that even trying to think about it has me thinking I've imagined the whole thing.
My sister posits that it is the product of a fever dream from watching Fievel while my mom was ironing. But I swear it's real, and is some kind of indie or obscure art
... keep reading on reddit ➡Uncle A and his family live with Grandma in her big house. Uncle B wants to buy the plot of land grandma owns that's right next to the house so he can put a trailer there for him and his family. The friction started bc uncle A wanted/felt entitled to the land and there was a misunderstanding between grandma and uncle B. Grandma told B he could put his trailer there so he assumed she would sell him the land so he spent money building the foundation and everything else that comes with moving a trailer house only to find out grandma didn't want to sell the land to him. I don't know why grandma didn't want to sell him the land, maybe she didn't like feeling like she was forced to choose between the two uncles, or maybe bc the house and all the land are the only things she has left of grandpa. So now everyone is neighbors and uncle B is having a regular convo with Grandma about the land, and uncle A inserts himself in it and gets in B's face. Uncle B whoops uncle A and the cops come and the cops pin B to the ground and arrest him in front of his daughter. Now B doesn't want anything to do with them, but they are all still neighbors and family. Fast forward to today, grandma went nextdoor to bring them present and uncle B threw them in the trash, which made grandma cry.
TL;DR: dispute over land between two uncles, and my grandma stuck in the middle
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