Tropical Malady Puns

I really want to watch Tropical Malady, but I can only find a 480p version of it on YouTube and I don't want that to be my experience with the film. Is there a reliable site that has it?

I need to see this film for a project my Film class is having. I was intrigued by its structure and style, and I've been meaning to see this for my class.

Tropical Malady by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

I recently re-visited the film and it's a beautiful and overwhelming experience altogether. The raw emotions mixed with mystical folklores creates a surreal atmosphere completely.

The film slowly inculcates itself into you and leaves a wonderful trace of both happiness and Melancholy.

When I look at my previous encounter with the film, it felt slort of similar but was less in intensity. This time it was a lot personal.

Moreover, the mystical quality in any of Apichatpong's film, is unadulterated and much local, but ultimately leaves a viewer from outside intrigued nonetheless.

One of the best Queer love stories out there imo. Suggest more queer love stories that are not over the top at all.

I recently watched “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” which inspired this question.

The movie opens with an ambient sequence of a water buffalo running through fields and forests. After being captured, there’s an abrupt cut to one of the silhouetted/red-eyed beings that live in the forest.

I can’t describe that moment of first seeing that figure as anything other than “visually arresting”. I’ve never seen anything in a movie that quite literally stopped every thought in my head aside from “what the fuck am I looking at right now.” It was a very eery and powerful moment that immediately made me fully invested in the movie.

I know this is pretty specific, but I’m curious if there are other films you’d recommend that have moments similar to this. Not necessarily looking for edge-of-your-seat moments (i.e. the oil derrick fire sequence in There Will Be Blood) but more so weird or eery moments that evoke that same “stop everything, what am I looking at right now” feeling.

Thanks!

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u/10secondbeats and u/mayqueen9090 hosted and designed (respectively) our last film club edition absolutely wonderfully, but all good things must come to an end and now your old pal Quack is back 😎 Anyway, I'm very happily stepping back in for our slightly belated celebration of Transgender Awareness Week with our new selection Lingua Franca! Be sure to check the JustWatch page to find out where this film is streaming in your country. Thanks once again to Film Club aficionado and faithful modding friend cdbavg400 for suggesting this movie in our last thread and we hope you enjoy!

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Time to get wavey on some Thai cinematic goodness! There's a cool Letterboxd list here that outlines a bit of the criteria for Thai New Wave films, as well as a whole bunch of bangers that fit the bill. Leave your suggestions in response to the pinned comment below and don't forget to vote for the films you want to see selected next time!

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I've been reading up a bit about the history of Thai BL as a genre, and it's quite established that while the first foundations were laid by the film The Love of Siam, whose release in 2007 caused a genre shock in Thai cinema, it wasn't until the broadcast of Love Sick in 2014 that BL became recognized as a mainstream media genre of its own. But a lot of detail on what developments happened in those intervening years remains quite sketchy. Here's my attempt at laying things out, both from memory and what I've been able to find online... Please don't take it as a definitive history.

First, though, a bit of background...

Yaoi, a Japanese import popularly known in Thai as "Y", became established as a subculture in Thailand, mainly among young females (known as "sao Y", the Thai term for fujoshi), in the early 2000s. Most media was initially in the form of doujinshi manga, and remained pretty much underground. (Many have told of how works had to be found in hidden unlabelled shelves in stores, and how their rising popularity even led to a reactionary government crackdown in 2005.) Gradually, online communities developed, and as "fic" writing - a term encompassing both fanfiction (mostly centred around shipping J-pop/K-pop idols) and original web novels - saw increasing popularity generally, a genre of "fic Y" emerged as well.

Meanwhile, gay relationships and identities (as opposed to stereotypes of kathoey or ladyboys, which Thai society had been familiar with for much longer) were gaining wider acknowledgement in society and general discourse. There was an emerging interest in stories depicting gay relationships, which led to the establishment of community websites such Thaiboyslove.com (2006). As the scope and audience of these stories very much overlapped with fic Y, the lines separating the genres became quickly blurred as communities of sao Y and gay readers merged together.

However, portrayals in the media lagged behind these developments, and depictions of non-heterosexual characters in TV and film remained mostly limited to kathoey (ladyboys), mainly as comic characters. While there were exceptions - the series Rak Paet Phan Kao* (2004-2005) included a male/male side couple, and some indie films (the award-winning Tropical Malady among them) explored gay issues - these remained isolated cases or outside of mainstream attention.

Which is partly why The Love of Siam caused such a stir upon its release. Though it came a few months after *B

EDIT II: THE LIST IS DONE, COMPLETED AT THE BOTTOM

• 1900: Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad**
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• 1912: The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle
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• 1914: Dubliners, James Joyce
• 1915: The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka**
• 1916: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce**
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• 1921: We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
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• 1926: The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
• 1927: Amerika, Franz Kafka
• 1928: Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
• 1929: The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner***
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• 1932: Light in August, William Faulkner
• 1933: The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
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• 1935: It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis**
• 1936: Eyeless in Gaza, Aldous Huxley
• 1937: Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck*, **
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• 1940: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway***
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• 1946: The Honjin Murders, Seishi Yokomizo
• 1947: The Plague, Albert Camus
• 1948: No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai
• 1949: Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell*
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• 1951: The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
• 1952: The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway**
• 1953: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
• 1954: The Fellowship of the Ring & The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien**
• 1955: The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien**
• 1956: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Yukio Mishima
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• 1958: Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Kenzaburō Ōe
• 1959: The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
• 1960: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, or/and The Violent Bear It Away, Flannery O’Connor**
• 1961: Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger***
• 1962: A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
• 1963: Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
• 1964: Dune, Frank Herbert
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• 1982: Fevre Dream, George R.R. Martin
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• 1984: Heretics of Dune, Fr

Africa's Sweet Spot: 'Pole, pole' (slowly, slowly) is the ethos on the paradise islands of Zanzibar. So how would Jeremy Clarkson and his girlfriend Lisa cope?

By Jeremy Clarkson (Sunday Times, Nov. 7)

A few years ago I came across a map of Africa drawn by Victorian explorers. In the north and south every village, wadi and water source had been logged. But the middle bit was a big unknown — "Unexplored," it said.

I've travelled fairly extensively through this region, so I know the explorers weren't thwarted by inconvenient geology. It's gentle and hilly, like Devon. Fruit dangles from every bush and there's a meaty treat hiding behind every tree.

Yet somehow, for 20 years, all of those famed British explorers — Speke, Livingstone, Burton, Baker and Stanley — couldn't even find Lake Victoria, which is twice the size of Belgium. All the Africans in the region knew where it was. So did various German missionaries. Arab slave traders had even built a town on its shores. But those swashbuckling British heroes, with their Royal Geographical Society (RGS) funding, were stumped.

Could it be that they weren't actually looking for it?

Almost all their expeditions began in the Zanzibar archipelago, the main island of which is about 20 miles from the coast of mainland Africa. It was here that the young men would buy and hire all they needed for their perilous missions. But did they actually go on them? If I had come from Victorian Britain — with its tea parties and dreary literature — and found myself on a tropical island ringed by turquoise seas, I'd be fairly tempted to think: "Sod it, I'll just stay here."

Today, Zanzibar is in what I call the tourism sweet spot. You can stay in a hotel with air conditioning and a fridge full of Kilimanjaro beer, but the coastline hasn't been carpet-bombed with three-star casino resorts, and the hinterland isn't full of hipsters getting tattoos until the trust fund runs out. There aren't even any nightspots themed around the island's most famous son, Freddie Mercury.

However, the downside of being in the sweet spot is that the airport doesn't have air conditioning and the government makes you fill in an intolerable number of forms when you arrive (and this was pre-pandemic).

My girlfriend, Lisa, and I stayed on the east coast, at Xanadu Villas. There are just eight rooms — although when I say "rooms", ours was more a skyscraper. There was a living space on the ground floor, and even though it had a high, dome

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

Pilot on me!!

They’re on standbi

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a post all year!