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The era of freeloading is officially over | CNN Business
2024-10-17 12:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
A version of this story appeared in CNN Business Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free,here. New York CNN One of the problems with tech is that it can be really good at narcing. And I dont mean in the scary Big Brother Thought Police kinda way, more in the lawful evil sense of forcing us to pay for things we used to get for free. Once upon a time, you could have yourself a nice little Saturday of stocking up at Costco (using your sisters membership card, naturally), before hitting up a museum (free admission with your 15-year-old expired student ID) or settling into a reality TV binge sesh (streaming on your college roommates ex-boyfriends Netflix login). You wouldnt call it stealing, per se. Mooching, perhaps. Exploiting a loophole in a system of commercialized culture you didnt create but are forced to participate in and what could be more capitalist than that? But thanks to the fine-tuning of the tech that Corporate America uses to police subscrip...
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night movie review (2014) | Roger Ebert
2024-10-17 06:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Vampires will always be with us, representative as they are of humanitys endless interest in blood-sucking creatures of the night who stand in the tense space where fear meets desire, and two of the dreamiest most romantic movies released this year have been vampire movies. Jim Jarmuschs Only Lovers Left Alive created a nocturnal dreamspace of love and old (really old) age, and music and survival, with two soul mates meeting up again and again throughout the endless abyss of time. Ana Lily Amirpours black-and-white debut feature A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, with a vampire in a chador stalking the denizens of an Iranian town called Bad City, owes a lot to Jarmusch, and in many ways the relationship seen between the two lead characters in Amirpours film could be seen as the younger incarnations of Adam and Eve in Only Lovers Left Alive.Along with Jarmusch, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is steeped in other influences: Spaghetti Westerns, 1950s juvenile delinquent mov...
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"Arrival": Handlung und Ende des Science-Fiction-Films erklärt
2024-10-17 06:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Arrival von Denis Villeneuve ist einer der besten Science-Fiction-Filme der letzten Jahre, doch das Ende kann ganz schön verwirrend sein. Wir erklären euch die Alieninvasion mit Amy Adams und Jeremy Renner.Es gibt viele Gründe Arrival zu mögen, auch ohne die Handlung zu verstehen: Sei es die fantastische Kameraführung von Bradford Young oder das oscarprämierte Sounddesign von Sylvain Bellemare. Doch der Film, der am heutigen Sonntag (26. Mai 2019) um 20.15 Uhr bei RTL läuft, bietet noch mehr.Arrival erzählt eine faszinierende Geschichte und hat eine lebensbejahende Botschaft, die sich unter dem verwirrenden Science-Fiction-Geflecht mit seinen unterschiedlichen Zeitebenen versteckt.Regisseur Denis Villeneuve führt den Zuschauer anfangs bewusst in die Irre, um ihn dann mit einem plötzlichen Twist zu überraschen. Dabei kann man schon mal den Faden verlieren und sich am Ende fragen, was das alles eigentlich soll. Falls ihr nach Arrival mehr Fragen als Antworten habt, erklären wir e...
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