[ SECRET POST #3691 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3691 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[A Series of Unfortunate Events]


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05. [SPOILERS for Blood and Chocolate]



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06. [SPOILERS for Shin Sekai Yori]




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07. [SPOILERS for Star Wars Rebels]
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Comments

Re: What media do you think has aged REALLY well?

[skeletal_history]

Fritz Lang's M (1931), which you can watch in full on Youtube. It's been a few years since I've seen it, but I remember being struck by how much of the psychology of the predator and the attitudes of the people in the trial scene at the end were so much like what we would hear today. That's not often true of old movies that deal explicitly with psychology/mental illness/"deviant" behavior like pedophilia [ cf. the (otherwise great) movie, The Snake Pit (1947)].

One movie that has not aged well is Sneakers (1992) -- it's got an amazing cast and a fun group of characters, but the plot and the dramatic tension hinges on technology which is (obviously) very out of date, so those scenes are just funny now.

Re: What media do you think has aged REALLY well?

[sarillia]

I was actually surprised by how well mental illness was handled in The Snake Pit. Though really what caught my attention was that there was no miracle cure that solved everything, and that doesn't preclude other issues.

Re: What media do you think has aged REALLY well?

[skeletal_history]

I actually agree (and it was a really good movie, too!) -- it even was instrumental in inspiring the California state government to change their regulations on mental hospitals in the years following.

What I thought didn't age well was the dated neo-Freudian conclusion of the psychiatrist as to the root of Virginia's psychosis (early childhood trauma of rejection at the hands of a distant father) and the use of psychoanalysis to treat patients with schizophrenia [edited to add:], particularly the reliance on "therapeutic insight".

I mean, it's a great movie and its quality is not at all lessened by these things! It's just that when those parts of the movie occurred, I inwardly groaned. :)

Re: What media do you think has aged REALLY well?

[sarillia]

Huh, I don't even remember those parts. It probably bothered me at the time too. But still, it can't be worse in that regard than something like Spellbound. Oh Freudian psychology.

Re: What media do you think has aged REALLY well?

[(Anonymous)]

M is one of my favorite movies. Peter Lorre is superb in it.

Re: What media do you think has aged REALLY well?

[type_wild]

I guess I know I'll do tonight, then. And I'd like to chime in that Metropolis, even though it's so VISIBLY OLD, remains one of my favourite films to this day.