Endless Ends

[Endless_Night]

The scars from the brutality/murders/rape/forced “prostitution” during the Japanese occupation in WW2 run deep in China. It shows up in Chinese movies/tv quite a bit.

Interesting how that varies from country to country. I had an older relative who was a very tolerant soul. The only time I remember her saying something racial was once, when she made a negative comment atop the Japanese. She was a young girl during WW2.

The Japanese, though, don't seem to hold it Hiroshima against the United States.

 

[Apisto42]

The Chinese bit was explained to me while I lived there, and it spanned from survivors to the student generation.

The only thing I know about the Japanese feelings on the bombs is a profound sadness associated with them. I haven’t studied Japanese media much.

 

[Endless_Night]

For like the first time ever, I'm wondering if I should curate my movie watching habits.

 

[Apisto42]

In what way?

 

[Endless_Night]

In what way?

My brain is mushy enough on its own. I’m wondering if some of my viewing choices as of late may be hastening the situation.

#candyjar

 

[hotwords229_A]

Maybe a Letteboxd account?

You can list the movies you’ve seen and write a review about them. That way you can keep track of what movies you’ve seen, what you thought about them and suggest others watch or not watch them.

 

[Apisto42]

My brain is mushy enough on its own. I’m wondering if some of my viewing choices as of late may be hastening the situation.

#candyjar

Smut! Depravity! Licentiousness! It rots the brain!

 

[Endless_Night]

Maybe a Letteboxd account?

You can list the movies you’ve seen and write a review about them. That way you can keep track of what movies you’ve seen, what you thought about them and suggest others watch or not watch them.

The range of you film and associated knowledge never ceases to amaze me, Muscles.

 

[Endless_Night]

Smut! Depravity! Licentiousness! It rots the brain!

So your brain is mush, huh?

 

[Apisto42]

So your brain is mush, huh?

Most likely. But more because of things like watching Clerks with son last night.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

I lived in Japan in the early 2000s and got to know some elders who were alive during the war. I'm sure the country is different now as they've died off, but during my time there was a deep culture of accountability. The Japanese elders of WW2 were not angry with the US so much as they were humbled and reverent of the consequences of going to war like that.

One of the guys who fought in the war actually told me about a time in Sydney harbor where they were shown mercy when captured. He never forgot it and spoke so highly of the way he was treated. Fascinating stuff

War is hell, and sometimes the consequences of poking the wasp nest is you get stung a little.

May we never forget it.

 

[Endless_Night]

I lived in Japan in the early 2000s and got to know some elders who were alive during the war. I'm sure the country is different now as they've died off, but during my time there was a deep culture of accountability. The Japanese elders of WW2 were not angry with the US so much as they were humbled and reverent of the consequences of going to war like that.

One of the guys who fought in the war actually told me about a time in Sydney harbor where they were shown mercy when captured. He never forgot it and spoke so highly of the way he was treated. Fascinating stuff

War is hell, and sometimes the consequences of poking the wasp nest is you get stung a little.

The SO has lived in Japan twice, with similar experience. Sorrow and focus on rebuilding and never repeating.

May we never forget it.

Solidarity.

 

[Endless_Night]

I needed a werewolf movie, for, uh, no reason.

So, poking about, I found Pounce aka SilverHide (2015).

As it's billed as a low-budge my expectations were not high. Still, it's a British low-budget horror film. My favorite, so -

Turns out it was really low-budget.

Typical conspiracy theorists and military hiding potential werewolf as weapon fare. With the hidden base and set in some pretty desolate Wale's scenery. The werewolf gets minuscule screen time, which is just as well as it appears to be a rubber mask, on, possibly, a dog? The mask is . . . pretty terrible.

There is no nudity, for those of you that care about such.

The ending did catch me a little by surprise. Probably shouldn't have, but it did. Nice.

Rather forgettable, on the whole, but the plot did have one noteworthy twist. Moonlight on the werewolf's silver fur renders it invisible to the human eye. This is never explained scientifically, which I always find wildly frustrating.

Unique. I've never come across that application in a lupine movie. I see potential.

Oh, and the werewolf was captured rather than biologically engineered, so this anomaly occurred in the wild.

 

[hotwords229_A]

There is no nudity, for those of you that care about such.

I’m out!

 

[Endless_Night]

I’m out!

Perhaps I should have left that part out?

 

[Endless_Night]

So.

There could be evolutionary drivers for a werewolf to have fur that would render it functionally invisible in bright moonlight.

And, it's possible. Take the polar bear, another predator. Their fur is actually transparent, and hollow, which picks up and mimics the blue/grey tones of ambient moonlight. Against a snowy background, it blends, unlike white fur, which is likely to produce a glow effect.

As werewolves run hot, white skin under the fur (rather than black like a polar bear) would trap less heat, reducing the danger of overheating and leading to thermoregulatory advantages by offsetting basal metabolism requirements through educing caloric strain.

I won’t mention other fur advantages. (You know, like a modified sebum that prevents the fur from icing. )

I also won’t mention any of the possible base gene mutation mechanisms involved. (Because, of course, I didn’t look those up. Really. )

And, for a werewolf that lived in the snowy climes, the lack of visibility could improve predation, possibly important when people are less likely to be out and about due to plunging temperatures.


I mean, if one wants to stick with the Universal Monster universe . . . .

But, change happens.

 

[Apisto42]

You are really really hot sometimes.

Jus’ say’n.

 

[hotwords229_A]

But werewolves are out at night (full moon), so aren’t they pretty much invisible anyway? If they’re out in the darkness and have night vision abilities, invisibility is kind of already achieved is it not?