Anon watches The Whale

I saw Bladerunner as a teenager and it affected me so much I'm now a grown-ass man living in a cyberpunk dystopia. Follow your dreams.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry
- Sometimes I laugh because it keeps me from crying.
  Sidenote: I am often told that I laugh too much.
- I've got a hint for you, look at their username. It's sick as fuck.
  I wish the d was capitalized but still awesome.
- Replicant detected
- Monologue internal narration to the audience.
See homeless man dying on the streets below the neon skyscraper
“Omg, literally me”
Interlinked af

The Matrix made me realise my whole reality was a lie and now I’m pro-Patriarchy, pro-Authoritarian and pro-conformity just like the characters.

I think people don't realize you're making fun of manosphere and alt right creators co opting the terms from the movies like red pill and others.
- I think Flight Club is a better idea of the right people walking away with the wrong message.
Exactly! Cypher is the only sensible person in that whole world. /s
- All he wanted was a nice steak. What's wrong with that?
- He does make sense. What does it matter to you if you don't realize it is all fake

office space had some great eye opening lessons:

you can say no to overtime
some tasks are totally not important, and its insanely important to have a priority order, otherwise you go insane.

I mean, I feel like the real lesson from Office Space is the importance of having an exit strategy.
People work in grey cubicals or Applebee's because they feel like they don't have a choice. Everyone in these jobs is unhappy, because if they believed in their ability to find happiness elsewhere they would already be gone.
- I set low initial expectations at my job, automated and simplified nearly every task. I work less than 20 hours a week on average. I have time for basically all my hobbies and get to spend tons of time with my kid and wife. It may be a grey cubicle and annoying but it pays well and i can get fulfillment elsewhere. Feel like anybody trying to get fulfilling experiences from work is looking at the picture upside down
That movie was extremely cathartic to watch

Office space started me thinking about early retirement plans.

Yep that movie is depressing, especially that traffic scene, I go through that every day. Even the changing lanes part, too relatable.
- I used to as well. Glad I can commute by train now.
Same. Glad I saw it as a kid. Now I'm retired.

I couldn't even finish that movie and had to stop after about 30 min (not because it was bad, but just way too depressing lol)

That kind of sounds like a reason to go back and finish it
- I honestly get where they were coming from. My "I couldn't finish it because it made me too sad" was oyasumi punpun
  I only finished the second of 13 total volumes and I wasn't tearing up or anything, but I developed a sense of... dysphoric dread, I guess, from reading it
- I mean I don't really want to spend my free time feeling like absolute shit because I chose to watch a movie
Had the same thing happen to me with the movie Hereditary (although I later finished watching it, because of the praise it was getting). I thought "Yeah it's good, but why would people watch this, why would they do this to themselves?".
I never understood miseryporn and honestly MFW people are enjoying it:
- Midsommar left me depressed for about a week, so I emotionally detached myself while watching Hereditary by playing on my phone lol. I totally skipped Beau is Afraid.
I hated just about everyone in The Whale. Everyone who was enabling him was an accomplice to a murder, in my opinion. I also found the main character to be so revolting that I couldn’t muster much sympathy beyond my aforementioned blame towards his enablers.
I love challenging media, but that one had nearly nothing redeemable about it. I’d rather have a crack problem than a food problem after seeing that movie.
- I wondering if I should just never see that movie. I know a whole household of co-enablers that I'm trying to distance myself from. Three people have died from being overweight so far since I've met them and a fourth collapsed and shit himself while at my place in what looked like a diabetic shock. He then had the nerve to criticize my home.
I often eat my dinner while watching a movie.
This is not a movie I'd recommend for that.

Unironically, Street Fighter. That scene where he says, "For you, the day Bison graced your village was one of the most important days of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

I think about it a lot in dealing with other people. It was supposed to make him sound like even more of a jerk, but I actually think it's a good commentary on what it's like to deal with the public. Imagine being a doctor. Sometimes, you get to deliver good news. Sometimes bad. Sometimes you can do something, and sometimes you just can't. If the doctor tried to care as much as the patients, they'd be emotionally destroyed in short order. For them, it HAS to just be a Tuesday.

Similar vibe, but I think about this scene/meme a lot as well.
Likewise, Don Draper is being an asshole in the scene. But, in reality most people don't think about you.
They could say something that offended you. They are going to forget about it. So there is no need to be upset, chances are they forgot about it.
You could say something dumb or embarrassing. People are going to forget almost immediately.
- If only I could forget all the dumb shit I do or say...
- Welp, guess it's time to re-watch Mad Men.
There's a scene in Scrubs about this.
https://youtu.be/0RGCWPtKIhM

I saw the Lord of the Rings as a teenager and now all I wanna do is sit around barefoot, smoke pipe and cook, eat and drink with friends. And everyone has to leave their bullshit at the door.

No wizards!

A wizard every now and then as a little treat?‽!!!‽‽
- They always bring their stick and they never leave their bullshit at the door.
I can relate so much, I'm getting a little closer to that dream life everyday.
Yes wizards.
- Wizards are disturbers of the peace. NO WIZARDS

Training day made me realize I wanted to be a dirty cop

Thanks for sharing your story #inspirational
And smoke PCP. Not so keen on getting my shit pushed in, though
- shit pushed in? Sign me up!

If Anon is anything like me, my advice for next steps would be to start learning about metabolic health.

Renfield.

I know it's violent, campy, and corny, but it's a damn good lesson in what Narcissistic Personality Disorder is and what it does to people. It helped me frame my own abuse and trauma at the hands of abuser's NPD, in ways that helped me break free from those people later on. Moreover, once you've been victimized this way, one has a tendency to fall back into bad habits with abusers. The film just gave me something profound to recall when exercising mindfulness around this cycle, and how to exit quickly.

Similar experience for me with the Babadook. It illustrates that you will never be rid of your mental problems and trauma, that trying to be cured or normal is a fool's errand. They're things you'll have to deal with forever, and the more you confront them the less they'll control you.

Welcome to tthe NHK made me try to be more social. I'm still pretty anxious but it's slowly getting y little better.

But if I lose weight all the people who called me a retarded fatass my entire childhood win.

If you keep the weight they'll be double right. If you lose the weight they'll only be half right!
But have you avoided getting smarter too? If not, then they've already won.

The best part about this movie was the build-up to the pizzas. They shadow mention the pizzas a few times, and you see him really take down other things. Hard to watch, but when they finally DID show up. I was fucking ready to watch this guy take down two larges.

It was almost a magical moment. The movie is awesome. Everyone else refuses to watch it with me. Personally, I have only seen it once, but will take the journey with another willing human. Its a great film.

flow is the best movie!

I didn't enjoy it that much. Found it overly sentimental and saccharine. Although to be fair I got the impression if I were a parent it would resonate with me more.
- That’s funny, I found it terribly sad, with a distant backdrop of optimism. Given that it was an allegory, set within a mashup of 3 different mythologies, I suppose it makes sense that it would have multiple interpretations. But yes, it was terribly sad, to my eye.
I mean, I absolutely agree. Was it life changing tho?
- Flow was a turning point for me. Haven’t drowned a cat since.

Death Race 2000 made me realize what I want to do with my life.

The Whale is probably going to be an artefact of its time very soon. Now that everyone has started on ozempic it was probably the last time they could film that story and have it be relatable/recognisable.

That's not how the drug works. It just suppresses hunger (in some people). Not all eating disorders are because of feeling hungry. People will continue to have eating disorders.
Food industry will never allow ozempic to be easily available
- Patents are expiring next year for semaglutide

Note how anon states they weigh the same, but they feel healthier. Being healthy isn't about looking like a model, being healthy is about literally being healthy. You don't need to do crazy ass workouts, chug protein mixes, and gain muscle like a TV star on steroids. You just need to get enough cardio in your day (or throughout the week) from chill/fun activities (biking, swimming, dancing) and have a balanced diet to do your body right. Don't fucking starve yourself please, you look fine the way your are ♥️

Edit: Thought anon was at 220 and didn't lose weight, sorry y'all damn. Also there are fat people who are fat not because of moral failing and eating McDonald's all day, but because of serious health issues that are extremely hard to combat with dieting and exercise. RIP wanted to be positive.

Didn't they lose a hundred pounds?
- FUCK can't read 😭🔫
Being grossly overweight is deletorious to your health. Cardio or exercise will not change this, because weight loss is mostly driven by diet.
- Its both. Calorie in. Calorie out. Any calories not used will be stored for later. Keep consuming more than used, than more and more gets stored. The problem with modern diets is food is very enegry dense and a lot of people dont live active lives. Our bodies have not adapted to such lifestyles. Its adapted to survive until the next hunt not the next doordash delivery.
Even though you misread the comment as a fat fuck, I have to reply to you and say, fuck spreading whatever idea you are spreading.
Your comment reads like a delusional HAES cult members.
Being obese is objectively worse for your quality of life and your longevity, just because someone wants to better themselves doesn't mean they do it to look like a model.
Your comment is objectively wrong, putting on muscle is by far the best way to increase your health and longevity, not doing cardio.
I see what you were going for. ♥️
Hugs!