Vicktor

The movie is so.... it's so sincere? So sweet and loving in the most painful way? It's heartbreaking and heartwarming and it's labeled as a comedy?

I'm still not sure what's really supposed to be comedic about the movie. It's a movie about someone struggling with anxiety and connecting to other people. It's about someone struggling to deal with what happened in their childhood. And it's about people loving this struggling person so so so much, about people not understanding but willing to learn and change and do what's needed.

The movie deals with social anxiety, loneliness, delusions, unresolved trauma, touch aversion and so many other small things. It's so well done and so thoughtful for the fact that it was made in 2007

What a privilege it is to show signs of aging.

What a privilege it is to not have passed at a young age.

What a privilege it is to have smile lines, wrinkles, graying hair, healing scars, and other signs your body has lived for years.

Simon is a convicted terrorist but he is polite.

Ava is stoic but she cares.

Their God sees everything but understands nothing at all.

The Cult of Eden is agrarian but violent fanatics.

The Consolidation of Iron is brutalist but they are the ones still holding onto hope.

The setting is high-tech futurism but facing extreme scarcity despite that.

hes so soggy

lots of koreans online say they "eat" drinks which would assume they only have one word which covers the concept of consumption.

arabic immigrants in sweden (my mother included) have a hard time differentiating between "i think/i believe/my opinion is" which suggests that in arabic these different modalities of speaker agency is treated as one or at least interchangeable.

swedish speakers in english will use should/shall/have to/must with much higher nuance precision than native english speakers, to the point where they sound well awkward, because the distinction between these commands in swedish is much clearer than in english. i make mistakes between is/am/are and has/have constantly because swedish only has one pronoun covering all grammatical persons.

i've heard speakers of languages without gendered pronouns (finnish, the chinese dialects, and a tonne more) make he/she mistakes because it's hard(!!) to learn two or more gendered pronouns and when to use them correctly.