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Iron lung was maybe just the slightest bit over hyped (granted it was important that it had that level of suport) but I do have to seriously commend how open that film is morally. It made me realize that Im genuennly incredibly used to media, movies especially, having a clear cut direct moral, that I kept trying to find one in Irong lung only to realize there wasnt one. The theme I can decern primarily, is that there is no right way to die. Every character spends the film trying to put some moral spin on dying, including nihilism, and Simon tries to attach to different ones the whole time and can never stick to it because he just dosent want to die, no matter how inevitable it is, he just cant shut that animal instinct off. Its fundimental. Even if he didnt cause the filament station incident I feel its confirmed that hes still been a killer for his own survival his entire life. But he never seems to have the opinion that the deaths of his victims were warrented, he didnt see himself as more worthy of life than them. Its just what he did to live. And the very end, when he briefly mutters “its bigger than me” trying desperately to be noble about this, and previously he had tried to harbor the “nothing matters, were all doomed” mentality and he couldnt keep that up either. At the very end he turned to his actual cope, which he also has, because hes not immune to the universal flaw of this movies cast. Which is dying in violence. That going down clawing and screaming was the correct way. This is much less noble than everyone else, its not trying to be correct, so the movie gives him a little more grace in that the god fish thing also seemingly dies. But its still fundimentally just a cope, because humans need those. The fish didnt die any type of meaningful death either, it fought Simon and they had a tie, predator and pray in an open ocean and that was that. We all just have the inescapable pull of the animal survival instinct. But more importantly. Death is not moral. Death is not sucess, death is not failure, death is not a tragedy, death is not salvation. Its an unthinking result of the forces of nature that does not even exist in a way that is either meaningful or meaningless. Death is the only meaning of itself. And there is no right way to die.

I love kickstarter designs because you can tell from a hundred miles away when a team does not do any level of real user testing. Like I know, what it looks like when the only iteration process youve done, is fiddle with it yourself and see little things you dont like and ultimately just do like, dimention adjustments. Like you did not hand this to a regular person. Especially not without a nine minute speech basically explaining a script they need to repeat back at you. “This is made to fix this problem. You use it exactly in this way Im showing you now. Does it solve this?” And maybe it does solve that kind of, but in a more annoying way than something done with a fork and a hair tie, but they wont tell you that because you didnt ask. And it also has 90 other issues that youll never know about because you only watched three people use it for ten minutes, best case scenario. And worst you just copied your comment section. Also stop giving these mfs your ideas. This is their job, and your concepts are being lowkey stolen without credit or compensation.