yea this nra ep is p well done
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 11 January 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure i'm not going to be able to watch this but new one on tonight
FRONTLINE follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life. In conjunction with Gawande's new book, Being Mortal, the film investigates the practice of caring for the dying, and shows how doctors -- himself included -- are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and death with their patients.
― groundless round (La Lechera), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
Watched the NRA one over the weekend. Maybe I expect too much from Frontline, but I thought it was soft by their standards.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
there's a pile of old Frontlines on Netflix Canada now, Canadian Frontline-watchers with Netflix.
― Brio2, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
Not yet watched but clearly of mega interest to me 'cuz I'm a hospice social worker. If I were in charge there would be real-life dying process (not at all like fake TV dying process) on the tube all the time.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
Because I mean we are all going to see this not to mention we are all going to do this so I mean c'mon.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
"Being Mortal" is v. good, imo. Also much recommended by hospice ppl with way more expertise than I :)
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
I'm all for realistic talk about dying but sometimes once the topic is on my mind, it stays at the party way too long. Like watching this movie is a long commitment to thinking about the topic and I don't know if I can brush that off tbh!
― groundless round (La Lechera), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:24 (nine years ago) link
oof. yeah, i don't know if i couldn't handle this either, unless i have like a week to spare where i just mope around getting nothing done.
frederick wiseman has a six- or seven-hour documentary called "near death" about a hospice. can't bring myself to watch that one, either.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:32 (nine years ago) link
holy shit the Putin episode
not sure what i was expecting but damn
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
that NRA episode was good.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
i watched 10 min of the one about dying and then proceeded to freak out for at least an hourit wasn't so much the stuff about death that scared me, it just totally pressed some of my other freakout buttons and i started crying :(
i would like to warn anyone prone to intrusive thoughts about death to consider avoiding it tbh(i'm ok now but watching it was not worth the trouble it caused for me)
― groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 February 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
i fully recognize it might not be as intense for everyone
― groundless round (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 February 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
who's getting psyched for THE TRUTH ABOUT CHICKEN?
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Thursday, 23 April 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
Nooo it is like the only decent protein source left to me
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Friday, 24 April 2015 00:56 (nine years ago) link
i know i'm not happy about it eitherfrontline is getting a little out of control with the fear-based programmingi like it when they balance macro fear with more micro stories about the misery of human existencethe horror is a little unbalanced atm no?
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Friday, 24 April 2015 01:03 (nine years ago) link
i guess i just want more david sutherland programminghe has a lot more movies than i realized! http://davidsutherland.com/films
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Friday, 24 April 2015 01:04 (nine years ago) link
the chicken-industry footage i've seen in the past is the only bleeding-heart stuff ever to actually give me nightmares
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 24 April 2015 02:08 (nine years ago) link
i like it when they balance macro fear with more micro stories about the misery of human existence
this makes me want frosted mini-wheats
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 24 April 2015 03:54 (nine years ago) link
<3 David Sutherland
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Friday, 24 April 2015 11:11 (nine years ago) link
2 things -- a. the one about ebola was really good. I had no idea about the children and the tree full of bats. b. tonight: CHICKEN http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/trouble-with-chicken/
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
this week, the making of the CIA's Hollywood propaganda film
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/secrets-politics-and-torture/watch-how-the-cia-helped-make-zero-dark-thirty/
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
ooh!! that sounds good.
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Totally
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
oh hey yes
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
i watched a little bit of it last night and decided to save the rest for lateri'm saving chicken for possibly never
― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Chicken truth is a truth we cannot afford to hear
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
My dad called at the end of last week, horrified by that chicken documentary.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
I actually found the chicken documentary less horrifying than I expected! Salmonella is a bitch but relative risk analysis = a million other things will get you before it does. The chicken lobby is a fright, tho.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
the meat industry is horrifying
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
looked at preview online of upcoming "rape on the night shift" and just kind of said to myself, holy shit, noooo
― computer champion (harbl), Friday, 12 June 2015 23:57 (eight years ago) link
the one on growing up trans was v good
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 5 July 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link
Agree. It was interesting to see how the emotional vocabulary of the kids featured in the movie is soooo much more rich than when I was growing up. Even the boys who suggested to Alex that he burp more and ignore girls. It was really good!
― La Lechera, Sunday, 5 July 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
i think they deliberately chose, not only kids who were especially articulate, but -- perhaps more cynically -- kids who were unusually attractive in/as their 'new' gender.
it was very powerful and raised some very difficult questions. the psychologists (psychiatrists?) were very supportive and sensitive and yet i couldn't help but detect a kind of cheerleading that, seen from a different perspective, might seem troubling.
i think the key point in the documentary was the dad (?) who said that they were making the best choices in the absence of a lot of solid answers (answers that science may one day provide).
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 5 July 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
interesting that the doc essentially offered two endings, one notably ambivalent and the other brightly optimistic
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 5 July 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
the perspective of the somewhat older dude who admitted its really tough to gauge/appreciate irreversible changes as a young-er person was interesting, like that juxtoposed w the eagerness these kids have to take hormones is def kinda unsettling
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 5 July 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
xxp yea the clinician cheerleading too
the perspective of the somewhat older dude who admitted its really tough to gauge/appreciate irreversible changes as a young-er person was interesting, like that juxtoposed w the eagerness these kids have to take hormones is def kinda unsettling― johnny crunch, Sunday, July 5, 2015 4:16 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― johnny crunch, Sunday, July 5, 2015 4:16 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes, and you have to contrast this perspective with the fact (?) that undergoing these hormonal treatments in adolescence can make the transition easier than undergoing them in adulthood.
what's interesting to me is the seeming consensus among psychologists that gender dysphoria is a "thing"--that is, some kind of irreducible, discrete, empirically observable phenomenon that can't be reversed or placated. which it might be, but the psychiatric profession has a history of deciding such things when they turn out to be, at least, much more complex.
there's also the issue--which wasn't really broached in the documentary--about the relationship between gender and sex. is it just that people who have a sexual dysphoria inevitably express it in terms of the dominant cultural signifiers of that gender?
the mix of culture and biology here is so fraught....
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 5 July 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
that is, is it possible to desire to be another sex w/o assuming the dominant cultural characteristics of the gender generally associated with that sex? or does the desire to change one's sex (via hormones, surgery, etc.) follow from the desire to achieve those characteristics?
i'm not a hardcore cultural constructionist though and i'm comfortable with the idea that some of the cultural manisfestation of gender are a more or less natural, or rather evolutionary, extension of sex. but that assumption definitely flies in the face of some of the more radical implications of the queering of gender that a lot of activists have been invested in for a long time.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Sunday, 5 July 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
If you're interested in the topic, Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree has a chapter about transgender kids (and their parents). The book is indispensable as an empathy-generating force. It's really great.
― La Lechera, Sunday, 5 July 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
heeeeey http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/immigration-2/rape-in-the-fields/female-farm-workers-awarded-17-million-in-florida-abuse-case/
― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 September 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
Exxon that climate change was real in 1977. Hope this expanded into a full hour-long episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppfpFZ92JAY
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 September 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
Inside Assad's Syria is on in just a few
― goole, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 01:41 (eight years ago) link
RIP Robin Poor Bear/Kind Hearted Womanhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/robin-poor-bear-1977-2015/
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 December 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
Oh wow, so sad.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 3 December 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
i know, i can't stop thinking about itif you haven't checked out David Sutherland's other documentaries, they are all great. i've wondered and worried for years about the kids in Country Boysi hope Robin is at peace
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 December 2015 22:23 (eight years ago) link
Oh nooooo :(
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Friday, 4 December 2015 01:12 (eight years ago) link
Shit.... :( :(
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 December 2015 06:55 (eight years ago) link
I'm trying to watch "Separate But Unequal" about the resegregation of public schools, and I know I should be able to at least listen to this as I fold laundry but I just want to punch every one of these white men in the fucking face.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Sunday, 20 December 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
you should occasionally glance at the screen so you know what they look like -- that way if you see them irl you can punch them in the face :)
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Sunday, 20 December 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link