Living in an Age of Extinction | The Screening Room

Living in an Age of Extinction | The Screening Room | The New Yorker

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In “Sad Beauty,” directed by Arjan Brentjes, a young artist contracts a deadly bacterial infection and begins to see hallucinatory messages from the natural world.
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Living in an Age of Extinction | The Screening Room | The New Yorker

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@carpo719 2 жыл бұрын

This was wonderfully uplifting!

@tubeboob 2 жыл бұрын

Once there were parking lots Now it's a peaceful oasis You've got it, you've got it This was a Pizza Hut Now it's all covered with daisies You got it, you got it I miss the honky tonks, Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens You got it, you got it And as things fell apart Nobody paid much attention You got it, you got it

@ninamo3523 2 жыл бұрын

David Byrne

@kathyerickson9402 2 жыл бұрын

"Sad Beauty" is a perfect title. This is where we are heading. It's just a matter of how long it takes to get there and how painful it is along the way.

@springhillgolfer878 2 жыл бұрын

Good one, New Yorker.

@krokodyl1927 2 жыл бұрын

This is an all too real scenario of today’s times. 😬

@johnsmith1474 2 жыл бұрын

You are delusional, there is no analogy here to today's times. This is closer to polluted, antibiotic-less Victorian England.

@krokodyl1927 2 жыл бұрын

John Smith No, I’m not delusional. The evolution of pathogens is slowly but surely outpacing our evolution of medicines effective in the eradication of said pathogens. Do some research and I’m certain you’ll agree. Btw, I’m a retired RN on a liver transplant wait list. Two out of six known strains of hepatitis C that happened to be the most difficult to eradicate (three attempts over 4 1/2 years finally worked, but they destroyed my liver). Currently, there are at least three known pathogens that don’t respond to any medical intervention. Stay safe and well. ✨

@Queenie-the-genie 2 жыл бұрын

thankyou… this was beautiful. ☺️

@lossecretosdemerlina 2 жыл бұрын

This is my biggest hope. ♥

@lunaluna6474 2 жыл бұрын

this is so depressing and what i truly hope to not go through but know its inevitable.. (grateful for the happy ending tho)

@JustinC905 2 жыл бұрын

We thrive to survive. To die a death, to live again. In memory, sorrow. Eternity. Tomorrow. Habitat emerges, survives, and the cycle persists to flourish like the blooming flower.

@johnsmith1474 2 жыл бұрын

Ha, bad poetry corner.

@advocacynaccountablity 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. I can hear this in a poignant rap - the kind Tupac created.

@advocacynaccountablity 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnsmith1474 Nah, man. You're wrong.

@aneebaba06 2 жыл бұрын

This was amazing. So powerful and poignant. We've done so much damage.

@lettucesalad3560 2 жыл бұрын

Even the giraffes survived! OMG

@adolfolopezmartinez3696 2 жыл бұрын

Wow...we unwittingly are destroying our amazing world! It saddens me!

@JWFdocumentaries 2 жыл бұрын

im deeply shook

@madjidnouri-tv8cq 3 ай бұрын

butterfly thanks🌹

@jenmorricone4014 2 жыл бұрын

Bravo!! I just hope nature will survive our murderous reign.

@johnsmith1474 2 жыл бұрын

This is idiotic on it's face.

@johnlongtonguenogagreflex827 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnsmith1474 Keep calm

@ZxZ239 2 жыл бұрын

Well...that was depressing

@peterdanielman 2 жыл бұрын

Nice apartment!

@dwoods5688 2 жыл бұрын

The Hydra in plain sight.

@jollyelmroot 2 жыл бұрын

Wow it go up

@Alok_raj 2 жыл бұрын

❤️

@themaestrodamus 2 жыл бұрын

Geeez New Yorker

@SPOOPINATURAL 2 жыл бұрын

dang

@dwoods5688 2 жыл бұрын

This now. Hydra in the blood. How did it get there? She past through a lot of Gates didn't she and she became much more ill after she got into hospital.

@MysticGwen 2 жыл бұрын

I concur D.W. 🤙😉🖖

@RWATERS123 2 жыл бұрын

Take your meds.

@lunaluna6474 2 жыл бұрын

existential crisis here we come

@madjidnouri-tv8cq 3 ай бұрын

welcome👋

@oksanaspb5408 2 жыл бұрын

It's scary somehow........

@spinosaurusstriker 11 ай бұрын

that's the smallest spinosaurus skeleton ive seen

@nmjp75 2 жыл бұрын

Upper West side

@mangakara2519 2 жыл бұрын

bitstrips old bitmoji lookin art style

@jamesonpace726 2 жыл бұрын

Woo-hoo....

@starcrib Жыл бұрын

Yup. We are the extinction level events. 🦖☄️

@_aworldthatspoke950 2 жыл бұрын

When do we queue for cures of anthrax?

@yourfriendwill 2 жыл бұрын

inshallah

@user-bs4sm6uv2b 2 жыл бұрын

123

@jagarfi 2 жыл бұрын

:'(

@idiotphobia5493 11 ай бұрын

SHE DIES????

@JWFdocumentaries 2 жыл бұрын

Cities are the problem. None of this pollution would exist if we never built such large modern cities. Even if you're a walk-about-town citizen with a plant on your terrance and an art gig. It's where we choose to live that's the problem. Cities aren't romantic anymore. Being a New Yorker is no longer a badge of honor. We are the problem.

@johnsmith1474 2 жыл бұрын

It's not about pollution, the pollution was an incoherent addition not explained. The woman dies of a disease. But I agree you (NYC) are a problem, you (LA, DC etc.) suck the air out of the nation and enforce a sort of groupthink about tolerating and obeying corporate overlordship that is detrimental to human progress.

@JawnCoaltrain 2 жыл бұрын

You’re both dead wrong.

@eberlyhills 2 жыл бұрын

Dude @JWFDocumentaries) you are so wrong about cities. Sprawl is what’s killing us. Endless suburbs expanding into exurbs with McMansions that are completely dependent on individual car ownership is killing us and nature. 8 million people living in a high-density city like NYC with 300 square miles is vastly superior for the environmental surroundings that 8 million people spread out over 10,000 square miles. Endless roads, utility piping, large inefficient homes, and more is destroying the future of this country (USA).

@ScepticalSkeptic 2 жыл бұрын

#HORSESHIT

@johnsmith1474 2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully produced with fine style, even as it completely lacks any coherent message outside that artists may be given to fever dreams including the type that produce incoherent 10 min cartoons. Thought through: the closing insinuation is that long term, everything bounces back after humans die off, albeit in casually perverted form. This is a paltry conjecture for a story, and odd given that the only character seems undeserving of a foul end. Perhaps it's punishment for not wearing a mask? Can't be, because all the mask wearers die off too. Beautifully drawn confusion in art deco. What perhaps is most interesting is what the piece dutifully lacks; reference to the very old understanding that we are an animal species whose lives are short in any case, traditional resort to deities in the face of death, or hint of any realistic notion of just how resilient humans are in practice - I don't know of a living organism in history that is fatal to all humans, there always being some natural failure in virulence.