Morning shows. Don't talk to me about morning shows

decades ago I used to stay up to watch Today, an American syndicated morning show. I was like 😧. The journalism/interviews were better than anything I had seen on ABC or SBS. And then I was 😖The journalism of "trash" American morning shows is better than our best journos.

I'm not saying US morning shows are good now or that I agree with their views.

Oh I've seen Martyrs (the original and the remake), and yeah I agree with you. It felt like the theme was "trauma can make you transcend and see beyond!" Which is fkn gross.

The only barely redeemable quality of that film was the end, where we don't hear what she said to Madame, and it was cryptic. I wanted more of that feeling, not the gratuitous torture the MC endures at the hands of some weird rich people cult.

I feel similar about A Serbian Film. That has no redeemable qualities at all, as well, and I do not believe the creators intent that the film was a comment on the Serbian film industry. It was fkn gross for the sake of being gross, and they should just fkn own that instead of making up reasons as to why it's a "commentary".

I totally understand where that movie is coming from.

if you visit european art museums, churches and city halls they are full of paintings of martyred saints being brutally tortured. Not just a few paintings, so many. For example, the historic town hall of Leuven ( a city famous for Enlightenment values ) has a giant painting in a public room of a guy getting his intestines wound out . Why? These paintings are just hanging there , so many of them, and are totally out of context in space, time and culture.

or maybe it's just a shit movie 🤷‍♀️