Do animals talk in this dimension?

[sovay]

I had been looking forward for several months to tonight's screening of Scarred Hearts (Inimi cicatrizate, 2016) at the HFA, but at the last minute I decided that perhaps I did not actually feel like watching a movie about being chronically-terminally ill in the face of rising fascism and instead spatch and I walked to the Brattle Theatre and saw Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018).

I'm delighted we did. It was great. The visuals were as excellent as promised and the storytelling just as strong. I may or may not write up it properly whenever my ability to think returns, but it was definitely a better choice than TB and World War II.

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[sovay]

Max Blecher and Scarred Hearts must be one of those “notice a character actor and suddenly they’re everywhere” situations – I came across mention of the writer two weeks ago, AFAIK for the first time, while googling “spinal tuberculosis.”

I believe it. (What were you Googling spinal tuberculosis for?) I wanted to see it because while I've never read the novel, it's been on the edges of my radar for some time now for obvious reasons, and the film was reviewed interestingly in its own right. I think it's still okay that it's not what I put in my brain last night, though.

[moon_custafer]

(What were you Googling spinal tuberculosis for?)

Fic research, according to the Law of Fiction which states that you can handwave the big stuff as long as the little details ring true, and that therefore the vast majority of story research is done to confirm that some throwaway line, not at all necessary to the main plot, is plausible.

[sovay]

therefore the vast majority of story research is done to confirm that some throwaway line, not at all necessary to the main plot, is plausible.

I hear that.