Nick Makiej 🧑🎨
@MakiejStudio
Artist and icon painter | 🕊️ Writing about creativity, perception, and meaning
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you can train your soul. healing from old ways is always possible, so long as a person remains open enough to believe it’s possible to dismiss the demons behind them in the mirror.
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In so far as your Christianity is tied to modernity, the collapse of modernity will take you with it.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day might be the most explicitly Jordan Peterson-messaged movie I’ve ever seen.
Insightful. Truth is found on the journey of restoring mistakes.
Like the japanese process of kintsugi, or, the monks on Mount Athos say—in response to what it is they do on the Holy Mountain— "we fall down, and we get back up ... we fall down, and we get back up."
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The primary reason people don't achieve big goals is because they don't realize that the only source of truth is making mistakes. They soak up advice and theory, expecting it to be an exact match to their mind, experience, and situation just to fail once and give up completely.
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life looks (honestly) a lot more like scratching it out with pen than erasing it with pencil …
There’s great beauty in something like kintsugi pottery than something without blemish.
purity has its place, of course. But the texture healed-brokenness carries a raw honesty.
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Break bad patterns and adopt new, good patterns. But you need to examine your own heart and be honest. Not a little bit honest, not overly honest ... just, honest. Real honesty is brutal. It's not out to hurt you, it's meant to bring you into the light of soul-examination.
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Yes, bold claim. But no “evidence” is needed except the vision to see it when watching the film.
So Michael Knowles and Johnathan Pageau believe that Christopher Nolan embodied Odysseus, he played the fool while decieving the film industry, critics, the cast, the studios, the press, and the public in a grand strategy to restore tradition and win Oscar's, through the Trojan horse of postmodern deconstructionism and DEI.
This is a bold claim, I need strong evidence.
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Going to see the Odyssey tomorrow. YT review by @PageauJonathan & @IAMALITABRIZI ‘s reaction have me feeling primed for a proper experience.
It’s definitely a woke conspiracy to undermine western civilization. But it might also be a powerful archetypal story of the return of the father that will have a radically different effect.
I see what you mean, but it's also an expression of care for the craft of making a film; to make possible the highest quality presentation of the film. Naturally, there will be a degree of sacrifice on the accessibility for that specific IMAX format.
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Cool. Now this has me wondering about what comes next after Nolan's "trojan horse" (as per @PageauJonathan 's review of The Odyssey)
Remember that Sylvester Stallone wrote Rocky because he was tired of “anti-Christ” stories in Hollywood.
That’s his words, not mine.
Rocky’s hopeful message changed the next decade of culture.
Star Wars came out the next year. Then Superman.
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glad someone pointed this out haha. this thing is compelling because it feeds our short attention spans and speaks to our souls simultaneously.
This is incredible. Let us not forget that the reason this works is all the human art used to create the most resonant images within it. And that human art comes from masters from the old world whose skill and knowledge we can barely even imagine today.
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Probably best to withhold that judgement at least until you've seen the film yourself 🤷♂️
Wow. Odyssey debuts at 98% rotten tomatoes. Last month we got Spielberg's late-stage boomer propaganda. This month we have something of actual cultural importance.
We are looking for engineers, welders, and workers ready to follow us to the ends of the Earth and build classical megastructures that defy this age of apathy.
After months of hard work, we’re proud to unveil the statue we’ll build to honor the 250th anniversary of the United States.
The Guardian of Liberty.
What you see here is just the scale model. The real one will be gigantic, the tallest statue in the West.
So many people have offered to fund it, but the real challenge will be getting visas so we can build it on American soil.
Finishing it in less than a year won’t be easy… but as Napoleon once said, “Impossible is not French!”
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tbh to successfully hit reach the lowest common denominator and tell a compelling story is a massive creative feat. Odyssey and then Resurrection early next year signals a massive cultural shift
Christopher Nolan: I think the modern audience is a bunch of drooling retards and I need to reach the lowest common denominator.
Mel Gibson: Fuck man, I'm not even sure if we should have subtitles and just let the audience feel the movie.
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The observation that Nolan's Odyssey is itself a trojan horse; a meta trick to tell a powerful, traditional story ... that's a reason to go see a movie if i've ever heard one. Nolan aimed at the heart of our world with this one, it seems. @PageauJonathan
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That Elliot actually decided to do this role seems to prove the point that it’s a masterstroke on the creative and practical part of Nolan as director.
And that it has struck a nerve with the culture this much even before official release says a lot.
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Sinon is the one who is tricked in this version. Tricked by Odysseus into delivering the Trojan Horse. He is also presented as the shameful replacement of a man who is refusing to play his manly role in society. Nolan puts the shame on men who have abandoned their responsibilities and not the "troon", which is absolutely right.
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What’s important?
- endeavoring to be correct and aiming for objective Truth
- finding unity with others through a process of conformity with the ‘average truths’ of the collective.
