Trying to change the world, one movie at a time (and other things)
Trying to save the world, one movie at a time (and other things)
As much as I can without getting into trouble, I would also like to use this blog to talk about my job as a teacher. But before I get into any specifics, I wanted to explain why I became a teacher in the first place.
Read MoreWithin my project to watch any movie I’ve missed in the last 7 years (since I've become a teacher and time has become increasingly shorter), I started a new project for myself. Watching a random movie from a certain decade, that I haven’t seen yet, to see how far it represents its time. We start with my favourite decade: the 60s.
Read MoreGreat article on street art in Brazil showing the discontent with the World Cup.
Read MoreI like to listen to podcasts on my way to work and one of them is “How Did This Get Made” which deals with bad movies. I like bad movies, either because they are funny or because there is a big fascination with, well, how they got made and ended up so bad. The podcast is often funny, so I don’t want to miss out and slowly watch all the bad movies they talk about. Which is a bit masochistic I guess.
Read MoreAfter reading about the anniversary protests in Turkey at the moment, I wondered that this has been featured so strongly in German media. Sure, Germany has a higher interest in Turkey than in most other countries but it reminded me again how one-sided and hysteria-driven the media can be and mostly is. Because at least since the Arab Spring and Occupy in 2011, protest movements have become as strong as they haven’t been since the 60s. Especially since they happen all around the world and cannot be centered on one idea but reflect the general unhappiness of people with our society. So I wondered if those protests in Turkey are really the only ones worth reporting about right now. Well, they’re not. So I googled “protests” in GoogleNews and here’s what I found on one day.
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This movie caught me somewhat by surprise. I expected to like it but not to love it. I love it! It’s fucking brilliant! (and it uses the f-word more than any other movie in movie history, so there you go).
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I had read so much about Man of Steel that I was surprised how angry it made me anyway. Here’s why:
Read MoreSeeing Noam Chomsky live is not something I expected to do in my life, but now I did and the inspiration his words generated in me lead me here. Why?
Read MoreA blog about saving the world by looking at movies, music, comics, books, school and anything else connected to society.
Who is this?
David Turgay, teacher and writer from Germany, writing about things he thinks about too much, mostly movies, comics, books and school. And now this podcast.
