Tag: psychology
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IS PUTIN TOO OLD TO WAGE HIS (WORLD?) WAR? (+COMPARISON WITH STALIN AND HITLER)
Putin’s age might be more significant in this matter than you think. Vladimir Putin is now 69 years old. At the beginning of World War II, in 1939, Hitler was 50, and his then ally, Stalin, was 60. That’s more than a decade less than Putin is right now, and in Hitler’s case almost 2…
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NAOKI URASAWA’S “MONSTER” AND INSPECTOR COLUMBO – INFLUENCES
Some musings on the possible influences of Columbo in general, and its episode A Stitch in Crime (1973) in particular on Naoki Urasawa’s Monster manga and anime series. While there are many influences of Osamu Tezuka’s MW in Monster, the Dr Tenma ‘hospital subplot’, Dr Tenma’s relation to the police, and especially to Inspector Lunge…
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COLUMBO – “ÉTUDE IN BLACK” (1972) OR HOW HAVING NARCISSISTIC PARENTS PREDISPOSES YOU FOR GASLIGHTING
Lunch with Mom – the sad resignation in the eyes – I just love it! “Just don’t rely on your woman’s intuition. It’s never correct.” Alex Benedict (the murderer of the episode to his constantly gaslit wife) Columbo’s murderers usually seem to be quite high in narcissistic personality traits, so it should not come as…
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4 REASONS AND JUST ONE MORE THING WHY INSPECTOR COLUMBO IS THE SAME AS THE POWERFUL MEN HE CATCHES
Two peas in a pod. (still from the pilot “Prescription Murder”) Columbo is always catching the same person, while also at the same time being that person. But the prey never catches on until it’s too late. 1. HE IS A LEIUTENANT IN THE POLICE AND ALWAYS THE ONE IN CHARGE OF THE INVESTIGATION To…
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INSPECTOR COLUMBO – BEST DEPICTION OF HOW POLICE ACTUALLY WORKS?
Inspector Columbo’s investigation is not really an investigation, but an interrogation. In recent times the YouTube channel JCS (Jim Can’t Swim) really popularized true crime in a rather different format – instead of just biographical information about the victims and killers and the descriptions of the crimes themselves, we got to join in on some…
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IS THE CREW OF PROMETHEUS REALLY THAT STUPID? (PROMETHEUS (2012) AND ALIEN (1979))
A part of the crew act stupid because they have too much faith (mainly, doctors Holloway and Peter Weyland), while the other part because they have too little (they don’t think they will find anything on the planet, or at least not anything alive, and certainly not intelligent life). However, just as the original Alien…
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EMPEROR PALPATINE – THE MEDICINE MAN TOTALITARIAN LEADER (JUNGIAN TYPES OF DICTATORS)
“There are two kinds of dictators—the chieftain type and the medicine man type. Hitler is the latter. He is a medium. German policy is not made; it is revealed through Hitler. He is the mouthpiece of the gods as of old. He says theword which expresses everybody’s resentment.” Jung Speaking “I have foreseen it.” The…
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THE ONE SCENE THAT MAKES YOU RETHINK “THE THING” (1982)
Hm. How intelligent is the Thing, again? And does it actually just want to leave – to space? Should we let it? Guys, maybe better not destroy that spaceship… While watching John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) you eventually get to the scene where the Thing apparently constructed a spaceship, and it kind of makes you…
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KIRK IS A SMALL-TOWN BOY (STAR TREK: COLONIZATION FOR THE SAKE OF DEPOPULATION AND ECOLOGY?)
This Side of Paradise – I’ll leave it at that. In this universe, planets are not equivalents of states but of small (American) towns. And it’s pretty awesome. One of the things that I love about Star Trek (at least TOS, TNG and DS9) the most is that in it the human race has solved…
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FATE ZERO- CONVERSATIONS WITH THE SHADOW, OR WHY IN THE GRAIL WAR EVERYONE IS ACTUALLY A WINNER (JUNGIAN IDEAS)
“Illuminating” pieces, aren’t they? Everyone in Fate Zero is a winner because everyone learns something about themselves, even while they die. The Grail is primarily a tool of self-discovery, one that makes conversations with the Shadow (the Servants) possible. When I first watched Fate Zero I didn’t like it very much. However, then I watched…
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