Category: Awareness
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Thermae Romae: How Mixing Different Cultures Can Bring New Ideas to Life
Read more: Thermae Romae: How Mixing Different Cultures Can Bring New Ideas to LifeThermae Romae is a 2012 live-action film adaptation of the Japanese manga by Mari Yamazaki. It is a comedy that tells the improbable story of Lucius, an ancient Roman architect struggling with inspiration, who discovers a passage leading to a modern Japanese bathhouse. The mangaka’s experiences living in various countries, including Italy, clearly influenced the…
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the world beyond the narrow confines of individual experience.
Read more: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the world beyond the narrow confines of individual experience.We are one humankind sharing one planet. This book, written by Yuval Noah Harari, is based on a series of lectures he gave at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It was first released in Hebrew in 2011 and later in English in 2014. I discovered it during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time when many of…
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The Simpsons Movie: If Homer Can Change and Become More Conscious, Then So Can We All!
Read more: The Simpsons Movie: If Homer Can Change and Become More Conscious, Then So Can We All!The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 American animated comedy film based on the iconic Fox sitcom The Simpsons, created by Matt Groening. The show has been running since 1989 and has accumulated more than 800 episodes! To be honest, I haven’t seen them all—and that’s precisely one of the reasons I chose to focus a…
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Beach Boys: How can reconnecting to nature and calm help us think about our mistakes and how to overcome them?
Read more: Beach Boys: How can reconnecting to nature and calm help us think about our mistakes and how to overcome them?Beach Boys is a Japanese drama that was broadcast in 1997. I watched it from France after discovering the drama GTO, which features the same lead actor. It also stars Ryoko Hirosue in one of her first roles. Recently, she made headlines after an incident involving a nurse in a hospital, for which she was…
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Show me how to live: how do we forget that our own existence influences the behavior of others?
Read more: Show me how to live: how do we forget that our own existence influences the behavior of others?“Show Me How to Live” is a song by the supergroup Audioslave, released in 2003. This piece tells the classic tale of Frankenstein’s monster. As with all poetry or song lyrics, interpretations are as varied as the minds reflecting upon them. In Frankenstein, after bringing the creature to life, Dr. Victor Frankenstein flees, abandoning the…
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Pay It Forward: Can this simple concept be adapted to truly work in real life?
Read more: Pay It Forward: Can this simple concept be adapted to truly work in real life?Pay It Forward is a 2000 American romantic drama film directed by Mimi Leder, based on a novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde. I was recommended this movie by a friend, as its story shared certain similarities with the goal of One Daily Tale: making the world a better place. The story follows Trevor, a seventh-grade…
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My Boss My Hero: a cute and funny story about the role of education throughout a lifetime and the influence of the place we live in
Read more: My Boss My Hero: a cute and funny story about the role of education throughout a lifetime and the influence of the place we live inMy Boss My Hero is a Japanese television drama broadcast in 2006, adapted from a South Korean film of the same name. It follows Makio, a 27-year-old yakuza gangster, who must return to high school and graduate in order to succeed his father as the next head of the gang. What begins as a comedic…
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Does the sad story of Secret of Mana reveal the tragic outcome for the younger generations and the state of our planet?
Read more: Does the sad story of Secret of Mana reveal the tragic outcome for the younger generations and the state of our planet?Secret of Mana, originally released in Japan as Seiken Densetsu 2, is a 1993 action role-playing game developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is the sequel to Final Fantasy Adventure (Mystic Quest) released on Gameboy. The game allows three players to play simultaneously, following the journey of a boy,…
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Dogma: can a controversial movie be a wake-up call by raising questions about blindly following religions?
Read more: Dogma: can a controversial movie be a wake-up call by raising questions about blindly following religions?Dogma is a 1999 American fantasy comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith. The film’s irreverent treatment of Catholicism and the Catholic Church triggered considerable controversy, even escalating to the point of death threats against Smith. A satire of the Catholic religion, the plot could easily be extended to encompass any of the major…
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Serial Experiments Lain: Should we be frightened, sad, or optimistic about a world so close to the WIRED?
Read more: Serial Experiments Lain: Should we be frightened, sad, or optimistic about a world so close to the WIRED?Serial Experiments Lain is a Japanese anime television series created and co-produced by Yasuyuki Ueda, written by Chiaki J. Konaka, and directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura. It was first broadcast in Japan in 1998. The show features surreal and avant-garde imagery and explores philosophical topics such as reality, identity, and communication. Its content is highly experimental,…