Synopsis
A quiet, quarantine special made from relaxing old footage and narrated by comedian Joe Pera, featuring trees, waterfalls, and Japanese monkeys.
2020 Directed by Marty Schousboe
A quiet, quarantine special made from relaxing old footage and narrated by comedian Joe Pera, featuring trees, waterfalls, and Japanese monkeys.
There's a part where he beautifully explains that we separate everything with routine and that time is a neverending line that cannot be penetrated. He also explains that when most animals eat apples they're trying to get drunk.
"Anyway, Ive been taking a lot of comfort lately from the second law of thermal dynamics."
Cried my eyes out when "Your Dog" by Advance Base played. I don't think anyone has captured how my brain works, and what helps it, better than Joe Pera. The small fixations that invoke calmness and pattern, the sincerity and kindness, it could almost be designed specifically for me, but better than that, it exists for so many who can get the same feelings I do out of it. Closeness and understanding. Joe Pera Talks With You is still so special to me and my experience with autism, and once again I'm reminded why that is.
Dialectical and historical materialism framed through a nature documentary. Envelope yourself in this and kiss your pet(s) goodnight. 💖💖💖💖
not sure if this is the only movie that matters, but it is the only movie that matters to me right now. a warm hug put to film, just relaxing earnest comedy combined with nature footage. if i ever wanted to make movies, they'd be similar to something like this.
really incredible that, during the first months of quarantine, joe pera and i separately, unknowing of the other, got back into Austin Powers and thought a lot about a trees branded television channel that would occasionally show nba games
I have to admit, there was a sense of melancholy to watching this as this was one of the last films my friend, Eli Hayes, logged on this very website. On my birthday no less. I wonder what he was thinking when he watched this. He would die only a few days after logging it, making this his third to last film. I hope he had a nice time watching it. I think about Eli a lot. It makes me sad that he’s gone. I wonder what he would be doing right now. So much as happened since May. I turned 21 in May and I wonder what the rest of the year would have been like for him. If somehow you’re reading this, Eli, just know we miss you a lot.
(...) my routine is what stands between me and the abyss
i had a shitty day, where i felt like an uselessness with legs (in fact, it almost caused a fire in my house, which thank goodness i could solve in time thanks to some neighbors). so this was just what i needed.
yes, the world falls apart, but this work reminds us that finding relief and comfort in the small details of reality can also be an act of resistance. not to allow ourselves to be bowed down by those who, through their constant oppression, hope to take away even our daily carnival. joy and affection are almost the only things we have left.
a movie like a tight…
Joe Pera is the pinnacle of comfort entertainment. How he manages to be so relaxing and soothing without putting me to sleep is beyond explanation.
OH it's like cameraperson thats what it reminded me of. unused footage assembled into a travelogue/portrait; sheep footage - wow it took me a long time to put together what this reminds me of. anyways this is my nth time watching it its just wonderful. the only quarantine art i dont resent
the advance base - your dog part gets me choked up every single time. hope everyone's having a good snow day
"I swear that there were some days
It felt like I was only
Coming around for your dog"
"Alright, take care and goodnight"
Perfect thing to watch on a cold Sunday night with a warm bowl of homemade chili
✍🏽 animals ✍🏽try ✍🏽 to✍🏽 find ✍🏽 fermented ✍🏽 apples ✍🏽 to ✍🏽 purposely ✍🏽 get✍🏽drunk ✍🏽
“Reminds me about a story I read called Axolotl, and it's about a man who becomes an axolotl. In the story he goes and stares at it every day at the zoo until one day they suddenly change places. I've only read a little bit of Kafka, but I think that would be considered Kafkaesque because that's what they say when a human turns into an animal. It's based on his story, The Bug.
Beauty and the Beast? Kafkaesque.
Axolotl contained perhaps the best description of a lizard I've ever read: “I saw the rosy little body, translucent— ending in a fish's tail of extraordinary delicacy then I discovered its eyes. Its face, inexpressive features with no other trait, save…
Like a blend of How To With John Wilson and Joe Pera's own Joe Pera Talks To You. Never has a title of a 'movie' been so representative of its content. It's life assuring, it's philosophical, it's essential, it's amazing.
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