This Is Where I Leave You

[yoco]

Release Date: September 12, 2014
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Shawn Levy
Screenwriter: Jonathan Tropper
Starring: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne, Corey Stoll, Kathryn Hahn, Abigail Spencer, Dax Shepard, Jane Fonda
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for language, sexual content and some drug use)

When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide—driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves.

[SealLion]

MPAA Rating: R (for language, sexual content and some drug use)

Glorifying debauchery is what the heading should be. Sounds more like the movie industry is continuing it's drive for over-the-top drug use and hedonistic acts in the filming industry. Looks like nothing can derail it. And then you get film critics (supposedly the professional kind that are paid by industry to navigate people into lower quality films that Hollywood (and perhaps even Bollywood?) is guilty of producing. What follows then of course is the usual track of claiming the producer a brilliant film-maker.

And it's not just in movies. It's also in TV shows and music marketed to younger crowds. And some people think that it's just music. Just music. I think that people fail to recognize the impact that media has on the mind of people. Film and other media industry display a complete lack of ethics. That ethics is replaced by their god, which is the almighty dollar in profit. Profit is more important than a sense of ethics. Profit is abundantly more important than the influenced lives of people and the potential damage they may suffer as a result of what they don't consciously recognize as the glorifying of drug use, alcohol use, sexual exploitation, abuse, degradation of language use, etc.

Ethics is only convenient when needed. Another thing is that the excuse from filmmakers is that they must remain free to express their art in realistic ways to maintain their integrity. Sounds like horse-hockey to me. Ever seen horses play hockey??

Let me explain this a little bit differently. There are messages that the movie and music industry indulges in. Those message are loud and clear: drugs, along with fast cars, bikini-clad women (or sometimes barely dressed but lacking any underwear) adorned with lots of bling and splash, are all part of an envious lifestyle that only the so called “in crowd” can afford to indulge in. You might also hear or experience from that movie and music industry nonsense on the lines that musicians need booze or drugs to experience inspiration to create their music. Music that might make it to the top 10 charts but is very quickly replaced by something else by someone else. The message produced further on down the line is that if someone wants to be an artist, they must smoke some weed or drink themselves to drunkenness to experience any sense of inspiration. Do you see where this all leads to??

Whitney Houston became an out-of-control drug and alcohol user abuser who eventually passed away in 2012. I do believe that the coroner’s report showed her to have died of a cocaine overdose while drowning in a bath tub. When you hear of news of celebs doing drugs, the message being presented is that if celebs do drugs, then it's OK for you to do drugs too.

In the music industry, glorifying drug use has risen with the influence that rap music has. Many references in rap music glorifying drug use is of course coded. The unfortunate thing in all of this is that some of these artists are seen or portrayed as role-models. So I guess the model being presented again is that it's OK to do drugs because it's in the music being sung about. Drug references within music has increased to phenomenally ridiculous levels.

Glorifying drug use in both film and music industry basically means: 'let's all get half-baked but be twice as nice". Basically, the trick to walking on water is taking enough mescaline and cannabis. It's the only evidence there will ever be that you were baked out of your mind.

When you hear of coded lyrics or see drug use in films, just think that you too can become like Kublai Khan and juice yourself up and tear down that Great Wall of China with your bare hands. The only reason why Jimmy Hendrix became cool is because he used drugs. With enough promotion of said drug use, you too can be elevated from user to abuser. Only the cool die young.

[slikrapid]

@SealLion:

Glorifying debauchery...over-the-top drug use and hedonistic acts ...And it's not just in movies. It's also in TV shows and music marketed to younger crowds....people fail to recognize the impact that media has on the mind of people.

and there you have it, influencing those that are the easiest to manipulate/indoctrinate: teenagers (recently, so-called 'young adults' - notice the pandering) and the younger, more inexperienced crowd - this practice is not only limited to the entertainment industry, it goes all the way to the core of the educational system (example: EU plans officially insist on sexual 'education' from birth no less)

in other words, it is not enough to spread propaganda onto the adults, gotta prepare the next generations while they are young - notice that this preparation is a normal parenting process, perverted into a 3rd party (government & co.) indoctrination vehicle

There are messages that the movie and music industry indulges in. Those message are loud and clear: drugs, along with fast cars, bikini-clad women (or sometimes barely dressed but lacking any underwear) adorned with lots of bling and splash, are all part of an envious lifestyle that only the so called “in crowd” can afford to indulge in. You might also hear or experience from that movie and music industry nonsense on the lines that musicians need booze or drugs to experience inspiration to create their music.

installing/supporting an even more superficial materialist worldview than that which we are all born in(to), or selling false rebellion/revolution while supporting the old system, thus moving the focus on mind-less fun/escapism in life from the usual, often mind-numbing work/jobs/routines in life, forgetting or neglecting the most important: exploring the meaning of life - ironically, the last one is key to properly understanding and dealing with the other two

another thought comes to mind: the usual 'idle hands' problem solved by giving them something 'fun/escapist to do'

Basically, the trick to walking on water is taking enough mescaline and cannabis.

the trick to obscuring their purpose is to ban, vilify and distort their significance/usage/history, build another haystack over the needle - historically mescaline-related plants were used for shamanistic rituals (nothing strange about that, it was a normal part of their society), whereas cannabis had a number of other uses from clothing to construction, up to less than a century ago, when through active indoctrination it suddenly got a reputation of some dangerous plant/substance that has to be avoided/banned at all costs

as for non-metaphorical 'walking on water', it could be done via tricks (illusionist tricks), hallucinogens (that allow such kind of an experience, possibly mescaline), levitation (if you can master something like that), dreams (lucid dreaming, where you can shape the dreams while being conscious of them) - notice that simply 'believing in being able to do it' will not be sufficient for any of these examples, a significant amount of skill is required

Only the cool die young.

says hollywood, whereas in the real world:
those that died young were either foolish (willingly increasing one's burden) or already had a heavy karmic burden (universal causal/cause-effect mechanism) - this applies to any (young) age and obviously there's nothing cool about being foolish or heavily burdened

notes:
- this 'burden' has no positive or negative connotation, its simply a fact of life
- notice that the former explanation is contained within the latter
- i'd say that's what was meant by the saying 'carrying one's cross', though the context there is always? related to suffering (ie. negative)