What’s a good movie / tv show that escapes the narrative fallacy? I’d like to watch something showing men evolving inside complex, emergent systems, instead of the usual emphasis on the impact and linear story of a lone hero
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oh man, this expresses almost exactly what I want most from my own TV and movie experiences. I’ll share some of my recommendations if you’ll share yours :).
1. The Wire (obviously?) 2. Deadwood. Even better than the Wire on this dimension, IMO. 3. Boyhood. Probably my favorite movie of all time. 4. The Florida Project. Kinda smaller in scope than the others, but it very much escapes the narrative fallacy.
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Haha looks like we’re very aligned on what constitutes a good show / movie
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Now that I think of it you may not like Boyhood since it’s very linear and focused on one character. But what I love about it is that things don’t always happen for a narrative reason.
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From other conversations, I’ve also gotten: 1. Treme 2. Generation Kill 3. The Corner
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David Simon ftw
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These fall into three of my favorite made up genres - structuralism - structuralism - slice of life - cobstraint
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Oh yeah, good to differentiate structuralism from slice of life. They both do something similar for me but I could imagine someone liking one but not the other. What is constraint? (Or did you mean cobstraint?
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