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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These fall into three of my favorite made up genres - structuralism - structuralism - slice of life - cobstraint
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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I understand the distinction intuitively, but wonder on what dimension it happens, and what lies further in either direction of that spectrum
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A stab: structuralism shows bigger systemic patterns emerging, whereas slice-of-life just gives you a glimpse into one little (very realistic) corner of something. The Wire is probably the best piece of structuralist fiction. What are some great slice-of-life movies/TV shows?
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Constraint is movies where characters are struggling against the constraints of world on them. It makes viewers feel uncomfortable because it's unjust. Like trying to struggle but being tied down. I think they're very interesting category because most of us are relatively not
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Constrained in life. So seeing movies that incept you with that feeling is important. To remember what it feels like. And helps people understand what that must feel like in others who are under those constraints
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Yeah for sure! Think some slice of life can be structuralism or constraint. But others fall into lowvariance/no-low category. I enjoy both. But def different feelings of them. And have not perfected these genres so Def some overlap between them
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