I'm Marco Stronetti. I'm a student of computer science at the University of Pisa, and I'm here today to Yeah, can you hear me? Okay. I'm here today to talk about marionette that is Okay, it's a virtual natural laboratory for teaching purposes. Okay, fine, and Marionette allows you to virtualize a network That's why the name because it allows you to play with the GNU Linux distribution like they were puppets marionettes It's really that easy. So let's see some major features We got a nice and clean GUI that is really unique because there are a few projects of this kind with a GUI for that I think it's really important for students, especially for the first second year students of University and We have a hundred percent real experience. I think that's really it's I'm gonna stress this because Marionette doesn't emulate the single network tools So it doesn't emulate if a config or a p-tables and etcetera. It just emulates a machine So what you do with the machine Is gonna be valuable when you're gonna work on on the real world on the real machine. It's just the same So for students, it's really a good experience that we're gonna use in life And it is written entirely in OCaml. That is a strong type Functional language that is really cool. Though not famous. So if you want to talk about it We can later and of course it's open source. So it is released under the GPL version 2 or later license and Here is the Marionette interface as you can see here. I'm sorry. I have to look but I have to point so Here you can see the on the center. We have the network sketch that is always up to date image of the network topology and on the left we're gonna we have this buttons that allow us to add devices and Sorry Okay, with that menu we are allowed to add remove and modify devices as well as boot suspend or stop them and When for example, we want to add a device. We're gonna be Presented with a menu like this from which we can decide some sort of name or label For example for the machine. We have the amount of memory the number of internet interfaces and The Linux distribution we want to use as of now we support all the Debian but in future another distribution is not difficult so you don't want to welcome if you want to do that and Let's talk a little bit about the other devices. We have machines and hub switches routers and cables both straightforward and crossover and We have this little cloud that is a little particular it represents an unknown network So it can introduce some sort of delays or packet loss packet duplication, but we're gonna see them later And my favorite is the last one that is the day away It is when you plug your virtual network to this word plug You're gonna plug it to your host machines That means that you can connect the virtual network and the virtual network to a real network that is really cool because from then on you can From the outside from the real world You're gonna see the network as it as if it were real so you can give services, etc And on the other hand from within the virtual network You're gonna use the internet that mean you can browse The web or you can use the rpt system That means that in a matter of minutes you can get your machine set up with your favorite software that is really cool and Moreover another nice streak is that you can connect a virtual network for the real network to another virtual network and we streaky but it's Imagine the scenario you have two students working on their virtual networks and they can interact together To I don't know try some some sort of attack or some sort of just client server scenario That's really fun for students and let's see Let's see what happened when you click those to the Maria button. That is the startup everything You're gonna see like 5,000 pop-ups windows that gonna look like this you have an X term for each a machine And you have this low light interface for each natural device That this is really nice because those labs that you see for each at the net ports are not function Unfunctional they're real. They're really gonna blink each time a packet. It's network. It's a network card So it's a really valuable feedback for what's going on your network while it is running and Okay, here we have the anomalies tab that allows for each Device for each port both in world and outward to control the defects we are we're talking earlier So we have the control on the loss the duplication inverse beat and delays as you can see there I made an example I configured the two machines to ping each other and you can see there There is the dup. That means there is a duplication and in the bottom You can see that we have a 20% 23% of packet loss and an average time That is roughly the same as I as I said before So here we can really And reach the student experience with something that you don't really see often in real life. For example, I never saw the duplicate Stuff like that. So it's really useful for students Okay, moreover, we have the disk interface that allows you to through the disk tree to choose the snapshot of the of the Machines that you prefer for example, you can try different configuration file for your software be it Apache or I don't know or a routine a routine algorithm on whatever and you can Shut down the machine boot it up and see what changes well, and For those of you that really can't do without graphical application We'll have that because you can from within the machine you can Launch for example wire shark and he's going to use the X the X server of the host so you can use your graphical application Without really without any kind of trouble. That's your useful for students that maybe are not really comfortable with with a terminal interface Then we have the exam mode. The exam mode is really the only feature of marionette that is teaching specific. It allows you to present the the students with some kind of exercise or tests and The the cool thing is that when you stop the machines and you're in the student save his project In the machine will be triggered a script that save Some configuration file and his brush history file That means that if my teacher when you control and revise the exercises or the test if the network is not working as it is Maybe is just because the the student that but lack with a configuration file But he did a good job so it can really helps you to Understand there how it works during the test and Well, now let's simple talk about we presented a little of marionette a good overview I think and let's see why it started as you know every good piece of software starts because to scratch a developer personal each and Jean-François Lodot is the the founder of the project and the main develop the main developer the leader developer and He started that because he is a teacher of not a computer networks and found some some sort of problem While teaching his classes in laboratories for example adrenal functioning although they can be interesting as we saw them They always come up in runtimes for example during an exam or you have a long time to prepare to set up the network for the students X very expensive hardware for example Cisco staff is not really handy You have no no students have no way to test at home The what did they learned at lessons? They can't make some homework for example and Exercises and tests are really out to prepare and to revise after Students will always be able to exercise only a little network. You can't really have a 50 nodes in your laboratory And moreover each students Can practice only when they have access to the lab that is that means in only in certain times and only few students at the time All this stuff will disappear with my internet I mean in a number of minutes you can put up a network of 10 nodes and start to play with AP tables And it's really really easy and it's gonna be also fun Let's see where it was the project is was done it is It's been developed at the leap new department of the University of Paris trust where the servers now relies and that support the project We have it was done mainly it was started in 2005 Has an interface for the net good project, but it developed later in 2007 in what the internet that we are known now and Especially you have in six months during the time in which Lucas are you join the project it boosts it a lot and In 2008 see there was the here of the truth because the DVD was released the live DVD was released to like 200 students, so there was a major testing and other UTA that are Kind of a university in France started to use the Use the software and so we have we got a lot of feedback Right now. We're just cleaning up code and writing documentation and our tools and but we also have some new ideas coming out I Personally working on the developer documentation and the internationalization as you saw is French early So I'm not really doing a good job right now, but we had some major News last week. So I think in a couple of weeks We're gonna have maronettes in English French and Italian and you welcome to translate it in our languages as well Okay So I'm not one of the orders. I'm just a contributor the two orders are Jean Salodeau and Lucas alu Both are strong advocates of functional programming. That's why you come out and of free software Now, let's see a little how does really maronette work under the hood? Maronette takes advantages of a great number of free software projects that we love free software For the machines we use the UML user modeling and that's allow us to emulate both machines and routers There are nothing more than machine with a quagga software on it And we have the VDA project that's from Rensseldavoli that is here today And he is here for them and tomorrow is gonna give a lighting talk So come and see him and the video allows to emulate cable habs and switches and implements also all the defects That we saw the anomalies Then we are there the maronette network parts that is the core and that's manage all the processes that we saw so manages the machine Both machines and cables and there is the part of the GUI that is written in GTK plus for the interface and in the dot language for the natural sketch that we saw Let's see the cool stuff that maronette does We have the dynamic reconfiguration. That's really unique No other project of this kind allows you to dynamically reconfigure the networks. That means you can unplug Replug cables routers machines Shutdown devices and start them they'll up again, and you will see them the networks evolves in front of you That's really useful and really fun Then given the the big number of processes that Maronette brings up we needed to manage all this stuff So there is a manager of the concurrency of all this project and there is also a death monitor that control that check for Processes if he dies or something like that and maronette won't crash on you. So it's full tolerant Then we have the other defects in both part and why so as we saw earlier We have the gateway to connect to your machine. We have the distribution choice or at least we will and We have the car pluses parts file I don't know if you Familiar with that it allows you basically it allows us to save a lot of disk space because we are talking about files Glimpse distribution file system that means 300 megabytes. It's not really lightweight and Allows us also to make this snapshot that we saw earlier Then we have full GNUX binary compatibility that means that you're working on just a GNUX machine So you can just run on it whatever you like You can start whatever you like and that's really useful. So for testing your own projects your software Then we have the graphical application support as we saw earlier We have the GUI that allows you to set up The network and as you started it it allows you to have some feedback on what's going on We have the exam mode as we saw earlier and we have the file format that is just our archive compressed That is back and full compatible and we have Pinocchio There is a GNUX distribution of just 100 megabytes. So that's that's really short. It's cool and What we see for the future when current working working on Debian packaging That is almost done although we have some problems because we have some really I'm sorry. We have some really heavy stuff to package for example find system and we also rely on other software So we're waiting for the development cycle of VDE etc. So it's quite complicated We're working on machine file system to make them in smaller and We're working on international. I am working on internationalization or at least I'm trying and we have We are both in mind some advanced feature like full-on and firewall NAT and DCP for others And we're also thinking of new devices for example IP phone for SIP and stuff like that So I'm done. I hope you enjoyed it if you have any question just Meet me right now or five minutes if you have any question we can go outside and you can also try maronet if you wish Unfortunately, you can't easily install it right now. There is a guide to compile it. It's really really easy So any question is welcome. Thank you


Let me stay here for you. OK, hi, everybody. OK, so I've been running websites for many, many years. And one thing I actually appreciate is when users actually write to me and say, on this page, there's an error. You should fix it. No, I like that. Because, yeah, there is an error, and I need to fix it. So I fix it straight away. And I write back to them, I say thank you very much. And it's now fixed, and it's now better for everybody. And I think that's a really important attitude for anyone doing any kind of development, that if you've stuffed up in some sort of way, or there are improvements you can make, then you should try to make them. So I'm going to talk about texting images, and I'm going to tell you a little story about what I tried to do, and it was a complete fail. And I'll tell you what I mean. I'm talking about texting images. So the kind of thing I'm talking about is you fire up Photoshop, and you use the type tool, and you type a bit of text on there, and you save it as a JPEG, or a GIF, or a PNG, or something or other, so you have got text on an image. And what I'm here tonight is to say, please don't do it. OK, so case in point, the People's Association sends out emails about promoting the Industry Guru series. So I subscribe to this, and they send me out various mails that look something like this. Now, I read most of my mails when I'm on the train or something on my phone, and I'm trying to read something like this, and it's almost impossible to read on my phone. And there's too many things I have to leave until I get home to read, because it's just impossible to read on the train. And I'll talk about why that is in a minute. It looks fine. Everything's nice and big. We can see what we're doing. It's all pretty, but there's one key problem with it. It's all text on images. Total fail. So usually what I do with these things are maybe I read them quickly, and I archive them, and then I want to come back to them later. I think there was a talk on something or other that I wanted to go to. So I try and search in Gmail. And what was that deep dive thing? And so it's deep dive, no. Industry guru, no. Innovation playground, no. I remember the one I wanted to go to was actually the data analytics one. Data analytics, no. And I thought, I'm sure it was something like that.  So I have to go back through a whole pile of old emails and try and find something that looks a bit like the one that I'm actually looking for. And I eventually found it, and this was it. And so there you go. Now, I just want to show you what it looked like on my phone. I mean, you've all seen it, but just to make my point. So let me just be silly here and assume we're using an iPhone, iPhone 5. Now, it was just crazy small, especially this. This was a yellowish sort of font on a blue background. I just couldn't see that at all on the train.  I just couldn't see it. So I had to wait until I got home and I read it at home like that. So I thought this is a bit awful. So I wrote to them. Now, this is actually the thread. And just to give you an idea, this was the original mail that I got. The only information I'm getting looking at this is thank you regards, lifestyle skills, and blah, blah, blah. I can't even see what's going on in that mail. I can't even say, come to the guru thingy, what's it, and you'll learn about data analytics or something. There's nothing like that. It's just like that. But what you can see is my text-based reply where I said, hello, I appreciate your hard work organizing these useful information sessions. However, using text on images in these publicity emails is not user-friendly. On a mobile phone, you have to scroll right and left to see the text. And many people have images turned off by default. So your mail will just contain empty frames with a gray border as per the screenshot. Now, what I was talking about there was, of course, some browsers and some apps and some combinations of the two will actually either do what you can see there, which is this kind of thing. This is Pui Jing's favorite activity here. Have you ever seen her do a talk? She does this about 18 times for every image. So I'm going to do this just to. Anyway, so it just gets ridiculously small. The other thing is the call to action is one of the most important things you can ever send out in an email. The call to action is click here to subcribe or click here to sign up or whatever. And when I was reading this on the train, which actually looked like this for me, I thought, well, when is it? And where do I sign up?  And of course, it was because it was just hitting right there. And I didn't even realize there was anything on the right-hand side. Of course, if I'd scrolled across, oh, here's the sign up button right here. So if you're doing marketing, it's a total fail, isn't it? If half the people can't see it and another half of the people can't find it and another half of the people can't find the button, that's one and a half of the people already. Hey, mathematics. I told you I'd snick some mathematics in there just to keep her happy. So there you go. So it was all silly. So my other one is, oh, OK. So of course, in some browser and app and whatever combinations, you get this kind of nonsense happening where nothing resizes. And as I said, you have to scroll left and right like that. So total fail. So that's what I wrote. So she read, oh, OK. And I kept complaining. Also, with no text in the mail, not even any alt text, it is impossible to search for the desired workshop later. Search engines generally cannot find text on an image. Well, Google can, but that's in their main web index, not in Gmail. So it doesn't work. So could I suggest only use an image when it actually is an image, e.g. the photo of the presenter or the Star Hub logo, use actual text in the mail instead of text on an image and ensure the publicity mail is a mobile friendly by using responsive design, since more than half of your readers will be accessing them on their phones. And then I was a bit cheeky here, so I'm not going to read this out. So her response was, dear sir, thank you for your feedback. Taking your suggestions into consideration, we will be inserting alternate text for all our images from the next EDM onwards. Have a great weekend. And I thought, yeah, that wasn't the main point. So I said, well, thank you very much. Thank you for replying. However, I think you missed the main point I was making. Text should not be used in images at all. It should appear as actual text in the mail. Images should only be for photographs of people or events or for logos. I have come across too many instances where the publicity for an event is obscured by overuse and inappropriate use of images. So she replied, dear sir, thank you for your valuable feedback relating to your user experience. Your helpful comments are much appreciated. We will continue to improve for future EDMs. Well, I don't know what the hell an EDM is, but that's OK. This is Singapore, the acronym capital of the universe. While we are working on the enhancements, do let us know if you wish to be removed from the mailing list as we do not wish to send you emails with empty gray border frames. My male said, if you have got images turned off, then you're not going to see the images. You're not going to see anything. I didn't say I was complaining about the fact that the text was on images. But anyway, we look forward to your support in our programs. Have a great day ahead. So I just to show you these people, is this anyone's sister? Anyway, to show you what it looks like with images turned off or whatever. Of course, some people, because 99.9% of us in Singapore are using smartphones, and we've got good connections, and we leave images on and all that. Yeah, I get that. But of course, some people do not have sight at all. Some people are blind or very visually impaired. So we also have to consider those sort of people. Now, if such a person is using a screen reader for her mail, here is the mail. Here's a sneak peek of what's happening this weekend. Oh, no, this is another one. This is the best dinky one. But it's this kind of thing. All you get is just like no meaningful alt text and so on. I'll talk about the best dinky one in a minute. OK, so we go on to my next example down here, which is with alt tags. Of course, with alt tags, what Chrome does is just gives you an empty rectangle. And here I put in some alt text just to demonstrate what I'm talking about. At least if you've got that alt text in there, Gmail can actually find it, maybe. OK, so what I did was I said let me be kind and let me actually produce a page which is mobile-friendly and can be viewed just nicely on a phone and can be viewed on a desktop and so on. And here it is. Are you ready, Huijing? There you go. A happy foo. Beautiful. Small, readable. Whoa. Images are images. Text is nice and readable. I've used white on dark blue, so it's more readable. I'm a big fan of contrast. Contrast is key for reading, blah, blah. Bit more readable, yeah, yeah. So I did all this and I sent it to them. And I said, hello again. As an exercise, I worked on the most recent deep dive publicity mail, which as usual was difficult to read on a phone. Please try to read the original, which was like this, using your phone. So these are just the things I've just shown you. Now compare that to the following version, which uses text where it should be text and where it is friendly on any device, phone, tablet, or desktop, the one I just showed you. I haven't reproduced the whole thing completely, but I did 90% of it and I thought that was enough. The text is now searchable and readable. I hope you find it useful. And her reply was? No reply.  So as I said, I mean I would love one of my readers to do something like this. Go do my styling for me. Go reorganize it, whatever, if they've come across something that didn't work for them. I would love that. And I would write back in deep appreciation, say thank you so much. I have implemented 90% of it because the other 10% didn't work or whatever it actually was, and I would let them know. So I was kind of irritated that they didn't even bother to reply to that. So one of the things that she said she would do is to put all text in all of our forward mail and thank you for your feedback. We will continue to improve for future EDM.  Dance music. Electronic dance music. That's it. I like it. It's very good. It's very good. Okay, so just wanted to... Oh, I knew I read something. So just this week, guess what we got? We got a... Where is it? In here somewhere. There we go. Sing health, no. Oh no, I'm not gonna try search. That's not what I'm gonna try. Oh dear, God, see it somewhere. Anyway, lost it now. But anyway, one of their mails came in today and guess what? No alt text or images. And you might have noticed this thread that I was showing you before was 16th May 2018. So it's almost two years and as soon as I went away and stopped annoying them, they didn't even bother putting alt text in. So I think there's a problem. There is a problem. So what else do I wanna say here? Let's just pin through all this. We've done all that, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, so here's my speech. Please think mobile first. All of us should be designing for a phone first and then let it scale up to a full screen. Think user experience and when a user does write, please actually take what they've bothered to write. It means they care about what you're doing and whatever. So think about what they're doing. Think poor or zero vision users. Do you realize that Singapore is the myopia capital of the universe? Myopia means short-sighted. So anything that you produced in Singapore you have got to do with big font, easily readable font, clear font, and good contrast font. So don't be groovy. Don't be arty. Be readable is a key thing. Of course, if it's a logo, I mean Google or Microsoft or something or other, of course, you're gonna be using text on a logo, no problem. But even then it should have alt text and all images should have alt text. So it can be search friendly. Now, I've called these things poster style marketing. Back around 15 years ago, you produced a poster. And then you could multiple use it. You could send it out in emails. You could stick it up on the wall, whatever. It made sense 15 years ago, maybe, maybe. But it doesn't make sense at all now. So what I wonder about is our bosses saying to their publicity people, this is what I want it to look like. I don't know. So this was actually the title of my slide with a question mark, so I don't know the answer. How do we convince our bosses and the developers not to demand such things? Anyone got a story where you were successful in convincing somebody with this kind of thing? I think, frankly speaking, the PA at Nampo is a cave where an employee is skilled in Photoshop and they do not code it right. So I don't understand their perspective as well. And they have no incentive to reply you actually. So for the first reply, it was a very politically correct reply. Standard, yes. Please go away, man. Yes, I know. I get plenty of them. So I guess it boils down to the organisational structure. My, it's true. Yeah, I know. I get that. Hishi was probably already employed as a visual artist and they have to stick text here every now and then. Well, how do I put it in nicely and whatever? Yeah, I get that. However, as I said, if people can't read it and if people refuse to read it, the other thing, Neil Jacobson and all these people, one of the things they say is, if things are hard to read, people don't read it. And a lot of the time, people don't scroll left, right, actually. We all like to think people are used to scrolling left, right, but people very rarely scroll left, right, unless they absolutely have to and they're absolutely fascinated. If they're only moderately interested, they'll say, ah, forget it. It's too hard to read, move on, delete and move on to the next one. But just coming back to that, I still think it's easier if they just stick text in the webpage, right? It's much easier to stick text in the webpage and put some images around it. Actually, then it is. There are a few kind of things, because designers, if I could just one, certain kind of apography that is not available as a web font. So they simply just use a selectable font and images. Yes, that's why I put quite a bit of effort into trying to match their font. All right, I'm just using standard fonts here. There's nothing special here. But yeah, I get that too. There might be an issue also that the responsiveness works here because it's a browser with all the modern features. But email files are well-loaded here. They can be rubbish at this. So the problem might actually be a lot more complicated. Sorry, what's more rubbish? What? Email. No, no, no. I'm going to send this to myself in email. It's beautiful. But a lot of people are using a lot of different fonts and browsers and the CS engine in an email app. It's not the same as in the web browser. Correct, however. I have tested this in a bunch of things on the phone and it's fine. I mean, I agree, I agree. The newsletter I sent out, I have to use tables and all sorts of really ugly things to make that work. But I deliberately wanted to do this without... I think I did use tables somewhere here. A little bit. Maybe this was table. Sorry? This thing. Maybe this is what a very, very old browser, Netscape. Was it just... I remember Netscape. But I think really the key... The only way to make the anti-actions is really to shame them on Twitter or social media, right? Because what's from one user versus what's from many people is a very difficult fact. Actually, I think 99% of people don't care so you're not going to worry about doing that. However, I mean, I think... I'm just bringing this up here because I hope at least people are a bit more conscious of this and hopefully in their own design houses if you've got people doing this sort of stuff, please point out. What were you going to say? I was going to say you're asking like how you convince people to care about it. I think the way to do that is to get them to think that they were the ones That's what consultants say. Well, I am a consultant, so yeah. Good thinking, yes. If they think it's their idea, they're more likely to...  What? How would you... What example of how you would get people to think it's their idea? I mean, in this context, it's a little more difficult, but if you can get them to go, oh, maybe we should do this. They're the ones who sort of come up with the idea and do this, but they have to be the ones to say it. They have to be the ones to realize, oh, we should do this. Because if they're told to do something, then they won't do it unless they think it's their idea. But if you don't tell them, they won't know. Yeah. This general nudging, maybe you should... Okay. This came in from Sing Health. Guess what? But at least this here. Oh, no, no, no.  I thought it was text. Oh, it's text. It's all right. And then this one. By the time this one gets tiny, tiny, this program will provide you with regular monitoring of your condition. You just can't see it. I remember... I remember the one I was going to show you before. That's this one, Best Enki. Now, the other thing is the industry guru ones, of course, the technology ones. That's also why I'm sort of... was sort of okay to write to them, because you would think that they would know. Similarly with Best Enki, all of this, and what I was showing you before is what it looks like if you're using a text reader, like a screen reader type thing. So the thing is their marketing is being lost. I mean, one of the things I tried to do in my mail there was say, look, you're putting all this work into it, but if people can't read it, then your work is wasted, essentially. Okay, anyone else got a story? Along a similar line? Actually, most of the time, the people you write to and reply to are not one, not a technically inclined and two, not a correct person. So I once wrote into a famous job portal in Singapore and said, hey, your website doesn't work on my browser because I'm an app locker. Please disable an app locker.  Yeah. I've got something to share. So there's this interesting project called Project NAFTA. So just search, Project NAFTA. N-A-P-T-H. N-A-F-T-I? N-A-P-T-H. Yeah, that's the one. So this is a project that uses machine learning to convert any text in the image into Azure text. So a lot of my experience as a developer is that when you try to convince the product manager to do something, usually they just say, no budget, no time. So rather than asking them to do something, maybe we as developers could be able to implement extra features in the browser to automatically process the text within the image to make them into something better. Now, this is not an ideal solution, but at least there's something that we can do. So this is like OCR? Yeah. One thing, if you do this kind of thing, all of this is text on images. So what I searched for was inspirational quotes. So Google can read the text on there. It's using OCR, of course. As I said before, though, the search within mail doesn't do that. And maybe these people are assuming, well, because I can find this sort of thing, people should be able to find it in mail. I don't know. Are you going to write to Google next? Next time. No, I'll write back to... Okay, I'm done. Thank you.


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Thanks for checking out this no spoilers movie review. This is going to be about the 2014 film Starry Eyes by Kevin Colch and Dennis Wittmeyer These are yes the guys who ended up doing the remake for the new pet cemetery.  So the other thing is I've been running around outside doing some stuff and it's crazy hot So I might look a little bit red. That's why I'm sorry Anyway, yeah, let's talk about Starry Eyes. So this was streaming on shutter. Like I said it's a 2014 release Kevin Colch and Dennis Wittmeyer. Yeah, they did the pet cemetery remake Which I have not seen yet, but I've heard mixed reviews on it Some people really like it some people really don't like it It's one eventually I'll have to see for myself to make an assessment and hopefully at that point I can then do a review and you guys can see what I think of it but the other thing when I was looking at their movie credits on IMDb.com was They did a documentary about Chuck Palaniak the the author and I didn't even know there was a documentary about this dude Out there and I like his books a lot. I think he's a very good author He kind of he's not a horror writer But a lot of the stuff he kind of has in there is like society horrific So so he's kind of like horror adjacent in a sense. I would say so I really like his stuff So I want to check their documentary out. That's all I have to say about that So they do a good job of kind of immediately setting up The main issues that this that the main character in this film have she really is just kind of Hyper focused immediately in the film and it's just a really good job of Instead of telling you what the issues are showing you what the issues are and like I said it It is immediately they hit the ground running with establishing this these main issues And you know like this is what the film is basically going to play on This is what it's going to be about is solving these issues for this person or you know What they think is solving the issues so because it's horror.  I definitely believe that's intentional because it's kind of I think it's kind of meant to make you Bond with the main character more and kind of see from her perspective Like this person annoys the heck out of me this person annoys the heck out of me So if they actually annoy the audience member to some degree Then they're feeling what the main character is feeling at that time Which is a a really good way to kind of convey Convey the situation of the character and and make people kind of sympathetic to what they're going through So I I like like at first you don't really like that they have Annoying characters, but you get it like it makes sense and it works and it helps so Do do do and it also kind of plays to an overall feeling of the main character being Austro-sized as well like kind of everywhere she goes and every interaction she has it doesn't seem like She's fitting or she feels comfortable, you know, and you and you really feel that and you see that in the film um This film overall it plays off a lot of people's fears of kind of getting lost and just kind of being another face in the Crowd and it's it's with the backdrop of like Hollywood dreams basically which you know There are a lot of people who do it so it's kind of more the perspective of a look at an aspiring actress who You know blah blah blah blah blah a lot of like typical tropes about what they do You know she works at this restaurant and then she's trying to do all these auditions and not everything goes well And you know it's typical stuff you've seen But I think it that's because it's true of of the Hollywood Setting that this is what people go through and like I said it plays to people's overall fears Not just people who are aspiring actors and actresses But everyone's fears are just getting lost in the crowd and and not being special And and just like having to live a mundane life because everybody Feels like they want to do something big or something better Well, I guess I can't say everyone but a lot of people do a lot of people want to feel special They want to do something special. They want to be recognized. They don't just want to be a person working at you know, well in this in this Uh movie the the restaurant taters not everyone wants to work at taters, which I thought was pretty funny name, but um So I thought that this actually could be the film could overall be a commentary on the dangerous lengths that people go to with Method acting in particular in order to succeed With an acting career. Um, I know that there have actually been a lot of stories Well, I guess maybe not a lot but enough stories that people get the idea That when someone's into method acting and they immerse themselves so much in a character that they can really lose themselves And they can start getting destructive. I mean, obviously Heath Ledger with his Joker character was a prime example that led him down a very dark path from what I've read and eventually led to his death and so um, I think this movie kind of kind of is is potentially a commentary On specifically method acting and how it can lead you down a dangerous path It can lead you down a path that's unbelievably demanding on you as a person and can also alter you Uh and damage you or Like to the nth degree and but not only that but also damage your relationships because once you change and you're not the person you used to be Your relationships also change and who you used to be friends with and who used to support you in those old Relationships become just that old and they're they no longer become applicable because you're a different person You have to change in order to be that person who now is Has fame or is going for fame someone who is trying to become a part of the hollywood machine Or is a part of the hollywood machine and the you know, everything old just goes away So it's also kind of this look at You know, even with with this character But I think it's a commentary on in general with actors and actresses like where you start off And you're you know the people who are there supporting you and good to you But eventually you you're going to leave that behind and you want and you need to leave it behind Based off how hollywood treats you they make you commit To what they want they kind of remake you in the image that they're looking for So I think this movie does a good job of kind of hitting on those themes um Yeah, the change in personality, uh, it plays up the issues of jealousy and relationships as well And this is kind of like all types of relationships I'm not I'm not talking about jealousy in the sense of like just like a romantic relationship It hits a bunch of types of relationships. And I guess it's kind of more of like a Friends and acquaintances relationships and how jealousy there's a lot of like Jealousy tension that goes along specifically within the actor and actress realm Because you know people some people are successful, you know Some people greatly some people mildly some people not at all and these people know each other and they're friends But it builds animosity it builds jealousy and it's kind of a look at that as well um Some of the acting in this unfortunately is very wooden And I would say one role in particular that I find to be very important in the movie Is extremely wooden and it's bad bad acting Thankfully, it's not the lead actress I think she actually did a really good job in this and I guess she's being rewarded for it because I look looking at her Film credits. She is going to be in the new dr. Sleep film. That's being done by mike flanagan by the way who mike flanagan outstanding great writer great director Um for people who don't know off off the top of their head. He's the guy Just for one awesome amazing example. He did the haunting of hillhouse on netflix that series So you know dr. Sleep is probably going to be good. There's already a trailer out for it. It's a sequel to the shining um If you haven't seen the trailer for dr. Sleep, especially if you like steven king stuff If you like the shining check out that that uh trailer it looks good And she's going to be in the film so good for her and she did a great job in this film so Much deserved in my opinion. So the practical effects in this film They're you can tell it's low budget. You really can tell that it is low budget But I think they use their money with practical effects very wisely So it's very minimalistic with the practical effects But it's used to great effect like they they use their money wisely with it. They they apply things properly and it it Emphasizes what they want to In each situation that they use it So great job on the practical effects. Like I said, you can tell it's low budget But it's used they use their budget wisely They did a good job and that kind of goes more to something I think about a lot of times when I'm watching Independent films or lower budget horror films is I kind of like them more in the sense that I feel like it drives creativity a little bit more because when you're constrained by the Budget itself You have to get more creative to get the vision that you want out of it And I just feel like that's how you get better stuff on a lower budget scale And I mean it kind of sucks in a sense because I hate that I feel that way because I also feel like these these actors and actresses and filmmakers writers directors Everything that they should be getting more money than what they do at that low level But at the same time it also Squeezes more creativity out. So I have this kind of issue with like Oh, I love like the creativity that comes out of it But at the same time like it's putting people in a crappy situation and I wish they could make more money doing that type of stuff. So But yeah, just a thought I had while watching this Uh, and then oh the pacing of it is actually pretty slow unfortunately, but I also think that it's kind of Necessary for the story Because you need to feel it a little bit I do think it could have the pace could have been picked up a little bit Or maybe some some stuff could have been edited out to make it feel a little bit faster but um At the same time like I'm kind of more forgiving with that just because I feel like it goes with the story So yeah, but it does feel slow at times Uh, there's a bit too much Signaled with the movie poster. Are we calling them movie posters now? Because like a lot of these don't actually go up as posters Especially if they're films that never make it to theaters.  I don't I don't even know at this point Someone put a comment down there and tell me like are we still calling these the movie posters or are you calling a cover art or like Thumbnail, I don't even know like I don't know at this point. What to call it So, um enlighten me someone enlighten me down there. Anyway, uh, yeah So I feel like whatever you want to call it the the poster art Signals a little too much about the film So if you're watching this review and you haven't seen the movie, but you want to Don't look at the picture for it Do not look at that because it's going to signal a little too much And that's the thing like I looked at it and I was just like oh, I see this in the picture. So I'm assuming something and Correct assumptions. So it's like it ruins stuff It definitely ruins stuff and I hate that type of thing and it's not just done with that overall It's done with trailers as well Especially now nowadays they put so much of the movie in trailers Like there are literally films. I've seen trailers for where I'm just like I'm not gonna see that now because I saw the movie like I I got the entire story pretty much from it and I don't feel like I need to see it and that sucks Uh, I feel that I feel that way less about horror movies than other genres So I just need to make that qualifying comment Uh, and then the last thing I have to say is pretty good ending to this film actually I do feel like it really steps up and ratchets up at the very end It delivers with what horror people or horror audiences I guess horror people horror audiences really want in a film. So they do a good job delivering there I think it's a pretty satisfying ending Although it is a little slow. I think they definitely should have picked up the pacing a little bit on the very end And it would have been even more satisfactory, but overall pretty satisfying Um, is this a unbelievably amazing film? Do I think it's a must watch for people? No, I don't but is it solid if Yeah, I mean if you had interest In watching it at any point definitely watch it. Just give it a try Uh, if you even have like a mild inkling of like, well, maybe then just do it. Just do it. You might love it I mean, I liked it. I didn't love it. But that's a good thing. You know liking something is totally fine so With my five star rating with half stars in play. I'm going to give this a solid three stars Better than half it is pretty good. Like I said, I'd recommend it to anyone kind of thinking about it. Just go for it and uh, definitely doesn't make me want to see pet cemetery though to see what uh, kevin and denis Did there because they're directing was nice in this it looked good So and then also dr. Sleep because the main actress did a really good job Anyway, thank you everyone for checking this out. Uh, I'll figure out where I'm going next on the movie review front But trust that I will be getting them out It I've been trying to stick to stick to kind of like a schedule where I'm doing like maybe two every weekend Because that's basically when I have time but that you know, it's subject to changes because you know, this isn't a job for me I make no money doing it. It's just a fun thing. I do in in my free time So it's a it's a when I have free time type thing So I'm going to try to do two each weekend. But if I can't I apologize Anyway, thanks for checking this out. Uh, please hit subscribe if you're not subscribed Hit the notification bell. You always know when I put my videos up. Put some comments down there. Have you seen starry eyes? What are your thoughts also? Tell me about the the movie poster thing movie posters to cover or whatever Tell me I don't know what I'm talking about in that sense. Uh, but thank you. Thanks again And anyway until next time keep it brutal


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We are castaways. I don't know why, but that is horrifically stuck in my head. What's going on guys? My name is Jack The Busch. You can call me Aishinole, but we'll come back to a brand new video. Today we have episode 12 of our Jujutsu Kaisen. Watch the name to you someday. Now guys, this episode has set up for quite a bit. We have the confrontation between Isidore and Yoshino forced on by Geto mostly. Oh, Geto and Mahito. This poor kid Yoshino has been kind of just tricked into this path, tricked into thinking that these these bullies have gone to the extent of putting this curse under his home. Or one of the fingers from Tsukuna, and of course it was Geto and all them the whole time. But using that emotional trauma that Yoshino has experienced and leveraging that in hopes of Isidore entering a binding pact with Tsukuna, that's what they're hoping happens with this confrontation between him and Yoshino. And I'm very worried that Yoshino won't make it out alive. Guys, we're gonna hop right into it. If you need a channel drop a sub, hit that big bell so you don't miss any future episodes. If you have a fat like on this one, let's just hop right into it. Okay, so at least he did kind of try to reason with Nanami before going in, but I think he realized he had to make a move. Yep. At least Nanami already knows. What does Inokundu? I guessing he's like a lower level sorcerer, but If you take care of this job, he knows how to encourage Who is this guy? Oh man. That's why I want else to get hurt. How did he get past him? Oh, like that, I guess. So he wasn't gonna forcefully stop him, but I think because he realized it would be kind of futile to try to forcefully stop him. Poor Yoshino, man.  We know his story already. It's so sad. Oh, oh shoot. Oh my gosh. Oh wait, we're getting right into it? Whoa, that's cool. Huh, that's insane. Dude, there has to be a lot of fighting in this episode. A lot has to happen in this episode if they're starting off like right off the bat. Oh man. Discriminate salvation. Dude, it's so sad that I can't root against him, but I have to. This all roots from his conversation with Mahito. He literally sounds like Mahito right now.  Like, he doesn't want to hurt Isidori. Oh, this is where. It's like a shortcut of corruption. He's just reaching. Come on, Isidori. Just like restraint him or something, please. Don't hurt my boy Yoshino. I just said they want to push it to the point where he has to. He's forced to enter that binding contract. Hmm, with Tsukuna. If only Yoshino knew that Mahito isn't on his side. God. Whoa, that's dope. Yeah, why didn't it work on Isidori though? God, I'm so dope. Oh my goodness. Yeah, to be honest, the world, that worldview Mahito explained, I still don't. That doesn't make it okay. Yeah. I still can't believe that was Gojo and I didn't recognize them. Yeah, that's what it feels like. True. Well, it's, you know, all the trash he's been put through. That was, it was like the calm before the storm. Didn't Mahito say that? They don't have hearts. You see the, it's here. You see, that's here before it fell. And this is the moment where he's forcing him to, where he's going to. He didn't even try. He realized he just needs someone to listen to him. He's never had that. You can tell he was surprised by the relationship he had with Isidori so quickly. Surprised by how kind Isidori was. Dude, yes. They still don't know he's alive, bro. I can tell you. Please say yes. Please say yes. Yeah, they never met. I figured Mahito would step in eventually because, because Yoshino was starting to turn. He just wants to use you. God, the voice acting. Geez. Oh no. Did he realize it? Thinking back to him showing them those humans. I think he's reassessing what he can, is considering a bad person. And it's too late. No one can, can do that except Mahito. This is what Mahito wants though. Yeah, that's exactly what he wants. Don't think Mahito expected Tsukuna to turn down a free takeover of Isidori's. Yeah. Well, that was the stipulation if he won. No, I doubt it isn't. I doubt that it's beyond him. So he just has to wait it out? I'm surprised Geto didn't come with him. Now it's just like a standoff. Jesus. Born out of hatred and evilness.  Oh my God. Man, he was like, come with me. He was like, about basically about to say like, yes, but it was all too late.  You, you might have upset Isidori a bit. Oh, beat us up, please. A wound? How? So like, huh? Like naturally aware? My God, what a visual. That is the coldest line of all time. Jesus. Oh, we're actually about to see like a showdown. But he can't. Like a roadblock. I'm guessing Geto just wanted to watch from the sidelines. Full of hatred. And I think Mahito is. I can't find the word amount of hatred right now. Rightfully so. I mean, Mahito is still so confident.  What shape is that? Such chains? But they're all, they looked like it's, this is like fishing line. God, the soundtrack is so good. Literally could not even remotely tell which way this fight. Like, how do you know what to expect? I didn't get balls. I don't think Mahito expected him to actually pull after that. Well, it has less control over it. I mean, that would only naturally make sense, I guess. Not that everything in this show makes complete sense, but that does make sense. God, the sound of the punch. It's the sound of a punch hitting someone's soul. Dude, Suga literally said no. But I guess that was, he's going to force him. I guess that was for the healing part that he said no. He still could. Oh my God. Suga is so badass, bro. I'm sorry.  Suga is just vibing in there, bro. Oh, give him the headbutt. See him beat to a pulp. Oh my God. Oh my, like, oh my God. I thought he used Nanami's move for a second. I was like, did he copy it? Oh my God. I think he's going to back off now. Quick rundown. Unless they don't retreat, it's them versus him? I don't think, I think Mahito has any plans on retreating. The nosebleed. He's like, how did you do that? Because Nanami's already analyzed him. He was all going to be up to it's a dory. He's still turning into a lesson. He's so smart, dude. He's just already broken it down. Just by the fact that he saw a little bit of blood.    How he was so sure about this statement that it had made everything he had said prior to that not even matter. He said it makes all of that sound like a lie that I've said before.  It shows you how deeply he already cared about Yoshino. How quickly he had formed that bond. And how by Mahito snapping that bond in half just absolutely drove him off the deep end. I mean, we see emotion from it's a dory, sure. But never to that extent of rage. I think the closest we've gotten was the anger and frustration he felt whenever he couldn't save that prisoner. The mom, whoever was looking for her son. Whenever he found his body. But my God, what an episode. Guys, that has been episode 12 of our Jujutsu Kaisen. Watch through to you someday. Let me know what you thought of the episode down in the comments below. I'm sure you have quite a bit to say. And as always, hope you guys have a wonderful rest of your day. As per usual, I'll catch you in the next one. Peace, peace.