This is visually stunning, actually the most eye-popping movie I've seen since Bibliothèque Pascal. Such a shame the story and acting don't match, but THEN we get the bonus of Mike Patton, providing not only the song below but also the entire narration throughout.
Bunraku (Guy Moshe, 2010)
Juno reactor ft. Mike Patton - Putting on the blitz (2011)
So here's another Patton, just for fun
Foetus - how to vibrate (Mike Patton mix) (2007)
Mustard pimp ft. Alec Empire - Catch me (2011)
Combat wombat ft. Ozi Batla - Alternative energy (from: Unsound $ystem, 2005)
Azealia Banks – 212 (2011)
Emika – 3 hours (2011)
In this age of information, one would expect that public knowledge would be assimilated better, at least superficially. Well, expectations and reality don't really coincide. Remember the Milgram experiment? Apparently other don't. A team of Belgium researchers reports that people change their perception of a patient depending on their own personal experience with her. In particular, if someone doesn’t like you, she would gladly discount your pain. The team showed 40 subjects photos of 6 patients, accompanied by either positive (e.g. friendly or honest), neutral (reserved) or negative (arrogant, egoistic) descriptions. Those patients suffered from shoulder pain and the team prepared short clips of them undergoing physiotherapy assessment. Subjects were asked to rate the intensity of the pain suffered by each patient after each clip and to characterize them as being un/sympathetic, dis/agreeable or negative/positive. The results clearly show that subjects dismissed the pain of those they have rated as having a negative personality. This is yet another example of how personal, subjective judgment of character modifies the way we perceive objective phenomena. It works every time, be it in advertisement, medicine, or genocide.
De Ruddere L et al. 2011. When you dislike patients, pain is taken less seriously. Pain. 152 (10): 2342-2347