Read the book in 4th grade, due to the marketing I did not have any interests seeing the film but judging by your comment it seems they more or less kept in line with the source. It is not a happy story.
I think the movie explains Roy’s character enough, he’s a roboman, forced to fight a war and wants freedom to make his own way and is instead murderized for that want. Not much more needs to be developed there.
My personal experience was I ended up vaping inside and smoking outside. Started feeling real shitty.
Edit: I should add I did eventually quit and what helped me was 1) really wanting to quit and 2) tea tree oil toothpicks to pop in my mouth any time I wanted a cig. Munched on those for a good 6 months or so.
It’s not the entirety of the beast but a lot of addiction is related to ritual and comfort so any way to subvert the substance out of the same ritual helps (not saying I’m not still addicted to other things but I did at least shake nicotine)
People who complain about content on lemmy should probably just look for different communities. Or maybe not be psychotic right-wingers looking for 8chan edgelord content.
The Disco Elysium ost by British Sea Power (not a big fan of their other work sadly), similarly Godspeed You! Black Emeror’s got a similar vibe (predates them by a while)
I doubt you actually do any of that. Lovely vague community esque language. Oh have a potluck and effect great societal change! Give me a break. Hapy olidays!
Lights, general dystopia, annoyance at zombie like customers just roving the aisles; impeding my existence, never having what I actually went there to get.
Yeah. Big box stores are a fucking nightmare all the goddamn time.
And the worst part is knowing I could’ve given Jeff Bezos more money and caused myself less of a nightmare-time by just ordering whatever stupid shit I was looking for off Amazon and transferring the psychic damage to the warehouse and delivery drivers.
But all these memories… tears in the rain, etc. etc.
it was seemingly resolved but I did get a $1600 bill years after getting some bloodwork done due to one of the myriad tests “not being pre authorized” After a millions backs and fourths between the billing department at the hospital and my insurance it was determined that what had happened was the 3rd party company that “authorizes” blood work (after a doctor orders it and insurance reviews it and the patient gets the blood stolen) had changed names and somehow the idiots in the billing department at the hospital that deals with this company on a daily basis somehow didn’t know this. Why was I the one who had to figure this out and not the people paid to do that? Only Brian Thompson knows.
Related, my insurance changed its name this July, let everyone know repeatedly for months, but that didnt stop some clerical agent at my drs. office to message me and say they don’t take my insurance and are beginning the offboarding process until I told them its literally the same company. Their response was basically the Ah, Eto… BLEGH meme.
I feel like these companies will change their names constantly just as another attempt to not pay out what they are supposed to.
The OVA of Battle Angel Alita is better, and I believe still available on youtube.