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John Wilson's 100,000 How To's
An anxious New Yorker tries to offer everyday advice while dealing with personal issues.
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Author: Voice of Lao Yang (from Douban)
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"How to with John Wilson" ("How to get along with John Wilson") is an hbo TV mini-documentary, 6 episodes, each episode is 25 minutes. Every shot is a joke.
Who is john wilson?
More than ten years ago, john wilson was shooting for live TV in New York in the early hours of the morning, and ten hours were spent shooting some boring product introductions. When the first filming was over, he told himself that no matter what, he would never accept such a job again.
Five years later, he is still doing this job, with the same camera position, the same camera, and no technology or content to speak of.
But of course it is unreasonable to use a job to define a person.
Who is john wilson? He is a realistic observer of the city.
Every day, no, in fact, every moment, he wanders the streets and alleys of New York with a camera, capturing the weird and unremarkable little things that grow in the cracks of urban life.
He always starts with a simple question, and then uses his camera to go out on the street to find the answer. He can always meet a group of eccentric strangers and lead the story to a larger proposition than planned.
For example, he wants to know how to make small talk better.
Because "there are countless opportunities for small talk in big cities, although some people seem to avoid it at all costs", and he believes that small talk is the glue that binds everyone together.
At a wrestling match in New Jersey, he met a man who called himself a "sex catcher," followed him home, and filmed him chatting online as he pretended to be a child trying to snare a sex trap.
Small talk also leads him to the beaches of Cancun, where he chats awkwardly and awkwardly with a strange man. The man told him that a friend committed suicide and that human beings are full of loss and escape.
When he wondered how to play aa fairly, he went to football referees' parties. An underpaid referee sweeps away all the food, steals the organizer's trophy, and leaves angrily; but he prevents his cat from destroying furniture, and when he decides to learn how to cover furniture, he has to think about human control over objects and materialism.
The seemingly ordinary and unremarkable scenes under the lens of john wilson eventually lead to the imperfect poetry of modern civilization.
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One of my favorite episodes is How to Improve Memory.
John Wilson met a man who had a biased memory in the supermarket. The man told how the packaging of the product was changed quietly, deceiving everyone's memory. The man recommended Wilson to Idaho to attend the Mandela Effect Conference, the world's first event for memory skeptics.
The meeting was absurd and paradoxical, believers of the Mandela effect believed that the occurrence of false memories was evidence of parallel timelines and multiverses.
From the perspective of outsiders, Wilson flew all the way to a scam. But at the end of the story, wilson printed the trademarks of the products in the man's memory, and covered them with the existing trademarks of the products on the shelves, as if they were supposed to be, bought without suspicion, and deceived everyone.
It is a rare quality in Wilson that he never ridicules or belittles people who seem weird and disorderly, but shows their point of view. Inadvertently, he seems to demonstrate a world truth: people always do their best to wrestle with the world in which they live.
Every time, I always thought that the story was going to bottom out, but it was caught, a perfect narrative arc.
In Wilson's own words¡ª¡ª
"From securing a power outlet to the edge of a volcano".
03
The filming of this drama took more than two years. When the filming came to an end, Wilson was finishing his smoking cessation journey. He returns to New York. Supermarket checkout lines grew endlessly and food was looted.
Just like that, the new crown virus broke into Wilson's lens.
A few days later, the streets were deserted. In 2020, the virus has become a new medium, subverting everyone's public life with one click.
In this episode, wilson wants to cook her favorite food, risotto, for the host mother.
The landlady's mother is a lovely old Italian lady. They share the upper and lower floors of the apartment and watch TV programs together at a fixed time; in order to ensure that his feet are not cold, the landlady¡¯s mother will prepare slippers for him and pick up garbage from his trash can so that he can save the garbage bags. Money, wash and cook for him, give him some small and interesting gifts
Therefore, Wilson would like to?Return the kindness by making her favorite food.
Before the epidemic, it was nicotine addiction, substandard ingredients, unsuitable utensils, etc. that hindered him from making a perfect risotto. And when the epidemic came, Wilson had even more reason to postpone the plan.
But Wilson finally discovered that although the epidemic has alienated people to varying degrees, although the world has suddenly turned upside down, and new rules have not emerged, what you want to do can still be done, and your wishes will be received.
He was able to complete a meal of risotto with the simplest ingredients and tools. He put risotto on the stairs, and after half a day, the food was gone.
In 2021, when the series airs, people all over the world are going through labor pains, which slowly become the "new normal", and "how to with john wilson" is like an antidote to the crisis of existentialism in 2020. Tell us how to understand a problem, or live with it, and rediscover value.
04
Ruin painter Anselm Kiefer said: "I will be moved by music, moved by poetry, and if one day I am no longer moved, I will die."
And I was impressed by john wilson¡ª¡ª
Absurd but sensitive and delicate, shy and poetic but extremely neurotic, deconstructing life while loving life infinitely.
In fact, when john wilson was filming the weird side of new york, he didn't know that one day these absurd leftovers would be on hbo's screens - yes, the same TV network that launched "game of thrones" and "westworld".
Previously, he simply edited his loneliness and personal frustration into web shorts "How to Live with Bedbugs" and "How to Stay Single".
Because "most people are afraid to say they're alone, or admit they have bedbugs in their room, or have been to an STD clinic".
You see, he treats loneliness so sincerely.
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I haven¡¯t read novels or movies recently, and I¡¯m all watching documentaries. Among them, I like this one the most. It¡¯s so well shot. The most popular comment is ¡°Put Yueyao, Faguo New Wave and a nerd in a pot, and you will get this drama. I'm so jealous that I don't want to give it five stars." As a loyal audience of Yueyao Ye Weiyang, I can't wait to give it a hundred likes. Really, this kind of taste that is completely starting from ordinary life but full of wit and subtleties is too positive.
And the fun of the director is the kind of fun that is very life-like. Compared with "Fran Lebovitz: Pretend We Are in the City", which is also aimed at life in New York, Fran's film is really too intellectually cynical. , It¡¯s not that I can¡¯t get it, but I¡¯ve seen enough anger, sarcasm, and witty playfulness in books. Sometimes I want to take a breather when watching life documentaries and watch something interesting that doesn¡¯t have so much added meaning. This is also the reason why I have been chasing Yueyue Weiyang. Its biggest advantage is that it only focuses on ordinary people, instead of looking for a star and opening an interesting or boring theme to observe his life. "Human Observation" was originally I chased after it for a long time, and then I gave up when more and more celebrity guests appeared.
I don¡¯t know why, but it seems that since April, my interests have really changed slowly. My interest in novels and movies has decreased. Instead, I have become more and more interested in life itself. I even like cooking and exercising. When I watch talk shows, I don¡¯t really like the type of accusing the world, men¡¯s power, emphasizing women¡¯s power, or sharply complaining about life. Instead, I¡¯m a little shy about cristela alonzo: lower classy, ??a little bit self-deprecating, not so inspirational and sober. I have a good impression of the type who is full of affinity and not lost at all. Even after watching a lot of housework and storing videos of bloggers every day, I don¡¯t understand why the taste has changed so much. Housework, cooking, and exercising are, without a doubt, the things I used to be the most irritating, and now they feel so healing? ? ? Life is amazing.
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In fact, in the past two months, the most read is not documentaries, but Zelda, Wulin Bizhuan and Crayon Shin-chan:) (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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