Pumpkin Person rating: 8/10
Written and directed by Lawrence Michael Levine, Black Bear is an abstract funny art-house movie that my co-workers and I watched over the weekend. It is extremely challenging, requiring above average verbal IQ, an above average social IQ, and an above average IQ. In addition to these three cognitive requirements, you also need to be upper class. Sadly, there are many people in the comment section who are culturally and neurologically incapable of enjoying such high-art. The idea of commenters Mug of Pee or Philospher watching this movie is just ridiculous.
The film is about Gabe (played by Christopher Abbott from HBO’s Girls) and Blair (Sarah Gadon), a couple in their thirties who despite having low income, are snobs because they are aspiring artists. But they live in a beautiful lake house in the Adirondack Mountains where they rent out a guest cabin to supplement their low incomes, and to allow them to meet artists (who are the only people they will rent to). They end up renting the cabin to Allison (Aubrey Plaza from Parks and Recreation ) , a thirty-something film maker. Allison senses that Blair is threatened by her sexiness and high IQ so she complements Blair on her looks and pretends to not know what solipsistic means, despite having attended Wellesley College on a scholarship.
As the tension between the three main characters builds over a long dinner, the film suddenly reinvents itself completely and everything is the opposite of what is was before. Can’t say much more than that without ruining the twist, though sadly, the twist will fly over the head of 90% of Americans.
What makes this film work is the gorgeous secluded setting, the strong performances by the three leads, and above all, the witty dialogue. Levine has a great sense of humor and a good understanding of marital conflict and hipster culture. Watch preview below:
Pumpkin Person 
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Thanks
All reality is an attempt to organize words into an ideal circumstance. On another note reality is trying to organize time as a building block into an ideal circumstance as well.
This can break down verbal and nonverbal intelligence.
my grandmothe got her BA from wellesley peepee. and she didn’t have a scholarship. sadly.
sadly, the only people who review movies on rotten tomatoes are upper class and have high IQs. what an idiot!
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 88% based on 98 reviews.
88% of critics liked it compared to only 64% of the audience. But even the audience for a movie like this will be university educated (average IQ 110).
rt audience is filled with bugmen though. 110 IQ but zero class.
they’ve watered down the pool of critics with prole retards, too. They’re no longer limited to the people who get published in periodicals. They now include manchildren who make youtube reviews.
Please suggest a way of obtaining this movie. That’s the first iq test I suppose.
You can rent it on apple or even cheaper on youtube. Then if you’re a technically savvy (unlike pill & Mug of Pee), you can use an adapter to connect your laptop or ipad to the TV.
I do that. I didn’t realize I was “technically savvy,” but I need every compliment I can get these days lol!
Wow PP I didn’t know your were technically savvy. This makes you even more hot. If I had an high IQ and I was in ottawa I would have asked you out on a date.
Love this music and Connelly looking stunning here
you’ll like this
Connelly actually looks better with more weight than now.
I Appreciate,
thanks
What about The man with a movie camera??
In the preview for Black Bear?
1929’s soviet movie freely available on YouTube
One of the most revolutionary movie ever produced. There are many music versions to this movie because it has no soundtrack, characters or pre designed story. It’s basically showing ordinary ukrainian soviet people in Odessa and Yalta during a day working or enjoying life.
Puppy you realise your ‘social IQ’ is something you never even thought about before I came here talking about it.
No I was blogging about since July 2014 (on my old blog):
I’ve actually been interested in social IQ since I was a kid because some of the Wechsler subtests measure social cognition.
It was probably me who inspired your obsession with social intelligence & the autism vs schiz spectrum which I speculatively correlated with race, though you came up with the speculative idea that elites deliberately selected for autism during early civilization & that autism explains Gates’s philanthropy.
I never said Gates philanthropy is autism. I said it was stupidity.
PP needs understand that there is a positive CORRELATION between good taste or high culture and upper class. But
When I was in middle school I actually wanted to be a film critic. I used to watch all of the oscar nominated movies before the show.
People with last names like “Slater” don’t get those jobs, though.
I often wonder how people end up being movie critics in media. Maybe they have connections.
Theres actually an actor named Christian Slater. Reminds me of myself and a little of you.
Both fluid in character. Attributable to our feminine minded brains.
that game vs spassky is sort of the ultimate petrosianesque game, and you think…
that was simple…i could be world chess champion…
uhhh no.
this is why capa and petrosian are so bizarre/weird as world chess champions go…
in general: when someone’s style is spare and simple it doesn’t mean he’s “simple”…doesn’t mean you can do it too. usually it does. but capa and petrosian are couterexamples. they kept the game simple by force of calculating complexities.
hard to believe:
i thought stimulant overdoses were very rare. that is qua proximal cause. qua ultimate cause stimulants make heart attacks and strokes much more likely whether you’re high or not.
Someones in captalism world is getting rich, buddy!!
I don’t buy the “deaths of despair” argument for the recent spike in opioid deaths. Life has been shitty for those folks for almost 2 generations now. And iirc opioids have been readily available since the ’90s.
Some NFL QB was hooked on them in the mid 90s. Maybe it was Brett favre.
for example,
islam is boring.
all religions other than roman-orthodox-coptic christianity are…
boring.
and SAD!
The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons are relatively good movies. I wish Vegan DHA were here to watch it me. But then Id spend more time making out with her than actually getting any of the plotline down so that may be an issue in and of itself.
But honestly fuck those movies Vegan hit me up Im trying to spend the rest of my life (probably not a long one) with you so….also my birthday is the 31st so get ready to gimme some Christmas AND birthday head soon. 😉
lol, Loaded, you surely can talk dirty and romantically almost at the same time. Did you assume I’m a woman because of my lusting over the hunk in the photo? Well, I’m male, so maybe you’d like to reconsider? If you still feel like it, it’s gonna have to be different movies. Like, seriously, at least middlebrow comedy. Happy Holidays, sweetie.
What movies did you have in mind then? I checked out of reality a long time ago Vegan you cant hurt me anymore.
No one can.
Carol, Eyes Wide Shut…. But, seriously, if you’re not feeling well, maybe don’t just accept it. Therapy, journaling, exercise, more vegetables, SSRIs… think about it. No need to just be unhappy or without purpose.
My whole life has been an Eyes Wide Shut scenario. I doubt that anything else would fix the problem except for realizing the darkness in this world and embracing it.
the depressants…you can just fall asleep…something you’ve done thousands of times before…
the stimulants…you think: something’s wrong…this is too much.
Pumpkin, have you heard of IQtest.dk? Would ravens matrices norms work on it?
steve bannon is a sexy man.
even to dealwithit.
it’s already been tested a little…a correspondence GM, arno nickel, beat the best engine…
in a walk…
noticeably elided from the wiki on human vs computer matches. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1339074
the SUBTELTY is…
some of the great human chess players of the past have been great only because they excelled in the same way computers excel…
(interesting that) the exemplar of this was a russian aristo gentile…
alekhine.
POINT IS…
players like alekhine and tal are SHIT vs computers.
players like capa and petrosian can hold out their hands…PUSH AWAY…the AI.
High IQ is not enough pp
Lost of white trash with high IQ
Can you hear me??
iirc, botvinnick said…
his skill is slowing down the game…his peices are hard to attack…
it’s like The preppy Handbook advised…
cultivate being boring.
there’s a city in oregon named “boring”.
“boring child dies” was a headline. sadly, some parents laughed.
BUT!
boring is the truth! capa and iron tigran.
why?
because…
to make boring what appears to be interesting…
this is the…
VOCATION OF MAN.
the boring golf course has the single most interesting hole. played it so many times. well at least three times…
you hit a ball off a cliff.
https://photos-us.bazaarvoice.com/photo/2/cGhvdG86Z29sZm5vdw/aeb88a27-887d-5fe4-a70a-919f4c94b50f
are you listening steve sailer?
“Lil bitch one date but I don’t do that because that’s too fake.”
analytic “philosophy”/anglo-american “philosophy” = cargo cult
20th c french “philosophy” = bull shit
post kant…
there’s hegel, marx-engels, heidegger.
that’s it.
that’s it!
nietzsche has full blown AIDS.
to be a straight-up philosopher is to be a prophet….
it’s an EXTREMELY RARE VOCATION.
Heidegger philosophy ????
Whitey have pissed gently on poor philo… that’s why philo actually look like RR sophistricazione.
interesting point made by santa claus…
sophist-ry is a combo of greek “sophist” and english “-ry”.
so the italian would be “sophist
ricazione”.bake-ry
constabul-(a)ry
libra-ry
french has “charcute-rie”…so NOT english, but may be germanic.
I have a gift for you but you will have to hold my bag, quack.
Nietzsche is brilliant.
that’s what i thought when i was 14.
the third consideration is…
alekhine may have played in a manner which…
1. could beat a human
2. could NOT beat a computer
3. BECAUSE he was playing humans.
AND…
he would’ve played differently vs a computer.
the capa fan-boys are legion…he is the most fapped over chess player ever…
how do they explain capa’s loss in 1927?
there is a small element of southern italians who are…
straight-up, 100%, pure, unalloyed…
PSYCHOPATHS.
EVIL.
rr, for example.
the bianchi case also proves…
1. you can be very smart and very evil.
2. you can be very smart and very stupid.
I just created a free austin slater account at new york mag. I’m gonna troll them relentlessly in the comments.
One of their affiliates just ran a 10 thousand word article about some “Karen” calling the cops on some blacks.
>above average verbal iq AND above average social iq
yup i am skipping this one
Sometimes I feel so lonely. Itd be nice if I had a girl like Vegan DHA in my bedroom right now Netflix n Chillin wit me watching some Indiana Jones or “Searching for Bobby Fischer.” Just like Mug and I did last Christmas….lol.
Taking the knee must be the most cucky act a man can do. I can’t think of anything else worse.
I’m watching this movie now
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flavor_of_Green_Tea_over_Rice
Happy Hannukah, RR!!
Vegan I like your shit tests and games can be fun but cmon you know you love me. Deep inside you long for my unparalleled curiosity and an unprecedented love of life. A passion that cannot be replicated.
Even if you are a male how old would you be? You said youre from Greece and that you had an ex who had a pretty prestigious job.
Whats it like being male? Did you know Ive been a woman this entire time? My real name is Margaret McDonohue and I am a 57 year old woman living in New Zealand. Im actually of NW European descent.
See….now youre the one who got catfished Vegan! Hahahahahaha. Goddammit I think Im losing my sanity here what should I do!
I’m 35 and, really quite male. Chest hair and all that. Kind of weird making pp play bizzaro tinder on christmas eve haha. Are you having mental issues with pornhub disabling so many videos? lol
i’ve noticed that too. they’ve gotten rid of like 1/3rd of their content. do you know why?
@Austin, I don’t know, but someone mentioned that the site is afraid of being sued. Tough times for us art lovers haha.
Wow but you sound so feminine. Are you a homosexual Vegan? Transgender? Youve piqued my curiosity here.
Theres no way someone can type like that and have a shred of masculinity left in them. Its impossible. Highly improbable.
I’m a gay man or a genderfluid male who is attracted to men. Not sure, yet. What was that about character assassination? Anyway, Merry Christmas to you or/and anyone who is celebrating!
which fluids
pp, I know it’s you
hi
email-me
Not me but I sent you an email anyway
hegel’s “dialectic” is exemplified by the “nature vs nurture debate”.
what appears to the debaters as an “either/or” is actually a “neither”.
HBDers vs their (mostly imagined) enemies the evironment-ers.
the false dichotomy.
the distinction without a difference.
hegel smash!
christianity, hinduism, buddhism, taoism, islam, judaism, mormonism’shintoism, scientology, oprahism, etc…
for each religion list the ways it rocks and the ways it’s gay.
i’ll go first.
some roman prelate described christians as…
they worship a dead jew and claim to eat his flesh and drink his blood.
that’s SUPER gay.
now…can LOADED explain why islam is gay?
Pumpkin can you post my comments! It would be incredibly demeaning and rude if you didnt seeing as though Vegan has pretty much character assassinated me and I have no way of voicing my own thoughts on the subject.
I hope you decide to add those comments PP since its only fair for people to know the truth behind the circumstance, right?
Islam is gay for many reasons Mug. For starters they worship a moon god. Secondly they believe in houris which are basically virgin prostitutes in the afterlife. Thirdly they have a fascination with heterosexual anal sex.
I mean the list can go on and on but ill stop right there since as a former muslim it really is troubling to know so many people believe in such a barbaric religion without questioning it.
whether the election was “stolen” or whether election or voter “fraud” made a difference is largely a matter of semantics. AZ, GA, WI differential is so small…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnP_mZAv8gE
patrick byrne said trump’s fault is he’s too nice. this might be a synonym for senile, but byrne also said trump is one of the smartest people he’s ever met.
if you can’t trust patrick byrne…
so mugabe restates what he said a few days after the election: “in a sense the election was ‘stolen’, and stolen in a a sense that trump could overturn it…if he had guys like james baker on his team and if he really wanted to…but he doesn’t.”
There’s nothing Trump could do to overturn the election short of winning a civil war & thankfully I doubt he could mobilize enough of his cult to get violent
#whitetra$$hvibes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/22/putin-signs-bill-granting-lifetime-immunity-to-former-russian-presidents
“Not sure what Razib’s point is (I’d have to see the full context of the discussion) but my point is that even if the black-white IQ gap were 100% environmental, you’d still expect the children of IQ 120 blacks and IQ 120 whites to regress to the mean of 85 and 100 respectively, simply because your best guess for a person’s IQ (if you know nothing else about them) is in between their parents’ IQ and their population’s normal IQ simply because most people resemble their parents yet by definition most people are normal. For example the height gap between people today and people in WWI is thought to be 100% environmental, but we’d still expect a man in WWI to be shorter than a man today, even if both men had a dad who was 6’6″. They’d regress to different means for environmental reasons.”
Pumpkin, I read this comment of yours on another article.
Simply put I don’t understand your reasoning here, knowing the IQ of their parents is above average, and quite significantly so, why would you expect these children to regress to the average of the respective populations they belong to?
For example you would expect the child born to a very tall parent during WWI to end up taller than average for their time period.
I don’t understand what you don’t understand. If all you know about a person’s IQ or height is their parents’ IQ or height & the average of the population the person belongs to, your best guess is in between both
So then the expected IQs would be 102.5 and 110 for their offspring
I wish Santa Klaus give a brain to RR
And a vasectomy for all ya here
Sending kisses and pisse
So am I banned again?
You are evil puppy.
Why wont you let me post music videos?
at this point I’ve probably read about 75 hours worth of material on the JFK assassination and I’m virtually convinced the warren commission got it basically right. Oswald acted alone and Ruby (rubenstein) was just some dumb nightclub owner who got mad and shot him. I recommend pro-conspiracy people read Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi.
Bugliosi comes off poorly in the the footage of him online, but his book is very intellectually honest. He’s quick to point out the shortcomings of the warren commission and other anti-conspiracy authors’ books.
Have you finished devils chessboard?
I’m at the 25% mark. I’m gonna go back and finish it after I finish skimming bugliosi’s book.
You’ll change your opinion on JFK by the time you finish the book.
This blog really went down hill… Comment section is so boring. Nevermind the similar article content that PP always writes about.
Melo where you at?
He is liking your schizoacademic texts.
https://mobile.twitter.com/LTF_01/status/1342505599779667975/photo/1
RR can be a comedian from extreme right to extreme left
Now i’m celebrating the birth of Jesus boy and the fact that Santa Klaus is a turkish immigrant who lives among lapps and fags.
RR is very intelligent.
Haha good times. I remember writing that. Three years ago now… Where does the time go?
RR, as a Christmas gift to me & yourself, can you take some tests by email. You have nowhere to go but up since you’ve already admitted to scoring mentally disabled range on SAT? Taking these tests will be useful to your research about culture bias
Fine I’ll try to find some time this weekend. Email me.
Cool!
pepe you should forward him that SAT practice test I sent you so he can retake the “SAT”
He’s a busy guy & that’s low on my priority list.
Crash Bandicoot 4 must be the hardest game I’ve played since Bloodborne. Maybe even harder than it. Its supposed to be a kids game and they made it rock hard. I spent 3 hours getting all the gems on the Mardi Gras level. Insane.
I started playing the Final Fantasy 7 Remake yesterday – what a great battle system. And the graphics are amazing.
LOL. I was dead serious in that comment you redacted. No trolling.
I wasn’t expecting it to go through though.
But my general attitude is that modern games are easier than when I was a wee lad. Crash Bandicoot one back in 1996 you had to do the whole level 100% and not die once. That seperated the boys from the men back then.
What did you think of the WAIS-IV? Did you take the comprehension subtest?
It was enjoyable to do.
Did she administer the comprehension subtests? It’s optional now
I’m really enjoying the new Destiny 2 expansion and dawning season. Previous years they made a lot of quests un-doable for someone that wasn’t prepared to spend 10 hours to get a new gun. Now its much easier to finish quests which adds to the games replayability.
Puppy what charities do you donate to?
None but I’m considering giving to Wikipedia
Why wont you contribute to the ones Oprah said you should? e.g. BLM etc etc
Because I work hard for my money and wish to spend it on myself and although I find Oprah fascinating from an HBD perspective, I would never blindly follow the advice of anyone.
I support charity but ya know what, I don’t have enough money to just throw it to other people like that. I’ll leave that to millionaires
And if I ever become a millionaire I’ll use the same train of thought to divert the responsibility to billionaires
Pumpkin, would you be willing to administer a figure weights test by email?
No but there are other professionals who might administer it to you remotely.
Lil 22 inch pump, as a Christmas kindness would you be so generous to extend your vast intellect, as to explain in intuitive terms why the percentage of variance an independent variable can predict about a dependent one the correlation of the dependent stratified by independent squared?
Take reared apart twins as an example.
Merry Christmas
Sincirely yours
Alan
well in bivariate normal distributions, correlation = amount of change in Y (expressed in SD units) associated with a 1 SD change in X. Since variance is just SD squared, the correlation is squared to reveal the amount of change associated with the squared correlation.
I’m reading Steve Schwarzmann’s autobiography right now. I’m reading the bits about his youth and it reminds me of Buffet’s youth – really entrepreneurial. I was surprised
that Steve was a bit of a jock. He was admitted to Yale for athletics. I can definitely see why someone like that would be conservative economically later in life. You think everyone else should try hard like you did. Really insightful book so far.
Jews always seem to have loads of energy to do stuff. I wonder if they’ve ever done a HBD study on the amount of sleep each race normally has. I would bet Jew tend to sleep the least.
I’ve wondered which races are most vulnerable to addiction. I’ll bet it’s Jews and whites. This would be a hard thing to control for, though.