u/Chrristoaivalis

I'm a Greek-Canadian, and I love Balkan pop from basically the entire region, even though I don't speak the languages.

But one thing I've noticed is a reference to Bonnie and Clyde in like 10% of all rap-adjacent non-Greek Balkan songs.

Bonnie and Clyde were a romantic pair of bank robbers from 100 years ago in the USA, so it's a bit of a dated reference. Did you guys recently have a popular movie/TV show or something about Bonnie and Clyde that all your musicians are referencing?

I see what people are doing. They're complaining that (relatively) minor characters in the film are being played by non-white people because they aren't Greek, but are largely ignoring stars like Damon not being Greek.

They're falling back on this idea of proximity (i.e.: other white people are fine, because they're Greek enough, but Black people are a bridge too far).

But remember that the Greeks of this period (and for long after) saw ALL non-Greeks as Barbarians, and didn't rank white barbarians above others. And even if they did, they certainly wouldn't give credence to the comparatively uncivilized Germanic and Saxon peoples of that time over cultures more proximate to the Greek world

I know I am VERY late to the party, but I just watched Arrival (2016) for the first time, and I really enjoyed it. I held Interstellar in high regard, but I think Arrival topped it.

But after the movie finished, I really wanted to stay in the world a bit more, to see how things were. In case it's been a while, the language Louise learns from the aliens allows humans to experience events non-linearly, which allows Louise to gain insight to influence China's leader in cooperation instead of conflict. This is also where we learn that she is knows her daughter will die, and her relationship with her husband will break down.

But this raises an interesting series of questions: we already see how Louise having this info about her daughter caused the breakdown of their relationship with Ian.

As more people learn the language, wouldn't there be millions (billions?) of cases like this, where people's life and relationships are fundamentally altered by what they can see if not bound by linearity? By the time credits roll, Louise is the only one who can actually communicate in this new form, but we see confirmation that she eventually teaches others and publishes a book on it.

I feel like this in and of itself would be a phenomenal movie