Hard to Be a God (2013) — 
The gray to black pipeline, pain worship, paper isn't power, Arkanar as mask-off Western civilization, anarchist philosophy, The Enlightenment didn't fix our core problems, what would you have God do?, supremacist thinking, wasted efforts, desolate beauty.
 
CW: Blood, implied sexual abuse, and pervasive cruelty.

Hard to Be a God (2013) — The gray to black pipeline, pain worship, paper isn't power, Arkanar as mask-off Western civilization, anarchist philosophy, The Enlightenment didn't fix our core problems, what would you have God do?, supremacist thinking, wasted efforts, desolate beauty. CW: Blood, implied sexual abuse, and pervasive cruelty.

Hard to Be a God (2013) —&nbsp;
The gray to black pipeline, pain worship, paper isn't power, Arkanar as mask-off Western civilization, anarchist philosophy, The Enlightenment didn't fix our core problems, what would you have God do?, supremacist thinking, wasted efforts, desolate beauty.
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CW: Blood, implied sexual abuse, and pervasive cruelty.

Sad God (Hard to Be a God) - S01E20

Emissaries from the Void examines cinema that is odd, obscure, oblique, or opaque, with an eye toward theming. The tone is casual but thoughtful, and commonly analyzes content through feminist and leftist lenses, but there are plenty of jokes and silliness as well. Our goal is to make media literacy accessible for films that often defy easy explanation. Surreality, expressionism, absurdism, dream logic, Layers of Artifice, the uncanny, allegory, and occult themes are all common features of the void, and we invite you to explore it with us. Lose yourself, find yourself, transform yourself in cinema’s mirror, but be warned: When you open yourself up to change, you can never be sure where you'll end up…

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Emissaries from the Void examines cinema that is odd, obscure, oblique, or opaque, with an eye toward theming. The tone is casual but thoughtful, and commonly analyzes content through feminist and leftist lenses, but there are plenty of jokes and silliness as well. Our goal is to make media literacy accessible for films that often defy easy explanation. Surreality, expressionism, absurdism, dream logic, Layers of Artifice, the uncanny, allegory, and occult themes are all common features of the void, and we invite you to explore it with us. Lose yourself, find yourself, transform yourself in cinema’s mirror, but be warned: When you open yourself up to change, you can never be sure where you'll end up…

Emissaries from the Void examines cinema that is odd, obscure, oblique, or opaque, with an eye toward theming. The tone is casual but thoughtful, and commonly analyzes content through feminist and leftist lenses, but there are plenty of jokes and silliness as well. Our goal is to make media literacy accessible for films that often defy easy explanation. Surreality, expressionism, absurdism, dream logic, Layers of Artifice, the uncanny, allegory, and occult themes are all common features of the void, and we invite you to explore it with us. Lose yourself, find yourself, transform yourself in cinema’s mirror, but be warned: When you open yourself up to change, you can never be sure where you'll end up…

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