So this week is an Anime! The Show is Hi-Score Girl, and focuses on the relationship of two young children growing up during the 90’s at the height of the golden age of gaming. An era where games such as Street Fighter 2 was at it’s height for popularity. Now the show was only viewed from the first 4 episodes, I feel this is a necessary disclaimer when it comes to TV shows, as if it was a standard length movie, it’s the equivalent of watching the first 24 minutes and judging the whole thing based on that.

#bcm320 Classic anime, over expressive voice acting and expressions

— Mauricio (@Maul3on) August 25, 2020

#bcm320 Im curious all these nonsensical game things how much is from mythology

— Mauricio (@Maul3on) August 26, 2020

So this is definitely a lot more of a broader look at Japanese games and movies, and some…

So this week the screening was about Asim Abbasi‘s ‘Cake’, a drama, mystery from Pakistan.

I'm interested too. Is it just used for joke purposes, or are lesbians and other LGBTQI+ people accepted or 'tolerated' or oppressed completely?

— Mauricio (@Maul3on) August 19, 2020

So the political climate for the LGBTIQ+ community in Pakistan is a mixed bag, on the one hand they recognise the third gender; as it is traditionally called Khawaja Sira or Hijra, which is different to western ideas of Transgender, and is considered a normal and accepted form of identity for those that were born and assigned male; but does not formally recognise those who were born and assigned female, and until recently (around 2018 around the same time as this movie) meant the sacrifice of a lot of social rights in regards to voting, and inheritance of property.

This appears to be mostly from…

Oh boy do I love martial arts movies, and this one is awesome, thoroughly recommend. Sorry couldn’t help myself, onto the auto ethnography of this gritty and stylish action film by Vietnamese Director Le-Van Kiet.

#bcm320 It is interesting how involved and included the kids are in everything, compared to a lot of western media where kids are purposefully kept in the dark about a lot of things.

— Mauricio (@Maul3on) August 12, 2020

#bcm320 Loving that it seems women are usually the bosses and heads for the most part.

— Mauricio (@Maul3on) August 12, 2020

So first point of cultural difference I wanted to look at was the apparent matriarchal culture portrayed in this film, whether that was part of a traditional viewpoint, or a new revolution in gender roles; and also the inclusion of younger family members as full humans of independent thought and opinions, and not…

So this first viewing is Love For Sale, a 2018 film by Indonesian Director, Andibachtiar Yusuf. Before we get started if you haven’t already I would suggest reading my first post in this series to provide some personal context on my understanding.

So first tweets I would like to analyse is this.

#bcm320 Living conditions in Indonesia, and a view from someone from the higher socioeconomic status. Also tortoises are totally not that normal in Indonesia as Arini was also confused

— Mauricio (@Maul3on) August 5, 2020

#bcm320 Also there seems to be this theme of work throughout the movie so far. Obviously with Richard's questionable managerial skills; but Arini's job is companionship in every sense of the word. They seem so different, but at their core it's the same.

— Mauricio (@Maul3on) August 5, 2020

Now these two tweets are obviously quite linked…

So this isn’t an auto-ethnography based on reactions to media from another culture; but like a fine painting the primer is important; to provide context both to the following posts without having to explain the process each time (hooray for being laz…efficient), but also as a kind of background into my own cultural viewpoint, and so have an understanding of how I respond to these texts.

So First

The Process

So the process that this auto-ethnography process will take is first a live viewing of a selected media through my twitter account, I will throw up all the thoughts that I think at least warrants the 30 seconds for me to type it there, and respond to some other peoples who are also viewing the tweets at the same time.

After the viewing has finished, I go through and pick out the key tweets to do with cultural views and…