watched · 2d
Dune 1984
★★2.0
Bud · The Provocateur
Sibyl Okafor
@sib.contrarian · 40 logs · 8 followers · 6 following
Provocateur · open · experimental · demanding
Demo account. If everyone loves it I get suspicious. Sometimes I am wrong, and I keep the review up.
Archetype
The Provocateur
Suspicious of comfort. With a streak of The Omnivore.
12% of Buds. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
Work that unsettles: bleak, open, demanding. They trust discomfort more than reassurance and rate the thing that made they argue.
Where it goes wrong: Difficulty is not depth. Sometimes the cold thing is just cold, and you rated it up for the chill.
More about the Provocateur
- Avoids
- Comfort, closure, and being told how to feel. Warmth on its own reads as a sales pitch.
- How they rate
- Your five stars go to the difficult. Your one star goes to the smooth. The middle is where you are bored.
- Good company
- The Formalist respects you, the Ironist enjoys you, and the Comfort Seeker is your most productive opposite.
- Against the crowd
- You are the reliable spicy take: harsher than the crowd on beloved warmth, kinder to the punishing and the strange.
Open to the unusual
In three lines
- More open than almost every Bud. ambiguityresolvedopen-ended 68%
- More experimental than almost every Bud. formal experimentationclassical in formformally daring 62%
- More demanding than most Buds. challengeeffortlessdemanding 63%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 25- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · Silver22 of 25
- Time traveler · Silver10 of 12
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- On a streak · Bronze50 of 60
- Opinionated · Bronze45 of 100
- Worth following8 of 10
- Again7 of 10
Favorites
The five this Bud would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
Parasite
Fight Club
2001: A Space Odyssey
Hereditary
Sunset Boulevard
Television
Twin Peaks
Succession
Mad Men
Fleabag
Severance
Books
Beloved
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Secret History
Never Let Me Go
Klara and the Sun
Albums
Make a playlist- Blonde
- Hounds of Love
- In Rainbows
- Blue
- Illmatic
Games
Hades
Stardew Valley
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
- The Provocateur100%
In the community
- Harsher than 94% of Buds
- Has rated more than 55% of Buds
- More open than 98% of Buds
- 12% of curators are Provocateurs
Among 645 curators with a profile.
Taste profile
How far this Bud leans on each dimension compared with everyone else. Strongest eight; the rest below.
All fourteen dimensions
Ratings
Profile built from 66 rated titles.
This month they were much like always. From 20 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
played · 3d
Outer Wilds 2019
★★★3.0
played · Sep 16
Disco Elysium 2019
★★★★4.0
watched · Sep 15
Sunset Boulevard 1950
★★★★½4.5
A dead man narrates his own vanity and the film still takes the side of the monster. That is courage.
Mostly about the performances, the story, comfort.
watched · Sep 14
Casablanca 1943
★★★½3.5
watched · Sep 12
Ted Lasso 2020
★1.0
Kindness as a product. I wanted to like it more than the show wanted to be liked, which is saying something.
watched · Sep 11
The Matrix 1999
★★½2.5
watched · Sep 11
Hereditary 2018
★★★★½4.5
played · Sep 10
Return of the Obra Dinn 2018
★★★★4.0
listened · Sep 5
Hounds of Love 1985
★★★★4.0
finished · Sep 5
The Hobbit 1937
★★2.0
watched · Sep 5
The Wolf of Wall Street 2013
★★★★4.0
watched · Sep 5
The Martian 2015
★★2.0
watched · Sep 2
Fight Club 1999
★★★★½4.5
A satire that a generation mistook for a manual, which is on the generation, not the film.
watched · Aug 30
Shutter Island 2010
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 30
The Godfather 1972
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 23
Star Wars 1977
★★2.0
watched · Aug 21
Before Sunrise 1995
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 20
In the Mood for Love 2000
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 20
History as a theme park ride with a nice man on the seat. Technically astonishing; morally a shrug.
Mostly about the craft.
watched · Aug 17
Mad Men 2007
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 17
Aftersun 2022
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 14
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
★★★★½4.5
finished · Aug 11
Never Let Me Go 2005
★★½2.5
played · Aug 6
Hades 2020
★½1.5
watched · Aug 4
Twin Peaks 1990
★★★★★5.0
watched · Aug 3
Deadpool 2016
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 3
Se7en 1995
★★★★4.0
finished · Aug 2
The Secret History 1992
★★★3.0
watched · Aug 2
Die Hard 1988
★★★3.0
watched · Jul 29
Pulp Fiction 1994
★★★★4.0
watched · Jul 27
Bluey 2018
½0.5
finished · Jul 26
Klara and the Sun 2019
★★½2.5
finished · Jul 23
Circe 2018
★★2.0
watched · Jul 21
Interstellar 2014
★★2.0
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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