#6 Must Watch: Daddy is a liar

▶️ Some films can really make you cry, unless you’re a man of course. But then again, daddies do cry sometimes, like in this video! Check out this touching TV commercial from Hong Kong.

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#7 Must Watch: Salad Fingers

▶️ Salad Fingers is a psycho (=strange, with mental problems) cartoon series from the early days of YouTube. Whether you find it funny or just creepy (=weird in a scary way) and horrible is up to you but it is definitely a classic!

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#8 Must Watch: Cool Japan

▶️ Here’s a song by Malaysian Chinese artist Namewee composed in the run-up to (=before a big event) the Tokyo Olympics. It makes fun of “Japanglish” and the distinct (=special, unique) way in which Japanese people pronounce English words in their language.

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#9 Must Watch: Danny Boy

▶️ Let’s face it, people are stupid and sometimes we’re pretty alone with our thoughts. Watch this arty (=expressive, artistic) animated short film from 🇵🇱Poland for inspiration.

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#10 Must Watch: The greatest country?

▶️ Here’s a famous scene from The Newsroom, an 🇺🇸American political TV serial, in which a journalist gives a shocking answer to the question “Why is America the greatest country in the world?” – see for yourself.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

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#11 Must Watch: Happiness

▶️ Modern society is sometimes described as a “rat race”. This animated film criticising consumerism (=belief that it’s good to buy lots of things) makes it perfectly clear what that means.

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#12 Must Watch: Music saves lives

▶️ Here’s another inspiring TV commercial from Thailand, this time with a troubled schoolboy who raises money (=collect donations) for his mother’s cancer treatment.

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#13 Must Watch: Hong Kong by Night

▶️ Switch off all the lights around you and embark (=start a journey, esp. on a ship or plane) on a nocturnal (=in the night) drone flight through sleepless Hong Kong. Impressive and humbling (=making you feel small) at once.

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#14 Must Watch: This Land Is Mine

▶️ The Middle East has been mired in (=stuck in) conflict for centuries and millennia (=thousands of years). Watch this music video for a brief history that leads up to the conflict between 🇮🇱Israel and 🇵🇸Palestine.

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#15 Must Watch: Bertha Benz

▶️ Mercedes-Benz is not only among the major car manufacturers today, the company was also a 19th century pioneer of the automotive industry (=car industry). Enjoy this commercial about Bertha Benz, the wife of Carl Benz who built the first ‘modern’ car.

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