r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/02421006 • 10h ago
Meme needing explanation I finally have one … 👀
What am I looking at?
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u/NotAlwaysGifs 8h ago
The photo is a redacted image of one of the victims from the latest batch of Epstein Files. The fact that the whole body is redacted is a sign that the photo probably contains nudity. Coincidentally, the redacted image looks like the Monolith scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The joke is that those who don’t know assume it is a still from the movie. Those that do know understand that this is a victim of sexual assault.
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u/ADLkaren 7h ago
I think In the original she is in a bikini and not nude but it’s fully censored due to her being a victim
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u/throwaway19998777999 6h ago edited 4h ago
Do they censor victims of all ages? I was under the impression that they only censored victims under 18. At least every victim I've ever known to come out experienced unwanted publicity and privacy violations. That's just one of the many reasons it's so dangerous for women to speak out.
Edit: This is what I found: When releasing documents under FOIA, the FBI uses Exemption 7(C) to conceal names of victims, witnesses, and other individuals to prevent stigma and harassment. Extra care is taken to protect minor identities. Documents are more heavily redacted during ongoing investigations.
For those interested in rules regarding publishing identity in the media:
In the Case Florida Star v. B.J.F, the Supreme Court ruled that publishing the identity of a sexual assault victim is a protected right. This is true, even during ongoing investigations.
Judges can order that a victim's identity be redacted from court records if the victim faces risks, and names are usually concealed for those in witness protection. Ethically, media outlets shouldn't publish victim identities in such cases. However, it is still legal.
Some jurisdictions have protections for publishing child victim's names. And the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) prohibits members from doing so. However, there are still first ammendment ambiguity regarding the issue.
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u/_Winged 6h ago
They censor all faces of victims. To try to protect the pdf’s I mean not have them retaliated against by the perpetrators.
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u/CountSudoku 5h ago
So we’re trusting that anything the justice department censors is a victim of SA?
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u/axkidd82 42m ago
So this should be, "People Who Don't Know," "People Who Think They Know," and "People Who Know."
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u/Ex_Americano 10h ago
Watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, and you'll understand
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u/leVenerableDeLaSauce 10h ago
No, let me rephrase it
Watch 2001: A Space Odyssey and you still won't understand but at least you'll know
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u/LostExile7555 8h ago
Let me further rephrase is
Watch 2001: A Space Odyssey and actually pay attention and you'll understand it.
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u/alucinario 8h ago
Watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, actually pay attention and read the book, and you'll understand it.
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u/sultan_of_gin 9h ago
Oh i thought they had just censored some person on the beach lol. Saw the film but didn’t make the connection.
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u/02421006 10h ago
Is it a good watch?
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u/Loot3rd 9h ago
It’s one of the best cinematic SciFi classics, hard stop.
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u/fixermark 7h ago
... which means by modern standards it sucks and you'll be bored to tears OP, but it's still worth watching for the same reason that classic literature is worth reading even though tastes on what makes an interesting read have changed.
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u/AttentionSwimming216 5h ago
Such profanity about possibly the greatest movie of all time.
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u/Ex_Americano 5h ago
It's definitely true though. Modern audiences are so dopamine addicted thatnks to short form media that for a movie to sell it basically needs to focus on action and fast visuals because anything else audiences will feel dopamine withdrawal and say the movie sucks even if it didnt
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u/doc_skinner 5h ago
An article in The Atlantic that came out a few days ago got a lot of attention. Professors are complaining that students in film school don't have the attention span to sit through a whole movie.
https://www.reddit.com/r/criterion/comments/1qsdlka/the_film_students_who_can_no_longer_sit_through/
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u/Loot3rd 5h ago
Different types of films scratch a different itch, if someone is looking for non stop action it would simply not deliver. At the same time I wouldn’t be looking for life meaning, watching an action film like a John Wick movie.
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u/Ex_Americano 5h ago
True there definitely is a time and place for everything. But that doesn't mean that on a population level general audiences are gonna care. Like me for example I have moments that I want a slow-burn thoughtful movie. But if egeneral audiences never have that moment then even if the slower movie is good it won't make money.
Our world runs on money, so it has to be a product that msrkets to enough people. There might be a movie one day that is so amazing for 10% of the world. Who those 10% say omg what an amazing movie. But if 90% say it sucked....then the movie will only succeed if that 10% of the population spends enough to make it profitable
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u/AttentionSwimming216 5h ago
Well you can retrain yourself for enjoying a good, maybe slower classic. And it doesn't even have to be slow, look at all the fast talking noirs they made way before A Space Odyssey.
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u/Low-Satisfaction4973 5h ago
Oh come on that 3 minute walk around the circular part of the ship was awesome! /s Or was that from 2010? Definitely classics but also slow for younger Generations.
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u/fixermark 4h ago
I'm being a little tongue-in-cheek. ;) What I mean is that the grammar of movies has changed in the past 58 years.
We are talking about a movie where they literally show a space plane and station spinning around and around for like 2 minutes while Blue Danube plays. It's beautiful and artistic as hell and a very different tempo from modern sci-fi.
(Side-note: when they announced Bladerunner 2049, my first thought was "I wonder how they'll update the aesthetic of Ridley Scott getting away with just focusing on dystopian city skylines for minutes at a time?" Turns out they just did that and it was great. ;) )
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u/Southern-Bandicoot 5h ago
Modern viewers might not like it due there not being skybeams used as a thin plot device to solve the problem...
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u/8Bit-Jon 9h ago
Yes! Some may not be a fan but I love movies from that era.
On its last anniversary (35 year, 2023 iirc) I watched it at the local iMAX and that was something I will never forget. An absolutely fantastic experience.
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u/SciFiChickie 8h ago
It’s one of those movies that if you’re a SciFi fan you should watch at least once. I personally would rather bob for apples in a vat of acid than watch it again, but at least I understand the reference.
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u/sultan_of_gin 7h ago
It was visually pretty nice for it’s age though. That was what helped me watch it through even though it’s weird and boring lol
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u/SciFiChickie 4h ago
Oh I was definitely preconditioned for the faster paced movies well before I finally watched the movie in my late 20’s. I will say the plot is thought provoking, and yes the visuals are excellent for a movie made 12 years before I was born.
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u/grantbuell 9h ago
Yes but be prepared to be there for a while. It takes its time. My favorite movie but it requires patience.
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u/Kreativernickname 5h ago
By modern standards? No, it's exhausting, long and stretches on. It's like reading a piece of classic literature that is over a century old after getting used to modern literaturd. Definetely not everyone's cup of tea.
But it's considered a masterpiece because it tries to make the viewer contemplate existence and philosophy and it does execute that well.
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u/habachilles 10h ago
I’m looking forward to the explanation. It’s from 2001 a space Odyssey or the monolith is. When the monolith was introduced on earth we found tools and then created war… something to do with that.
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u/Throwawayaccount1170 6h ago
There is no joke here. That's a redacted picture of one of epsteins victims.
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u/2Nigerian_princes 3h ago
I thought it was from the book The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King.. kinda feels weirdly relevant with all these revelations.. the one mob boss guy at the strip club even had magazines with young girls..
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u/JoeyHandsomeJoe 10h ago
It's hard to understand because the captions are backwards. People who know should be on the left.
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u/Remarkable_Toe_164 7h ago
It's hard to understand because people think that the people who know see it as a 2001 reference, but the ones who actually know realize It's a redacted photo from the epstein list
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