Folktales review – taking on tyranny of social media as teens learn to live like hunter-gatherers

In this documentary, high schoolers camp out in subzero temperatures, making their own fires and driving sledges in the wild The Pasvik Folk high school in remote northern Norway teaches teenagers to grow as young adults and escape the pressures of toxic social media by challenging them to get back in touch with their “stone age brain” and live like hunter-gatherers in the snowy wild. This is the subject of a documentary from Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. Over winter months of almost continuous darkness, the teens cleanse themselves with tasks such as camping out in subzero weather, making their own fires and driving sledges with huskies. Prior to all this of course is presumably a solemn promise to do without their phones, tablets and laptops, although there are no scenes of the kids actually having to surrender these gadgets (this isn’t rehab, after all). They have to swim in icy water; and they make it look like fun. What doesn’t look like fun is the camping out and there is one t...

In His New Memoir, Tom Felton Discusses The Lessons He Learned From The Generous And Sympathetic Robbie Coltrane

Coltrane, who passed away on Friday at the age of 72, is remembered by Felton in the book published on Tuesday as "one of the few actors I knew when we started producing the Potter films" because of his appearances in GoldenEye and Cracker. He was a jokester but also the target of other people's jokes simultaneously. Felton, 35, writes about Coltrane, who portrayed Rubeus Hagrid, the good-natured, half-giant guardian of the keys and grounds at Hogwarts, who Felton's Draco Malfoy constantly mocks in the movie. Felton recalled an era when he and franchise star Daniel Radcliffe would switch people's phone settings to other languages, making it tricky to revert to the English language. According to what the author has said, Robbie was most certainly the punch line of that joke more than that due to the fact that his response to it was so pleasant. He would pull his brows together, look around, and say, "What f—-er did that?" He gave the impression that he was prepared to kill the person responsible, but in reality, he was just getting into the spirit of things. The thoughtful and kind Coltrane imparted many important life lessons to the young actors, including Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, according to Felton. According to what he says, Robbie was constantly eager to remind us that we weren't there to cure cancer. We were not preventing the end of the planet. We were just making a film at the time. We need to keep this in mind, avoid getting too big for our britches and keep a sense of humor about the situation. According to Felton, he possessed a sizeable portion of Hagrid's personality, which characterized him as a kind and generous giant who kept his focus on what was truly essential in life.

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