As a kind of intellectual and emotional position, the opacity of their actions was very interesting to me they don’t have an answer at all. A lot of ecological discourse is very nervous, often doom-and-gloom paranoia, but the brothers have a wry resilience in how they handle things. They don’t eulogize or romanticize themselves. It takes a tremendous toll on their life and mental health, and they still carry on-and that’s why it’s a worthy topic to study, cinematically and otherwise. Remember that for the longest time, over a decade, they’ve been criticized and told off by their parents and families, who have made disparaging comments about their work. They’ll joke about it becoming a habit to them, or being a bit mad. They usually say the most ridiculous things when you ask them why they do it. It’s like if you’re having a difficult conversation with a friend, and you say, “Why did you do this?” And they say, “But that’s who I am.” There’s a semantic shift that happens in that moment, because it shifts from the coordinates of “why” to the coordinates of “who.” That implicitly entails a kind of opacity, but it’s a rich, profound opacity. The film started with a “why” and became a “how.” It started with an epistemic question and became an ontological question. SS: The whole film is an exploration of that question: Why do they do what they do? Like all complicated questions, there is absolutely no one answer to this. Did you ever struggle to understand what they do? 7 ![]() I thought: How many more dozens of kites were being predated on by crows at that present moment in Delhi? Why go through such intense labor for this one kite? And then, on top of all that, why kites and not crows? If you aren’t struck by their sense of awe, their dedication and purpose is hard to understand. JL: There’s this sequence early in the documentary where two of them swim across a river to save an injured kite who otherwise would have likely been killed by crows, and they completely exhaust themselves with the task. For me, they’re like three Don Quixotes who peddle in micro-miracles. For the brothers, it started a lifelong journey of radical empathy. I think it’s possible to mobilize this awe for ecological purposes. When you look at a black kite, it’s not a cute songbird-it’s a ferocious raptor. They spoke about the magnetic feeling they had with this alien-like, otherworldly, wondrous being that is the black kite. When I first met the brothers, they would talk about being teenage bodybuilders, which is how they first got interested in matters of flesh, muscles, and tendons. Birds especially inaugurate a passion in us, and so much of our language is underwritten by avian metaphors. Or H Is for Hawk, or Grief Is a Thing With Feathers, or the umpteenth sundry books that have birds. Baker, a phenomenally written prose work about one man’s relationship with the peregrine falcon in Essex, in the UK, in the 1960s. Some of my favorite bits of literature capture this magical, otherworldly aura that certain animals inspire in us: for instance, The Peregrine by J.A. I’ve always been interested in an intensity when it’s articulated between human and nonhuman life. Shaunak Sen: I’m interested in what we do when we know that the world is not doing great. Jasmine Liu: Can you expand on the sort of trans-species love and devotion that is on display in All That Breathes? 5 Why? I spoke with Sen about this question and more in the following interview, which has been edited for length and clarity. ![]() This card was confirmed by a banner teaser on the official South Park: Phone Destroyer Discord server which contains the color scheme of Human Kite’s outfit.These three men, who work out of a garage in a working-class neighborhood subject to regular power outages and floods, have quietly and methodically taken on the arbitrary and monumental mission of saving Delhi’s dying kites.In this card, Kyle is wearing his superhero costume from South Park: The Fractured But Whole and the "Coon & Friends" episodes.Since his charge ability is an area effect, it’s likely that he’ll be in groups of units, which can be easily susceptible to Fireball and other area attacks or spells. ![]() It’s also good to keep note of what themes or cards the Enemy New Kid is using.As his invincibility aura only lasts 3 seconds, it’s good to plan when you use his ability to use it to its full effectiveness.He is also a flying unit, which makes him travel faster than Kyle of the Drow Elves, this can be good or bad depending on the situation. In exchange, Human Kite has higher attack and higher health, as he’s not instantly killed by Arrowstorm, unlike Kyle of the Drow Elves. Compared to Kyle of the Drow Elves, Human Kite’s ability lasts less and only protects an area of units."With the wind at my back, I‘m invincible!".
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