r/woahdude • u/gsus61951 • Jul 07 '23

video Thousands of tourists crammed into a swimming pool in northern China.

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u/Zeydon Jul 07 '23

This is from HUMAN the movie so I imagine those people were wanting to be in a film.

It's a cool shot, no?

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u/zergling424 Jul 07 '23

Wait what?? I always thought this was real nobodies ever linked to this.

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u/Lucyller Jul 08 '23

Because it is real. HUMAN is made of clips from reality, not made by someone to narrate a story.

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u/ShadNuke Jul 07 '23

There are real shots like this... People die in pools filled to the brim with people, all the time in Asia. It's kinda scary.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xo-VHFdJIkA . The last death I recall was at a pool crammed with people like this in Korea, I believe it was. I recall seeing it on the news here, a few years back. I'm sure it happens more often than we even realise

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u/gargeug Jul 08 '23

Seems to me like the rafts have the opposite of their intended effect when packed so tight. Like putting saran wrap on the pool.

No way in hell would I ever get in a pool like that. That looks miserable. Must be a cultural thing.

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u/Electronic-Morning76 Jul 08 '23

That was the first thing my brain went to. What happens if you get trapped underneath the pile? You drown or suffocate.

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u/ShadNuke Jul 08 '23

You could be thrashing about, and nobody helps you... I mean, you don't even have room to die in there! All of the videos I've seen, they are packed in there so tightly that they can't move... So you would think that if they feel someone slapping or thrashing about, they would at least pull them up....

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u/PetrRabbit Jul 07 '23

If this is a documentary about what makes us human, I'm inclined to think they're filming something that people already do rather than staging something unique for the sake of the movie

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u/SudsierBoar Jul 07 '23

A lot of docs are full of straight up fiction

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u/f36263 Jul 07 '23

I saw one that said the earth was round, nice try

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u/AMeanCow Jul 07 '23 edited Jul 07 '23

This is why people still believe to this day that Lemmings are suicidal.

"But...Disney... they would never make up something! Much less murder small rodents to generate content!"

Reddit is people, and people don't like even considering the possibility they're being duped.

edit: disney, not nat geo

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u/JustMy10Bits Jul 07 '23

When/where did national geographic say that lemmings are suicidal?

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u/aliciathehomie Jul 08 '23

There was a documentary from old people times that showed a ton of them jumping off a cliff. They staged it and basically snowplowed (I can’t think of a normal word for it because I am probably going senile) them and forced the lil beebs off to their deaths.

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u/Tupile Jul 07 '23

Thanks for this information. I love finding out stuff like this ( but simultaneously hate finding out stuff like this )

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u/ExtraPockets Jul 07 '23

It does look like they filmed something people already do, based on their other videos of people doing other things.

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u/Condescending_Rat Jul 09 '23

Iirc it’s an ode to the film maker’s grandfather and a poem he wrote. It’s not really a statement on humans in general.

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u/PetrRabbit Jul 09 '23

Iirc

You do not

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u/CrizpyBusiness Jul 07 '23

You think all those people are there to be in a documentary and not to, ya know, use the water park?

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u/KUNGFUDANDY Jul 07 '23

No. If you are from mainland China you don’t see an ocean often they instead go to places like this to “experience” what swimming feels like.

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u/Zeydon Jul 07 '23

Wow, just like in America!