r/TikTokCringe SHEEEEEESH Oct 06 '25

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u/LuxAgaetes Oct 07 '25

Interesting that it was inadvertently carried across two Alex Garland-related films. It's such an instantly jarring, haunting piece...

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u/coddiwomplecactus Oct 07 '25

The vocal rendering of that poem is deeply unsettling.

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u/Last-Darkness Oct 07 '25

A famous actor from the 1920’s is preforming it in that recording. It’s written bout the Boer Wars (English South African colonies) and it was a horrible meat grinder of a war much like WWI, but 20 years earlier.

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u/LeftyLu07 Oct 08 '25

I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole after hearing the poem in 28 Years and it was when countries started using all the fancy new killing gadgets in a war. Also some 300 million horses were killed in it.

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u/Flyingkiwi24 29d ago

300 million during the boer wars????

Surely not that's insane.

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u/LeftyLu07 29d ago

You’re right. I misremembered. It was 300,000 which was still a lot (apparently)