tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39529606848373890242024-03-27T16:54:54.910-07:00Notes on Filmsrealinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.comBlogger5403125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-3484670477693726412023-11-03T05:19:00.002-07:002023-11-03T05:19:42.326-07:00Memoirs of Casanova by Giacomo Casanova http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/06/casanova-inspired-perhaps-by-memoirs-of.html - 8 out of 10<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Memoirs of
Casanova by Giacomo Casanova </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/06/casanova-inspired-perhaps-by-memoirs-of.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/06/casanova-inspired-perhaps-by-memoirs-of.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8 out of 10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the new
age of Woke, Cancel Culture, Casanova must be a no go, anathema, and the
subject dropped like a hot potato, only this a free space and furthermore,
there is no audience to talk about, so we are not spreading misinformation,
vile sexism, because there is nobody to read these lines…and that is the way it
must be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The usual
spoiler alert, warning, disclaimer might not be justified here, now, for if you
are a decent reader, then you are not interested in the Memoirs of Casanova,
never mind what some obscure fellow named Realini has to say about it – it is
after all evident, that was a really bad ruffian, sexist and selfish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">His name
has come to represent the philanderer, the one that does not stay in one
relationship for more than the time it takes to have sex, ergo the word ‘relationship’
is not appropriate, he may have missed the significance, but we could also take
a more tolerant view and say he suffered from priapism and other ailments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We could
see this eternal quest for the bed and one, or more women to jump with in there
as a mental illness, going back, as the cliché would have it, to childhood,
where poor, little Giacomo has missed on paternal affection, and then looked
for it in perpetuity, trying to have love through sex, and multiple partners<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I actually
identify with the man, and have been through a pathetic, long, long line of
partners, in my case, because I have started (Way too) late and thus would
continuously try to compensate and get more of the ‘forbidden fruit – a doctor
told me, prompted by my father, that ‘you fuck or you do not, the time of the
penis passes’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One other
indulgent view might even celebrate Casanova as one of the first liberals,
maybe ultra, or progressive, whatever we could call him – The Economist, in the
Johnson column, has looked at the way the significance of words change, how
what was acceptable, politically correct some time ago, is now a no-no<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We could
also do no better than read The King’s English </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> by Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis, who
looked at how words are misused, and change meaning – one example is infamous,
which comes from infamy, but had started to be badly used as ‘famous’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">After all,
Casanova has entered the ‘menage a trois’, maybe even before this was a thing,
and he must be praised for it – I just realized that I am probably talking
nonsense, and have the fabulous luck to be without a public, thus nobody will
cry out ‘cancel him, vile beast’, I have had a complaint some days ago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It regarded
the absence of a spoiler alert – and there is one above now – and I would push
this as proof of my modesty, why use a spoiler alert, when you have nobody to
alert, it is superfluous, pompous and futile, but hey, given that there is a
‘reader’, I comply, even if he is now off to greener pastures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There may
be another reason for this frantic urge to have sex, and that could be a broken
heart, which again, was my case – spoiler on top of warning, I am really off
now, writing about my worries, forget Casanova…psychology studies have
demonstrated that if we write about our grievances, failures, it helps<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At the
start of the nineties, I meet a nice woman (I will make it short, though I am
tempted to talk about the dog, how she in fact started talking with him, etc.)
and then offer her a ride in my Audi, which was some twenty years old, but the
equivalent of a helicopter then, when all you had on the roads were a few lousy
jalopies, Dacias<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So she
takes the ride, we talk for a while, and then she says she is…Miss Romania, and
then I laugh a little and retort that I am Casanova – I am mirthful now, I said
something else, maybe the Maharajah of Beluchistan or something, but if I am
supposed to talk about Casanova, at least I should use him as a prop here…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Only she
meant it, and she was, which shocked yours truly, who entered this phase of
denial, then acceptance of this incredible luck, or god damn miserable
misfortune, depending on how we see it, after a few days confessing my love –
Thomas Mann </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-magic-mountain-is-classic-that.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-magic-mountain-is-classic-that.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> has a lot to object to that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- which may or may not have been deep and
radiant…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From fall
to spring, it could have been a paradisiacal eight months, maybe less, or more
– Einstein said ‘When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two
minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours…That's
relativity’- but once she told me to get lost, if not in these words, I have
fallen into depression, seen a shrink, thought I would die, and then…presto,
Casanova resurrected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Talked to
almost every skirt I saw, asked if we have a future together (if a brief one)
got rejected in 90% of the cases, but then even with this failure rate, 10% of
tens of thousands of small talks would still put you in the Casanova
domain…yes, this could be a mea culpa, it was wrong – however, I must insist
that I talked, and talked, and then when it was mutual, we stopped talking and
got to ‘business’- only it was an effort to find affection, and I ended up
here, alone, with just two macaws for company, and pouring my misgivings on
this page…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now for a
question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more
than a million dollars with this <a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world</a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– as it is, this is a unique technique,
which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then
make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do
not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As for my
role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is <a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html</a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Some
favorite quotes-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From To The
Heritage:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘Fiction is
infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or
Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the
careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more
moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating,
noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment,
twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can
experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more,
books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order
of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who
provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful
mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that
wise epic by an often foolish author…’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‚parturiunt
montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“From Monty
Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be
nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some
walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all
creeds and nations.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-2545831395600839652023-11-03T05:05:00.000-07:002023-11-03T05:05:49.690-07:0085 out of 100 for England in Colour<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/vhYtH_QDwcM?si=ZtpasfPATClILY89" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-14918945129877639372023-11-03T04:59:00.001-07:002023-11-03T04:59:53.543-07:0084 out of 100 for Ancient Powers<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/IjK9MhMqveo?si=vwNKkQk0QpzesR6H" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-70613894499710303422023-11-02T04:59:00.002-07:002023-11-02T04:59:24.015-07:00Kajillionaire by Miranda July - 8 out of 10<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Kajillionaire
by Miranda July<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8 out of 10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Kajillionaire
has had its premiere on HBO, a few days ago, and there are some mixed feelings
about it in this corner of the world, however much it was appreciated by
experts – the proof is the metascore of 78, which means that most of the
critics have found this movie exhilarating, and you should take their word for
it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">By the way,
what follows is not of much, if any interest, and having said that, the duty of
putting in a spoiler alert, warning, disclaimer is fulfilled, and from now on,
if you continue, well, I am absolved – somebody asked for a spoiler in a
comment, and by saying that – with modesty – I do not think these lines
worthwhile, I have gone above and beyond my duty towards the audience – which is
actually a mirage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Old Dolio
is the main character in the narrative, and she is portrayed by Evan Rachel
Wood, an actor (I guess the days of using actress are gone, for feminist
reasons, I wonder) that has been at the center of a documentary, looking at her
relationship with the bizarre and apparently abusive Marilyn Manson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Think of
the warning above – to be idiotic, I would just mention as a sort of stupid
joke, when you look at the fellow, you must see that it is not going to be an
easy connection, come on, this is the Devil tempting you (kidding, remember,
and besides, I do not believe in Satan or his counterpart) and you better stay
away<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Blink – The
Power of Thinking Without Thinking </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/05/blink-power-of-thinking-without.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/05/blink-power-of-thinking-without.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> by glorious Malcolm Gladwell is the
book to read, a classic of psychology, to understand the effectiveness of The
Thin Slicing Effect, or The Harding Effect, this is at work in the research of
John Gottman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The latter
is the ultimate expert on relationships, he is able to tell within a minute or
so, if a couple would stay together, or they would separate, and his accuracy
rate is over ninety percent, and he has also written a classic of psychology,
The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-seven-principles-of-making-marriage.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-seven-principles-of-making-marriage.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> with the Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse to be worried about, Contempt, Stonewalling, Defensiveness,
Criticism…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To return
for a moment to Kajillionaire, Old Dolio has this bizarre name, first of all,
because her parents are really peculiar, rotten we could say, they are swindlers
and thieves, unable to show emotion, sharing with her the spoils of their
schemes, but so disturbed and sick that -spoiler – they rob her<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The father,
Robert, is the incredible Richard Jenkins, who brings panache, and makes the
role complex, combining that loathsome side with a humorous attitude, this
abject father does have some charm, albeit on the whole, it is disgusting to
see someone push their child into a life of crime and depression<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Theresa is
the mother, and we have here another giant of the big screen, Debra Winger,
taking on the part – Debra Winger is the Jennifer Lawrence of some three
decades ago – although we must see what Ms. Lawrence will do in the future, her
last role was a major disappointment, an annoying film – and she shined like a
real star<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To mention
just one major success, Terms of Endearment </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/02/terms-of-endearment-written-by-james-l.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/02/terms-of-endearment-written-by-james-l.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> is a fabulous motion picture,
however difficult she seemed to have been on the set – I have seen that somewhere,
but maybe it is just gossip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And the way
it works (better said it does not) I jump from one topic to another, in a real
browning movement, chaotically, and now let me tell you about gossip – the
story comes from the stupendous Doubt </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/04/note-on-doubt-with-p-s-hoffman-m-streep.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/04/note-on-doubt-with-p-s-hoffman-m-streep.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> which is a must see<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Philip
Seymour Hoffman is the corrupt priest, Meryl Streep is the nun that exposes
him, Amy Adams is a more tolerant and doubtful sister, and Viola Davis the
mother of a boy that is the target of the pedophile clergy…the father however
is very angry about gossip and tells the congregation this symbolic tale <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One woman
was very free with the things she said about her community and spread rumors
and the like, until her priest told her that she has to go home and cut the
covers of her pillows and set free all the feathers outside the house, and then
he told her to go collect all those feathers, to which she said ‘but father,
this is impossible, they have been taken by the wind all over’, and she was
rebuked ‘you see, that is gossip’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It was not
quite like that – maybe not at all – but hey, it is so enchanting to know that
‘you have been warned’, if you are still around and thus I can get into Games
People Play </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/09/games-people-play-by-eric-berne.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/09/games-people-play-by-eric-berne.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> which is our third psychology
classic for today<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Anyway,
Miss Evans kind of spoils some of the excellence of the film, she has chosen,
maybe with the writer-director Miranda July – some sort of outré take on the
role (which clearly has had massive appeal, because, hey, look at the metascore
again) which annoyed yours truly, but then I am no good judge, mea culpa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now for a
question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more
than a million dollars with this </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– as it is, this is a unique technique, which
we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make
lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not
know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As for my
role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From To The
Heritage:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘Fiction is
infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or
Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the
careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more
moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating,
noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment,
twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can
experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more,
books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order
of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who
provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful
mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that
wise epic by an often foolish author…’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‚parturiunt
montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“the
Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special…Try and be nice to people,
avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and
try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and
nations.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-7289457928856046692023-11-02T04:49:00.001-07:002023-11-02T04:49:52.920-07:0084 out of 100 for History's Crazy Rich Ancients<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/_ZzNr-JFcWw?si=q6VCjxp7FbACn33f" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-10936949160478928632023-11-02T04:46:00.001-07:002023-11-02T04:46:48.075-07:0082 out of 100 for The Visitors<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Ec5S_GZuF_g?si=mhwv7dIFF2L5iMzm" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-90691415326869266352023-11-01T04:59:00.002-07:002023-11-01T04:59:35.442-07:00The Garden of Finzi Continis aka Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini by Giorgio Bassani – another look at this marvelous novel is at http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/07/note-on-garden-of-finzi-contis-directed.html - 10 out of 10<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Garden
of Finzi Continis aka Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini by Giorgio Bassani –
another look at this marvelous novel is at </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/07/note-on-garden-of-finzi-contis-directed.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/07/note-on-garden-of-finzi-contis-directed.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10 out of
10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Garden
of Finzi Continis is that rara avis, rare bird, a fabulous novel, included on
the list of 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read </span><a href="https://poemeglume.blogspot.com/2023/04/1000-novels-everyone-must-read.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">https://poemeglume.blogspot.com/2023/04/1000-novels-everyone-must-read.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and adapted more than successfully
for the big screen, the film was nominated for multiple awards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As a motion
picture, it took the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Motion Picture (this has
been changed to international feature, I think this is the new name) was also
shortlisted for Best Adapted Screenplay and it is indeed one of the best movies
you can see, directed by legendary Viitorio De Sica, absolutely a memorable
spectacle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With the
War in the Middle East raging as we speak, this is a powerful, compelling
narrative that has anti-Semitism, discrimination at its core, as the plot takes
us to 1938, to begin with, in Ferrara, Italy, just as the fascists of Benito
Mussolini were imposing new restrictions, abuses on the Jewish population.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">By the way,
Italy has now a far-right leader, and those parties in power, folks that were
enthralled with Mussolini and that doctrine, albeit they seem to be more
restrained, at least on some subjects, and the far right is overall on the
ascendant, The Economist has just had an issue with this problem at the center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Even
Sweden, cherished as the bastion of progress, a role model for the rest to
follow, has now support for the government from those dark corners, and look at
the madness in America, where Trump is waiting to become commander-in-chief
again next year, and that is just bonkers, and they have crazies everywhere<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It looks
like this note will go places, but it might escape the control and not cover
much, if anything about the Finzi- Continis, let us just say that this was a
rich, Jewish family, that could live isolated from the horrors on display for
some time, but then the fascists thought of more traumas and – spoiler alert-
they might get to them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">You would
better stop reading here, because having just said that the tragedy is about
these initially privileged humans, who fall very low (I am also very upset
about that nice Great Dane, who is seen when things become desperate tied with
a cord, and probably left to suffer there) I am jumping through time and look
at the present<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Israel has
been attacked by vicious, disgusting terrorists – that the BBC has qualms about
calling with the proper name, they resort to militants, because they have some
rules, but is this right, I wonder – and more than fourteen hundred people have
been killed, the overwhelming majority of them civilians…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They have
murdered babies, old folks, raped women, set their victims on fire, it is a
long list of inhuman, beastly acts, which appear ‘justified’ in the eyes of
some, because of the ’70 years of colonialism’, a period during which the
Palestinians have had no state, and suffered at the hands of Israel’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I admit
here to being ‘biased’, that is I am clearly on the side of the Jewish people –
full disclosure, my daughter has taken some sort of test, which seems rather
uncertain to me, and she came out 11% Jewish, which may make me more than 20%,
seeing that she takes half from her mother, presumably <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Garden
of Finzi Continis and other real stories show part of the immense suffering
that Jewish people have suffered through millennia, it is not just the
Holocaust, the Inquisition tortured them in particular, look at the fabulous The
Netanyahus, winner of last year’s Pulitzer Prize Winner, written by brilliant
Joshua Cohen </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-netanyahus-account-of-minor-and.htm"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-netanyahus-account-of-minor-and.htm</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From this
marvel and history, we learn that Jews had converted to survive, and still the
Inquisition will go after them, they have been expelled, discriminated against,
made to suffer, envied, and hey, look at the fantastic achievements of this
small community (if we compare it with so much larger populations) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From
Einstein to Oppenheimer </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/08/oppenheimer-by-christopher-nolan.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/08/oppenheimer-by-christopher-nolan.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> in art, science, literature (my
favorite, and one of the world’s most glorious is Proust, who had Jewish roots)
the world has to be grateful for the discoveries, masterpieces, technology and
so much more, given to humanity by this brave people<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yet, they
have been massacred and there have been cries of joy, on the streets of Arab
countries, but in other dark places as well – yes, there has been mistreatment
of Palestinians, but never in the gruesome, monstrous manner shown over that
catastrophic weekend, they have never entered a village, city to machine gun
innocents – by the way, Islam is a religion of peace, it forbids these killings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now for a
question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more
than a million dollars with this </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– as it is, this is a unique technique, which
we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make
lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not
know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As for my
role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From To The
Heritage:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘Fiction is
infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or
Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the
careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more
moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating,
noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment,
twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can
experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more,
books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order
of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who
provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful
mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that
wise epic by an often foolish author…’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‚parturiunt
montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“the Meaning
of Life...Well, it's nothing very special. Try and be nice to people, avoid
eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try
and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-89190498955295344682023-11-01T04:51:00.001-07:002023-11-01T04:51:49.229-07:0086 out of 100 for The Child in Time<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/ON0Sl1-cwoQ?si=IDkHpaSFZJIiKd82" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-36746304100490036942023-11-01T04:49:00.000-07:002023-11-01T04:49:05.291-07:0085 out of 100 for South Park, Trump<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/-wN4D8bNerQ?si=wGKqaiAI7Rteycy3" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-377114537368186322023-10-31T04:35:00.002-07:002023-10-31T04:35:33.576-07:00The Founder by Robert Siegler - 8 out of 10 for ethical reasons, otherwise, it would 10 out of 10<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Founder
by Robert Siegler<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8 out of 10
for ethical reasons, otherwise, it would 10 out of 10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We have
here an outré beano, this motion picture is both inspiring, damn good,
brilliantly acted (Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, Laura Dern, John Carroll Lynch,
Patrick Wilson and the rest of the cast deserve praise) and at the same time,
it sings hymns (not really, I am just having fun) to a rather objectionable
multinational<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Let me
conclude by saying that I both admire the film and say that the corporation in
it does not deserve such a fabulous movie…having said that, let me introduce
the spoiler alert and say that you must not read this, it is not a good enough
note for you, and that should cover everything, I mean duty done, let us move
on<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Without you
here, bow I can rant and misbehave, moving off topic – there has been one
comment recently, complaining to yours truly, and if that was infuriating,
given that it was on my YouTube channel, which does not really have an
audience, well, for some reason, there has been an explosion, as in there are
now over one hundred clicks for one story, and thus it looks like kicking a
dead horse, why kick me, when my impact is zero?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On the
other hand, let us put a gratitude poem in these lines, for the man was there,
proof that it is not really talking to oneself, and furthermore, he even
watched…to moan about it, right, but still, it is a good start, in about one
hundred years, and the cover of The Economist last week says that we will soon
live to 120, regularly, never mind that I will be sixty in just a few months, I
will be so resplendent that the audience will double<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Getting back
to The Founder, Michael Keaton portrays Ray Kroc, and that is right, he is The
One, notwithstanding his name, which is not McDonald, but he runs into this
restaurant, at the start of the narrative, where he is flabbergasted by the,
well, everything: he has to wait in a rather long queue, for starters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Once
arrived at the window, he is asked what he wants, from a rather limited menu –
later, the McDonald brothers will explain how they have worked on their
operation, coming to the conclusion that if you give to wide a choice, you will
end up rising costs, they have looked at other operations, eliminated
waitresses, cutlery, dishes, introduced single use paper cups and eliminated
the drive-in concept<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Quite a few
of those aspects have changed with Kroc, and then back, for instance, the
creative, innovative Ray Kroc would introduce milk shakes without the milk – to
the fury of Dick McDonald aka impressive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Nick
Offerman, who always insisted on keeping things unchanged, rejecting all the
novelties suggested – but with time, milk shakes have been added ice-cream,
again, just like we now have drive-throughs, large menus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ray Kroc is
baffled, overwhelmed by the smooth operation, the brothers that own this
fantastic restaurant have created a new system, I think it was called Speed or
something similar, working relentlessly, with chalk and drawings on the
pavement, looking at different configurations, making their team simulate the
making of the burgers, French fries and shakes, without those, just to see
where there would be bottlenecks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
outsider saw the success and said they need to spread this throughout America –
‘America deserves this, you have to give it to the country’, or something along
those lines – but the McDonald brothers have already tried it, and their
franchises had not worked, because the franchisees would not respect the rules<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The quality
was not good, kitchens were filthy, they would add to the menu, and the
employee that was supposed to verify did not rise to the expectations, only
Kroc insists that this would work, pushes for a contract, and he gets it, after
which he does have clients, meeting with the same problem, novelties in the
menu, dirty kitchens, and worse, even once the operation becomes successful,
the money only cover expenses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He tries to
get the brothers to change the conditions, but they are inflexible throughout, anticipating,
which we can do, for remember, if you are still around, you are without
insurance, I warned you about the Acts of God which are to follow, as in only
god knows where this frenzy is taking me…they will end up fighting each other
in court, because Krock is sick and tired of hearing no, to all his proposals…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There is
even some sort of line ‘contracts are made to be broken, just like hearts’ only
I may have made this up, the first part is there, in the film, logically, because
The Founder will break his connection with the brothers, to assume almost full
control – he also says to Dick ‘your control over matters is within the
restaurant, below the floor, outside the door, you have no say’ with the same
caveat, it is to that effect, not an exact rendering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now for the
gruesome part, if this is a captivating story, there is the torture and killing
of billions of animals that have been sacrificed for the success of this god
damn Founder, and that is something that future generations (if they have a
planet that is) will despise, when they look at their ancestors, unless of
course there is another outcome<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They could
well move into the Trump, Putin, Lula, Bolsanaro, Xi and other ghouls camp, and
then they will see us and the ones preceding as softies, they will take
pleasure in cruelty…a better prognosis you will find in the magical Homo Deus –
A Brief History of Tomorrow </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/homo-deus-brief-history-of-tomorrow-by.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/homo-deus-brief-history-of-tomorrow-by.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> by fabulous Yuval Harari<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now for a
question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more
than a million dollars with this </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– as it is, this is a unique technique, which
we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make
lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not
know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As for my
role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From To The
Heritage:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘Fiction is
infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or
Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the
careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more
moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating,
noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment,
twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can
experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more,
books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order
of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who
provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful
mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that
wise epic by an often foolish author…’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‚parturiunt
montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“the
Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special. Try and be nice to people,
avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and
try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and
nations.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-61401878399652679012023-10-31T04:22:00.000-07:002023-10-31T04:22:10.562-07:0083 out of 100 for Sex A Bonkers History<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/AXNHyiXpcgQ?si=wFWnn-sLHPq3uUem" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-1489390321475744542023-10-31T04:17:00.001-07:002023-10-31T04:17:28.905-07:0081 out of 100 for Mockinjay, 2<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/NyySPE4OsOw?si=8t0BWfPTozdqz8mj" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-86370030553642743672023-10-30T05:13:00.000-07:002023-10-30T05:13:20.118-07:0088 out of 100 for Ricky Gervais Live Fame<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/hwExhoi_ye4?si=XDqP-vOVO_e02aPg" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-77195353468442838442023-10-30T05:04:00.000-07:002023-10-30T05:04:42.126-07:0086 out of 100 for Frasier, yx<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/DFe4jMzL5Ok?si=mxMTokaWxjQhJ5hq" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-6864853967132919162023-10-29T05:01:00.002-07:002023-10-29T05:01:40.047-07:00Hair- The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical by Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Michael Weller, direceted by glorious Milos Forman – another note on this is here http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/05/note-on-hair-directed-by-milos-forman.html - 8 out of 10<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Hair- The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Michael
Weller, direceted by glorious Milos Forman – another note on this is here <a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/05/note-on-hair-directed-by-milos-forman.html">http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/05/note-on-hair-directed-by-milos-forman.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">8 out of 10<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To Summerize my take, it is looking at Flower Power Versus
Idiot Power, The Days of the Hippies against the Time of the ‚very stable
genius’ and his MAGA crowd<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Milos Forman was one of the greatest film makers the world
has ever seen, he blessed audiences with a few masteprieces, one of them is
Amadeus <a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/07/amadeus.html">http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/07/amadeus.html</a>
such a stupendous biopic that we can forget the (minor) criticism<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We always have artistic licence, evidently, nobody knows
what Mozart talked with his wife, father, or Salieri, then the latter seems to
have had no role in the death of the great composer (Amadeus, Salieri was a
celebrated in his age, but modest one) but for the tension, the success of the
plot, it made sense to have him as the pure villain<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let us have the spoiler alert here, because i see that i am
already off from the topic and intend to move even further (for the time being,
maybe i will return to...what was it, oh, yes, Hair) and the message might be
‚do not read this’, you are much better off elsewhere, there is so much worthy
writing in books, and less on the net<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What came to mind, after mentioning that Milos Forman
enetered the history of cineam with Amadeus, among others, was the fact that
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a ‚case study’ in the magnificent Outliers <a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/05/outliers-by-malcolm-gladwell.html">http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/05/outliers-by-malcolm-gladwell.html</a>
by Malcolm Gladwell<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The luminary is one of the most influential (maybe at number
one, tied with Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize for...Economics)
psychologists, and he argues in his book that with ten thousand hours of
exercise, practise, over ten years, which translates into at least three hours
of intense work every day, you could rise to the top (Insha’Allah, and other
factors being met) of your domain.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thus, Malcolm Gladwell looked at Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(The Beatles, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and many others) and saw that if the
composer had started at a very tender age, as his father took him on tours,
making music, but the compositions from childhood might be the creation of his
father (Leopold was the name, or maybe i am making this up) and are anyway not
valuable nowadays, excpet for historical reasons<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What orchestras around the world are playing is from the
time when Mozart was over twenty, so in the scheme proposed by Malcolm Gladwell
he was a ‚late bloomer’,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it took him
about two decades, not one, to reach that elusive top – incidentally, i have
started putting dwon these notes in the hope that with a lot of practice (and
look, I am number two in my realm, in terms of sheer volume only) i will become
(much) better...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now, let us try for a line or two to get back to Hair, which
was not excessively fabulous, but it is a landmark and prompted me to think
about how things have changed, from the Age of the Hippy, Flower Power, Make
Love Not War and the rest of it, to Woke, Cancel Culture, and why not, the era
of Trump and Idiot Power <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Alas, i was born into a communist regime (and you get at the
end the link and the pompous showing off of my role in the revolution that
killed Ceausescu and changed – sort of – that awful sytem with something
else...you see, i do not take every chance to veer off, it is very tempting to
go on and explain about the fuckers that took power, after the death of the old
tyrant, but i restarin myself) thus missing on Flower Power <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Eventually, i would have my chances, but just like in the
joke we had, it was delayed – the summary of the blague is that when the end of
theworld will come, first Bezos and repellant Musk will blast off into their space
ships, the American and Chinese leaders will talk about leaving the planet and
at the same time, eteranl Ceausescu will say ‚do not worry, we are at least one
hundred years behind’- perhaps for a bigger bang- i would have the chance to be
the lover of (the first) Miss Our Country, if only for about eight months<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The time of Hair was one of freedom, liberation, and we
could say that this happens with women more now – also with the multitude of
genders we apparently, or evidently have in our midst – in thsi sense, the
reading of The 2019 Co-Winner of the Booker Prize, Girl, Woman, Other <a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/06/girl-woman-other-by-bernardine-evaristo.html">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/06/girl-woman-other-by-bernardine-evaristo.html</a>
by Bernardine Evaristo can be illuminating<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The author explains how ‚gender is one of the biggest lies
of our civilization’ and then we have two spirits, non gender and the notion
that gender is actually fluid, it changes from one minute to the next, which is
obviously chalnged, if this is maybe something hard (almost impossible) for
retrograde people like yours truly (sixty is the new forty, but still) the
violence with which the MAGA mobs attack the idea is proof of their thickness<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Humanity has moved, progressed on many fronts, but if we
compare the Flower Power with the Trump crowds (more that sevnty million have
voted fro him last time, and abhorent as this is, it looks as if the same or
more will take him up next year) in my view, the world has decayed in the
emantime, if so many fools embarce these ‚values’, and it is not just Trump –
cretins are not that rare, it is a ctastrophe when an especially proud
pythecanthrop becomes the role model for multitudes- the list of vile creatures
is long, Putin, HAMAS, Xi, Lula and Bolsanaro, let us just stop here...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good
idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this <a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– as it is, this is a unique technique, which
we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make
lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not
know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a
smaller Mao, there it is <a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From To The Heritage:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as
you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has
fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people
are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions
are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas,
climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike
reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even
getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human
greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny,
so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest
pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are
greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">‚parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“the Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special. Try
and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then,
get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people
of all creeds and nations.”<o:p></o:p></p>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-44870568128662876942023-10-29T04:49:00.000-07:002023-10-29T04:49:37.289-07:0086 out of 100 for Frasier, xy<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/i3emPtvHwQE?si=ey32cHVnXzBXEgA_" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-46097864066671005982023-10-29T04:41:00.000-07:002023-10-29T04:41:01.864-07:0051 out of 100 for Harababura aka The Chaos<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/UFTlOk9drbs?si=Hz5PWju42A3Il8bW" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-67185128781687352082023-10-28T04:19:00.000-07:002023-10-28T04:19:20.705-07:0085 out of 100 for L'Employee du Mois aka The Employee of The Month<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/S8JyvYR9qMI?si=f4ZXsjN7921nTKuY" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-60549680127796393832023-10-28T04:08:00.000-07:002023-10-28T04:08:20.740-07:0077 out of 100 for Hunger Games Mockinjay, 1<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/7aiijngFlNk?si=qeyIshzqq6ElvkEO" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-92149321382559737012023-10-27T05:08:00.002-07:002023-10-27T05:08:46.334-07:00Munich, screenplay by Tony Kushner, Eric Roth and George Jonas, directed by Steven Spielberg, another look at this is here http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html - 10 out of 10<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Munich,
screenplay by Tony Kushner, Eric Roth and George Jonas, directed by Steven
Spielberg, another look at this is here </span><a href="http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10 out of
10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Since it is
more than likely that this note will venture into the breaking news of the day,
let me introduce a spoiler alert from the beginning, saying that if you looked
for an opinion here, it is this – this film is stupendous, memorable and will
give you an idea about what will happen next, only it will be on a much bigger
scale, and you have yet more of my take at </span><a href="http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and now let me continue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I was
thinking of Munich as Hamas has attacked Israel yesterday (October 8, 2023) and
they are surely fighting right now, Bibi aka Benjamin Netanyahu has said that
they are ‘at war’ – we get an idea about Bibi as a young man by reading The
Netanyahus </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-netanyahus-account-of-minor-and.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-netanyahus-account-of-minor-and.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> winner of last year’s Pulitzer
Prize for Fiction, written by Joshua Cohen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This note
moved into another day, so it is frightening to think where the casualty
figures are now, last night, the number of dead in Israel has passed seven
hundred (these are temporary figures, and they could also fall, Insha’Allah,
this is what has happened after our own revolution, there will be boasting at
the end of the pages, highlighting my contribution in it, and a link) with
about two hundred and fifty bodies recovered from the music festival where the
terrorists descended with their machine guns.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
connection with Munich is that there will be retaliation, indeed Bibi has
promised there will be ‘vengeance like they have never seen before’, after the
PLO had attacked the Israeli Olympic compound and killed all the hostages they
took, a team was assembled and then they tracked and paid back, which will
happen now, albeit the situation is complicated by the about one hundred people
that Hamas took<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We have had
precedents here too, one is told in Seven Days in Entebbe </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/06/7-days-in-entebbe-screenplay-by-gregory.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/06/7-days-in-entebbe-screenplay-by-gregory.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> which depicts the ordeal of passengers
of an El Al flight, taken all the way from Europe to Entebbe in Uganda, then ruled
by the gruesome Idi Amin…the Israelis sent a team of special forces to save
their compatriots and they were successful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bibi’s
brother was killed in that operation, where there have been just a couple of
casualties, including a woman that stood up, when they were told to sit on the
floor, and the incredible results obtained by Israel’s special forces, defense,
have been admired and envied, only the situation is much more complicated now<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
retaliation seen in this fabulous movie – incidentally, a second take on this
film is here </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> in other words, I have dissected
Munich twice and you have the links, let me just dance through the Elysian
Fields for this one – Munich, is sure to happen, only the release of the
hostages will be almost impossible now, seeing that the Hamas jigodii ( local
term which means something so abject you puke) know the story of Entebbe, and
worse, they have the innocents that they caught within tunnels, in some
impregnable places<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What is
alas hard to understand, is the failure of the security systems, first of all
in telling the authorities that something of this scale is about to happen,
then that it was apparently easy for the Hamas monsters to glide, jump through
the fences and sail from the sea, however clear part of the explanation is, and
it was offered by an expert which said something to the effect of ‘civil society
has been in turmoil…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bibi and
his extreme right fanatics have tried to muzzle the Supreme Court – granted, it
does look excessive, to have some judges say this is not reasonable and should
not pass, something like that – to the effect that liberals, people that pay
the taxes, make the economy tick, as opposed to the ultra-orthodox, who just
rely on support from the state, do not join the army, but want some really
dangerous things (which led in part to what we have seen these days) protested
and called for reservists to refuse to serve for such a government<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Then, when
the settlers move into Gaza and other places, to build ever more, well, settlements,
the army is going with them for protection, and instead of guarding those
borders, they have to do something which is not right, hence, you ha them in
other locations, instead of the proper ones, leaving the borders, part of them
anyway, exposed to what we have seen…but there is more, and we will get
information in the days ahead<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">By no
means, this is not to justify the terrorists and blame the victims, that would
be crazy and awful, disgusting actually, it is just to try and see a better
solution, hopefully, after the revenge is taken, centrists will get to power
and find a way to get peace, which will take more years, maybe decades, after
all this massacre…let me now say that I am surely biased in favor of Israel, I
have worked with clients from there, more than one thousand, and even learned
some Hebrew, indeed, the background story is that the enemies of the Jewish
state have been asking for its destruction, which is what Hamas wants, so when
you face such foes, you need to be inflexible, tough with them, the old cliché
of not going with a knife at a gun fight, if they want to throw you into the
sea, you could not say oh, let us be gentle and kind, because it then leads to pogroms,
and finally, the Jewish nation has had to see millions of their own getting gassed
in the Holocaust, in World War II, so they have that memory to cope with, and
now another pogrom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now for a
question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more
than a million dollars with this </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– as it is, this is a unique technique, which
we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make
lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not
know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As for my
role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From To The
Heritage:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘Fiction is
infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or
Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the
careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more
moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating,
noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment,
twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can
experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more,
books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order
of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who
provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful
mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that
wise epic by an often foolish author…’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‚parturiunt
montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“the
Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special. Try and be nice to people,
avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and
try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and
nations.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-67568158023460751772023-10-27T05:02:00.000-07:002023-10-27T05:02:25.947-07:0088 out of 100 for The Great, 3 1<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/stN0lEflQtc?si=uSFf5hBKEjyHS80e" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-42168948955543870062023-10-27T04:49:00.000-07:002023-10-27T04:49:21.633-07:0083 out of 100 for Winetou aka Der Neue Welt<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/9ME6UlcQpBk?si=sXYNLKtS9OrGV_s2" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-19082359554817198792023-10-26T04:26:00.000-07:002023-10-26T04:26:13.558-07:0074 out of 100 for Observe and Report<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/hCmx204pV58?si=Z-OvE9jhj5RRIZ97" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-43138276230170606792023-10-26T04:21:00.001-07:002023-10-26T04:21:47.923-07:0063 out of 100 for The Gabi Petito Story<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/slZAeTZv0Hw?si=x0VZmQcr5zuqdY1j" frameborder="0"></iframe>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3952960684837389024.post-79436724417347849312023-10-24T04:44:00.002-07:002023-10-24T04:44:16.061-07:00Narrow Margin written and directed by Peter Hyams - 9 out of 10 <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Narrow
Margin written and directed by Peter Hyams<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9 out of 10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Let us be
clear, this is not an outstanding motion picture, however, you have the chance
to see the glorious Gene Hackman at work, not at his zenith, that was in The
French Connection </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-french-connection-based-on-book-by.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-french-connection-based-on-book-by.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> for which he received one of his
Oscars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The other
was, of course, for the iconic Unforgiven </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/07/one-of-realini-top-20-best-movies-ever.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/07/one-of-realini-top-20-best-movies-ever.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and the two Academy Awards show the
versatility of the fabulous performer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the
former, he is the epitome of the determined, resilient, wonderful man of the
law, relentless, courageous in his pursuit of the drug barons – albeit, if we
apply the rules of the present, his behaviors would be condemned…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In
Unforgiven, Gene Hackman has the role of a sheriff, so on the side of the law
again, only this time, the personage is so corrupt that audiences cheer when he
(spoiler alert) gets the bullet, after torturing and killing Clint Eastwood’s
friend, Morgan Freeman, we are talking about their characters, evidently…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For Narrow
Margin, Gene Hackman is an assistant chief prosecutor, and almost a role model,
showing again bravery, creativity, loyalty, integrity and the list is much
longer, where we can throw in some flaws…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Anne Archer
is Hunnicut, and the film starts with this personage witnessing a murder,
ordered by a Mafia (or some other such criminal outfit) boss, after which she
goes into hiding, realizing the danger she is in<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Nonetheless,
Gene Hackman is the assistant chief prosecutor (or some such position) Robert Caulfield
– I just realized that this is the name of the hero of Catcher in The Rye </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/01/franny-and-zooey-by-jd-salinger.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/01/franny-and-zooey-by-jd-salinger.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> - and the hero is working to get
head mobster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When the
police searched at the scene of the murder, they have found the fingerprints of
a person that had not been in the database initially (things were different in
1990, they had no cellular phones, for instance)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The federal
files have them though, and they belong to a woman that had taken part in some protests
(for a good cause, maybe green) and therefore she had been arrested and they
know where she is<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The head of
the office does not think he can authorize the expense involving a helicopter
in the middle of the Canadian forests, and hence, he will be suspected as being
in cahoots with the villains (but as it is the scheme, we may be wrong on this
and some other conclusions, surprises must appear in a thriller)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is a bit
confusing here, for somehow, Robert Caulfield does get a helicopter and lands
near the cabin in the woods, along with Sargent portrayed by Emmet Walsh, a
fabulous actor, remarkable in some many films, including the overwhelming Blood
Simple </span><a href="http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/02/blood-simple-by-joel-and-ethan-coen.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/02/blood-simple-by-joel-and-ethan-coen.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> which launched the career of the
Coen Brothers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As they try
to convince Hunnicut to testify, and she refuses, stating the peril she is in,
another chopper is there, and a killer starts shooting off with a machine gun,
bullet spraying everything in the chalet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Sargent
is dead, Caulfield takes his would be witness through the window in the back,
jumps into a Ford SUV (which is what I have, a Ranger, but mind you, if it is a
guzzling monster, then I can prove that I cycle and use the vehicle for only
about twenty miles the whole year…for the rest, it is the spouse who takes it,
so blame her) and then off to the forest road and into the woods altogether,
without getting killed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">That sounds
incredible, but hey, think about a comedy wherein they tell you that this
fraud, who is also an absolute idiot, with Narcissistic Personality Disorder
and other ailments is not in prison or a lunatic asylum (yes, this is
politically incorrect but god damn it, I am infuriated, and then who is still
here anyway) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He
is…elected president of the free world, seventy million and more vote for him,
and not just once, many will embrace him again next year, we just have to hope
that the opponent gets more than that…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It was just
at the news (and this is a daily routine) that the massive crook was giving
away details about nuclear submarines to some Australian guy, who in his turn
told scores of people…on CNN they had a former secretary of defense and he
explained how these subs are pretty damn special in their plans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The enemies
can target airplanes and everything else, but the subs are quiet, under the
oceans, elusive and stealthy, at least until the Big Traitor gives away the
information desperately sleeked by Russia, China, north Korea and others to hoi
polloi, and to think that he wants to execute General Milley for…treason<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now for a
question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more
than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– as it is, this is a unique technique,
which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then
make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do
not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As for my
role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is
http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From To The
Heritage:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘Fiction is
infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or
Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the
careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more
moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating,
noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment,
twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can
experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more,
books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order
of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who
provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful
mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that
wise epic by an often foolish author…’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‚parturiunt
montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“the
Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special. Try and be nice to people,
avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and
try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and
nations.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>realinihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12857311266809688023noreply@blogger.com0