The Lost City of Z by David Grann, the inspiration for a remarkable motion picture, listed by TIME Magazine as one of the Top 10 Films of 2017 - 9 out of 10

 

The Lost City of Z by David Grann, the inspiration for a remarkable motion picture, listed by TIME Magazine as one of the Top 10 Films of 2017

9 out of 10

 

 

Stories of discovery, adventure, exploration have always fired the imagination of humans longing to travel in The Heart of Darkness http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-heart-of-darkness-by-joseph-conrad.html which is the title of one of the Greatest Books of all Time – discovery is also a key ingredient in a drama, or tragedy, according to Aristotle, who also added to this reversal, and the best example where these two are coupled together comes from Oedipus Rex, where the king expects wondrous news from a messenger, when in fact he find she had killed his father and married his mother.

 

Tragedies would offer purgation (at least the worthwhile ones) according to the same luminary http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/07/aristotle-in-ninety-minutes-by-paul.html and the audience would look on stage (or at motion pictures in our times, most often on their phones or computers) and find in some cases that they can find the courage to act, if Oedipus or others have been able to under such duress, or for the very wealthy, it can serve as a lesson regarding what could happen to the richest…

The Lost City of Z reminds one of other marvelous films, such as the spectacular Fitzcarraldo (especially the scene where we have an…opera in the middle of the jungle) and Aguirre, The Wrath of God  http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/03/aguirre-wrath-of-god-aka-der-zorn.html both made by the phenomenal Werner Herzog and starring the outré, splendid, if mad Klaus Kinsky, motion pictures with narratives that take place in the same Amazon forest, the lungs of the planet that have come under attack recently

 

Probably the man theme here would be exploring, discovering the Amazon and the lost civilization that seemed such a mirage at the start of the last century, but it would be later be proved to have been an accurate assessment of the hero, Percy Fawcett, roads and the other traces of advanced cities have been confirmed later, albeit the explorer might have had trouble in reaching this dream of his…

Aguirre, The Wrath of God also has a team of white Europeans, navigating with a raft on the unexplored rivers of South America, with disastrous results, if some centuries back…The Lost City of Z could also be connected to the African Queen http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-african-queen-by-c-s-forester.html adapted for the big screen by John Huston, with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in the leading roles…in The African Queen, the alcohol of the leading man is poured over board by the very religious, intolerant woman, but on the set, Bogart and Huston avoided the disease that plagued the rest of the crew, by sticking to whisky, and avoiding the water born bacteria…

 

Another important theme that would strike viewers is the preservation of the Amazon, which has been so crucial for the survival of humanity, and will be in the future, if it is not erased…in the past few years, Brazil has had a ghoul for president, Jair Bolsanaro, one that has encouraged deforestation, denying climate change and other sensible ideas, the monster  has been replaced by Lula, who is declaring that he wants to stop the massive tree cutting, Alhamdulillah, albeit he is quite a vile fellow himself, he has repeated the disgusting statement that Zelensky is just as much to blame as Putin…

When you embrace such a monster as Putin http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/petru-by-vlad-zografi-we-must-note-that.html you join the cohorts of the traitors…we were talking over the past few days at the sauna downtown about the invasion of the Ukraine, with some Z supporters (Z used to a letter and signed people liked here, for it was the symbol of Zorro, once such a favorite with audiences enthused by Alain Delon, who was so appreciated, they have named a special sheep cot after him)

 

Z is now the indication that one is for the mass murderers, because it is painted on the Russian tanks invading Ukraine and on the cars, banners of those who like killers…sympathizers argue that Putin is alright, it is the Americans who are responsible, they want to sell their weapons (and that is so stupid and false, Ukraine needs much more than it gets, they use in a month the number of projectiles that America makes in a year, so there you go) and they propose all sorts of conspiracy theories, another evidence of their low EQ, IQ

There is a way out of this conundrum, and that is to apply the Rules of the Game that their beloved Dear Leader uses in his new czarist land, he has arrested and sentenced, killed opponents, using Novitchock, the military grade gas, Polonium on Litvinenko, and we are not that murderous, but since they embrace the enemy – the official policy of the land is to act with the NATO allies, hence Putin is the official, declared adversary – they should share at least the fate of Alexey Navalny, and more recently Vladimir Kara Murza, the latter has been sentenced to twenty five years in jail, just for opposing the regime.

 

Ergo you Z boys should go to prison, let us be munificent and day not for the same decades, but at least for about five years, when you admire such a despot, you must either travel and leave in the realm of plenty and good will aka Muscovy (it was so funny and to the point for Volodimir Zelenski to suggest changing the name, if one is playing with history books and taking us back to his favorite moment and imposing on the present the map of decades or centuries past, then he must expect others to do the same, if with different timeframes and implications) or else, have imposed on them the good graces of that justice system – you speak for the enemy, spread that diseased propaganda, therefore you must suffer the consequences you would in that land of the free, which is sentencing critics to long prison terms, or worse, death….the place for these sycophants would be in labor camps over there, if they would promote Western values…why not offer them the fate they want, if they cherish it 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  – 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

 

I am the Realini mentioned in this Newsweek article that covers the fall of Ceausescu, I have taken part in that rebellion that is mentioned on this page, here: http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html