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Out of Shadows (2020)
Of course Hollywood is propaganda.
Whether this documentary is sensational or not, it's obvious that movies are designed to be cathartic for the trauma that humanity goes through to accept living the way it does. Please understand that if something owns you then you're not free. And the thing that owns you are banks. So to get through this structure where you are perpetually disempowered to get money, everything is designed for you to accept that to be normal. To overcome your trauma of not being free, there is media to help you vent. So films are perpetually violent, or show you about love that you may never experience yourself, or something where you see how people can live even though you are denied the potential of doing the same. That is what money does. Money corrupts everyone. Following celebrity culture is part of that crap that is designed to make you think that this has meaning.
It doesn't matter if the CIA is involved or not. It is irrelevant if people are being satanical. What matters is the money that makes all of that crap possible.
If you don't want to be manipulated, then stop using usury currency. That is what kills humanity. Think about it. If we are always living in a perpetual war of some sort, then that is the thing that you're being manipulated about to think that war is inevitable. Humanity will never evolve in war. We can only evolve through peace. So stop using the things that take you away from peace. And that's money. Specifically usury. That is what kills everything.
So forget the sensationalism of this documentary if that pisses you off. It's not the point. People don't see beyond money. But that is the key to move out of this crap.
Black Rose (2023)
Intense and revealing
Wow. This film doesn't hold back on trauma so many films sensationalise. Really very honest. It would make a very good Broadway play. What can be criticised as less than perfect acting misses the point of the trauma such people go through. People are disempowered in such situations. Why are men so violent with women? It's totally stupid and pathetic.
It's refreshing to see people being so honest in their actions.
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The House (2022)
Covertly sending a message of you not needing your home to be free. Didn't anyone get that?
This is one weird film, and underneath it, I fear it will deliver a biased message that is not grounded. The 3rd story in particular is really going to give the wrong message.
The new age people are not the leaders to follow. They've been taking advantage of someone who is trying to build a house that they didn't pay for. Instead they use their 'spiritual' nous to defend their right to not be responsible or care for other people. They don't care about Rosa. They're trying to leave things to fate which can be respected, but that doesn't mean you don't respect other people and what they're trying to do. They're not there for your trip. And that's the thing I think people will miss. Things are not created by woowoo. People will get the impression that things will just happen around them but what they forget is people work very hard to make the foundations that everyone seems to forget would not exist without them. That irresponsible. It's making a belief of fate.
If you really want to have empowered change, it doesn't happen by following someone who writes lots of self-help books and hope that things will change. That's irresponsible. Find the models that empower you and leverage that with other people so everyone can follow their dreams together, knowing that there are resources there to support them. There is no respect in this film for the people that had resources. That was Rosa. If they were really being honest, they would've just told her that the house can be steered and it's a boat. Not that complicated. Instead they made it mystical. If you think Rosa would not have left, you're making a mistake. All she needs some grounding to move forward. It's not complicated. This film makes it so and this is incorrect.
Films like this, as entertaining as they may be on the surface, actually sell you the idea that it's okay to be disempowered in the rational world, and your freedom is in something out of it. That is selling a religion.
I know people will not understand what I'm saying but I'm just being really honest and rational. It doesn't appeal to everyone only two people who really want to be empowered with others. Not some faith thing that is totally meaningless.
It takes too much for granted and it will appear that this is normal behaviour. The problem is everyone is going to think the new age people have it all together and help Lucy find her way to not be attached to the house.
Everyone needs a home. On their terms. Not on someone else's when they're selling spiritual empowerment while they take from other people and give nothing back. That is what they actually did. Look at the story. That tells you everything.
Many people don't have homes. It's easy for us to live in houses thinking about something to make us greater than who we are while we neglect other people who don't have the basics that we take for granted. Do you understand that? You probably don't care.
The architecture is terrible. Yes, there is way too much stuff, an the stuff doesn't matter. Minimal, please. Tiny, even better. Homes should be light shelters, not boxes. Everyone deserve one. It doesn't come from being mystical.
Is this film trying to sell let go of your home? So, let's see the people involved on the film do that first. Let them be the new age people that they admire so much and leave their homes. I bet they won't do it.
Nobody (2021)
John Wick is crap in comparison. No that John Wick is any good ...
Wow. I really wasn't sure what to expect.
A beat up 5 guys guy, but gets really hurt? More honest than most.
Then I saw he was a bigshot FBI agent in the past.
Add the Russian villains, I was going to switch off, but held off.
Yes, it is all impossible. It's part video game, part Die Hard. But what makes this different is how much he wants to find home with family, and he is far less an over the top character just to entertain. We all want love, and he showed that. Not a weak guy, but not playing the masculine. Power with humility.
Saying Bob Odenkirk's acting is spot on is not enough. The switch from playing beta to being alpha is just amazing. A 2 second switch in the eyes, and 5 seconds to check if you really saw it. That's classy. Really amazing to see. To pull that off, in a 90+ minute film, that so hard. Ilya Naishuller must be one savvy director to know how to all this off. Russian villains aren't anything unique, but this doesn't matter as they all hinge in 'Nobody'! Incredible juxtaposition.
The colour grading is awesome, too. Really fits the modern comic film-noir.
A really impressive piece of work.
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Powerful, but no one is listening.
Powerful performances. Powerful points. The sentencing is not the important part. That war is even a tool for power is pathetically stupid is. Everyone comes up with excuses for killing, but everyone is owned by one thing: usury currency. When money is involved, no one can be truly honourable. Yet we accept using it like it means something.
It is not that justice is flawed, but that we live in frameworks that compromise the empowerment humanity wants. These frameworks are geared for the lowest denominator to rule. We see it everywhere. Instead of doing something about it, we watch our disempowerment in films, then ignore what we saw.
Conflict/competiton towards collaboration empowerment can be rewarding, so long as it is constructive, not destructive. War is a tragedy, a tool for the weakest. Stop being ruled by the weak, and the frameworks that put them there.
Gemini Man (2019)
Hmmmm ....
Well, yes. Shoot em up, as usual. But, look a bit deeper, and it brings up to things: no war is worth dying for, and war is a pathetic excuse for power for all. What a fcking waste of time. A total waste of energy. Love rules. That's up to you. Decide.
Gemini Man (2019)
Hmmmm ....
Well, yes. Shoot em up, as usual. But, look a bit deeper, and it brings up to things: no war is worth dying for, and war is a pathetic excuse for power for all. What a fcking waste of time. A total waste of energy. Love rules. That's up to you. Decide.
Army of Thieves (2021)
Yeah, but naaaa .....
This is a feature length TikTok movie. As weird characters with whatever their jive is, it's OK. But as a heist film, in a zombie apocalypse, with the poor guy version of Hugh Jackman ...
This would be so much better if they were weird characters who showed some focus on the job. It's a movie of a virtual space. Is this where I say a movie in a metaverse? For people so good what they are meant to do, it has no character depth, not of what characters are as identities, but what Netflix thinks their audience would like. Empty fluff for empty wannabe people.
Long Story Short (2021)
At last something interesting made in Australia.
Great film. About time the Aussie film industry made an interesting film. Got some holes, but ingenious concept. The older woman is not as strong as required, and he should have recognised her, but at least it isn't something pathetic to do with sex or criminals. Good job.
Apex (2021)
Die Hard 19. And I thought Fast & Furious was bad enough.
Oh, goodie! Let's watch BW play Die Hard 40 years later. So there are 2 types of films being made now: superheros and die hards.
This film is absolutely terrible. Don't worry, Only watched 10minutes, but it's enough. Saved 2 hours of my life.
Wind River (2017)
Fabulous.
What an astonishing film, especially for the subject matter.
So well acted. Unimpressive watch that cannot be missed.
I am more an independent, comedy, foreign film watcher, but this is amazing. Not commercial faff. So well one.
Thank you.
Finch (2021)
People wish it would be this easy.
What feel good emptiness. Few people would approach apocalypse like this. They'd go steal toilet paper and go feral. People love escape without reality not just if it really happened, but actually follow like robots into a such a scenario. People are so stupid.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Well ...
I couldn't get passed 10min of the 2017 one. I can handle this a bit longer. We will see.
Gal Gadot can't act, The frown ...
No, sorry. Can't get passed the bank scene ...
The Pillow Book (1995)
What makes this film so good?
I've recently gone through the range of PG's films. I saved this one for last because it is the most familiar. To be honest, I can get lost in most of his films, meaning I can't follow the stories, but they are meticulous and extravagant. I think there is something about the eloquence vs hedonism, adding the fantastic way the books are presented. I've been mesmerised by this film since it was released. It's 10/2021.
What I do not get is how she could fall for Jerome, of all the people to pick; the one who needs the most to learn. If this is not the film McGregor met his wife, they must have got together before, because his French is appalling. Heavily damaged characters.
Easily the best film Vivian Wu did. Wasted talent in everything else. Good on her for pushing it to the limit.
Thanks, PG. :)
Dune (2021)
Anyone who likes this is after a Star Wars movie. This totally misses the point.
Oh, man. I'm really trying to watch this, but I couldn't get to 5min. Nice sets and CGI, but that's it.
There is no class in the acting at all. No way to distinguish the characters. Why have the score to be so ethereal and dark, when it's more about balance of intensity? Paul is so weak and needy. And Chani ... that is what an independent woman is supposed to be like? More like pretentious emptiness. Everyone just talks the same. Someone said 'be dramatic'. This is not acting.
Anyone who likes this version of the film didn't see the original by David Lynch. Yes, terrible CGI in comparison, but a worthy, strong cast. Distinctive character building. You all just want are different stories told the same way. Superheroes or Star Wars or this. Empty characters to escape, but learn nothing.
I got to 15min while I wrote this. Good god, the way people speak! Weak. I skipped to near the end in the dune scene.. OMG, the acting is still so, so bad. And Chani talking to Paul! Empty. How do so many people like this film?
And this is PART ONE!? I dread the future of film ...
Shiva Baby (2020)
Wow
Whatculture listed some under-rated films, and in all them, they are on point. This was one of them.
It's really interesting how the director pulled everything back and didn't sensationalise it. It could have exploded like a sitcom or the usual inflated ego of entitled to be noticed, but it didn't. Super subtle, which is very impressive.
What I found so compelling was when the lead said Dianna Agron was so boring, and on the face of it, she was right. Nothing like the blonde bombshell the other character said. It was so confusing. So I looked her up and it clicked DA was in The Family. What an unstoppable force of nature she was in that; like, WOW! So sexy! So ... what happened with her in this? Where's her energy? What happened? And then, her character opens up. The steel in her eyes when she's figured out the story with her husband (god, not even close to her energy!). What little energy she gives in the journey towards that, being as gracious as she can be. Yep, that's her. She's an underrated actress.
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
Characters as wooden as Pinocchio
I couldn't get passed 5 minutes. Jose Ferrer is terrible, as is everyone else. Hardly acting. No passion, Even saying no depth implies that's what they were going for, but they really had no idea.
How on earth could this film be celebrated?
This 1950s version turns greyscale into black and white.
Watch the French version in 1990. Now that has PASSION! Emotional, deep, fun.
Gambit (1966)
Had a lot of promise, but doesn't end well.
The one thing that is so spellbinding about this film is Shirley Maclaine in the beginning playing the scenario where she doesn't say a word. Good god she is striking. It's only at the end where she barely opens her mouth paying the taxi, the persona breaks. I had no idea a statuesque woman could be so enthralling.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Fabulous
8-11 minutes are the best. :) How great to be so honest when meeting a woman. Instinct tells you many things. Make your propositions known and don't get attached to it.
Then again, when one meets a women so compelling, intensity can be considered dangerous. What a shame.
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Always glorifying the irresponsible
15min in, and all I see is a weak leader to be and a deviant who plays games in the safety of not being punished. Entitled youth destroying a vast amount of work that others work hard doing. Classless.
Beyond Weight Loss: Breaking the Fat Loss Code (2020)
Some great advice, but ...
... I do not know where there is info on high carbs. I get to keep fat reasonably low, but what about carbs?
Anyway, I eat good stuff. Aiming for OMAD.
About the money problem that influences govt:
No empowered political or social change will happen until economic reforms are made, and that won't happen until we leave usury commodity currencies behind and move to qualitative exchange mechanisms with no cost that incentives status to create sustainably. This means a no-cost, non-commodity exchange model that doesn't need fractional reserve lending or usury to run it.
A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
Elle Fanning is ...
... severely miscast. She has a terrible smile. Shame she was cast. No idea why.
An Honest Liar (2014)
It blows me away how gullible people are.
Randi is an honest liar. Geller is a sham. How does one man make a career bending spoons like he is psychic? He just bent spoons and keys. People are so stupid believing such a charlatan. Watching him try to validate himself as a psychic is disgusting to watch. Describing himself as an original painting. The magician is honest. Geller is the forgery.
Wake up, people.
A Glitch in the Matrix (2021)
wen are in a simulation, but ...
... the simulation is run by money.
Wake up.
No empowered political or social change will happen until economic reforms are made, and that won't happen until we leave usury commodity currencies behind and move to qualitative exchange mechanisms with no cost that incentives status to create sustainably. This means a no-cost, non-commodity exchange model that doesn't need fractional reserve lending or usury to run it.
In Pursuit of Silence (2015)
This is so cool!
This is so terrific. I have so much trauma trying to find a quiet place to live I have a beach camping setup to run to if it gets too much.
I spent Xmas Eve alone, had a quiet day with family Xmas Day, and spent Boxing Day at home alone. And I just found this to watch in the evening.
I play music and stuff to cover external sounds that echo all around me, bit I'd rather have everything off. I find people that have to shout when they tak and make noise, saying nothing, are weak, cowardly, disempowered human beings. Empty souls. I can't stand them.
I've spent 6 hours in an anechoic chamber. It was a fascinating experience. I'd do it again if I could get access. I've liked Vipassana, but it's not silent enough. And I'm just normal, not an exception, not trying to be a guru. I'm just being myself.
Why do people find this so difficult? It's not hard. Wake up.