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Alias Grace: Part 1 (2017)
A Series Worth Watching
Although this series is purportedly based upon a true story, it is a very loose adaptation of that story. Nevertheless, the series will probably keep you watching once you get started with episode one because even if it were total fiction, it is entertaining, captivating, and thought provoking. The dialogue as written is excellent as is the acting. As the series neared the ending, I kept thinking that somehow the writer or director would mess up the story with some kind of odd plot device; that did not happen. The final story held together well and concluded in a manner consistent with the previous story elements and propositions. This series turned out to be one of the best I have seen, and at some point I will probably watch it again.
Madame Bovary (2014)
Tedious and Boring but Beautiful Scenery
The Emma Bovary of this movie was not charming, not attractive, not spirited, not well intentioned, not seemingly disturbed by her own conduct, and displayed no real depth of character, and she thereby offered me no reason to somehow bond emotionally with her as she stumbled into a tragic life of her own making; I never became invested in the outcome beyond increasingly wanting the story to end. The other characters in this movie were almost all as equally unmoving and dull. When the movie was over, it was not over soon enough. Maybe it was the fault of the director that this thing was a stinker. Whatever the problem with this movie, don't subject yourself to it.
Shtikat haarchion (2010)
the purpose of the original raw footage
When you watch this film, you will be told multiple times that the purpose of the film is unknown. Yet, when you listen to the description of how the film was made, and consider that propaganda was the intent of the film, I think that the purpose is understandable. Imagine that the film portrays not a controlled situation, rather an isolated situation; for, the Nazi presentation of the film would not have portrayed the situation as having been staged or controlled, rather the Nazi presentation would have purported to merely show Jews living in isolation from the outside world. The Nazi presentation would pretend to show how Jews interacted socially and economically when living together and establishing their own system of order. The Nazi presentation would pretend to show that the Jews were obviously unwilling to let go of one organizing principle no matter how bad things got, that organizing principle is capitalism. Remember, Nazi is National Socialism. And, Hitler had his own brand of "social justice", to wit, to return to Germans that which had been taken from them by the allegedly reprobate capitalist Jews. Now, imagine this film as a vehicle for advancing Hilter's brand of social justice and national socialism. As a Nazi, one could view this film footage and be permitted to feel satisfaction that the Jews were beyond redemption and meriting extinction in their inherent callous capitalist ways. Such is the original raw film's two fisted Nazi attack on both capitalism and the Jews. Think about it.