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Thursday, July 16, 2026
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Heart Beat
The classic romantic examination of wild alternative domestic scenarios, as an impulsive inspiring non-traditionalist car thief and a hopeful writer fall in love.
Competing post-War visions of America are materialistically and spiritually emerging, one carefree and lighthearted and bold the other calm and strategic and disciplined.
The tupperware/Maytag/Jetset had to responsibly deal with latent extemporaneity, the opposing star-crossed antithetical ontologies awkwardly mingling ad infinitum.
Heart Beat's music harnesses this momentum with explosive untamed incredible jazz, musicians exploring improvisational tempos and sly unique tonic upbeat blends.
Simultaneously, the ambient sounds accompanying transitions and less amusing anecdotes, are reminiscent of 80's James Bond themes with inherent schmaltz and maudlin synergies.
Gallant attempts to embrace a lifestyle are often fraught with bland disparagements, and tried and true sincere beaming methods at times lose their shimmering shine.
If two men love the same woman why not live together in the 'burbs?, the dynamic unorthodox affable grouping flexibly raising an engaged family.
At times they get along remarkably well since they ambitiously love the same freestyle life, the boys satisfying each other's need for friendship, the girl abounding with play and reasonability.
Is this anything new?, was it aesthetically shocking at the time?, is it just as startling today as it was then?, will it always be cynically rebuked?
Hedonists and stoics and cynics were also around in the ancient world, no doubt contending with as much pith as impassioned contemporaries are today.
Stoicism always seemed like the wisest choice not too wild and crazy but still experimental, also not so sarcastically disagreeable and full of lethal sociocultural venom.
Experiment endeavour enjoy without giving into temptation.
If that makes any sense.
In uncertain times I guess it does.
Monday, July 13, 2026
Sunday, July 12, 2026
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Friday, July 10, 2026
Jacob's Ladder
*Spoiler Alert.
Secret army experiments covertly composed and athletically executed, leading oblivious hardboiled soldiers to wanton acts of outrageous cruelty.
Alone and isolated wasting their time with harmless shenanigans and lighthearted horseplay, the chosen unit suddenly erupts with insane bellicose bloodthirsty determinacy.
A soldier's hit, a bayonet to the chest, and he wakes up back on the subway, years later in a different life with sights unfamiliar and newfound trajectories.
Things go well a lot of the time as his supportive partner seems chill and helpful, and things typically run well at work, his life advancing without hindrance or incident.
But he starts to notice odd random things that look like demons spawned in hell, his mind unable to rationally explain them as their frequency intensifies.
At other times, he gleefully awakes in an alternative life he once closely knew, where he's married with three nimble sons who sincerely care for his clever witticisms.
As he drifts from one realm to the next he distressingly starts to lose touch with reality.
Until he meets up with old friends from the army.
Who have been experiencing the same freakin' thing.
A fine example of a chilling psychological thriller effectively blending religion with reality, as a soldier ventures through ye olde purgatory after having been seriously wounded.
It isn't preachy or overly sentimental it just presents a man's life as it is, as he wildly contends with heaven and hell as his fluid mortality grotesquely fluctuates.
In a rare class of religious films that aren't sensational or over-the-top, the grim world it slyly presents gradually unreeling while seeming quite real (like The Omen or on television, The X-Files).
Definitely a shame to see experimental drugs blindly field tested on faithful soldiers, who had no idea they were part of an experiment clandestinely conducted by the army.
A different time when the soldier's viewpoint mattered as much as higher ranking authorities.
With democratic vision.
And wholesome subjectivity.
Exuberant life.
Universal calculi.
Thursday, July 9, 2026
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Lion of the Desert
An extended war horrifically lasts decade after interminable decade, the invading army becoming more and more brutal as the efficient guerrillas ferociously defy them.
Best not to invade someone's homeland I'd holistically reckon, the resultant passions and incensed spirits of the local population vigorously magnified.
In Lion of the Desert, Omar Mukhtar instructively leads his Libyan people against fascist Italy, which seeks to claim his lands for its own, thereby competing with French and British Empires.
Mussolini grows more and more angry as the conflict goes on and on and on, and posts a new General to the land who hopes to begin a long career.
He uses the knowledge he's obtained at elite first rate enviable military academies, to fight Mukhtar's formidable insurgence with textbook strategy and traditional know-how.
But Mukhtar's a teacher himself and consistently reacts through improvisation, and through the application of situational logic constantly defeats him with outdated technology.
General Graziani burns crops and executes innocents and prisoners of war alike, while using gas and walls of barbed-wire, thereby infuriating his honourable opposition.
The fascist machinery is much more advanced but the invading army can't comprehend the desert, and suffers embarrassing defeats again and again as the cumbersome years lugubriously accumulate.
Mukhtar functions so reliably and unpredictably that he even earns the awkward respect, of the flabbergasted General who almost weeps when he faces dire execution.
His resolute character and noble self-sacrifice live long beyond his mortal wounds however, as he emphatically promises that his local people will keep up the fight ad infinitum.
Libya eventually achieving territorial independence.
The recovery of its lands.
Invaluable to its people.
Why embrace such outdated antiquated logic?
Monday, July 6, 2026
Sunday, July 5, 2026
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Friday, July 3, 2026
White Fang
Lil' White Fang.
Part dog, part wolf.
He cute!
When parents die, he say, "I explore!"
Beautiful caves he find.
After adventure, kind peeps take him in.
He happy.
Running and playing he like!
One day, bear chase human.
Bear big very!
White fang him challenge.
Bear think, "not worth it".
Human happy.
Later hard times.
Bad men cheat owner.
White Fang must fight other dogs.
Luck happen one night though.
After losing fight, human he save save him.
Friends they become.
Human mining.
White Fang to mine he bring.
Go well things until bad men follow them to mine.
Steal they want!
White Fang's friends must fight.
With his help, mine they keep.
Everyone happy!
Partner in mine leave Dawson to start hotel in San Francisco.
White Fang's friend in Yukon stay.
Sad that people kill wolves.
They help control wildlife populations.
Wolves think, we too wild for humans, but we like.
Cool humans think, wolves, I like!
White Fang!
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Barbarosa
In the scorching hot wilderness carefreely straddling the border between Texas and Mexico, a survivalist bandit with retirement in sight makes a controversial living after his banishment.
Ostracized since the beautiful daughter of a wealthy landowner took his hand, he's forever chased by incessant honchos culturally obsessed with pleasing their lord.
An awkward innocent tragic fool finds himself alone and hunted one day, after he accidentally murders his brother-in-law and his immediate family totally freaks.
He's fortunate to meet Barbarosa who reluctantly takes him in, and shows him how to make an honest living when rudely cast out by kith and kin.
He's new to the hardboiled countryside and proceeds in error most of the time, Barbarosa arriving at opportune moments to offer benevolent aid to the clueless youngster.
Simultaneously, the lad refuses to offer his help when Barbarosa goes too far, presenting an idealistic foil to his age-old grumpy thieving shenanigans.
He slowly unravels Barbarosa's tale until sincere sympathy sedulously emerges.
As they forge a legendary team.
Boldly traversing the unsung badlands.
*Would Barbarosa's marriage have been more successful if he had asked his wife's father for permission beforehand, dad?
**Well, here it's one of those old school situations where her father may have never allowed her to marry anyone, let alone Barbarosa, like in Scarface, so if they wanted to be together, they had to go it alone.
*Awkward, I'd say.
**Yes son, no doubt.
*I guess he had to shoot his father--in-law's leg off after he had his ears cut off, but didn't that just make a haunting situation even more menacing?
**There's really no solution to problems like these son, all the individuals involved are much too stubborn.
*Like when the kid falls for Barbarosa's daughter?
**That's right son, very observant.
*I guess everyone just kind of marries whomever these days, eh dad?
**Yes son, our communities have become quite diverse.
*I'm a huge fan of variability.
**That's good to hear son, so am I.
Labels:
Bandits,
Barbarosa,
Coming of Age,
Family,
Fred Schepisi,
Misunderstandings,
Teamwork,
Thieving,
Westerns
Monday, June 29, 2026
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