Friday, February 28, 2025
Never Eat Alone
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Údolí vcel (The Valley of the Bees)
The austere shadow of strict devotion objectively haunts upright ideology, as severe disciples refuse to compromise regarding life or blossoming community.
An adolescent enrages his newlywed father as he scandalously marries a teenage girl, after which he is sent to live in a religious order near the swelling sea so far away.
Life is strict and devout and disciplined but the brothers and knights care for one another, the passage of time accompanied by learning as they forge a nuanced unity of one.
Their vows are absolute however and changes of mind don't factor in, for some the endless praise and self-flagellation depressingly tedious as the years pass.
The boy, now an observant young man, loses faith with the order eventually, notably after a friend tries to escape and is then caught and fed to mad dogs.
Such an occurrence seems sincerely at odds with the Christian calling so he swiftly leaves, and heads back home to his old school castle to freely start life over once again.
But he's strictly chased by a fanatical knight who's gone mad and won't give him up.
No matter how bluntly he's adamantly rejected.
He refuses to ignore the Order's dogma.
Another more worldly priest less emphatically consumed by absolute pretensions, lives in the world albeit a holy one and attempts to reasonably dissuade him.
His arguments are simple and wholesome temperately generated by communal life, the practical observations of unorthodox realities which still humbly fit with a loving God's teachings.
He reminds the passionate ideologue that the absolute application of religious teachings, will result in collective despondency since so many people simply can't live that way.
Isn't it better to live and attempt to follow the rules as best one can, and not to seek objective justifications to punish the people who've caused no harm?
The knight can't rationally stand the friendly and curious unafraid enclaves, as he meets them in a strange country where they aren't as pious as his native land.
When he hears that his old companion the one he's too blind to see he's in love with, has taken up with his father's widow and seeks to marry her with the priest's consent, he loses his mind in the "offending" foreknowledge that his friend will live an honest just life, likely even surrounded by a loving family strictly forbidden by the Order.
Madness follows, the furious yearning to end his object of desire's fruitful bearings.
The ending as tragic as so much ideology.
As it imposes absolute calamity
(There were so many more potential friends in the Order).
(I've mentioned this before but in case there's any confusion, I'm no longer looking to get married).
Criterion keyword: dogma (I was searching for the old school "Dogma Films").
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Balancelotisb'erg'la-ronde
Friday, February 21, 2025
Gezora, Ganime, Kameba: Kessen! Nankai no daikaijû (Space Amoeba)
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Chikyû Bôeigun (The Mysterians)
A quiet town mellifluously enamoured energetically engages in festive rituals, communal friendship collectively augmenting spirited endeavours and cultivated mischief.
The lighthearted mild-mannered individuals curiously converse and dine at play, before a startling blaze is suddenly detected not far off in a nearby wood.
The radioactive nature of the fire chemically defies known scientific understanding, inherently baffling brave local residents who risk their lives to douse the flames.
But before such an occurrence can come to pass, a giant robot emerges from the Earth, and sets about destroying the town with awkward movements and delirious gusto.
The military is eventually able to thwart its destructive malevolent intent, just before its colonialist authorship tyrannically proclaims its wicked objectives.
Relying on their superior technology which destroyed their home world so long ago, they seek to establish a new base on Earth from which to spread their invasive fury.
Internationally disposed, the people of Earth courageously respond with bitter defiance.
Bombastic composure inevitably maneuvering.
As mutually disabling conflict obliterates.
Strange how the art of diplomacy lacks effective resolve every 4 to 8 years, and bizarre developments maladroitly alter reliable seamless networks and agencies.
In The Mysterians, a constructive dialogue would have gone a long way to cultivate peace, and ensured potential harmony between the species as it was initially considered.
Would it have been that disillusioning to simply approach our planet in good faith, and congenially present their novel ideas with warm and friendly interplanetary mojo?
Alas, their characteristic machismo and absurd extremist irrational demands, lead the entire world to internationally unite and find innovative ways to outgun their technology.
Friendship could have gregariously reigned and affably brought forth mutual accommodations, as it has in most ages of prosperity as closely chronicled by observant scribes.
The Mysterians refuse to lighten up however and are therefore doomed to travel longingly through space.
Forever in search of a chaotic homeland.
Consistently silencing peaceful initiatives.