Movies and Thoughts
Today is the first day I haven’t been coughing hard enough to bring up blood along with whatever virus had made its home in my chest… not that my sickness is any excuse for not writing… I haven’t felt the urge to write here, or in my journal.
Today however, I do feel like writing and I want to write a movie review for two movies I saw this weekend.
The first I saw earlier this evening; Good Night, and Good Luck was a positively wonderful movie that I highly recommend to anyone and everyone most fervently
David Strathairn absolutely shines as Edward R. Murrow and George Cloony should be applauded for taking up a subject that has frightening similarities to this day and age.
The movie is about Edward Murrow’s campaign against censorship and his fight against Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was accusing everyone and their mother of being a communist or a communist sympathizer.
Nothing but dialogue this movie really isn’t for people with short attention spans but it a movie for those whose brains haven’t been rotted away with the crud that’s being spoon fed to us by the media today.
The next movie was V for Vendetta and was, in my humble opinion the best movie of 2006 so far. I know the year has just started but I have a feeling that my opinion won’t change as the month continue and the year progresses. I could be wrong though.
Set against the futuristic landscape of dictatorial Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) who is rescued from a few government runners called finger men by a masked vigilante known as “V”.
Charismatic and skilled in the art of combat and deception, V shakes the public out of their perpetual ennui by blowing up a landmark and takes over the new station, urging his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression.
As the story progresses Evey grows as a person and discovers she no longer fears death after learning about a young woman who was in a kind of concentration camp and being tortured for information.
I wouldn’t dream about ruining the ending so all I will say is; see it at least once in the following year.
Something occurred to me as I wrote that last statement, I almost used the words ‘see it once before you die’ but that would be silly; basing your life of things to do, see, try before you die is no way to live.
If you have a list of things you was to do before your clock expires then you always have said list hanging over your head as well as the threat that if you don’t do all these things you’ll somehow not be a whole person.
Instead of making a list of things to do before I die I would rather live every day to the fullest, whether I’m seeing a glorious sunset or simply enjoying a good book I want to enjoy what I have instead of bemoaning the fact that I haven’t seen the pyramids or walked under the cherry trees of Japan.
Enjoy your days and don’t let any of them go wasted.
Sorry for that bit of philosophical vomit but it would have bothered me until I wrote it down somewhere and got it off my chest.
Now I’ve posted and I have no more to say. Goodnight and sleep well.
Today however, I do feel like writing and I want to write a movie review for two movies I saw this weekend.
The first I saw earlier this evening; Good Night, and Good Luck was a positively wonderful movie that I highly recommend to anyone and everyone most fervently
David Strathairn absolutely shines as Edward R. Murrow and George Cloony should be applauded for taking up a subject that has frightening similarities to this day and age.
The movie is about Edward Murrow’s campaign against censorship and his fight against Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was accusing everyone and their mother of being a communist or a communist sympathizer.
Nothing but dialogue this movie really isn’t for people with short attention spans but it a movie for those whose brains haven’t been rotted away with the crud that’s being spoon fed to us by the media today.
The next movie was V for Vendetta and was, in my humble opinion the best movie of 2006 so far. I know the year has just started but I have a feeling that my opinion won’t change as the month continue and the year progresses. I could be wrong though.
Set against the futuristic landscape of dictatorial Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) who is rescued from a few government runners called finger men by a masked vigilante known as “V”.
Charismatic and skilled in the art of combat and deception, V shakes the public out of their perpetual ennui by blowing up a landmark and takes over the new station, urging his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression.
As the story progresses Evey grows as a person and discovers she no longer fears death after learning about a young woman who was in a kind of concentration camp and being tortured for information.
I wouldn’t dream about ruining the ending so all I will say is; see it at least once in the following year.
Something occurred to me as I wrote that last statement, I almost used the words ‘see it once before you die’ but that would be silly; basing your life of things to do, see, try before you die is no way to live.
If you have a list of things you was to do before your clock expires then you always have said list hanging over your head as well as the threat that if you don’t do all these things you’ll somehow not be a whole person.
Instead of making a list of things to do before I die I would rather live every day to the fullest, whether I’m seeing a glorious sunset or simply enjoying a good book I want to enjoy what I have instead of bemoaning the fact that I haven’t seen the pyramids or walked under the cherry trees of Japan.
Enjoy your days and don’t let any of them go wasted.
Sorry for that bit of philosophical vomit but it would have bothered me until I wrote it down somewhere and got it off my chest.
Now I’ve posted and I have no more to say. Goodnight and sleep well.
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