Ataraxia

  Poseidon And Company and Bright Red Apples by Raymond Carver Another version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at: -               https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E Poseidon and Company This is an account that I did not understand. Although very short, almost if not really a flash story, the meaning of it escapes me. It could be about ancient history, seeing as Achilles is mentioned. And then there is a temple of Solomon. But I better stick to the first pronouncement and admit that: -            It beats me Bright Red Apples This second narrative is longer. And albeit with an eerie atmosphere, I can relate more to it. After all, we have the familiar domestic disturbance that was present in a majority of the short stories that I have read lately. But I am relieved to say that I looked up on the internet ...

  Geu-hu aka The Day After, written and directed by Sang-soo Hong The fact that The Day After has been nominated for the Palme d’Or makes this film one of the best of 2016. There is a lot to admire at this drama which told in a slow, meditative pace and involves personal, but also global issues, has an interesting, philosophical at times dialogue that is rewarding and worthwhile. On the other hand, it can feel somewhat strange and an engagement with the characters might be missing, with an awkward lack of empathy, identification with the protagonists, without feeling antagonized by them to the point of watching what they do, in the hope that they finally get some punishment. It all starts on a morning in winter, when the hero, Kim Bongwan wakes up at dawn and is confronted, not for the last time, by his wife who has suspicions regarding the reasons for such an early rise and departure. In the next scenes, we see the man talking to a much younger woman, apparently both inebriated, c...

  Sentimental Value written by Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, directed by the latter is the 2025 Winner of The Grand Prize of the Festival de Cannes for Joachim Trier, and it is nominated for no less than eight paramount Golden Globes for 2026, including for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for Renate Reinsve, Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture for Stellan Skarsgård, Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture for Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Best Director - Motion Picture for Joachim Trier, Best Screenplay - Motion Picture and Best Motion Picture - Non-English Language, it is a favorite to get most of those nominations at the Oscars…now for the advertisement and spoiler alert, you could leave this page and travel to the link I recommend, where you find more than five thousand notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever...

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  Greenleaf by Flannery O’Connor   The heroine of this short story is Mrs. May and the plot, the farm and the help recall another story- The Displaced Person. There is help at the farm, where there is a woman in charge, not young anymore and the man working for her is not the hardest working of all, in fact there is more than a similitude between Greenleaf and the hired help in The Displaced Person, Mr. Shortley.   From the start, there is a problem with a bull, which will put a tragic twist to the tale at the end. Mrs. May is unhappy because the animal is loose on her property, messing around and mixing with her cows…here I am not sure what the issue is: the bull is of inferior breed and I assume that the resulting calves would not be so desirable, but I am not sure I get the point. Mrs. May has two sons who fight each other and have deeply disappointed their mother. One of them went into the Army, but came back only a private, as opposed to the twins of Greenleaf, who c...

  Marito in Citta by John Cheever Like all the stories of John Cheever- exceptional The subject of this short story, visible from the title, made me think of a comedy I have seen years ago- -            The Seven Years Itch, with Marylin Monroe in top form The husband is left alone in the city, while his family is off, for the summer vacation, which for some reason he cannot have.                  “La moglie ce ne va, marito poverino, solo in cittadina,” The name of the story comes from a song, about the poor husband that the hero of the tale remembers from Europe. Mr. Estabrook sings the lines on the way to the railway station as he is enthused with the perspective of doing so much…alone. He will sing at the piano, read and so much more. But to begin with he has problems feeding himself, for he cannot eat the omelet that he has prepared. The food in a l...