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CARGO by Yolanda Ramke

  CARGO by Yolanda Ramke This is a film with a very dark, negative and pessimistic perspective on the future, which would have a deadly disease kill multitudes and those left behind are dehumanized and reduced to the state of brutes. Alhamdulillah, there are a few human beings that act decently and find Signature strengths like courage, humanity, resilience, gratitude, kindness and they represent the chance that the planet may have…well, Homos sapiens, since other species would continue to live. Martin Freeman is Andy and the hero of this film, trying to escape this plague of the future by living on the river, on a boat that is fast running out of supplies and the couple face the conundrum: do we keep sailing on the water, where we are safer, but face starvation- Andy’s option- or we get off and walk the earth to get food and risk death by disease- the view of his wife, Kay. The man and his partner have a daughter, Rosie and they need to get some food or she will die of hunger, so ...
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A Face in the Crowd, screenplay written by Budd Schulberg based on his story

  A Face in the Crowd, screenplay written by Budd Schulberg based on his story A different version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at: -               https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E  and    http://realini.blogspot.ro/ A Face in the Crowd is on the New York Times' Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list. And it is an excellent work. It has a powerful, complex character at the center: -            Larry 'Lonesome' Rhodes He reminds me of Elmer Gantry, The Apostle and a good number of films with a charismatic, powerful, influential man towering over all the rest... Although different in many ways, Malcolm X also comes to mind. It could also be seen as the emblematic American Dream. The destitute man becomes rich and powerful. Only he has something from yet another narrative: -   ...
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Baby Face with Barbara Stanwyck

  Baby Face with Barbara Stanwyck A different version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at: -               https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E   and    http://realini.blogspot.ro/ TIME Magazine has included Baby Face of its list of best 100 movies. -            http://entertainment.time.com/2005/02/12/all-time-100-movies/slide/all/ It was made in 1933 and given the period, it is in Black and White. And the star is the excellent Barbara Stanwyck. A couple of weeks ago I have posted a note on Double Indemnity. By the time she acted in that, she was the highest paid actor in America. And if I am not mistaken, she had the highest paid job in any domain. She was reluctant to act in Double Indemnity though, given that her image had been so different. In Baby Face, she plays the role of L...
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On the Shortness of Life, Old Age by Seneca, Stoic Philosophy for best results, you could follow the demonstration at http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world? 10 out of 10

  On the Shortness of Life, Old Age by Seneca, Stoic Philosophy for best results, you could follow the demonstration at  http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world ? 10 out of 10     Stoic philosophy might seem not just the best option, but the only solution to make sense of the world in a period of war, inflation, shortages, expected economic crisis – what with inflation, the need for central banks to raise interest rates just as there are challenges to growth on so many fronts, supply chains issues, covid lockdowns in China and in particular the protracted, awful war launched by Kremlin Shorty (not as cool as the original, Chili Palmer, ‘the one telling you the way it is’ by Elmore Leonard ‘the Dickens of Detroit’  http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/04/get-shorty-by-elmore-leonard-aka.html?q=unique+in+the+world ? a divine comedy) who wants to occupy as much as he can from Ukraine and then why stop there, there was talk about T...
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The Tribes of Palos Verdes, screenplay by Karen Croner, based on book by Joy Nicholson

  The Tribes of Palos Verdes, screenplay by Karen Croner, based on book by Joy Nicholson The Tribes of Palos Verdes is an entertaining motion picture, although the viewers and the critics are right when they do not rate this offering very highly, for most of the story is familiar and it seems little- if anything- is new in this narrative. The Masons move from- was it Minnesota?- to the beautiful, sunny, resplendent, splendid, radiant, luminous Palos Verdes, that seems as close as a land can get to a Paradise on Earth. One of the main benefits that can be extracted from this feature is that it demonstrates the Psychology principle of Hedonic Adaptation and the falseness of the illusory California Myth, whereby people think that if they would only move to California, they would become the happiest humans on earth. The reality- like the scenario in The Tribes of Palos Verdes- is different and the research shows that once people settle in California- and for that matter in almost any o...
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The Heiress written by Ruth Goetz, Augustus Goetz and Henry James, directed by William Wyler, starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift and Ralph Richardson – this excellent feature won four Academy Awards in 1950, including for Olivia de Havilland for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the motion picture is also included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list, if you like the following, I have more than five thousand more notes on films from the aforementioned and other pages, plus more than four thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you even subscribe

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  The Heiress written by Ruth Goetz, Augustus Goetz and Henry James, directed by William Wyler, starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift and Ralph Richardson – this excellent feature won four Academy Awards in 1950, including for Olivia de Havilland for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the motion picture is also included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list, if you like the following, I have more than five thousand more notes on films from the aforementioned and other pages, plus more than four thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you even subscribe     9 out of 10   The Heiress is an excellent motion picture, it was nominated for more Oscars than the four it won, including for Best Film, Best Director, and Olivia de Haviland was crowned the Best Actress in a Leading role, th...
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A Few Good Men directed by the late, regretted Rob Reiner, written by Aaron Sorkin, with Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Demi Moore and other wonderful thespians – one reason why I write this is because Rob Reiner and his wife were killed yesterday, they don’t know if their son did it, albeit there are rumors that he did - the film was the 1993 Nominee for the Oscar for Best Picture, and Rob Reiner was one of the producers too, Jack Nicholson was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – he won three, but not for this role – now for my invitation: you have more than six thousand notes on features from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages, along with more than five thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html 8 out of 10 I was not ecstatic when I saw A Few Good Men, but this is one of the movies directed by Rob Reiner, who was killed yesterday, and since I have already posted a note on his master work When Harry Met Sally https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/when-harry-met-sally-by-nora-ephron.html I took A Few Good Men to analyze Before I get to the ‘critique’ of the motion picture, let me just say that the death of this wonderful, talented men caused the Orange Demon to show his disgusting nature again, the leader of the (once) free world attacked the dead artist, saying he was ‘deranged, suffered from Trump derangement disease, and this is why he died’ - This is as abject as one can get Although, this monster will surely do other abominable things today, tomorrow – colonel Nathan Jessep aka Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men is an angel, when compared with this pathetic, loathsome creep, one would should not be allowed in any position, except maybe sweeping the streets, and yet he is on top of the world - This in fact shows us where the world is Anyway, A Few Good Men is best known for the line ‘you can’t handle the truth’ and the speech shouted by Jack Nicholson, as the cruel, murderous Colonel Jessep, who also says ‘you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall’, with the conviction that is he defends America, he can do anything and get praise, not punishment Jack Nicholson used to be my absolute favorite – though we have had somebody just as good locally, George Constantin was not known outside of the realm, but was on the same level – until he started doing lesser work, Bucket List for instance https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/easy-rider-written-by-dennis-hopper.html The rest of the cast is excellent, Tom Cruise needs no comments, but facetious as I am, I will say that despite the obvious talent, his involvement in the Scientology gig makes him persona non grata to me – I did not watch the last Mission Impossibles, even if they had good chronicles, he has a negative aura with that scam Demi Moore has a had a few excellent performances, perhaps none better than in Ghost https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/ghost-written-by-bruce-joel-rubin-seven.html though some would add her recent leading role in The Substance, the horror feature that has been so well received, but it gets gruesome Finally, Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay, he may be best known for The Social Network, but Charlie Wilson’s War https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/charlie-wilsons-war-written-by-aaron.html is a fantastic motion picture Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works ‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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  A Few Good Men directed by the late, regretted Rob Reiner, written by Aaron Sorkin, with Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Demi Moore and other wonderful thespians – one reason why I write this is because Rob Reiner and his wife were killed yesterday, they don’t know if their son did it, albeit there are rumors that he did -   the film was the 1993 Nominee for the Oscar for Best Picture, and Rob Reiner was one of the producers too, Jack Nicholson was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – he won three, but not for this role – now for my invitation: you have more than six thousand notes on features from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages, along with more than five thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html     8 out of 10   I was not ecstatic when I saw A ...
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