Is This A Room adapted as Reality for the big screen – written and directed by Tina Satter – one of the best films of 2023 - 10 out of 10

 

Is This A Room adapted as Reality for the big screen – written and directed by Tina Satter – one of the best films of 2023

10 out of 10

 

 

If you ask me – and here is a spoiler alert, disclaimer, right at the start, you should not mind what I say, and avoid reading anything here, except perhaps as a short conclusion, the opinion in just a few words, in this, first line – this is not just one of the best films of the past year, it is in the top four, along with The Holdovers, Oppenheimer and anatomy of a Fall https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/01/one-of-top-three-films-of-2023-anatomy.html and furthermore, it is in the top twenty for this century

 

Which is even more remarkable, considering that there are some objections, over which this cinephile has quarreled with his daughter – Sydney Sweeney is fantastic in the leading role – worthy in my book of an Oscar, just as much as the actress of Killers of The Flower Moon – and controls the narrative, makes the movie so much more ravishing, in spite of the fact that she does not look like she can lift 80 kilograms

This conclusion drew fire, for it apparently – or definitely, Lord Copper http://realini.blogspot.com/2018/07/scoop-by-evelyn-waugh-adapted-for-bbc.html as we would have it in the marvelous Scoop by one of the glorious authors, Evelyn Waugh – means that I am a sexist fellow

 

The film opens with Reality Winner aka stupendous Sydney Sweeney arriving at her house, in a rather dubious neighborhood – we would later hear about her coming home from a concert at night, and a stranger knocking at her window…on the other hand, she has an AR 15, if that are the specifications of the assault rifle, which has…Pink handles, a Gluck pistol and maybe some other weapon that I am missing

Besides, she does some training which is familiar to the other characters that participate in the exchange and can lift eighty kilos and some seventy five maybe, in a different position, which is not just remarkable, but to this viewer seems rather implausible, with the physique of the actress, albeit not for the real woman that we see at times in photos, the real Reality, if we can accept this expression…

 

Reality Winner is approached by two men, who ask if they can talk to her, and very soon they present their badges, FBI agents Taylor aka Marchant Davis and Garrick aka Josh Hamilton would be the other two important personages in this narrative, for we will have a group of men, and one woman, who will arrive at what will be called by the surrounding tape ‘scene of a crime’, but the three will have center stage

 

The agents will be decent throughout the long interview – we have in fact inserted in the film audio recordings, photos, pages from the actual investigation, they must have required the information, and in the name of transparency, the right of the public to know, and the media frenzy that has resulted, the documents, recordings and almost all else have been released, redacted in places, so that the secrets are kept out

It is nonetheless outrageous – not to the nadir reached by my daughter, who was calling America names, just after we learned that the accused has said that her country is ‘the worst thing to happen to the world’, or words to that effect, if she really said them, and now, looking back, it might just be an outbreak of rage – that the treatment applied to this whistleblower is so much worse than what Orange Jesus gets

 

Trump has taken out classified, top secret documents, placed hundreds, maybe thousands of them in boxes, spread through that kitsch residence in Florida, in the toilet, on the stage, then he showed hoi polloi the plans to attack Iran, talked to an ordinary Australian about the…nuclear submarines, and instead of looking at a century of jail time – or execution, since he favors it, obviously for others, she is ‘the very stable genius’, chosen by the leaders of that cult as the New, Only Orange Jesus – he is about to be elected by the GOP, and then – though he may lose that, Insha’Allah – sit in the White House, again!

Reality Winner has been a well-trained intelligence specialist, fluent in Farsi, and two other languages, covering Iran from what we hear, but second spoiler alert, she is outraged by the fact that her colleagues always have Fox News on, which is evidence that they are to the (far) right of the spectrum, and indoctrinated with the conspiracy theories, outright lies that are aired over there…after all, they have settled with a compensation of some 770 million dollars, for the horseshit they spread

 

The heroine sees on a site that they want evidence regarding the Russian meddling in the American elections, and with her clearance, she saw National Security Agency data confirming that, and she takes out the piece in her panties - you have been warned that disclosure is to follow, and I am overwhelmed by this, so I must put here the awe, admiration, respect, gratitude for people like Reality, with the caveat that she should have found a way to cover the sources and then she must not demonize America, without it what is left, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, even now the loathsome South Africa, which has just complained at the UN about Israel, while it embraces the mass killer Putin

Alerting the media and public about what Russia has done was a noble gesture, and the sentence is too long for that, if we must emphasize again that she should have covered the sources – something that Orange Jesus has done, a few weeks into his rule, he spoke to the Russian ambassador and to Lavrov about information which revealed important, secret data…as stated above, this malign tumor should be punished, not in the race to become the most powerful man on earth, but with people like Reality, there is a chance…Orange Jesus has also denied the interference in Oslo, where he said he takes Putin’s word over that of his own experts, NSA and all, which would be enough to disqualify anyone, and yet, here we are…

 

Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world    – 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 befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

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 Heritage 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…’

‚parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’

“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”