A Complete Unknown by Elijah Wald – a few hundred motion pictures are reviewed on my blog, and I am plugging the best gig https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

 

A Complete Unknown by Elijah Wald – a few hundred motion pictures are reviewed on my blog, and I am plugging the best gig https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

 

 

7 out of 10

 

Let me say from the first line that I am not a fan of Bob Dylan, although being open minded enough, I can see why he has been celebrated, not including the zenith represented by the Nobel Prize for Literature

 

-          Controversial as that can be, seeing that they have to read hundreds of books from multiple countries

 

Now, having said that I felt Bob Dylan got more than his due with such a prestigious trophy, the film about him, or part of his life, was not so enticing, it could have benefited thought from the ‘lowered expectations routine

Or, seeing that it had been nominated for no fewer than eight Oscars, including Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Achievement in Directing, Timothée Chalamet was a Nominee Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role and Monica Barbaro a Nominee for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

 

Admittedly, the lineup for the last ceremony was not all that impressive, not for this cinephile anyway, I mean, Anora was alright, but not phenomenal, Conclave https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/conclave-by-richard-harris-author-of.html yes, but not overwhelming

Indeed. Anora won Best Motion Picture, but what about those Russian ghouls, they have to provide the humorous element, but they could not be that clumsy in real life, and then at that sex scene, in the car, really?

 

-          I use the services of sexual workers and they would not do that

 

The Substance has merits, Demi Moore had been in fact the favorite wot win, not Mickey Madison, and the idea that Hollywood and the world is celebrating appearance over substance is clearly a worthy scene, the acting is impressive

However, the gruesome transformations are not my game – there is the classic of psychology Games People Play https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/games-people-play-by-eric-berne.html - and I was not thrilled

 

Conclave has this theme of the dead pope and the fight to select a successor, not a literal clash, but a spiritual one, and we have had Habemus Papam https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/habemus-papam-by-nanni-moretti-8-out-of.html where the pope goes missing, and they have to play volleyball in the Vatican

And then in the past few years, we have had yet another papal script, The Two Popes, using fiction to give audiences the chance to peak at the transfer of power between the old, retiring Benedict and the new, Francis

 

So with all this insight https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-two-popes-written-by-anthony.html having another claustrophobic meeting of old men, siting around to elect another old pontiff…

 

-          Seems like too much

 

Besides, we have an Orange Woland, the antichrist (if I were religious, I would be sure this is Satan) who is dominating, he just crashed the world economy and then went to…play golf

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.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 befits 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…’