A House of Dynamite directed by Kathryn Bigelow – you find more than five thousand notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies of All Time and other sites, together with reviews on books from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and maybe you have some comment

 

A House of Dynamite directed by Kathryn Bigelow – you find more than five thousand notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies of All Time and other sites, together with reviews on books from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists on my blog and YouTube channel  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and maybe you have some comment

 

 

9 out of 10

 

Flabbergasted!

 

Well, maybe I was not really so overwhelmed, but then this is one of the best motion pictures I have seen this year – that is, launched in the last ten months, otherwise, Challengers, seen again last night, is just as good, but it is ‘older’ – and furthermore, it gives us a scary idea about what could happen, someday soon

 

My leit motif: especially since we have this orange eejit at the top of the ‘free world’ – it used to be a concept, a laudable achievement, but that universe is crumbling, demolished as the East Wing of The White House – we are even more in danger than usual, because this freak can do anything, he kills fishermen in the Caribbean.

 

Yes, I know, they are labeled ‘drug dealers’, but then who the fuck knows, there is no proof, and even if they were ‘mules’, what on earth is happening, executions in international waters, when there is not even a death sentence for this crime, if it is proved in court (as it must be, in a democracy), this is insane, to quote A House of Dynamite

Kathryn Bigelow has won two Oscars, and many other trophies, for her chef d’oeuvre The Hurt Locker https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-note-on-hurt-locker.html one for Best Motion Picture and the other for Best Achievement in Directing, and if she was not the first, then at least one of the first women to get there

 

In this new spectacular film, there is a crisis – as I write this, I have to think again about what this ‘very stable genius’, in his own false and stupid words, would do in this scenario, after all, he has posted a video recently, with him piloting a fighter jet (AI produced) with a crown on his head, and bombing Americans with

 

-          Shit!

 

I mean this is not just disgusting, gruesome, and we could add more words in that line here, but it is also disqualifying and ‘inconceivable’, to quote that other fool, from The Princess Bride https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-princess-bride-by-william-goldman.html by fabulous William Goldman

The title of House of Dynamite refers to the fact that the world is now full of atomic (and so many other) weapons, proliferating to the point where this film can really happen in reality – the exchange at one point is ‘this is madness’, says the president, and the answer from an adviser is: ‘no, it is reality’ and we could go up in smoke

 

North Korea has many, and not just that, but they expand the means to deliver them, they have rockets, missiles that could reach the USA, just like in the movie, and then Iran is close and looks like getting atomic bombs soon, so this accident or deliberate launch could be ‘Arrive Pres de Chez Vous’ like in that magnum opus https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/cest-arrive-pres-de-chez-vous-aka-man.html one of the best films ever

The ending of A House of Dynamite is also perfect, not that I am about to share it here, albeit I am always amused by the notion that people read this – I did receive a few complaints (maybe four in all) from some folks that did go through the lines, but this is just one in a thousand, these are the odds, and it’s just as well…

 

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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