Die, My Love aka La Debil Mental by Ariana Harwicz – at least I think La Debil Mental is the original name of this book, adapted for the big screen - it is about the film version that I may have a few words to say, although what usually happens is I fix the target, but then go off into the woods, in some ways, just like the leader pf the (former) free world, the orange mobster who calls his ranting the weave – ergo, you could leave the page, before I invite you to visit my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html where you find more than six thousand notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists, plus reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other web pages – maybe you even have something to say

 

Die, My Love aka La Debil Mental by Ariana Harwicz – at least I think La Debil Mental is the original name of this book, adapted for the big screen - it is about the film version that I may have a few words to say, although what usually happens is I fix the target, but then go off into the woods, in some ways, just like the leader pf the (former) free world, the orange mobster who calls his ranting the weave – ergo, you could leave the page, before I invite you to visit my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html where you find more than six thousand notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists, plus reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other web pages – maybe you even have something to say

 

 

8 out of 10

 

Jennifer Lawrence https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/american-hustle-screenplay-by-eric.html is one of my favorite thespians, she already has already been nominated for four Oscar (and so many other trophies), and she has won the Academy Award, the first born in the 90s to win this, she may be the Meryl Streep of the future

On the other hand, I am reading Seinfeld, well, it is an audiobook and Jerry Seinfeld is ‘reading’ it, there are some passages from his life, and then a lot of the material we know from the admired comedy series, one of the passages refers to awards, which are given to actors, who have nothing in their heads, or words to that effect

 

‘they are told now say what we have told you, and that is it, then they dress, behave as if they are so important, and they get these prizes’, evidently, you have to read or listen to the book, because he is hilarious, and I did not render that here, he also has a point here, and in other places, marriages, relationships

The most popular course at Harvard is (or was) Positive Psychology, and professor Tal Ben Shahar  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-pursuit-of-perfect-by-tal-ben-shahar.html has included in his lectures fragments from the comedy series Seinfeld, and also bits from other shows, films, such as Pay It Forward

 

Now back to Die, My Love, the fragments I have seen on the screen, not the book – hence this is the second spoiler alert here, as if anybody takes the trouble to stay around…mind you, they should not, there are chefs d’oeuvre waiting to be read, so why waste time on this page – are not shattering, exhilarating

Jennifer Lawrence is resplendent – that may be part of the problem for this cinephile, there are sex scenes, the beautiful actress is naked, and I am afraid she is so alluring - well, I was going to put some more here, but it may be too much – that I could not follow the plot, seduced, hypnotized by her glorious appearance

 

Magister Ludi Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/memoirs-by-kingsley-amis-author-of-take.html wrote ‘one of the troubles with Lolita is that, so far from being too pornographic, it is not pornographic enough’, here I could not say that we have the opposite issue, not by a long shot, but it troubled me

Speaking of which, Grace aka Jennifer Lawrence is ‘battling her demons’, early on, we have this scene that was funny and depressing: Grace has her baby with her in this shop, where a young assistant is talking to her, asking how old is the infant, then going ‘let me guess’, and addressing the child, being friendly

 

Except that for this customer, this is not acceptable: ‘why are you talking?’ she is asking the shop assistant, and the whole of her attitude is one of hostility, explained by her condition- my daughter, Hannah, had a friend – in fact, I think they still are- at the Lycée Francais, and I used to talk to the father, Eugen

He was -maybe still is – a nice man, when he took his medicine for schizophrenia, when he stopped, it all went off the tracks, he told me ‘Parking is always on the left in Germany’, then went on to say such scary things, I got worried, even went with his wife to some outfit, to try and help solve this situation, which could get dramatic

 

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…’