Hereafter by Peter Morgan is not the best motion picture you can see, notwithstanding its Academy Award nomination for Best Achievement in Visual Effects, however, it was on television last night and then look at the cast: Matt Damon, Cecile de France – the latter is one of my absolute favorites – and the director, none other than Clint Eastwood…now for my plug: you find more than five thousand notes on better films, from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other web pages, together with reviews on 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 will enjoy it

 

Hereafter by Peter Morgan is not the best motion picture you can see, notwithstanding its Academy Award nomination for Best Achievement in Visual Effects, however, it was on television last night and then look at the cast: Matt Damon, Cecile de France – the latter is one of my absolute favorites – and the director, none other than Clint Eastwood…now for my plug: you find more than five thousand notes on better films, from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other web pages, together with reviews on 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 will enjoy it

 

 

7 out of 10

 

Let me start with the divine Cecile de France  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/lauberge-espagnole-written-and-directed.html one of the most glorious thespians, at least according to yours truly- her presence in Hereafter is reason enough to watch the movie and enjoy it, again, if you ask me, which you didn’t

 

Matt Damon needs no kudos from the under signed, and he gives a solid performance, if not a magnetic one, I liked his restraint, then take the director: Clint Eastwood, one of the greatest actors (despite the fact that he is a republican, I can only hope he is not MAGA which for me means being Gaga, and I mean lost, not Lady Gaga)

If Unforgiven is one of the most spectacular, mesmerizing works of art you (must) have seen  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/09/unforgiven-by-david-webb-peoples-my.html Hereafter will come as a disappointment, but then not every feature can reach the zenith, can it? So, this is satisfying after all

 

Cecile de France plays Marie Lelay, a journalist, who is on holiday in East Asia when the infamous tsunami, that has killed tens of thousands, hist the shore, she is caught in the market, pushed around and under the massive waves, until she comes to the surface to be declared dead…for a while, until she is resurrected

This is the theme, it has also happened to George Lonegan aka Matt Damon, when he was a child, he had a serious fever, it got almost terminal – indeed, it was for some time – they operated on him for many hours, and somehow – a miracle might be the word – he returns from the other side and he has this gift

 

Matt Damon https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/good-will-hunting-by-matt-damon-and-ben.html is a very smart person (the Orange idiot in the White House comes to mind, with his torrent of insults, calling those who question his abuses, imperial aspirations and all names, which actually apply to him)

His George Lonegan is tormented by the images he sees, he has the ability to ‘connect’, when he touches a human being, he gets the information – for instance, when he appears to be on the cusp of having an affair with this woman, Melanie aka the formidable Bryce Dallas Howard, he sees things from her past, knows that her father is dead

 

Alas, he sees more, the fact the departed parent had abused his daughter, and this reveled truth puts an end to their possible intimacy, he had warned her that they must not get into this, it is better to have secrets from each other and not know everything, she is curious and has the story, but he had been right

Finally, the screenwriter, Peter Morgan, has had important success with The Queen, The Crown, Rush and Frost/Nixon https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/frostnixon-by-peter-morgan.html a motion picture which looks at the interviews with the ex-president, the revelations, characters, humor, an excellent film

 

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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