Trouble in Paradise by Samson Raphaelson is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and you find more than five thousand notes on films from that and other lists, together with about the same number or more reviews of 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

 

Trouble in Paradise by Samson Raphaelson is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and you find more than five thousand notes on films from that and other lists, together with about the same number or more reviews of 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

 

                                

8 out of 10

 

Trouble in Paradise is one of The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, at least according to The New York Times, more exactly, I think there is a critic there who is the author, for some entries do not have a respectable Metascore, take Videodrome, which has only 58 of 100, that is in the yellow aka alert zone, and I will avoid it

 

Besides, Videodrome has James Woods in the title role, and given that he is one of the - what, 1% - supporting the Orange Cochon in Hollywood – I refuse to watch another movie with him – I am happy to say that Stallone had been a non-entity before his preposterous sycophantic position on the same matter for this cinephile

Notwithstanding that, there is this spectacular book called Intellectuals https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/intellectuals-by-paul-johnson.html in which Paul Johnson tells readers about Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Jacques Rousseau and other luminaries

 

Jean Jacques Rousseau has abandoned his children at the door of an orphanage, and nine out of ten died in that situation, in his time, ergo some minds can produce wonderful work in one domain, while they malfunction, if at all, in other ways, it is also a question of emotional intelligence, which is more important than IQ

I have listened to an excellent class on EQ on YouTube -if anybody reads here, please do not flag this, somebody did it for some stupid reason a few days ago, then last year, presumably they disagree with my views on Trump, anyway, ask me if you want to know who the professor was, and I will look into my history on YouTube

 

The ultimate master on Emotional Intelligence is Daniel Goleman https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/emotional-intelligence.html and his book on it is among the Fifty Psychology Classics – incidentally, there is a marvelous work which gives you in a nutshell the crucial information on those books

Trouble in Paradise is not overwhelming, and I think this comes back in large part to the Orange Merde, at least for this cinephile who sees him as the paradigm of evil, and since we live in the age of The Con Man, it seems a bit lame to watch those thieves at work in this motion picture, mind you, it is not bad, but as they said:

 

‘They will flood the zone, country, world with shit’ so I am not so surprised at the little schemes of the protagonist of this film, which goes back to 1932, ‘the golden, innocent age’, I am just jesting, indeed, the nationalists, MAGA fanatics long for the past, Make America Great Again, as in let us go into the past and forget progress

They have snatched Maduro the other day, and though this bus driver was a horrendous dictator, he is nothing to compare with Kim of North Korea, Putin, but those and others have a pass from the Orange Evil, in fact, he is enraptured with Putin, infamously, he kicked the war hero Zelensky around and out of the White House, while he stopped the support for Ukraine, except for weapons bought by the EU, and frequent insults for allies

 

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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