Wag the Dog written by Larry Beinhart, David Mamet, a motion picture that seems to have changed, it is now on the news, what with the ‘special operation’, the name given by the tyrant in the Kremlin to his war in Ukraine, or the war in Iran, which was won on day one, according to another lunatic, the self-proclaimed ‘greatest president of the US’; you have thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

 

Wag the Dog written by Larry Beinhart, David Mamet, a motion picture that seems to have changed, it is now on the news, what with the ‘special operation’, the name given by the tyrant in the Kremlin to his war in Ukraine, or the war in Iran, which was won on day one, according to another lunatic, the self-proclaimed ‘greatest president of the US’; you have thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel

 

8 out of 10

 

Glengarry Glen Ross https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/glengarry-glen-ross-by-david-mamet.html by David Mamet has won The Pulitzer Prize and it has been adapted for the big screen, that is one of the best films I know, with Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin, the latter, in fact all are superb

 

Alec Baldwin is Blake, and he has been sent from downtown to mobilize the troops, he says ‘my watch costs more than your car, fuck you, that’s my name…’ and much more to the same effect, a classic, one of the must-see movies that made me aware of how talented David Mamet is, notwithstanding his personal views

Intellectuals https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/intellectuals-by-paul-johnson.html by Paul Johnson reveals how awful great creators can be, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Henrik Ibsen, Jean Jacques Rousseau are present in this dazzling book, but we learn some abominable things, that will affect our perspective

 

I am not saying that David Mamet is on the same level with Tolstoy, and then his ‘crime’ is to support the Orange Buffoon, indeed, maybe he is no longer in that camp by now, but he was, if I remember well, when he appeared on the Maher show, and the latter is yet another huge disappointment, I stopped watching him

Wag The Dog pales when we look at reality: https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/confidence-man-making-of-donald-trump.html the ultimate Confidence Man is now in charge, well, pompous, vain, ludicrous, empty as he is, he boasts of many things, straits, states he controls- he says the Strait of Hormuz must have his name

 

In the David Mamet motion picture, they create a diversion, a war with Albania, produced in a studio, with fabricated stories, made up refugee, cat, etc. but now, we are flabbergasted by reality, a demented ‘commander in chief’ who is corrupt, amassed billions profiting from the office, suffers from narcissistic personality disorder

This is not self-esteem, we read in the psychology classic https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/six-pillars-of-self-esteem-by-nathaniel.html The Six Pillars of Self Esteem that those who have confidence in themselves do not act, talk like this caricature, the problem in fact is not the individual, but that more than seventy million voted for him

 

It proves how wise, and hilarious HL Mencken was https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-american-credo-by-h-l-mencken-and.html when he said ‘Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard’ I see craziness every day: this morning, at the club, this fellow placed his swimsuit in the sink and then placed the blower in there, running for a long time, to dry his stupid accessory, and he does that all the time…damn the energy crisis, warming of the planet!

Comentarii

Trimiteți un comentariu

Postări populare de pe acest blog

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice written by Larry Tucker and Paul Mazursky, directed by the latter is included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list, and Variety has published recently its Top 100 Comedies – or else, I have learned about this lately – where this feature has a top spot, as far as I remember it is higher that the 50th spot – speaking of these pages, you have access to my own more than five thousand notes on films from these and other compilations, together with another five thousand reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and You Tube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html you may even subscribe, if you wish

Imagine
  Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice written by Larry Tucker and Paul Mazursky, directed by the latter is included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list, and Variety has published recently its Top 100 Comedies – or else, I have learned about this lately – where this feature has a top spot, as far as I remember it is higher that the 50 th spot – speaking of these pages, you have access to my own more than five thousand notes on films from these and other compilations, together with another five thousand reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and You Tube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html you may even subscribe, if you wish     9 out of 10   First a correction: I wrote above that this comedy is within the first fifty of Variety’s Top 100, I just saw that it is in fact ranked 90 th , I could have edited the above, but maybe this way I will re...
Citiți mai multe

In The Fade aka Auf Dem Nichts, written by Hark Bohm and Fatih Akin

  In The Fade aka Auf Dem Nichts, written by Hark Bohm and Fatih Akin In The Fade has won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film, although in this cinephile's opinion, Una Mujer Fantastica- which has won the Oscar in the same category- Nelyubov or The Square would have been better choices. Having said that, Auf Dem Nichts is a very good, significant, remarkable feature, that attracts attention to violence against minorities, in this case the Kurdish community in Germany. It is therefore not one sided, we do not have only Muslim lunatics killing innocent "infidels", but also some extreme Europeans murdering the other side. The problem is that, unacceptable, horrifying and vile as these acts are, it appears that the overwhelming majority of atrocities are committed by zealots acting in the name of Islam- radical and unrepresentative as they are for this supposedly peaceful faith, although there are passages in its holy book that seem to insist on a violent jihad and ultimat...
Citiți mai multe