The River Wild by Denis O’Neill is entertaining, adventure is the key word, perhaps, but I am still thrilled by The Blue Wave, the victory of the good side in the elections that took place the other day in America, kudos

 

The River Wild by Denis O’Neill is entertaining, adventure is the key word, perhaps, but I am still thrilled by The Blue Wave, the victory of the good side in the elections that took place the other day in America, kudos

 

 

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8 out of 10

 

The River Wild reminded me of Deliverance https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/deliverance-by-james-dickey-is-one-of.html because both take place on and near a Wild River, crazy men are involved in both, and there is violence, although this is where the villains resort to different tactics, and the results look similar, but just form a distance

 

The most important trait of River Wild is that a woman dominates, she wins the game, in Deliverance, the apparent weaker figure has to save the day, Lewis was supposed to be the macho, all conquering hero, but it has to be Ed aka Jon Voight taking the lead, killing the enemy, if it was the opponent he eliminated

Jon Voight is one of a handful of prominent thespians supporting the Orange Plague https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/confidence-man-making-of-donald-trump.html the others being Mel Gibson, and Stallone – and this brings me to the end of the message related, somewhat, to The River Wild

 

Which was a spoiler alert, I am too happy about the election in the US to continue with a narrative, which is anyway thrilling, but not spectacular, or maybe I am wrong, on second thought, let us leave it to ‘it is very good’ before dropping out and celebrating the ‘Blue Tsunami’, the thrashing of the horrible cult leader

I mean, democrats winning in Kansas, maybe even in Mississippi?! Which brings here the link to Mississippi Burning https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/mississippi-burning-one-of-best-100.html a spectacular chef d’oeuvre with the divine Gene Hackman in the leading role, of an agent who chases the Ku Klux Klan in…Mississippi

 

Now, let me just add that not all the democrats seem like angels, they already have that peculiar, quite over the top fellow from Pennsylvania, Fetterman, maybe that is the name, a senator who wears shorts for most of the time, or at least used to, maybe he changed, together with his allegiance, he went to the…Republican convention!

From the new bunch, I am not too happy with Abdul Mohamed, first Muslim in congress https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/06/islam-short-history-by-karen-armstrong.html ok, but he is an affiliate of the Socialist Movement, just like some other winners on the big night, the new mayor of Los Angeles is another case

 

So, let us not rain on the parade, but there are some aspects here to be fixed, if we are not to suffer through another ‘real horror show’, to quote A Clockwork Orange, I took part in the revolution that took down Ceausescu http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html ergo I have no sympathy for commies

There is also this link, maybe you have something to say about it

 

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html

 

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