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"Tell No One" movie review

Wednesday, 27. August 2008, 17:35:15

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8 years ago, Alex's wife was MURDERED. Today... She e-mailed him.

Earlier this past weekend, I saw the French movie, Tell No One, at a local theatre.

Tell No One is based on the novel by Harlan Coben. It stars François Cluzet as Docteur Alexandre Arnaud 'Alex' Beck; Marie-Josée Croze as Margot Beck; André Dussollier as Jacques Laurentin; Kristin Scott Thomas as Hélène Perkins; François Berléand as Eric Levkowitch; Nathalie Baye as Maître Elysabeth Feldman; Marina Hands as Anne Beck; and Gilles Lellouche as Bruno.

The movie begins with Dr. Alex Beck & his wife Margot together. They go to a lake that Alex's family owns together one day. They spend a fun,loving day together at the lake, when suddenly Margot is attacked. Alex rushes to her aid, but he is knocked out, then wakes up in the hospital to learn that his wife has been murdered. She is believed by some to have been killed by a serial killer who denies taking her life. Alex is still troubled by his wife's death 8 years later. He goes to her parents' house on the anniversary of her death every year. One day, 2 bodies are found near where Margot's corpse was discovered which causes the police to reopen the case. Alex also receives an email from Margot with a video that supposedly shows her alive & to "tell no one." Alex launches his own investigation into his wife's murder. The police were never really satisfied that Margot had been murdered by a serial killer. When new bodies start piling up, they suspect Alex. When evidence ties him to the murders, the police come after him, but he bolts.

I had never heard of the movie before until I read a review of it in the newspaper. I had never read the novel that this movie is based on either. This film is about 125 minutes long with English subtitles. It is very well acted. The action is good, it has some clever plot twists that really make the movie quite interesting. This film is in limited release, so it may be hard to find in your area. If you do find it playing nearby, I recommend Tell No One to you. You will not be disappointed if you do. Below is the trailer for the movie:

"Tell No One" Trailer



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This past weekend.

Monday, 11. August 2008, 21:15:01

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This past weekend was pretty good for me. I bought a new PC on Friday, went to see a documentary film with one of my friends on Saturday, and went to a birthday gathering at a friend's house on Sunday.

Friday afternoon, I headed to a small, local computer shop that I had been to before. Months ago, I had taken my 7-year-old Gateway PC there because the power supply had gone bad on it. I went back and purchased the last new computer with WinXP on it that he had in stock. Since I was a returning cutstomer, he gave me a free upgrade from a 19" to a 20" monitor on the new Dell that I purchased. :smile: This computer is much faster than the one that I had been used to. I love this widescreen LCD display on it too. I had a 17" CRT monitor with the older computer, so this is much better. I made sure that the computer had Windows XP on it instead of Vista. Some of the IT guys that I know told me that if you have a PC with less than 2GB of memory on it, then you can forget about Vista running well. Plus there have been lots of problems with Vista. A friend told me today that her dad recently purchased a new PC with Vista on it, and she hated it. She was trying to get him hooked up to the network, but she was having lots of problems with Vista. Even Intel says it will not upgrade its computers to Vista. :eyes: So, I think that I'll keep Windows XP for quite a while. :D

On Saturday afternoon, I went with a friend of mine to see the documentary film, Up the Yangtze. Before the movie, we went to eat at a Turkish restaraunt that we had visited before. The food was good and I would like to eat there again. :smile: Up the Yangtze is about the human toll that the building of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydro-electric dam in the world, is having on the people who have to be relocated. It mostly follows a peasant family that live on the banks of the Yangtze River. Their oldest child has graduated middle school, but the family doesn't have the money to send her to high school. She is sent off to work on one of the cruise ships that ferries tourists up and down the river. The movie follows the family and many other people who are forced to move because their land will soon be underwater. About 2 million people are being displaced because of the dam project. This is an interesting film that shows the human toll that the relocatees are having to face.

Sunday evening, I went to a friend's house for her birthday, which is today. It was a nice evening hanging out with some nice friends. :smile: I had also bought a new all-in-one printer and speakers for the computer. Came back here, hooked everything up and enjoyed it all. I had a wonderful weekend, relaxing weekend, even though I had worked Saturday morning. :smile:



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Report from cop who slammed bicyclist posted online

Friday, 1. August 2008, 00:10:21

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Clarification: I mistakenly dropped a word when commenting on whether the officer made any hand gestures to signal the bicyclist to stop. The sentence should have read that the officer made no hand gestures.

Kudos to The Smoking Gun for posting a copy of the arrest report filed by New York City policeman Patrick Pogan.

He's the officer who a tourist videotaped body slamming a bicyclist in what appears to be an unprovoked attack last Friday. The case is rapidly playing out on YouTube, where the clip has been watched nearly 900,000 times since Sunday night, when it was posted.

This is why I love the Web and I respect The Smoking Gun. They get paper. Thesmokinggun.com is famous for posting copies of important documents before anybody. They let readers decide for themselves what people say by publishing court filings, e-mails and memos.

Read the rest of the story here.

I saw the video earlier on YouTube and could hardly believe it. Some members of the NYPD are bad apples that give the rest of the cops on the force a bad name. There have been reports in the past of cops abusing their power. A co-worker of mine had several runins with NY cops. He calls them arrogant SOBs. When you read the police report filed by the cop who body slammed the bicyclist, he lies more than once on the report. He claims the bicyclist hit him, knocking him down and giving him lacerations. That clearly did not happen on the video. The cop even claimed that he saw the bicyclist weaving in and out of traffic almost causing some wrecks. The traffic looked stopped to me in the video also. The cop never tried to gesture, or voice, anything to the bicyclist about stopping for him. This looks like a clear case of police brutality, which does not surprise me about hometown cops. The cop is currently suspended while the NYPD investigates. He needs to be fired for assaulting the bicyclist and for lying multiple times on the police report he filed. If he did these things once, he will do it again unless he is fired. :irked:



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