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Friday, 8. September 2006, 21:14:06

Something was telling me to rent this movie. Perhaps it was that the description behind the DVD was somewhat obscure. It went something like "a young man goes to his shrink and tells him that he will suicide and then his shrink is starting to get crazy etc".

I always was for movies and books that have to do with shrinks. They usually have a pretty smart idea that they revolve about and they usually make you think about a think or two. Those two ingredients make for a successful money investment, at least the way I see it.

So, I was expecting a nice American thriller with a pint of psycho and for the most part that's what I got. Yet, the whole experience was totally ruined towards the end. The fucker made me cry (and that's confidential info OK?).

Anyway. I rarely get so strong emotions from movies lately so I thought writing about it. Yet, I won't give any other hint about the story because it would spoil your thrill (don't you really dislike people who go around revealing how movies end?). I'll just quote one of the main phrases which marked my mind: "There is too much goddamn beauty to quit."

PS: The whole movie was shot in NY, so let this be my (really awkward) way to tell that I feel sorry for what happened there 5 years ago and that I hope that the ones who were really responsible for this and a whole lot other massacres around the world will be revealed and be forced to face the American people.

HYS

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Bloody Sunday

Wednesday, 10. May 2006, 23:01:02

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On the 30th of January of 1972, several thousands unarmed civilians were peacefully marching in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The march was organized by Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (an organization fighting for a non-violent solution to the problems between Protestants and Catholics, i.e. the British occupation of Northern Ireland) and was to be a protest against a law according to which any suspect that was arrested could be lead to jail without prior trial.

The intervention of British paratroopers that used real bullets and overwhelming violence resulted in 13 dead and 14 seriously wounded civilians.

Who ordered the paratroopers to take action as well as why they were called there anyway was the subject of the biggest (and quite fruitless) investigation in British legal history.

The point, according to my humble books, is that this incident gave IRA all the boost that would ever need and ignited the civil war. So, whoever from the British side, did issue the orders were not such a pacifist. I mean killing unarmed civilians that got on the road to support a non-violent solution must be the best way to push them to arms.

Oh, and one last note from my humble books. The British antiterrorism laws against IRA (an actual organization) weren't even the half of the similar laws against "Islamic" terrorism (mainly a ghost and maybe inexistent organization). Funny, huh?

PS 1: I just saw Bloody Sunday. That's why I came up with this post. An excellent movie by the way.
PS 2: More about Bloody Sunday.


(Snapshot from the movie. The soldier yells to his superior "I don't see any target Sir!", after realizing that the enemy were unarmed kids and civilians. The rest of the (film) soldiers didn't care much and 13 dead civilians suggest that this can't be far from reality.)

I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes
And make it go away
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SYRIANA Highlights

Sunday, 2. April 2006, 22:50:41

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1. My English is very poor to express how great this movie is.

2. I thought I knew something about Middle East and Arab world - I proved to know too little.

3. Big BRAVO to superstars like Mr. George Clooney and Mr. Matt Damon. Few superstars have the guts to play in such movies.

4. If you go to see it don't expect anything less than an explosion right in your heart (I was too mistaken when I thought "well another movie about terrorism that got fine critics blah blah blah").

5. There were two Arabs in the cinema. I happened to look at them at the intermission while I was smoking and trying to clear up the story so far. It was only after the end of the movie that I understood their distressed posture. What was for the rest of us a sad story was perhaps photos of their own lives for them. Much like what almost any Greek would feel watching a movie about Greek junta (we had dictatorship from 1967 to 1973 down here - but that story deserves many posts on its own).

6. Why do they open the lights at the end of the movie? I would appreciate a 5-minute darkness intermission to cry and pass unnoticed.

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