movie spoilers
Yesterday I watched a couple of movies:
Audrey's Children: this was pretty endearing. It's a period pieced based on real world events surrounding Dr. Audrey Evans who came up with the "Stages" of cancer (e.g. Stage 1 you caught it early enough it's probably easily treatable, Stage 4, it's probably too late, etc.) Thankfully it mostly avoids the whole Ronald McDonald House Charities aspect of her work (basically to provide free housing for families of patients undergoing treatment, but with McDonald's affiliated sponsorship, which: doesn't food from McDonald's probably cause a lot of cancer? sigh) starring Natalie Dormer (as an aside, for some reason my brain sees a lot of similarities between Natalie Dormer and Asa Butterfield and I do not know why) as Dr. Audrey Evans. Clancy Brown as Dr. C. Everett Koop almost seems as if he is a dead ringer for the real Dr. Koop portrayed towards the end before the credits. It's directed by a woman (Ami Canaan Mann) and written by a woman (Julia Fisher Farbman) and set in an era where women couldn't even open bank accounts in the USA (it doesn't really deal with that directly, but there's a slight subplot where Dr. Audrey Evans tries to buy a house and the potential seller, won't even speak with her without her "husband" [she isn't married at that point in her life]). The costumes feel as if they are a star in and of themselves, very dapper! Overall it seems well acted, well shot, but there was only ONE screening yesterday? wtfh. I get the impression this will barely be seen. You can guess why.
October 8: this is a movie basically focused on the (4th wave?) Antisemitism that seems to be in vogue, particularly after the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel. I was the only person in the theater, and given that Elon Musk has been doing Nazi salutes in public? I mean, is it any surprise that there are distressing amounts of racist genocidal Jew hating movements, even in the USA right now? sigh It's worth getting informed, but I fear that the people who really need to have their ignorance dispelled and a lesson on self defense as contrasted with links to terrorist organizations calling for hate speech such as "MeToo Unless You're a Jew" and whatnot? Like, the audiences who need to learn, probably aren't going to be seeing this movie. Meanwhile, if I am the only person in the audience, you're preaching to the choir. If you saw We Will Dance Again (2024) about the innocent civilian Nova festival goers who were murdered en mass from Hamas terrorists, this will complement it, but it really tries to explore the underlying organizational links between a lot of "protests" occurring at various college campuses that have direct ties to Hamas, Iran and other Antisemitic terrorist organizations. It focuses on a few particular individuals (such as class body President Tessa Veksler at UC Santa Barbara, who is an American with Jewish identity who spoke out against hate speech on campus, and in turn there were some 800 signatures calling for her to be recalled. There's also a Department of Education inquiry into discrimination at UCSB in related stuff which it doesn't talk about, but didn't Trump try to put an end to the Department of Education recently? I can't help but feel as if that is related.). It is difficult viewing, but the sort of thing that would behoove those who never get deeper than reading a headline or a sign and helps to "follow the money" as well as some of the specific language choices tied to genocidal Antisemitic groups. Heck, it even interviews a former co-founder of Hamas who now disavows his involvement and fled to the USA and is now an American citizen. So it seems as if it at least makes some pretty serious efforts at doing the due diligence and research that is sorely lacking from a lot of mainstream journalistic facades these days.
Audrey's Children: this was pretty endearing. It's a period pieced based on real world events surrounding Dr. Audrey Evans who came up with the "Stages" of cancer (e.g. Stage 1 you caught it early enough it's probably easily treatable, Stage 4, it's probably too late, etc.) Thankfully it mostly avoids the whole Ronald McDonald House Charities aspect of her work (basically to provide free housing for families of patients undergoing treatment, but with McDonald's affiliated sponsorship, which: doesn't food from McDonald's probably cause a lot of cancer? sigh) starring Natalie Dormer (as an aside, for some reason my brain sees a lot of similarities between Natalie Dormer and Asa Butterfield and I do not know why) as Dr. Audrey Evans. Clancy Brown as Dr. C. Everett Koop almost seems as if he is a dead ringer for the real Dr. Koop portrayed towards the end before the credits. It's directed by a woman (Ami Canaan Mann) and written by a woman (Julia Fisher Farbman) and set in an era where women couldn't even open bank accounts in the USA (it doesn't really deal with that directly, but there's a slight subplot where Dr. Audrey Evans tries to buy a house and the potential seller, won't even speak with her without her "husband" [she isn't married at that point in her life]). The costumes feel as if they are a star in and of themselves, very dapper! Overall it seems well acted, well shot, but there was only ONE screening yesterday? wtfh. I get the impression this will barely be seen. You can guess why.
October 8: this is a movie basically focused on the (4th wave?) Antisemitism that seems to be in vogue, particularly after the October 7th, 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel. I was the only person in the theater, and given that Elon Musk has been doing Nazi salutes in public? I mean, is it any surprise that there are distressing amounts of racist genocidal Jew hating movements, even in the USA right now? sigh It's worth getting informed, but I fear that the people who really need to have their ignorance dispelled and a lesson on self defense as contrasted with links to terrorist organizations calling for hate speech such as "MeToo Unless You're a Jew" and whatnot? Like, the audiences who need to learn, probably aren't going to be seeing this movie. Meanwhile, if I am the only person in the audience, you're preaching to the choir. If you saw We Will Dance Again (2024) about the innocent civilian Nova festival goers who were murdered en mass from Hamas terrorists, this will complement it, but it really tries to explore the underlying organizational links between a lot of "protests" occurring at various college campuses that have direct ties to Hamas, Iran and other Antisemitic terrorist organizations. It focuses on a few particular individuals (such as class body President Tessa Veksler at UC Santa Barbara, who is an American with Jewish identity who spoke out against hate speech on campus, and in turn there were some 800 signatures calling for her to be recalled. There's also a Department of Education inquiry into discrimination at UCSB in related stuff which it doesn't talk about, but didn't Trump try to put an end to the Department of Education recently? I can't help but feel as if that is related.). It is difficult viewing, but the sort of thing that would behoove those who never get deeper than reading a headline or a sign and helps to "follow the money" as well as some of the specific language choices tied to genocidal Antisemitic groups. Heck, it even interviews a former co-founder of Hamas who now disavows his involvement and fled to the USA and is now an American citizen. So it seems as if it at least makes some pretty serious efforts at doing the due diligence and research that is sorely lacking from a lot of mainstream journalistic facades these days.