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Sunday, February 9, 2020

Day 2753: A movie review and warning.

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Almost every Friday, good friend, artist, Ann and I

go to a matinee movie. We usually eat a bite before or after.

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Friday afternoon we saw The Gentlemen, but

please be warned, there is nothing gentle about it.

The dialogue in this movie is absolutely hard to take.

We surely got a lifetime dose but as Ann

said after, "It's probably how crooks talk in London."

And there is another hurdle, the violence &

gore is dominant. However, if you can tolerate those,

it is clever and even funny. Ann and I had walked out of

Jo Jo Rabbit in the first 15 minutes, but we both

liked this one. In fact, when it was over,

we both just sat there rethinking all the twists and turns.

Well acted. I just now realized when googling, that Hugh

Grant was a major figure that I hadn't recognized at all.

There you have it, a comedy-mystery-thriller with warnings.

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A bear of the world

Every child knows the pain of forgetting a cherished toy and thinking it lost forever. When Grayson Mulligan left his bear on a Southwest flight over Thanksgiving holiday, his parents were desperate to find it. Sadly, the bear never turned up. A team of Southwest employees was so moved by the Mulligan's search they decided to offer up the next best thing: An adorable new bear, who seems to have quite a bit of experience in the air travel industry. That's perfect for Grayson because his mother says he's been interested in planes for years, and even wants to be a pilot someday. Southwest sent the bear to Grayson, along with photos of his new friends working on the tarmac, preparing the cabin of a flight and even inspecting the cockpit. Grayson named the bear Jack because, the boy said, "He looked like a Jack to me."

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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Day 2742: It does have subtitles, but they just confirm the good acting.

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I went to see Parasite today.

A Koran film nominated for Picture of the Year.

It does have subtitles, but they just confirm the good acting.

The top winner at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Palm d’Or.

Parasite received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for Bong's direction and screenplay, cinematography, editing, and production values. At the 77th Golden Globe Awards, the film was nominated for three categories including Best Director and Best Screenplay, and won Best Foreign Language Film, making it the first ever Korean film to achieve that feat.^[10] It was also nominated for four awards at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Not in the English Language. It is the first Korean film to receive nominations at the British Academy Film Awards (except for Best Film Not in the English Language). It garnered numerous accolades at the annual awards of film critics societies including Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Film, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Picture, and New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was chosen by Time magazine as one of the top ten films of 2019

“Parasite” follows a clear and resourceful Ki-Woo (Choi Woo-sik) young man living in a cellar that is easily accessible to local night screamers, with his several years younger street smart sister Ki-jung (Park So-dam), a farouche but friendly mother Chung-sook (Chang Hyae-jin) and the lucidly optimistic father Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho). The family is trying to survive with the minimum wage,

stacking pizza boxes, stealing the wi-fi signal from their neighbors and leaving open windows during street disinfection to avoid paying for disinfection of their own home.