Change Your Image
mccormickbradford
Reviews
IMDbrief: What You Need to Know Before Seeing 'Black Widow' (2020)
"What hath God wrought?"
Title is the first commercial telegraph message (1844). I am student of media (ref.: Marshall McLuhan). I was looking to see if there was anything sexual in this. Apparently none, so safe for children. But the violence is something I would protect my kid from; I am not a hit man or whatever nor do I want my daughter to become one. Was Fallujah this violent? Anybody who likes film violence? There are two films which are timeless works of art and extremely violent: (1) Luc Besson's "Le derniere combat", and (2) Werner Herzog's "Lessons of Darkness".
L'avventura (1960)
The first film in a great trilogy
Shock? Humbug! Truth.
This film made me (a male) want to be Monica Vitti. The ending is especially moving, albeit maybe subtle.
We are stereotypically lost in the modern world. But Michelangelo Antonioni could direct such a film, which itself finds its way. He is here a Michelangelo of 35mm film not marble and oil paint.
There is another film character who correlates with the concerns here: "Steiner" in Fellini's "La Dolce Vita".
Study and savor this film and the other two in the trilogy: "La Notte" and "L'eclisse". Check out Steiner in La Dolce Vita too.
For me (for you?), life does not need "meaning" if it has redeeming beauty. As Frank Lloyd Wright said: Give me the luxuries of life and I can do without the necessities. Here may be some of what Frank needed.
Ugetsu monogatari (1953)
This film is timeless wisdom
This film is a timeless classic of human life on earth. The net of it should be no secret: Cherish the seemingly small but good things of daily life which are what in the end makes life living or else you will regret it until you die.
The ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles said it in different words: "There is no happiness but in wisdom, no wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, and proud men learn in old age to be wise." Also: "All understood too late." Don't let it be too late for you! Watch the film. You almost don't need to read the subtitles if you don't know Japanese, but they do fill in the details. Take it to heart!
The Truman Show (1998)
This movie is profound philosophy
I am a (failed) philosopher. Whenever I want to refer to some very deep problems of epistemology and other things, "The Truman Show" is a quick way of saying a lot. There are even deeper ways of going at these problems, but "The Truman Show" is short and sweet. And it's fun! "The Prisoner" TV series goes further, but it's also more obscure. The relevant philosophers are even less accessible to lay persons. But just about anybody can "get" being hoodwinked by malefactors who fake up something, like they sometimes think man never landed on the moon but the moon landing was in a Hollywood studio. Maybe they are right about this? Prove to me that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon if you were' not in Mission Control Houston! Are you really sure the earth is not flat? What's Your evidence for your belief?