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Isle of the Dogs - Wes Anderson
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Quite enjoyed this, the aesthetic, look, feel, animation, but on that note Wes Anderson commits the sin of having the "American Savior". By this point it should be obvious that they can't even save themselves. So - all in all, a very good film diminished by the gratuitous presence of an American.
The Twilight Zone - Season One
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I downloaded this for the daughter, and as she's been away have been dipping into it a little myself. 36 episodes, approximately 25 minutes each - amazing - when was the last time a season of anything ran 36 episodes? And - no corners cut, all filmed with practical effects, each episode self contained, recognizing the hauntingly familiar faces of actors from my childhood, most long since dead. The "Twilight Zone" launched an awful lot of actors.
Only a few episodes in, in no particular order, you can usually guess the outcome - the intersection of "The Twilight Zone" - but this, largely, is because so much of what has followed has been reworked and redone in more contemporary films.
The "The Hitch Hiker" foreshadowing "Carnival of Souls", and I'm pretty sure it had some influence on "The Sixth Sense", there are others. 60 years later and it's still worth-while.
Bernie Sanders
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I'm following this with more interest than any of our own local elections.
Why?
It's time. The only real - sincere - candidate for decades. In Canada or the US, and I daresay a lot of Europe. I could have believed Obama, but not after his track record. He was posing. Bloomberg was a demon. Biden - means well, but too centrist. Warren - yes, but she hasn't sparked the popular imagination.
It amazes me how the Democrats have trenched in behind Biden - and - if it carries on, it will be to their loss, the Donald will win again, and no one, not in the USA, not in the world, can afford another 4 years of that Ass Hole.
Bernie, whose policies would benefit 99% of Americans, has a track record going back 50 years of activism, involvement and integrity - and he has to SELL this to the American Public? It's fucking crazy. It's their last hope at restoring democracy - literally, and it's slender at that - and the Democrats would rather put up with another 4 years of Trump than back someone who they fear is opposed to their graft and interest.
This will be interesting, and I have a terrible feeling, tragic.
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