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Michael's Garden
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And, finding stuff at the thrift shop that we can't sell, but I know it's home, know where it belongs...
Michael's Garden.
A Late Chrysanthemum
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A curious assemblage of tales from early postwar(s) Japan. I would less use the term "fascinating" then "interesting", but the translation is excellent and preserves very much a slightly parallel and curious literary tradition.
Timecrimes
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A curious film (Spanish?) about a man that sees a half-naked woman in the woods not far from his house, goes in to investigate and...
Well, suffice it to say it's not your typical time-travel movie. Worthy of watching if only to highlight what can be done with a good script and a low budget. Disturbing, some horror imagery.
Watched this online here: http://www.effedupmovies.com/timecrimes-2007/
Indebted Indian Laborer finds $100, 000 diamond
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The story is more interesting, the points, for example, that he must pay $9.50 a day to dig in a roughly 650 square foot plot for gold. To get rich in the third world is a bit of an expense.
Anyways, here it is:
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/26/india/india-laborer-diamond-intl-hnk/index.html
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