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It's a Class War
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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It's about so much more than a pandemic, it's become a fully blown class war where every celebrity who was isolated anyways gets tested, and everyone else is told to ride it out. What about Jeff Bezos and Whole Foods - suggesting that his employees pool their unused sick days for the benefit of employees that are sick? Link: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/grotesque-level-of-greed-jeff-bezos-whole-foods-wants-workers-to-pay-colleagues-sick-leave-during-coronavirus/
Or the uplifting story about the Italian who 3D printed respirator valves - only to be shut down by threats of a lawsuit: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200317/04381644114/volunteers-3d-print-unobtainable-11000-valve-1-to-keep-covid-19-patients-alive-original-manufacturer-threatens-to-sue.shtml. There should be no threat of lawsuit here, unless it's against the country for withholding aid in time of National Crisis. But companies have more rights than people.
There is absolutely no good news in the world at the moment. And, cap that with Bernie's out of the race, Trump has won the GOP nomination, we're now living next to the biggest trailer park (soon to be necropolis) in the world.
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.
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