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Without question a cinematic masterpiece, set, costumes, acting performances and the best realisation of a novel.
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And the great thing is that it is simply entertaining, great cinema.
By the way, you need to read the book, not just watch it.
Poor Things (2023) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
To hurt everyone here mercilessly, I think religion is a private thing. In my opinion, anyone can worship and venerate anyone or belong to any weird cult or religion as long as they don't tell others that "it's the only true belief".
Simply put, do what you want, just don't get on other people's nerves.
Or kill them in the name of your god.
There has never been so much destruction done in the course of history as with the intention of doing good in the name of religion.
Any religion that cannot tolerate humour is a danger to the fundamental right to freedom and equality!
Happy Easter then 🐇 dear Christians and all others.
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Thought experiment: what if they had drowned Jesus? Would there then be aquariums hanging everywhere in Christian churches?
The Life of Brains is one of the best films in that it uses a non-religious background with a little humour and wicked wit and only through a mix-up does the theme become highly religious. There were even bomb threats when the film was released in cinemas. Yes, that's always a thing with the tolerance of every religious cult, no matter how absurd. But always only in one direction. Humour is the ultimate test for religions. Whichever religion fails here is not suitable for freedom.
There is almost no kiss in film history that was so beautifully fake.
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The passion is evident in her hands as she grasps his hair wildly yet tenderly. This moment is pure magic in the eye of the beholder. It must have been a great event that opened the eyes of many a couple in their twenties. Films have and will always influence us and can open up the world for us to discover other perspectives.
Asphalt is a silent film by Joe May. Betty Amann and Gustav Fröhlich play the leading roles. It premiered on 12 March 1929 at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin. The film was banned for young people.
Asphalt (1929) Joe May, Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Betty Amann, Gustav Fröhlich
Asphalt (Joe May, 1929)
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 anti-war film by director Francis Ford Coppola set during the Vietnam War. It is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's story Heart of Darkness and Michael Herr's Vietnam War report Dispatches.
Heart of Darkness (original title: Heart of Darkness) is a story by Joseph Conrad that was first published in three installments in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899 and was also published in book form in November 1902. In this story, the sailor Charlie Marlow tells friends about his journey in Central Africa as captain of a river steamer. There he witnessed unprecedented cruelty towards the natives and increasingly doubted the justifications for exploitation, but his influential London friends involved in the exploitation of colonies were unimpressed by Marlow's shock.
Conrad's narrative is a contribution to the discussion of English colonialism and racism at the end of Queen Victoria's reign. The story, too short for a novel and too long for a novella, is now considered one of the most important works of prose in the English language.
Plato's words, “Only the dead have seen the end of war”, convey a profound insight into the nature of war and its ongoing devastation. For many, war means loss, trauma and despair.
The film impressed me so much because of the images about the truthfulness of the absolute disappearance of the thin layer of our human civilization in the transition to darkness.
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For this reason, I am a pacifist because any means of violence shows the failure of human civilization.
You have to understand pacifism in an absolutely new form, you don't hold out the other hand when you are beaten! Instead, you do everything in advance to avoid being hit. Should all this fail, one considers oneself a defensive pacifist and defends oneself by all means.
If you don't show the street thugs a red line, you are just a victim. Unconditional pacifism only works with civilized people, but not with power-abusing, egotistical, self-absorbed beings who think they belong to the human species.
We as humanity are constantly proving that we learn nothing from history, and that across generations.
The Magdeburg Wedding (also known as the Blood Wedding, Magdeburg's Sacrifice or, more generally, Magdeburgization) refers to the conquest and complete devastation of the city of Magdeburg by imperial troops under Tilly and Pappenheim on 10 May / 20 May 1631greg. in the course of the Thirty Years' War.
Magdeburgizing
A term for the destruction of a city, a completely barbaric arbitrary targeted violence against normal people of a city by an army has created this word. Long forgotten but still highly current.
The devastation went so far that Magdeburg went down in the history of the Thirty Years' War as a symbol of destruction and cruelty with the term “Magdeburgizing”.
One of my favorites!
