Reza5150
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5+
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18 years
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Hostages (2022)
Excellent coverage of history and chance to learn from the past.
Great presentation of the chronological events from mid 70s. However to fully understand why the hostages were taken the series should have started in 1952. Shah's father Aka Reza Shah (same name as his son) was overthrown in a revolution in 1953 by Dr Mosaddegh. The CIA overthrew this democratically elected Mosaddegh and reinstalled the monarchy by bringing back Reza shah, ; this time Reza Shah the son. This was orchestrated through the US embassy. The coup was never forgotten by many Iranians who then came to know the shah a US poppet. When the second revolution took place in 1979 the students stormed the embassy in order to prevent a second coup and possible US meddling.
Black Death (2010)
Truth is what we believe not we see
Human beliefs in religion has blinded human beings in different generations. If one beliefs in a benevolent omnipotent being then whatever that one's actions are is also benevolent even if it is in reality evil. Murder and deceptive actions are good if they are carried out in the name of religion. And everyone else that does not share your same deity is evil even if their actions are good. They just seem like they are good.
Good is not good. Only what you decide is good even if it is genocide if you believe your god is the only source of good.
In the senecio god Is just a justification of evil deeds by its believers. Kill and Burn people alive because they're don't share your views.
" thou shall not kill " remember. ?
This is of course still happening today in the name of all religions that believe in heaven and hell. We have not changed much. In only seems like we have
Good is not good. Only what you decide is good even if it is genocide if you believe your god is the only source of good.
In the senecio god Is just a justification of evil deeds by its believers. Kill and Burn people alive because they're don't share your views.
" thou shall not kill " remember. ?
This is of course still happening today in the name of all religions that believe in heaven and hell. We have not changed much. In only seems like we have
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
To escape reality ,,, some ignore it or even do drugs to help
Noodles's final smile is about being submerged into a dream and away from reality. This is the same reason drug addicts use drugs. To escape from reality.
He meets his old friends who is now Mr Bailey , he hears him out but basically ignores the new reality presented to him. He continues to call him Mr Bailey even after knowing who he is. The new reality is too painful for him to see. So he refuses to take any part in it. When James woods shows him the gun, noodles then has nostalgic views of their childhood friendship in NYC. After he comes back from the dream he tells Mr Bailey that he can not kill him. Mr bailey asks him if this is his way of getting back at him. Noodles then say " no it is just the way I see things "referring to their old friendship and not seeing the present new reality. It is almost a choice to face the pain or ignore it by submerging into a different dream. To escape the painful reality. Just as are drugs. A choice to escape.
That is why the final scene is one of him doing drugs or escaping into a different reality to avoid pain. The smile is the representation of escape and ignoring realities of life by being stoned.
He leaves the house and then he watches Mr Bailey come out and disappear behind the truck. He may have killed himself / or perhaps he did not. But what matters is noodles's reaction to it.
He calmly watches the truck go by him until the red rear lights of the truck become foggy and change into the front lights on a incoming car of bunch of strangers partying. They are unrelated but he looks at them with the same exact calm face as he did to the truck as if the 2 events are of equal significance. At least to him they are. He has escaped that reality and his old friend disappearance is as trivial to him as the partying people.
But the choice of seeing things differently is also a representation of something else. Or just the intrinsic part of people. How and who we are as individuals. How we react to things in life. Where that betrayal of a lifetime was easily done by Max, noodles cannot accept it in anyway. He sees them as a family that has been shattered. He can ignore it by being high and denying reality.
He meets his old friends who is now Mr Bailey , he hears him out but basically ignores the new reality presented to him. He continues to call him Mr Bailey even after knowing who he is. The new reality is too painful for him to see. So he refuses to take any part in it. When James woods shows him the gun, noodles then has nostalgic views of their childhood friendship in NYC. After he comes back from the dream he tells Mr Bailey that he can not kill him. Mr bailey asks him if this is his way of getting back at him. Noodles then say " no it is just the way I see things "referring to their old friendship and not seeing the present new reality. It is almost a choice to face the pain or ignore it by submerging into a different dream. To escape the painful reality. Just as are drugs. A choice to escape.
That is why the final scene is one of him doing drugs or escaping into a different reality to avoid pain. The smile is the representation of escape and ignoring realities of life by being stoned.
He leaves the house and then he watches Mr Bailey come out and disappear behind the truck. He may have killed himself / or perhaps he did not. But what matters is noodles's reaction to it.
He calmly watches the truck go by him until the red rear lights of the truck become foggy and change into the front lights on a incoming car of bunch of strangers partying. They are unrelated but he looks at them with the same exact calm face as he did to the truck as if the 2 events are of equal significance. At least to him they are. He has escaped that reality and his old friend disappearance is as trivial to him as the partying people.
But the choice of seeing things differently is also a representation of something else. Or just the intrinsic part of people. How and who we are as individuals. How we react to things in life. Where that betrayal of a lifetime was easily done by Max, noodles cannot accept it in anyway. He sees them as a family that has been shattered. He can ignore it by being high and denying reality.
The Great White Hope (1970)
Maybe good for it's time
I saw this movie in 2011. I love boxing history and I love Jack Johnson (Called Jack Jefferson in the movie) who should have a much larger name in boxing than he does. He was big and powerful. I would rank him right up there with the best heavy weights ever including Ali. Perhaps even better and certainly dealt with much much more controversy than Ali ever did.
This movie may have been OK in it's time.
First of all it never shows his rise to be the champ and that was perhaps a more amazing story as no white fighter would even fight him to give him a chance at the title.
James Earl Jones (JEJ)does an amazing job but I don't think he was the right person. They likely just did not have enough candidates. The real Jack Johnson had a much more amiable look to him. He was someone you liked by just looking at him and a natural charm. You can not say that at all about JEJ. JEJ tries to break down his rough persona to appear more like Johnson by sudden flashes of child-like smiles and gestures, that simply were unnatural and for me did not do the job at all. His constant back and forth of his normal serious look and poorly faked charmed simply seemed to flow poorly. He was simply the wrong person and too rough to represent Jack Johnson. Of course physically Jack Johnson was much larger and more muscular than JEJ.
Then the movie jumps around too fast. When Johnson was beaten in Cuba the fight also was different. It was scheduled for 45 rounds. Johnson won the early rounds but as he was much older and out of shape he eventually ran of gas. In the movie I got the feeling like he left a broken down champion that was beaten but in reality he was old and past his prime. Much like Ali was when he was beaten on his last fight.
The movie also misrepresented his love affair. He had multiple white lovers over the years and one did not die by suicide as shown in the movie.
I just could not figure out what the movie was trying to show at the end. He was a great champion or he was not so great?? The portrayal was not done right.
If you like to really know about him correctly read on Wikipedia or watch a documentary Called 'Unforgivable Blackness' that is a master piece.
BTW I am not Black or White American. No bias here. I am Persian. But I give credit to Jack Johnson who was simply one the best man I have learned about: as a boxer and as fighter of racism. He had his faults like everyone else of course.
This movie may have been OK in it's time.
First of all it never shows his rise to be the champ and that was perhaps a more amazing story as no white fighter would even fight him to give him a chance at the title.
James Earl Jones (JEJ)does an amazing job but I don't think he was the right person. They likely just did not have enough candidates. The real Jack Johnson had a much more amiable look to him. He was someone you liked by just looking at him and a natural charm. You can not say that at all about JEJ. JEJ tries to break down his rough persona to appear more like Johnson by sudden flashes of child-like smiles and gestures, that simply were unnatural and for me did not do the job at all. His constant back and forth of his normal serious look and poorly faked charmed simply seemed to flow poorly. He was simply the wrong person and too rough to represent Jack Johnson. Of course physically Jack Johnson was much larger and more muscular than JEJ.
Then the movie jumps around too fast. When Johnson was beaten in Cuba the fight also was different. It was scheduled for 45 rounds. Johnson won the early rounds but as he was much older and out of shape he eventually ran of gas. In the movie I got the feeling like he left a broken down champion that was beaten but in reality he was old and past his prime. Much like Ali was when he was beaten on his last fight.
The movie also misrepresented his love affair. He had multiple white lovers over the years and one did not die by suicide as shown in the movie.
I just could not figure out what the movie was trying to show at the end. He was a great champion or he was not so great?? The portrayal was not done right.
If you like to really know about him correctly read on Wikipedia or watch a documentary Called 'Unforgivable Blackness' that is a master piece.
BTW I am not Black or White American. No bias here. I am Persian. But I give credit to Jack Johnson who was simply one the best man I have learned about: as a boxer and as fighter of racism. He had his faults like everyone else of course.