Movies
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Watched Free Solo this past weekend. Absolutely unbelievable documentary. If you haven't heard of it it's about a rock climber who climbs the largest vertical rock face on earth (El Capitan)….. Without ropes.
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^ Thanks to your recommendation BnT we watched Free Solo again last night after watching it in the cinema in Bath in December. I've been following Alex Honnold since 2012 when I was indoor climbing in Bristol and saw him climb Half Dome in the First Ascent documentary by National Geographic. He is a climbing legend and a real character. Outside of climbing he really is like an adult child. Awesome documentary about an awesome guy [emoji122]
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Outside of climbing he really is like an adult child. Awesome documentary about an awesome guy [emoji122]
Exactly, he does have a childlike innocence and almost a sense of wonder, particularly when you meet him in person, though he does carry a level of consciousness not typically seen in children. I love what he is doing with his charity to get solar power into the hands of park rangers in various African preserves, for example. Important work that helps them battle poachers. A good person who deserves every bit of the success that he has dedicated his life to, and someone who gives back.
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Just watched «You were never really here». Best film I’ve seen in a long, long time. A beautiful film about some ugly stuff. Deeply uncomfortable to watch at times but so lovely as well.
WOW what a film
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Just watched «You were never really here». Best film I’ve seen in a long, long time. A beautiful film about some ugly stuff. Deeply uncomfortable to watch at times but so lovely as well.
Very good film. We really enjoyed it. If I had to sum up the type and feeling of films I really enjoy, this would be it.
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Does anyone remember the Italian film Gomorrah from 2008 ?
Well if you do I have a recommendation called DOGMAN (2018) Italian movie with English subtitles
@Stuart.T I think this is one for you
Quality viewing imo
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And yes: I gave Chris a bollocking for recommending it, but I am watching it nevertheless
Admit it; it's a good movie, isn't it?
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Loved Blackkklansman, though my take on it wasn't that it was especially bleak, perhaps because I've had to be around actual klansmen in the past and perhaps because, living in America, I think we're still in pretty bad shape as it pertains to race relations.
Mild SPOILERS AHEAD
There was a lot of comic relief, and the klansmen were pretty comedically wrought as characters–it was hard to take any of them too seriously. And I expected there to be much more racism in the police department than there was. It was good to see Stallworth make some close and genuine friends among his team at the PD, and there was really only one asshole there, and the PD "did the right thing" in working that sting to bring down that asshole. I may be prejudiced in thinking that the Colorado Springs PD of the era was probably rendered charitably.
The film could have told this story in a much darker, bleaker way than it did, and that pleasantly surprised me and made it a bit easier to watch, while still carrying the message effectively.
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Loved Blackkklansman, though my take on it wasn't that it was especially bleak
I said the underlying message was bleak. The movie is a boatload of fun. The kick in the stomach Lee gives you at the end isn't.
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I don't think that's what Lee was going for. The tribute to Heyer "rest in power" to end it is to me a message of resistance and hope, not one of hopelessness and despair. But to each his own.
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Isn't that already painfully obvious?
One unsettling thing I didn't notice, perhaps because it didn't happen.
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Was Flip the Klansman they zoomed in on at the cross burning at the end of the film, before the epilogue? This doesn't make much sense to me since Stallworth outed himself to Duke with Flip standing right there but a lot of people seem to believe this to be the case.
