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"The Night Of" just finished on Foxtel. For those who haven't seen it, worth watching when it airs on Free To Air. A classy HBO production.
 
Always a range of different movies on the net.
Saw a short one called The Gunfighter.
Very clever. There is a narrator who we quickly discover is heard by all the people in the movie and who effectively controls and directs the action.
Brill. Very well worth 10 minutes of your life..

 
basilio said:
Always a range of different movies on the net.
Saw a short one called The Gunfighter.
Very clever. There is a narrator who we quickly discover is heard by all the people in the movie and who effectively controls and directs the action.
Brill. Very well worth 10 minutes of your life..

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Che ?? I think the narrator coming through the walls of the actors happened in the first minute.
I thought it was priceless. Bit of a play on Pirandellos work "Six characters in search of a author"
 
Just started watching the TV series of "The Handmaids tale". Friend of mine sent me a link.

Overwhelmingly powerful. Dark in every way. A disturbing, classic story that doesn't look out of place in 2017.


Plot
In a dystopian near-future, the totalitarian and Christian fundamentalist government of Gilead rules the former United States amidst an ongoing civil war. Society is organized along a new, militarized, hierarchical regime of Bible-inspired social and religious fanaticism and newly-created social classes, in which women are brutally subjugated, and by law are not allowed to work, own property, control money, or read. Widespread infertility due to warfare-induced environmental contamination has resulted in the conscription of the few remaining fertile women — called Handmaids, according to Biblical precedent — who are assigned to the homes of the ruling elite, where they must submit to ritualized sex with their male masters in order to become pregnant and bear children for those men and their wives.


The main character, Offred (Elisabeth Moss), is the Handmaid assigned to the home of Gileadan Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) and his religious wife Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski), and as such is subject to the strictest rules and constant scrutiny; an improper word or deed on her part can lead to her execution. Offred, who is named after her male master like all Handmaids, can remember the "time before", when she was married with a daughter and had her own name and identity, but all she can safely do now is follow the rules of Gilead in the hope that she can someday live free and reunite with her daughter.
 
A perspective on The Hand Maids tale in 2017

Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump
By MARGARET ATWOOD MARCH 10, 2017

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In the spring of 1984 I began to write a novel that was not initially called “The Handmaid’s Tale.” I wrote in longhand, mostly on yellow legal notepads, then transcribed my almost illegible scrawlings using a huge German-keyboard manual typewriter I’d rented.

The keyboard was German because I was living in West Berlin, which was still encircled by the Berlin Wall: The Soviet empire was still strongly in place, and was not to crumble for another five years. Every Sunday the East German Air Force made sonic booms to remind us of how close they were. During my visits to several countries behind the Iron Curtain — Czechoslovakia, East Germany — I experienced the wariness, the feeling of being spied on, the silences, the changes of subject, the oblique ways in which people might convey information, and these had an influence on what I was writing. So did the repurposed buildings. “This used to belong to . . . but then they disappeared.” I heard such stories many times.

Having been born in 1939 and come to consciousness during World War II, I knew that established orders could vanish overnight. Change could also be as fast as lightning. “It can’t happen here” could not be depended on: Anything could happen anywhere, given the circumstances.

By 1984, I’d been avoiding my novel for a year or two. It seemed to me a risky venture. I’d read extensively in science fiction, speculative fiction, utopias and dystopias ever since my high school years in the 1950s, but I’d never written such a book. Was I up to it? The form was strewn with pitfalls, among them a tendency to sermonize, a veering into allegory and a lack of plausibility. If I was to create an imaginary garden I wanted the toads in it to be real. One of my rules was that I would not put any events into the book that had not already happened in what James Joyce called the “nightmare” of history, nor any technology not already available. No imaginary gizmos, no imaginary laws, no imaginary atrocities. God is in the details, they say. So is the Devil.

Back in 1984, the main premise seemed — even to me — fairly outrageous. Would I be able to persuade readers that the United States had suffered a coup that had transformed an erstwhile liberal democracy into a literal-minded theocratic dictatorship? In the book, the Constitution and Congress are no longer: The Republic of Gilead is built on a foundation of the 17th-century Puritan roots that have always lain beneath the modern-day America we thought we knew.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/books/review/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-age-of-trump.html
 
My second best love on the net is the currents series of I Love Dick.

The series is a faithful but extended representation of Chris Krauses book "I love Dick" written in 1997. I Love Dick is, the story of a three-way romance: Chris wants Dick, Chris confesses her obsession to Sylvere her husband , and then the two of them slowly pull Dick into various sexual and psychological games.

The series is set in Marfa which is a very real tiny art town in the remote back blocks of Texas. Never heard of it before but it certainly extends my understanding of Art.

There are also amazing artists in the series. I have been following the work of India Salvor Menuez who plays one of the characters in the series. Quite brilliant stuff.
If your open to new ideas and films that present the world from a self confessed female (loser...) perspective this is a gem
https://newrepublic.com/article/141713/liberating-obsessiveness-love-dick
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/may/11/i-love-dick-amazon-tv-chris-kraus-kathryn-hahn
http://indiasalvormenuez.com/
 
A short 18 minute video which examines deaths in WW2 using graphs. Lets not get into another big war please..
 
I watched and was memorised by "The Big Short". Essentially the story of how a couple of guys worked out the bleeding obvious in 2006-7 - that the entire USA property market and banking system was irrevocably corrupt.
This is just a taste
 
Came across this clip on You Tube. Don't know the series but it's whip smart and some fascinating characters.

Followed up some more clips and it got so interesting.
 
Ok Apparently the series I was picking up with Meet Helene was the US version of Shameless. Explains the smoking hot sex scenes I suppose..!
 
Just finished watch "Unforgotten" on ABC. Very, very good. Clever concept, outstanding plot and writing, sublime acting from all characters.
Worth getting the box set from a Library or where ever. Apparently there is a second series with another decades old crime and exploring the consequences of on the participants. Looking forward to it.
 
Just watched "Scientology - Going clear" on SBS. Absoxxxxlutly shattering. I Thought I knew a bit about how dodgy and dangerous it was but this documentary was the equivalent of going through Belsen.
I guess it is on the SBS site and that it can be found elsewhere.

Truly An Education.
 
Saw the The Song Keeper today at MIFFs film festival. Really blown away by it.

In summary it is about a choir of aboriginal women in Central Australia who sing old German hyms in their aboriginal language. They were taught these hyms by Lutheran missionaries in Hermannsbourg mission.
When they arrived in Austraia the missionaries learnt the native language and translated their hymns so the aboriginals could sing to God in their own tongue.

Anyway the story of the documentary was bringing together the choir and taking them on a tour to Germany to sing these German/Aboriginal hyms back to the congregations that sent the original missionaries.

But the documentary is much more than that just the "choir" and the trip. It encompasses the effect the project has on the people and explores the life and history and many of the participants. Very powerful and well worth watching when it is commercially released.

MIFF 2017: The Song Keepers is a remarkable tale of culture surviving and thriving
In the 19th century, Lutheran missionaries brought German hymns to the outback. In the 21st, the outback took them back to Germany.

It's not every day you see a group of 30-odd Aboriginal women in colourful dress on the streets of Melbourne. But then it's not every day 30-odd Aboriginal women get to attend the world premiere of a movie in which they star.

The Song Keepers is a remarkable and enormously enjoyable documentary about a rather improbable concert tour. In 2015, the Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir went to Germany, to sing the hymns that had been brought to this country in the 19th century by Lutheran missionaries. And they sang them in their own languages, Pitjantjatjara and Arrarnta, to a rapturous response.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...e-surviving-and-thriving-20170804-gxpvol.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermannsburg,_Northern_Territory
 
Watched Holding the Man last night on SBS much of it filmed at Xavier college where my sons went and in Wimba Ave Kew around the corner from me.
Had to turn it off midway it was just gay pr0n and I told one of my sons to watch it !!!
No idea how they got it to air without Xavier stopping it.
 
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