Tiny Adventures Can Change Your Life: The Hedgehog in the Fog.

- Tiny Adventures Can Change Your Life: The Hedgehog in the Fog | The Musing

- Hedgehog in the Fog - YouTube

The Farewell (2019 film).

The Farewell premieres in Russia today so I asked my Dad to record a greeting for the audience in Russian. YES, he speaks Russian - one of many things @tzima8 wanted to include in the film that didn’t make it. But seriously, how cute is he? 😍 pic.twitter.com/hybjF4iAYr

— Lulu Wang (@thumbelulu) October 10, 2019

You Were Never Really Here movie (2018) .

- You Were Never Really Here movie review (2018) | Roger Ebert
In her films, Ramsay digs into the in-between spaces, the voids and vacuums where marginalized or inarticulate people try to understand the codes of a baffling world.
They're outsiders.
They're survivors.

The Plague.

La peste (The Plague) is a Spanish historical drama television series created by Alberto Rodríguez and Rafael Cobos for Movistar+.
It tells a crime story set in the 16th century Seville during an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

- REVIEW: The Plague (S1 E1&2/6) – The Killing Times

Mateo makes Valerio a deal – they will both escape their pasts and seek out the New World. A quick deal with Luis’s contacts gets them both passage on the next boat to America – but unfortunately for Mateo also raises the interest of the Inquisition, who lie in wait to arrest him as a heretic whilst Valerio escapes back to the city.
For the second time in as many days Mateo is offered an ultimatum to save his soul – help the Inquisition find the killer of a prominent merchant.
Celso confirms the man is Ignacio Azuaga, one of the wealthiest merchants in Spain, and simply states Mateo’s freedom can be won by bringing his killer to justice.

...there’s the more curious story of Germàn’s widow and her hidden career as a famous European painter.
Death and money rule everything in this city; we’ve yet to see little of any light in this otherwise dark and foreboding world that’s been well crafted by the production team.

Film Nocturnal Animals (2016).

Tom Ford: “It’s a movie about finding the people in your life that mean something and not letting them get away.

...fat naked women dancing.
They are the representation of people who have let go of what society says you’re supposed to be.
And what are they? Joyful.
And what is Susan” — the film’s protagonist, played by Amy Adams — “who’s being everything society says she should be? Miserable.
Susan’s real life is aesthetically beautiful but devoid of substance, an empty exercise in wealth and beauty.

The book is a metaphor to say how Edward felt when his wife and child were taken away from him.
- Tony's wife and daughter have a very strong resemblance to Susan, that means they are parallels.
- The lost of the girls in the family represent the lost of Susan and his child (by abortion), something very cruel if you ask me. Susan cheated on Edward. Obviously Tony stands for Edward.
- What does the gang represent? They are shown as ordinary, ignorant and cruel, they mostly represent the hidden relationship between Susan and Hutton. In their several stages... Turk is the set up, Lou is the hidding, Ray is the abortion. One crueler than the other.
- I'm more curious about Bobby, it's like the part of Edward who wants to discover the whole shit and bring justice, it's the part of Edward that still cares, but it's dying, it's not gonna last too much.
- Now, the end. Tony faces Ray (Edward faces the fact Susan cheated on him and killed their unborn child) and kill him, but in the way he's changed, he's no longer the man he used to be, he's broken beyond any repair and he ends up dead. That means he got over the whole shit, but he's no longer "The good man" as he's usually pointed along the movie.
- And the main reason to believe Edward is not a good man anymore is the revenge scheme he's obviously putting on Susan, sending her the novel, be in brief touch with her, and finally not showing up in the very anticipated dinner with her. He cares shit about her and he's no longer a nice guy.”

- we all eventually turn into our mothers...
- When you love someone you have to be careful with it, you might never get it again.
- Do you ever feel like your life has turned into something you never intended?
- I’m going to live to regret this.

Why are you so driven to write?
- I guess it's a way of keeping things alive.
You know, saving things that will eventually die.
If I write it down, then... it'll last forever.

Red Lights (2012 film) .

"Dear Margaret,
Even today I'm not exactly sure when everything ended.
I wanted to cry, feel anger, grief, to feel just like I used to.
A whole life denying myself, searching in silence for someone like me.
A whole life looking for an answer, without finding it.
I learned so many things from you, but I forgot the most essential thing.
It was me all along, wasn't it, Margaret?
It was me all along.
You can't deny yourself forever.
I did what you wanted, but I will never forgive myself for not revealing myself, for not at least giving you the consolation of knowing .. there is something else, but you deserve more.
Today you deserve everything.

You can't deny yourself.

You can't deny yourself forever.."

“A whole life denying myself, searching in silence for someone like me.
My whole life looking for an answer, without finding it.
I’ll never forgive myself for not revealing myself.
For not giving you the consolation of knowing.
There IS something else.
You can’t deny yourself forever.”

"As an entertaining movie, it’s pretty good.
Not amazing, but good.
But more interesting for me is what it means, and why I keep seeing these type of movies: the kind that play with motifs of faith, belief, certainty, and the paranormal.

There is an international war going on.
We are all fighting for each other’s minds; fighting to convince others that we are are right and everyone else is wrong.

The question, is whether there is “something else.”

- Red Lights Review 2012: Simon Magus confronts Doubting Thomas about Paranormal Phenomenon:
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Silver Linings Playbook.

- Silver Linings Playbook: my most overrated film | Film | The Guardian:
Playbook - a set of rules or suggestions that are considered to be suitable for a particular activity, industry, or job.

...they’re damaged goods.

That's because he's determined to repair the damage he's done to his life and surprise everyone by moving ever onward and upward.
His motto is, "Excelsior!"
What stage of bipolar disorder would you guess he's in?

Robert De Niro as a father...who doesn't realize is an apple who has fallen very close to the tree.

Seeing as the film tackles the stranglehold mental illness can have on a person and their ultimate outlook on life, its integrity seems ​based on this alone, stealing focus from the painfully lame points of the piece.
Mental illness in the 2010s is what prosthetic noses; weight gain and monster-size uglification were in the noughties.
But should this treatment of challenging subject matter really allow Silver Linings Playbook to tower over the rest, especially when it schools its audience on the fact that there’s nothing like finding one new love to replace another, and there’s nothing like love to cure any debilitating mental illness?
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Film Radiator (2014)

Why I wish I'd stopped trying to change my elderly parents:
Прекратите пытаться изменить своих пожилых родителей или пытаться заставить их делать то, что вы хотите.
/Том Браун/

Том Браун рассматривает семейные отношения и то, как они тестируются когда родители стареют.
Он рассказывает историю последних лет жизни его родителей.
"Мои отношения с родителями всегда были сложными.
Мои родители вызывали одновременно мое беспокойство и мое возмущение.
Они, похоже, не хотели моей помощи - они, конечно же, никогда не просили о помощи, но когда я время от времени бывал у них, я видел, что ситуация ухудшается.
Мой 85 - летний отец лежал на диване, неспособный даже добраться до ванной.
Он не мог заставить себя противостоять его хрупкости.
Он сдался.
И была моя мать, на 13 лет его моложе, но ослабевшая и доведенная до изнеможения постоянным уходом за ним.
Дом был холодный и запущенный, мышь бегала по кухне, крыша протекала, и все их реликты прошлого покрывала густая пыль.
Они перестали быть теми, кем были, и я не распознавал их прежних в этом хаосе.
Я приеду, накричу на них, возмущаясь состоянием их жизни...и уезжаю к себе.
Они больше не могли заботиться о себе, но они не хотели никого вмешивать в их жизнь.
Это казалось таким безответственным, эгоистичным.

Если бы я на мгновение подумал о них, как о посторонних мне людях, а не о моих родителях, я бы увидел их такими, какие они были: два пожилых профессионала, напуганные их утратой независимости и надвигающимися смертями.
Я бы мог просто посидеть с ними за бутылкой вина и несколькими забавными историями из моей жизни.
Все, что они хотели - это приятно провести время, насладиться обществом своего сына.
Динамика, на которой основывались наши отношения, осталась неизменной: они были родителями, а я был их мальчиком.

Их брак всегда был для меня загадкой и источником гнева.
Я ненавидел тот факт, что мой отец был так груб с моей матерью, и я ненавидел тот факт, что она терпела его.
Но эти отношения сложились задолго до моего появления в их жизни.
Их брак был основан на давно созданном пакте, который я никогда не мог понять.


Я полагаю, это было мое эго, которое было поставлено на карту.
Вам приятно думать, что вы несете ответственность за своих стареющих родителей, но оказывается, что это не так.
Я был отвергнут, когда они проигнорировали мой совет и отказались от моей помощи, но на самом деле они вели себя так, как вели себя всегда.
Конечно, мой отец не хотел страдать от унижения, когда его купает его сын. Я должен был это понять.
Мне виделось, что их жизнь могла бы быть намного проще, гораздо удобнее, если бы только они выслушали меня и позволили мне организовать их жизнь.
Теперь я знаю, что это была безуспешная попытка навязать им мои собственные стандарты образа жизни.
Их поколение с ужасом наблюдало за нашим образом жизни: как мы тратим £2.50 на кофе; обедаем не дома, а в ресторанах; выбрасываем, а не ремонтируем наше имущество.

Они пережили военные годы, и они ценили свои вещи, берегли то, что находили интересным или красивым: некролог, вырезанный из газеты; кусок красного дерева; поделку из кузнечного цеха.
Для них это была своеобразная красота, тогда как для меня это было просто барахло, которое нужно будет разобрать после их смерти.

Мы всегда думали, что мама переживет отца, потому что она была намного моложе, но именно она умерла сначала, внезапно.
Я признаюсь, что почувствовал облегчение - ей больше не придется заботиться о моем отце.
Это было так грустно. Ее жизнь могла быть частью жизни моих сыновей.
Ей было всего 73 года.
Папа умер несколько месяцев спустя.
Мне всегда казалось, что я лучше пойму своих родителей, когда буду разбирать их вещи после их смерти.
Это оказалось не так: все значимое было передо мной там, пока они были живы, но я был не в состоянии этого видеть.

Для меня фильм стал своего рода искуплением: размышлением о том, что я должен был сделать, или, точнее, то, чего я не должен был делать.
Мои родители не были способны к переменам.
Как жаль, что я не принял их такими, какими они были …с разговором за бутылкой красного вина и вкусной едой."
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Фильм Тарковского "Жертвоприношение" .

- О фильме Тарковского "Жертвоприношение" » Философия вертикали+горизонтали. Константин Рылёв. Блог-книга на Peremeny.ru:

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The English Patient (1996).

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Sean: [sitting on a bench in in front of a pond in park] Thought about what you said to me the other day, about my painting. Stayed up half the night thinking about it. Something occurred to me... fell into a deep peaceful sleep, and haven't thought about you since. Do you know what occurred to me?
Will: No.
Sean: You're just a kid, you don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about.
Will: Why thank you.
Sean: It's all right. You've never been out of Boston.
Will: Nope.

Sean: So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written.
Michelangelo, you know a lot about him.
Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right?
But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel.
You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that.
If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites.
You may have even been laid a few times.
But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid.
And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right, "once more unto the breach dear friends."
But you've never been near one.
You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help.
I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet.
But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable.
Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you.
Who could rescue you from the depths of hell.
And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer.
And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes, that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you.
You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself.
And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much.
And look at you... I don't see an intelligent, confident man...
I see a cocky, scared shitless kid.
But you're a genius Will.
No one denies that.
No one could possibly understand the depths of you.
But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my fucking life apart. You're an orphan right?
[Will nods]
Sean: You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist?
Does that encapsulate you?
Personally... I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can't learn anything from you, I can't read in some fuckin' book.
Unless you want to talk about you, who you are.
Then I'm fascinated. I'm in.
But you don't want to do that do you sport?
You're terrified of what you might say.
Your move, chief.

Good Will Hunting (1997).

Sean Maguire's Painting.



When Will first meets Maguire, he walks right up to a painting on his wall and finds out that Maguire painted it himself. He then uses his knowledge of psychology and art to make claims about Maguire's life based on the painting. For starters, he says:

WILL: […] he linear and impressionistic mix makes a very muddled composition. It's also a Winslow Homer rip-off, except you got Whitey, uh, rowing the boat there.
So for starters, he calls Maguire out on being unoriginal. But his mind games don't stop there…

The longer Will looks at the painting, the more he seems to figure out about Maguire's life.
By the time he's done, he's summing up Maguire's whole mentality, saying:

WILL: You just piss in your pants, you're cryin' for the harbors, and maybe you do what you gotta do to get out. Yeah, maybe you became a psychologist.
This is all incredibly insulting and Maguire handles it well. But the moment Will mentions his dead wife, he snaps and grabs him by the throat. It looks like Will has hit a soft spot.

So far, all of this conversation about the painting has been about Maguire.
But in a later scene, Maguire turns the whole thing around and makes it about Will, saying:

MAGUIRE: [You] presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine and ripped my f***in' life apart.
The fact is that Will might think he knows people, but he doesn't know anything that Maguire couldn't go find in a book. Will is just a scared little kid who uses his intellect as a weapon to keep people away from him, and it takes Maguire less than a day to figure this out.

Film "A Man and a Woman".

Pierre Barouh (19 February 1934 – 28 December 2016) was a French writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman both as actor, and as lyric writer/singer for Francis Lai's music for the film.
In 1966 he participated in the enormous success of the film A Man and a Woman which won the Palme d'Or at the 1966 Festival de Cannes.
He married the actress Anouk Aimée the same year; they divorced three years later.

The Ides of March (2011).

The Ides of March Movie Review (2011) | Roger Ebert
STEPHEN
I have drunk it it's delicious.
I don't care whether he leads in the polls...I don't care whether he has all the tools...
Because the truth is, he's the only one that's going to make a difference in peoples lives...
Even the people that hate him.
If Mike Morris is President it says more about us than it does about him.
I don't give a fuck if he can win.
He has to win.

IDA
Or what?
The world will fall apart?
It won't matter...
Not one bit to the everyday lives of everyday fuckers who work and eat and sleep and get up and go back to work again.
If your boy wins...
You get a job in the white house...
If he loses you're back at a consulting firm on K Street...
That's it.
You used to know that before you got all goosebumpy about this guy.
Morris is a politician...
He's a nice guy...
They're all nice guys.

..."beware the Ides of March" is a proverb that really is just a warning of impending danger.

Ryan is ultimately faced with two choices.
Either he packs his bags, goes on vacation and mass blasts resumes to overpriced consulting firms or he conforms.
The way I see it, he does the latter.
Ryan's character had an epiphany and decided to turn the political world on its head, I just don't see it.
This movie was about the disintegration of idealism and not the other way around.

Out of Africa.

"So take back the soul of Denys Finch-Hatton...
who you have shared with us.
He brought us joy,
and we loved him well.
He was not ours,
he was not mine."

Cold Mountain (2003)

Nicole Kidman and Jude Law in Cold Mountain as Ada Monroe and Inman.

Inman: [to Ada] If you could see my inside, or whatever you want to name it; my spirit, that's what I fear.
I think I'm ruined. They kept trying to put me in the ground but I wasn't ready.
But if I had... if I had goodness, I lost it. If I had anything tender in me, I shot it dead! How could I write to you after what I'd done? What I'd seen?

Ada: What we have lost will never be returned to us. The land will not heal - too much blood.
All we can do is learn from the past and make peace with it.

The Heart of Me.

'And throughout all Eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.
As our dear Redeemer said:
"This the Wine, and this the Bread."'

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Director Michael Haneke . Amour.

Director Michael Haneke wins second Palme d'Or with Amour at Cannes | Metro.co.uk:

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"The Hours".

"I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility, you know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself that this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me that it wasn’t the beginning… it was happiness. It was the moment, right then."
"Я помню, однажды проснувшись ...на рассвете...было такое чувство вероятности, возможности, предвкушения...вы знаете, это чувство?! И я помню, как подумала тогда про себя, что это начало счастья, вот сейчас оно начинается. И конечно же впереди будет его больше. Мне и в голову не пришло, что это было не начало...а это и было само счастье. Его момент. Именно здесь и сейчас."
The Hours (1998) by Michael Cunningham
It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later, to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk, the anticipation of dinner and a book...What lives undimmed in Clarissa's mind more than three decades later is a kiss at dusk on a patch of dead grass, and a walk around a pond as mosquitoes droned in the darkening air. There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. Now she knows: That was the moment, right then. There has been no other.
"Казалось, это было началом счастья, и Клариссу до сих пор - больше чем через тридцать лет - поражает, что так оно и было, что этот поцелуй, прогулка, предвосхищение ужина и книги и были ее единственным опытом счастья. <...> Действительно незамутненными в Клариссиной памяти и через три с лишним десятка остается поцелуй в сумерках на полоске мертвой травы и прогулка вокруг пруда под аккомпанемент комариного звона. В этом было какое-то ни с чем не сравнимое совершенство, отчасти связанное с тем, что, казалось, оно обещало большее. Теперь она знает, что это и было мгновением счастья. Единственным опытом счастья в ее жизни."

"We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds & expectations, to burst open & give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so."

Фильм "Часы" снят по роману Майкла Каннингэма "Часы".

Действие (и в романе и в фильме) постоянно (через книгу, цитаты или биографию Вульф) связано с романом Вирджинии Вульф "Mrs Dalloway".
Первоначально Вирджиния Вульф предполагала назвать этот роман "The Hours".

The film ends with a line from Virginia's suicide note (in voice-over) in which she thanks Leonard for loving her: "Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours."

Журнальный зал | Иностранная литература, 2002 N12 | Малькольм Брэдбери - Вирджиния Вулф.: “И он увидел ее”.
Один проницательный критик разглядел в романе Вирджинии Вулф очарованность “метафизической хозяйкой”, женщиной, которая наделена даром не только устраивать приемы, но и очищать связи между домашними и связи между людьми в обществе от всего наносного, проявлять в них сокровенно улавливаемый смысл бытия, цельность, которая, как говорит нам интуиция, присуща реальности, — способность очищать, превращая это в центр своего существования. Фигура “метафизической хозяйки” и впрямь присутствует в этом романе.

...подобно Клариссе Дэллоуэй, Вирджиния Вулф верила в метафизику неповиновения:
“Смерть — это неповиновение. Смерть — это попытка общения для тех, кто чувствует невозможность достичь центра, который раз за разом мистическим образом ускользает; близость оказывается отнятой; восторг — выдохшимся; каждый остается наедине с собой. Смерть же — что-то вроде объятия”.

Heard this in the movie "Fracture"

"Do you dare stay out?
Do you dare go in?
And IF you go in -
Should you turn left or right?
Or right and three-quarters?
Or maybe not quite.
You can get so confused that you’ll start in to race,
Down long wiggled roads at break- necking pace
And grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
Headed I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place...
For people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go
Or a bus to come, or a plane to go
Or the mail to come, or the rain to go
Or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow
Or waiting around for a Yes or No
Or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting.
Waiting for the fish to bite
Or waiting for wind to fly a kite
Or waiting around for Friday night
Or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake
Or a pot to boil, or a Better Break
Or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants
Or a wig with curls...
Or Another Chance."

(extracted from 'Oh, the Places You'll Go!', Dr Seuss)