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Not even the good acting, good script and excellent subject matter could rescue the film Oppenheimer from the appalling aural assault that its background soundtrack launches upon its viewers.
Presumably written and recorded by someone of the X-box or video game generation who believes high volume rumble and explosive thunder effects are required generate excitement in an otherwise rather cerebral storyline, and presumably feels they have to pander to the same audiences that populated Nolan’s blockbuster batman films.
If your good idea of fun is to have a serious discussion while trapped in a boy racer car with a 1000W sub bass system cranked up you should enjoy this film.
In my case it’s the first film I’ve ever felt compelled to walk out of and I’m no spring chicken.
From me it’s one star out of five or even ten, who cares?
Thought that came to me recently. Drama on tv has mood music, sound effects, running through it all the time. Some yes, but nearly all the time to create atmosphere, tension etc.
seems like manipulation. I shouldn’t mention the idea but I am addicted to ideas – what about books with ambient? sound as I turn the pages. Even the voice of the now dead author or the orcs from The Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson did a great thing exposing our present generation to this wonderful Brit fabulation.
But let’s not muck round with our imaginations – they can welcome the characters as they emerge from the background mists and become our companions while we remain sleeping partners?
Who will be the next Labour Party leader?
Parker?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/494585/overhaul-planned-for-ministry-of-social-development-it-systems-that-risk-serious-harm-to-beneficiaries
$2 billion!?
Make those lazy b…ers work for their money. Put them to work handling their own payouts and getting others into work. Let them know what it is to work and not just hold their hands out and watch tv. Don’t put it into IT machinery that is built for obsolescence you dumb bu…nies in gummint and handing out agencies to glossy hangers-on! Note this is – /sarc
From RNZ Undercurrent series –
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, co-leader of Te Pāti Māori
“I live with security cameras on my house, nearly every angle you can come in, and down my driveway. I have a team who will plan and figure out how I get in and how I get out. And I guess I’ve just become used to it.”
And here’s some word-salad grammar from Nicola Willis [Nat]:
(Episode 5)
“If the response to having a public meeting where a group of people who are very anti vaccine and wish that to dominate the public discourse gets dominated by that and then we say, well, no more public meetings, then we are letting the bad guys win.”
If—
By Rudyard Kipling
(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Source: A Choice of Kipling’s Verse (1943)
Something to listen to in the weekend? Slavoj Zizek expounds on philosophies from the different exponents about where we are now. About 35 mins. If you can’t concentrate on his delivery then stop going to pop concerts. He does take an effort. But you can stop and start. Interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06KiOj6gjbs
How philosophy got lost | Slavoj Žižek interview
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