Notice how they all have strong female characters at the center but everything is paranoid, violent, and sexual. This is what Hollywood gives me? I felt like I was dragged into the mind of one of the sexually abusing Hollywood producers. Of course, the actresses do what they are told, and I, the little person in the dark, passively sit there watching this fantasy. I'm free to leave. Why don't I?
why, yes. The female characters are not women, but fantasy women by corrupt men in Hollywood.
And I always wonder: Where are the kids?
One of the most touching moments of Aliens 2 was Ripley rescuing the little lost girl. twice. (back story: Ripley's own daughter died during the 40 years she spent in hibernation).
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and this British politician is related to a mummy:
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Long article on Zika in the USA: 2000 plus cases neonatal cases. For later reading.
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protests in India after rumors that a famous story from history that was filmed implied the Hindu queen in the defeated kingdom had a sexual relationship with the conquerer. Not true but a lot of folks protested.
Movie review here.
uh, not really.
Here’s how it goes, just in case you are one of those rare people who haven’t been breathlessly following the film’s troubles: the Rajput king Ratan Singh (Kapoor) is the hero, the Muslim invader Alauddin Khilji (Singh) is the villain, and the object of their mutual adoration is the utterly gorgeous Padmavati, who will always and forever be a good Indian girl, and later, wife. When we see her first, she is fleet of foot and clear of eye, a joyous free spirit who has a will of her own. She ends up committing ‘jauhar’, her life and death circumscribed by male notions of honour.
The story of suicide to prevent one from being raped, after one is raped, or even being killed defending oneself against an attacker is not about men, but about women who defend their own honor against someone trying to control them.
I have heard stories of women committing suicide or being murdered because the victim resisted her attacker even in modern times: both against the Russian troops entering Germany and in modern times against serial killers (alas which are too common in the USA: Maybe because of all those movies about them makes them see themselves as heroes?)
well anyway: Here is the preview:
story in history:
hmm. the bad guy is a Muslim... What I wonder: Where are the Muslim protests?
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