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Ocean Souls (2020)
Wow!
This film is highly informative, stunningly beautiful, and inspirational. I finished it will a sense of awe and wonder for the interdependence of all life on earth. It is a tragedy that we have already destroyed so much of the natural world. I hope that it isn't too late to save the rest - and ourselves. If we are able to do it, it will be in no small part because of the wisdom and dedication of people like this filmmaker along with the many marine life specialists who do tirelessly work to better understand these magnificent creatures, how we relate to them,!and what we can continue to learn from them. By doing so, we will find the depths of our own humanity.
Yellowstone (2018)
An ode to the Neanderthals
Out of the caves and onto Yellowstone Ranch - this show depicts a tribe of dim-witted thugs who devote all their waking hours to screaming at each other, killing or beating each other, or using their dim brains trying to screw each other in clever ways. These people hate each other, hate themselves, hate the environment, and hate government except when they can bend it to their will. And the men seem to hate the women, but the women don't seem to mind, because they're all trying to be just like the men. How on earth did Kevin Costner, who was responsible for a movie as classy as Dances With Wolves, manage to get involved with this piece of slop? If the characters in Yellowstone represent what the American West is about, then the American West is surely doomed. Ugh.
Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
Some good singing in a terrible story
Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, and Amy Irving can all sing, and those moments provide the movie's only redeeming feature. Beyond the singing, this dated, pre-Me Too movement story depicts the usual story of a celebrity male cheating on his wife with a younger woman, then watching the man turn on the charm to have his submissive wife come crawling back to him. By today's more enlightened standards of actually holding men responsible for their actions, this film is repugnant.
Nothing Is Truer Than Truth (2018)
Showing an Actual Man Instead of a Fantasy Man
Years ago, when I read that William Shakespeare, having retired from his career as a literary genius, went home to Stratford on Avon to speculate in real estate, I said, NO WAY. No way that an artist of that caliber would choose to spend his final years in that fashion - once an artist, always an artist. Then I learned about Edward de Vere, and I realized that he was an actual man, not the fantasy man we have been told about for hundreds of years, who could have learned, loved, fought, struggled, and put his soul on the pages of the world's greatest plays. The Edward de Vere, that actual man, is revealed in this very fine film.