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Memory and optimism
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pveugelaers
Playing the Men in Black theme song back to back with Sting’s Fields of Gold is an interesting juxtaposition. It impressed me with a theme of memory. How there is negative stuff in memory, but how it can be wiped clean, to bring a whole new outlook, like walking in fields of gold. Negative memory…
Logan
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pveugelaers
The well-used X-Men theme of good people caught up in a bad world is treated with grit, dirt and no polish in the latest X-Men movie, Logan. Theme Previous X-Men movies have put mutants, who are otherwise human in quite a few respects, as outsiders in a world that discriminates against them. The good mutants…
American Dream and la la land
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pveugelaers
The American Dream may be a fascinating prospect in some movies, but in others, it’s not a guarantee in life. They consider it la la land. Live the dream Dance and sports movies seem to be a natural fit for movies about living the dream. In the 1980s there was Fame and Flashdance, popular films…
Goodies need redeeming , even jedi
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pveugelaers
Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Han Solo in The Force Awakens and Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. The action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. They are the good guys. Does the Arnold Schwarzenegger action hero need redemption? No, we say. Because he saves lives (in the way an action movie…
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