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Inspiration and ideals are at the cinema My previous post looked at how actors and stars can be romanticized and idealized by their screen roles and the movies they are in. Yet in being that, they may shine light on an ideal or ideals. Ideals may be hard to attain in life, but the movies…

What or who’s a classic? The star system of the classics era of Hollywood made actors appear perfect and audiences saw them through a romantic or idealized lens. Today, we can still see movies, actors and stars through a romantic lens. Here is what marks some, mostly older, classical guys and girls:   Gregory Peck: Remarkable…

A twist on love your neighbor Another view of The Choice…Love your neighbor is taken to the obvious–a neighborly love story–and perhaps symbolic, in The Choice (2016, USA). Next door neighbors Gabby is a medical student studying hard away at her books—seems to be a Saturday night, though, but she is a dedicated student. Then,…

DVD movie commentary Bored in New York? Nah. Irish lass Eilis is far from New York. She is yawning during a church service, in her home town of Ireland. Her mother prays earnestly next to her, in Brooklyn (2015). I have seen that sort of thing before, somewhere. There is also the one about a…
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