BOOK RECOMMENDATION
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZERS.
Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN, INTERNATIONAL LEFT. Take a couple of handsome guys, a savvy girl, and a few Latin sex hang-ups, show frontal male nudity and, voilà! you have an instant success. Now let the international pack of filthy rich, Limousine Leftists give the group a hand and they will reach exposure summits, especially for a charming, boyish, short guy Gael García Bernal. A couple of international festival where sex mores are important and you have it made.
Then, the international Left offers a great opportunity for Gael, to play the role of a homophobic mass political serial killer shown in the false guise of a concerned revolutionary, Ernesto T-shirt Guevara. As a consequence every American Communist sympathizers pushed the film as high as the Oscars!
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
INTERNATIONAL LEFT. A sweet guy, Gael Gael García Bernal, playing the brutal, ruthless criminal, is a film sneaked into a prestigious film festival, Sundance, which paradoxically always defended gay rights, to show the exultation of the man who created in Cuba the concentration camps UMAP to corral anybody that in Cuba looked, JUST LOOKED gay, together with members of religious groups. How stupid can these fanaticism drunken revolutionaries get? Even to come up with another revolting idealization of political serial killer Guevara, Cuban Blood, a mockery to all Cubans murdered, jailed and drowned by Communists.
DDOT THE i
INTERNATIONAL LEFT. Sundance Festival duped again into selecting a film with little quality to promote a Leftist group with an agenda (the presentation card is in the scene they make a commercial for García Márquez, a long time sycophant of Castro). Gael shows less of his body. Consequently, no big success.
The actors cannot enunciate, there is even a scene, when Natalia Verbeke talks a mumbled line with her back to the camera. Not only the sound track is inaudible, but the lines are all mumbled, slurred to the point that they create irritation. Marlon Brando compared to these mumblers looked like Ted Harrison.
THE CAMPAIGN TO IDEALIZE THE IMAGE OF THE POLITICAL SERIAL KILLER CHE GUEVARA CONTINUES.
Actor Benicio del Toro has the sad participation of playing the role of "Ernesto Guevara de la Serna" in a new Communist propaganda film from a book that needed to be APPROVED by the Cuban Communist Military dictatorship. It is called Guerrilla and still in production about this political serial killer in New York, where he is said to be engaged in a plot to blow the Statue of Liberty.
If you want to read about the real Che, buy the book Exposing the Real Che Guevara by Humberto Fontova.
"Let's hope that those who keep using Che symbols as something hip, finally realize that it is the darkest, weirdest and most morbid and pathetic joke ever from a human being. It is like using a swastika as representation of world peace." («Esperemos que los que siguen usando los símbolos del Che como una gracia perciban que se trata de la humorada más lúgubre, mórbida y patética de cuantas se le pueden ocurrir a un ser humano. Es lo mismo que ostentar la imagen de la tenebrosa svástica como señal de paz.»)
Alberto Benegas Lynch , primo de E. Guevara. Presidente de la Sección Ciencias Económicas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias, en Argentina. Es Doctor en Economía y es Doctor en Ciencias de Dirección. Integra también la Academia Nacional de Ciencias Económicas. Es autor de once libros y cuatro más en colaboración y enseña desde hace 35 años en universidades de la Argentina y del exterior.
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AH, THE MOVIES!  AH, THE MOVIES!
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HOLLYWOOD IS LOSING IT
After the spectacle of the last Oscar-giving ceremony, with melodramatic display of politics in the guise of ecological sentiment, just to push the Leftist agenda of blaming civilization for the climate changes, one must ponder.
The Academy is getting more fictitious that the recipients of the Oscars. Films are prized more for its technical achievement, gore (including Al), and violence than for its human conflicts. Hollywood cocoons try to compromise their money grabbing techniques and mind-blowing special effects with questionable philosophical and religious junk, mixed with Marxist idiocies.
I would advise my readers to go elsewhere for good films. I am happy that I am renting practically unknown films that would have received Oscars left and right, if the Academy had impartiality. I have watched a few dozens of films, mostly independent and foreign productions deserving more circulation and fame than the junk produced by Hollywood.
Here are some titles:
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EIGHTEEN
CANADA. It is a wonderful film by Richard Bell, well acted and photographed. It shows the intertwining of feelings of all kinds. In a sordid, corrosive background that threatens to poison its live characters with total indifference for intimacy, there is still hope for tender feelings, kindness and compassion.
In reality, many people separate sex from love, They are open to sex but they get scared to death of falling in love or even being tender with someone else.
This is the story of two friends, the protagonist, who is straight and falls in love with a beautiful, delightful girl. However when she gets pregnant he gets trapped into confusion, and his gay friend, a street hustler who gets panicky when another guy falls for him. All the story develops in a horrendous background triggered by his criminal father (a justice , of all people) whose biggotry is responsible for his brother's death.
This touching film received only one prize, Winner Best Drama at the Salt Like Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, although the gay theme is secondary to the straight couple that stars the film. This great film was also official selection of two more festivals, in the Chicago and Philadelphia films ones.
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EL ALAMEIN (LA LINEA DE FUOCO)
ITALIAN. Enzo Monteleone's World War II drama El Alamein: The Line of Fire deals with the life of trapped Italian soldiers. Lieutenant Fiore (Emilio Solfrizzi) leads a group of soldiers stationed in Egypt. The troops, including Sargent Rizzo (Pierfrancesco Favino) and newbie Serra (Paolo Briguglia), are constantly under attack from the British.
This is a WW II African battle as seen from the side of Mussolini's soldiers in defeat. It is a really touching war movies of a group of soldiers that are losing faith in their quest.
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ANIMAL FARM
ENGLISH. George Orwell's political fable about corruption and betrayal in any post-revolutionary Communist country, now gets a new look in this version that employs a cast of real animals alongside digitally manipulated critters and lifelike beasts crafted by Jim Henson's Creature Shop |
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THE FOURTH MAN
DUTCH. Kinky but food for thoughts, this film will make you think and wonder through every scene. We all know that most dutch films dig into religious and sexual contents. This is a gem on that.
What Christian myths and imagery can do to the mind of a person with a huge imagination is colossally presented in this shocking film, that mixes Mary with witches, sex, a naked Christ and the works.
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THREE GUYS, ONE GIRL AND TWO WEDDINGS
BELGIAN. The title is terribly misleading. It should have been called Two guys, two girls, one wedding.
During his lifetime a man usually faces some kind of female manipulation. In most cases, he never realizes it. You would be shocked in this film, to see how far female manipulation can go. You will never, never, guess what is going on until the very end.
I almost missed this gem because lately every French film I have seen is dark, gloomy and unpleasant. Then I realized when I saw the trailer, that although they spoke French, the film was Belgian.
Most new European films have gay angles, but they are not gay films, as the Swiss film Garçon Stupide and the Spanish Los Amantes Búlgaros are, also loaded with frontal male nudity.
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GOOD BYE LENIN!
East Germany 1989, Alex Kerner's (Daniel Bruhl) mother Christiane (Katrin Saß) falls into a coma just as the Berlin Wall is about to come down.
Eight months later, she wakes up, her heart is too weak to withstand any shock. So Alex goes to hysterical lengths to keep the truth about her country's democratization a secret.
Golden Globe-nominated comedy.
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BORAT
(?) A film with such outrageous humor that is being plagued by legal suits from every delicate soul on the planet, including the Republic of Kazakhstan. In most of the interviewed conducted by this supposed Cultural reporter from Kazakhstan, the interviewed person was not aware of the joke (what makes their reactions really funny).
Borat is outrageous, but not your usually stupid American... something series of prudish junk like The Naked Mile, that is nor neither neither nor.
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KADOSH
ISRAEL. After watching this film, a believer in reincarnation would be horrified before the prospect of being reincarnated as an Orthodox Jew, child mutilation, mind control, etc. This is a dark drama of women living in an atavisticv society as second-class citizens, Kadosh/Sacred begins with Meir, an Orthodox Jew living in the Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem, greeting the day with his morning prayers, which includes the phrase, "Thank you, oh Lord, for not having made me a woman."
Meir begins to understand just how women are regarded in the Orthodox faith when his rabbi tells him he should leave his wife because she bears no children. Meir and Rivka (Yael Abecassis), married for ten years, have a solid relationship based on affection and mutual respect. Meir is reminded, the Talmud reads "a woman without children may as well be dead."
The rabbi advises Meir to take up with a younger woman who can give him a family. Rivka's younger sister, Malka (Meital Barda), is soon to wed Yossef (Uri Ran Klauzner) in a match arranged by their parents, even though Malka loves another man, Yaakov who dares to question the Orthodox faith.
Yossef soon proves to be blind to Malka's emotional and physical needs, and she begins to wonder how long she can continue to live within this circle, the only world she knows. Destined to be controversial in Israel, Kadosh/Sacred was shown at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
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THE HOLY LAND
ISRAEL. Again religious inflexibility against human free will. A culture that has been searching to solve a life, imagination Paradox. A different look into Jerusalem's little known places, bars, sex, prostitution, hassidic schools and the Guilt monster that has always cursed the Jewish culture.
WALK ON WATER
ISRAEL. Mix these elements, a dying Nazi hunt, old German family tradition breaking up, old Jews, modern Israelis, all caught by contradictory premises in the land of paradoxes, Palestinians, prejudices, ethics — the whole works — and you will have a hell of a good movies.
With those ingredients you need no description. A MUST-SEE. Director: Eytan Fox, and an outstanding performance by (Eyal) Lior Ashkenazi as an agent with Mossad, the Israeli intelligence and security.
Eytan Fox also directed Yossi and Jagger, an unusual love story, which is as controversial in Israel as in our realm Brokeback Mountain was. It is not the subject, but the backbround where the theme unfolds. Entertaining, humane paradoxical but not boring at all.
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THE RETURN
RUSSIA. Interesting only from a sociological point of view, this long, long, long film cries for good editing. A short film would have had the point across faster and possibly clearer.
This film is as opaque as the plot. Directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev.
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WITHOUT CONSCIENCE
ITALIAN. A horrible reality portrait by Maurizio Mattioli as a man incapable of feeling physical pain, yet mentally suffering for a boy he has to deliver to a Swiss hospital under the pretension of an adoption by a Swiss family, after he finds out the boy is going to be murdered to reap his organs for sale.
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The film shows how spread is the kidnapping of refugees kids for this inhumane business.
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HOLLYWOOD'S BEST: THE 300 SPARTANS
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The classic film about the Battle Of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. The touching sacrifice of 300 Spartans, who with with their lives defended Greece from a Persian invasion against overwhelming odds. King Leonidas (Richard Egan) leads all Greeks to stop the attack of Persian invaders led by King Xerxes (David Farrar).
This is the classic version. The new one, 300, is also an excellent film.
A good War Film to be watched by soldiers and meek Democrats in Congress.
Available through BLOCKBUSTER and NETFLIX ON LINE
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