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Last Night in Soho [2021)
First off.
I am in love with Thomasin McKenzie.
I think Saoirse Ronan has lost her touch.
Kat Dennings doesn’t even bother with films anymore.
And Thora Birch is too much of a liberal moron.
But then all actors are liberal morons, aren’t they?
Except for a precious few.
Jon Voight.
James Woods.
Rob Schneider.
Kirstie Alley.
Robert Davi.
Jim Caviezel.
Secondly.
This film is a masterpiece.
Edgar Wright is the best filmmaker in the world right now.
Is he better than Jean-Luc Godard?
No.
But Godard is not making films for mass consumption.
Is he better than Wes Anderson?
BY A MILLION FUCKING MILES!!!
Don’t get me wrong.
Wes Anderson made one perfect film.
And that film was The Grand Budapest Hotel.
And that film wouldn’t have been perfect without Saoirse Ronan.
That’s how important her presence in that film was.
Saoirse has made another perfect film.
Hanna.
But her others are mediocre.
Brooklyn.
Meh.
Lady Bird.
Even more meh (not a good thing).
Saoirse has gone astray.
Just as Thora Birch went astray.
Ghost World is a perfect film.
And American Beauty is close to perfect.
For my money, Homeless to Harvard is her other perfect film.
Kat Dennings films kinda suck.
Her masterpiece is actually 2 Broke Girls.
I’m serious.
But that’s not cinema.
Twin Peaks is cinema.
Even though it’s a TV show.
Histoire(s) du cinéma is the best film ever made.
And it was made for TV.
Homeless to Harvard is a Lifetime movie.
Made for TV.
It is not cinema.
Not exactly.
But it may be a perfect film.
Wes Anderson made his perfect film with Saoirse Ronan.
And he made a good film (Tenenbaums).
The rest are shite.
I did not understand Edgar Wright’s film language when I first saw Shaun of the Dead.
I thought it was crap.
How wrong I was!
Here is my contention.
Every Edgar Wright film is perfect.
Shaun of the Dead?
Yes.
Hot Fuzz?
Yes.
The World’s End?
Yes.
Baby Driver?
Yes.
Scott Pilgrim?
Yes.
And this film is perfect too.
But this is not quite the Wright you are used to.
This is a genuinely scary film.
But it stands up with Psycho, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Shining as one of the four best horror films ever made.
Edgar Wright films are all about detail.
But not the twee obsession with detail that Wes Anderson has.
Edgar Wright is overflowing with talent.
Wes Anderson is not.
Anderson needed Saoirse Ronan to make his perfect film.
And there was a bit (just a bit!) of grit in Grand Budapest.
Saoirse is missing from his other films.
And there is no real grit in any of the others.
Tenenbaums is good.
But the Wes Anderson players are tiresome.
Is Bill Murray amazing?
Yes.
But are his performances in Wes Anderson films his best work?
Absolutely not.
No more Jason Schwatzman (for fuck’s sake!).
Is Luke Wilson a great actor?
Yes.
What’s his best film?
Masked and Anonymous.
Maybe it’s Paltrow and Hackman which make Tenenbaums good.
For my money, Luke Wilson is the one who makes that film go.
But it is not on the same level as Grand Budapest.
Last Night in Soho is the Grand Budapest of the ’20s.
We’re in the ’20s now.
Are they roaring?
Like a fucking mouse.
Last Night in Soho is a gazillion times better than No Time to Die.
This film has everything the Bond film didn’t.
Substance.
Competent directing.
A story worth sticking with.
And so it is fitting that Diana Rigg’s last role should absolutely trump the death of James Bond.
The one George Lazenby film was WAY better than No Time to Die.
The death of love is more sad than the death of the hero.
Diana Rigg is the linchpin in the Bond franchise.
Pull that thread, and the sweater unravels.
Léa Seydoux is boring as fuck in the Bond films.
She was great in Blue.
But she was nothing compared to the one who carried that film (Adele Exarchopoulos).
Exarchopoulos made one perfect film.
Blue is the Warmest Color.
None of her other films are even good.
Wright makes what Youth in Revolt might have been.
He is not glib.
This is not a hipster film.
Michael Cera (who has made one perfect film [Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist]) is, mercifully, NOT in Last Night in Soho.
[correction…Kat Dennings DID make one perfect film]
Thomasin McKenzie’s obsession with ’60s London music is real.
It’s not a fucking Austin Powers joke.
Rita Tushingham is wonderful as Gram.
Excellent casting.
[take note, Bond franchise]
Thomasin hooks up with a black dude.
No big deal.
Take note, Bond franchise.
NOT EVERY FUCKING PERSON HAS TO BE BLACK IN ORDER FOR A FILM TO BE VIABLE!!!
Thomasin’s love interest is a black fellow.
I have no problem with that.
He does a good job.
For fuck’s sake…he doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page!
Michael Ajao.
Fine acting!
There can be important black characters WITHOUT A FILM BEING A WOKE FUCKING JOKE (like the recent Bond film).
No big deal.
Don’t make it a big deal.
It has to fit with the story.
The story is the most important thing.
The writers of the Bond film (Purvis and Wade) have allowed their name to be attached to the fucking pathetic shit of No Time to Die.
So you get a kiwi to speak in a Cornish accent.
GREAT ACTRESS!
Thomasin McKenzie.
Say that name with me.
Jacinda Ardern’s father (or mother?) was a horse.
Ugly bitch.
Ugly soul.
Thomasin McKenzie is the best thing to ever come out of New Zealand.
However, there has been one perfect kiwi movie: Eagle vs Shark.
Synnøve Karlsen is so fucking annoying in Soho.
And she was supposed to be.
So, good job (I guess).
Every film needs a villain.
And Jocasta (Karlsen’s character) is the real villain of this film.
Thomasin is different.
Jocasta beats her down.
Mentally.
A stingy spirit.
Can never share in any of her joys.
Do you know anyone like that?
But Thomasin is troubled.
Hallucinations?
Maybe.
Seeing ghosts?
Maybe.
We’re trying to solve a case here.
Cold case.
Maybe a lot of cold cases.
Maybe a serial killer.
To the Belle and Sebastian bedsit.
Salad days are short-lived.
Don’t underestimate Sandie Shaw.
Always something there to remind me.
1964.
Puppet on a string.
Gotta pay your dues.
As a wind-up bird girl.
Brian Epstein.
Giorgio Gomelsky.
Andrew Loog Oldham.
ABKCO.
The influence of Vertigo upon Last Night in Soho cannot be understated.
The red of the Café de Paris.
The blonde of Anya Taylor-Joy’s hair.
And Thomasin’s hair.
[also, don’t underestimate Bergman’s Persona]
The glance to the side.
It’s not Jimmy Stewart.
It’s Thomasin.
Allusions to The Way of the Dragon and The Lady from Shanghai in the mirrors.
Sure, a bit of Pulp Fiction.
But that’s just for the kids.
Edgar Wright’s grasp of cinema history is way deeper than some Tarantino bullshit.
And yet, he likes zombies.
And shitty horror films from the ’80s.
I mean REALLY shitty, camp ones.
Slasher films.
Back to Vertigo.
Kim Novak’s apartment is bathed in green neon.
But Thomasin’s bedsit is a red, white, and blue homage to Godard.
An homage to Une Femme est une femme.
Dancing.
Dancing girls.
Prostitutes.
Vivre sa vie.
Pink dress fembot.
Pew pew.
Thomasin is way sexier than Anya Taylor-Joy.
Thomasin is the girl next door.
The frumpy hair of Homeless to Harvard.
I love it.
It must be this way.
To juxtapose the transition to Swinging Sixties glamour.
Is Trump just culture jamming with his vaccine tack?
Either that, or the hero has become the villain.
Did the D.C. swamp make Trump into a swamp zombie?
Maybe no one comes out clean.
International law was broken.
War crimes.
All these Wright films have zombies.
Or robots.
Faceless automatons.
A bit of Dragon Tattoo.
We all like a good microfiche scene!
Is Terence Stamp her father?
If Sandie is her mother?
Could be.
Otherwise, she would be the daughter of a prick.
But Stamp tried to save Sandie.
Arsenic and old lace.
The ones you never suspect.
Sicario.
“Buried” in the walls.
Decomposing.
Poe.
Gacy.
Wright’s “sympathy for the serial killer”.
What happened to these people that made them monsters?
Don’t underestimate Truffaut’s Fahrenheit 451 (his only English-language film…and a flat-out masterpiece).
In the world of Edgar Wright, it is records.
Vinyl.
Not books.
And sometimes the elderly want to die with their memories.
They are not going anywhere.
They are not fleeing.
It’s been a good life.
Going down with the ship.
Up in flames.
The shitbags want their deaths avenged.
After all, they were just horny, well-to-do dads who needed a little excitement.
Prostitution.
It’s the law, after all.
Murder is murder.
Crimes of passion.
By reason of insanity.
Not guilty.
Not insane.
But traumatized.
But Thomasin has been on the adventure.
She knows what Sandie has been through.
Trump was abused for four years.
That is true.
And he fought like a champ.
Is there no justice?
Is it culture jamming (I ask again)?
Confusion.
Keeping his enemies off balance.
Getting a foot in the door.
Truth Social will censor “hate speech” with a Silicon Valley AI bot.
In order to get on Apple App Store and Google Play.
But the roll out is delayed?
Lie about the vaccines.
“Safe and effective”.
Move in for the kill shot.
Against whom?
Big Pharma and the New World Order.
But we have to call out serial killers for who they are.
If you are saying the COVID vaccines are “safe and effective”, you are spreading misinformation that is endangering the lives of those who hear and trust you.
CDC: 11,879
Open VAERS: 23,149
Neither safe,
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
https://openvaers.com/covid-data/mortality
nor effective.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-covid-deaths-2021-vaccines-b1963790.html
10,000-20,000 vaccine deaths should be read as 100,000-200,000 vaccine deaths because of this:
https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/02/underreporting-vaccine-adverse-events
And correlation does not necessarily equal causation…unless this (peep the myocarditis…you think that’s all JnJ? [nigga please!]):
https://openvaers.com/covid-data
But the election was stolen.
Or was it allowed to be stolen?
When will the other shoe drop?
Or does the other shoe even exist?
This charade is going to go on until 2024?
Maybe Sandie is not her mother.
-PD
No Time to Die [2021)
This is not a game.
Pull quote.
C-17.
This film was a rip of Blood Heat novel 1988 Steve Pieczenik.
Out of print.
Buy now.
https://stevepieczenik.com/product/blood-heat-audiobook/
Little man Fauci Malek.
Unit 731.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Pieczenik banned from Japan.
Current.
Persona non grata.
Khabarovsk War Crime Trials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khabarovsk_War_Crime_Trials
CIA paperclipped.
But so did Soviets.
No doubt.
Unit 100.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_100
Unit 516.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_516
Unit 1855.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_1855
Unit Ei 1644.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_Ei_1644
Unit 8604.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8604
Unit 9420.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_9420
Diseases disguised as vaccinations.
Fleas*.
Delivery mechanism.
Marine vessel Ning-Po.
Smallpox joke dropped early.
Date: November 9, 2021.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bill-gates-smallpox-terror-attack-b1958789.html
Date: November 18, 2021. [note* nine days later]
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/18/philadelphia-lab-smallpox-vials-freezer
Frame of reference.
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events-archive/2001_dark-winter/
How many times did Joe Biden drop the phrase “dark winter”?
Can the Democrats allow the midterms (2022) to happen?
Won’t they get politically slaughtered at the polls?
How much has the system which allowed the rigged 2020 U.S. Presidential election been shored up?
Was Virginia (Youngkin) a test?
Gates really likes the number 9.
BioNTech (Pfizer COVID vaccine) cash infusion ($55 mil.) from Gates Foundation.
Date: September 4, 2019.
BioNTech NASDAQ IPO.
Date: October 9, 2019
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-biontech-ipo-idUSKBN1WO29B
Event 201.
Date: October 18, 2019 [nine days later]
https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/
I see five major players of the non-game 6uild6ack6etter:
Klaus Schwab (a Kissinger protégé), Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, Prince Charles, and Pope Bergoglio.
Shirō Ishii.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Ishii
Deaths of microbiologists in months following 9/11/01.
Benito Que, Donald C. Wiley, Vladimir Pasechnik, Robert Schwartz, Set Van Nguyen, Vladimir Korshunov, and Ian Langford. Not to mention Air Sibir 1812 (shot down by Ukrainian SAM). Five microbiologists aboard. Israeli microbiologists? En route to Novosibirsk. Also not to mention Swissair crash on approach to Zurich. Died: head of hematology Ichilov Hospital (Israel). Died: directors of Tel Aviv Public Health Department and Hebrew University of Medicine. 33 passengers. 24 died. All Israelis aboard died. Possible names (pseudonyms?): Avishai Berkman, Amiram Eldor, and Yaacov Matzner.
https://www.fromthewilderness.net/free/ww3/02_14_02_microbio.html
Masaji Kitano.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaji_Kitano
Doctors of death.
Listen to the master, Dr. Steve Pieczenik, M.D., Ph.D., speak about this.
https://stevepieczenik.com/2021/08/09/opus-8821-doctors-of-death/
Yoshio Shinozuka.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Shinozuka
Yasuji Kaneko.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuji_Kaneko
War criminals.
Ichirō Hatoyama (Japanese PM 1954-1956).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichir%C5%8D_Hatoyama
Nobusuke Kishi (Japanese PM 1957-1960).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Kishi
Hayato Ikeda (Japanese PM 1960-1964).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayato_Ikeda
Three Japanese Prime Ministers.
Not indicted.
Please explain Trump’s position on the COVID vaccines.
General Otozō Yamada.
Sentenced to 25 years in a labor camp by the Soviets.
Served only seven years before being repatriated to Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoz%C5%8D_Yamada
General Shunji Sato (a physician).
Sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Served only seven years before being repatriated to Japan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunji_Sato
Bacteria mass production.
Under “epidemic prevention” and “water purification” euphemisms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic_Prevention_and_Water_Purification_Department
Rami Malek character Lucifer (Lyutsifer).
Peter Daszak working for CIA?
Anthony Fauci covering for CIA?
Fauci covering for U.S. military?
Sticky situation.
Are the statements of Dr. Jon McGreevey (Ryan Dark White) legitimate?
I believe Lin Wood has thoroughly discredited himself by now with his incessant attacks on (particulary) General Michael Flynn.
But could Lin Wood’s whistleblower by bona fide?
He’s running for U.S. Senate in Maryland.
And then you have Ron Watkins (CodeMonkeyZ) running for U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona.
Might as well throw in Bobby Piton running for U.S. Senate in Illinois.
Per McGreevey:
he claims that COVID is a defensive bioweapon “designed to protect the United States” and also (most notably) that he himself designed it. According to McGreevey, it is called GenAegis (Genetic Shield). McGreevey elaborates on it a bit here…”a weapon designed to seek out certain DNA, programmable […] they can make endless variants”.
Sound familiar?
McGreevey’s assertion is that Obama and Biden gave this bioweapon to China (who then converted it to an offensive bioweapon?).
It was (according to him) developed at Fort Detrick (Maryland).
How does this comport with USMC Major Joseph Murphy’s recent whistleblowing to Project Veritas?
Murphy claims that COVID was a vaccine FOR bats (which was to be administered in an aerosolized version by spraying it into caves in China), but that it leaked out of the Wuhan lab before it was finished.
Murphy’s main contention is that DARPA refused the project, but NIAID (which Fauci runs) then subsequently accepted the project.
The project was proposed to DARPA by the EcoHealth Alliance (run by Peter Daszak).
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This evidence was discovered by Murphy in his capacity at DARPA.
The evidence is now ostensibly being held by the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA) at Quantico.
Note that NCIS is also HQ at Quantico.
And of course there is FBI there as well.
[not to mention United States Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACID) and U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI or OSI)]
But let’s back up to NCIS for a moment.
Why does Ron DeSantis (Navy JAG) seem so much more wise than Donald Trump on the COVID vaccines in these last couple of months?
DeSantis has not gone full-retard like the man who should win the Nobel Peace Prize (Dr. Robert Malone), but DeSantis also hasn’t shot his mouth off like the buffoon Trump.
What happened to Trump?
Great President.
And then he broadcasts to the world that he got the Pfizer vaccine (while encouraging people to take these shots)?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-i-got-the-pfizer-125703879.html
And he casually drops his booster status after a crowd in Dallas gathered to hear him speak had just sung the Christian hymn “How Great Thou Art”? [sounds like Hochul’s church vaccine speech]
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-played-conspiracy-theory-hits-024518810.html
And then Trump lies (?) to Candace Owens about people taking the vaccines not dying?
And finally, Trump makes what appears to be a pointed reference to DeSantis in which Trump insinuates that DeSantis is “gutless” for not revealing his booster status?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-roasts-gutless-desantis-for-keeping-his-booster-status-a-secret
Just what the hell has been going on with Donald Trump?!?
These outbursts have caused me to lose all faith in him.
I would take DeSantis (or Ron Paul, or Tucker Carlson, or Candace Owens, or Robert Malone, or RFK Jr. or almost anyone) over Trump at this point.
Trump has backed off the vaccine-pushing.
But I have to say: that is not good enough.
The man need only visit two websites to understand the danger of these vaccines:
the criminally-parsed version
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
-and-
the actual version
https://openvaers.com/covid-data/mortality
These figures (11,879 and 23,149 [respectively]) should be increased by a factor of 10 to account for the historical underreporting to the passive-surveillance (voluntary) VAERS system [HHS] of serious adverse events such as Kawasaki disease (i.e. 118,790 deaths or 231,490 deaths).
https://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/11/02/underreporting-vaccine-adverse-events
And in case anyone wants to play the “correlation does not necessarily equal causation” card, consider this:
https://openvaers.com/covid-data
As for their efficacy…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-covid-deaths-2021-vaccines-b1963790.html
And of course there is this gem about ethno-specific bioweapons:
https://www.wired.com/1998/11/israels-ethnic-weapon/
Are you starting to understand why China and Silicon Valley want your DNA?
This is a new kind of war where certain people will be purposefully made susceptible and others purposefully made nonsusceptible to bioweapons released on a massive scale.
Not to mention that the vaccines are debilitating the U.S. military (while SecDef Austin [a General] and CJCS Milley stand around with their dicks in their hands).
That’s treason!
They should have known.
And if they didn’t know, they’re still responsible.
The buck stops with them.
Why the insane push for all of humanity to receive vaccines that are neither safe, nor effective?
And why is Trump’s “solidarity” with the Canadian truckers (Freedom Convoy) so at odds with his months of moronic statements regarding the vaccines?
Does he not realize that these people are rising up PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THE VACCINES HE BROUGHT INTO THE WORLD?!?
Don’t forget that Trump’s Operation Warp Speed (of which he is evidently so proud [see Candace Owens article above]) ALSO PAID FOR THE AstraZenca VACCINE (WHICH IS NOT EVEN AVAILABLE AT ALL IN THE USA)!!!
[not to mention three others we funded that are also not available at all in the USA: Novavax, Sanofi, and GlaxoSmithKline]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%E2%80%93AstraZeneca_COVID-19_vaccine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novavax_COVID-19_vaccine
It should be noted that there is not a Sanofi or GSK COVID vaccine approved anywhere in the world.
Where did those $2 billion dollars we gave them go?
While Sanofi and GSK took HHS (U.S. taxpayer) money and ran (producing nothing?), here are the other countries which have developed their own COVID vaccines:
–China (8 different vaccines [Sinopharm BIBP, CoronaVac, Convidecia, Sinopharm WIBP, Zifivax, Minhai, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and Sinopharm CNBG])
–Russia (4 different vaccines [Sputnik V, Sputnik Light, EpiVacCorona, and CoviVac])
–Iran (4 different vaccines [COVIran Barekat, FAKHRAVAC, COVAX-19 {in conjunction with Australian company CinnaGen}, and Razi Cov Pars])
–India (3 different vaccines [Covaxin, ZyCoV-D, and Corbevax {developed by Texas Children’s Hospital < ! > and Baylor College of Medicine <Houston>}])
–Cuba (3 different vaccines [Abdala, Soberana 02, Soberana Plus])
–Turkey (Turkovac)
–Kazakhstan (QazCovid-in)
–Taiwan (Medigen)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_COVID-19_vaccine_authorizations
Why was a children’s hospital and medical school in Texas developing a COVID vaccine that is only available in India (licensed to Biological E. Limited [BioE])?
Who paid for it?
Where’s Rand Paul?
This is a huge waste of money.
The three vaccines we got (Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson [which were totally unnecessary to rush {considering the low mortality rate of COVID-19 <relative to ebola or smallpox, for instance>}]) are neither safe, nor effective.
If Trump knows the available vaccines in the USA aren’t safe (how could he not know?), then he is liable for the death and injury caused by his encouragement for people to take the vaccines.
State Department character based on Ash Carter?
State Department infiltrated by Rami Malek.
CIA is trusting a foreign agent.
Death of Felix Leiter.
Death of James Bond.
Is 007 now a black lesbian like mayor Lightfoot of Chicago and disgraced BLM cofounder Patrice Cullors?
Q is gay.
Houston recently had a white lesbian mayor [Annise Parker].
And what about black lesbian Karine Jean-Pierre (KJP [Psaki’s backup])?
Is this some kind of cult?
That’s a lot of black lesbians.
And one white lesbian.
Muriel Bowser (D.C. mayor)?
Donna Brazile?
Lashana Lynch is aptly named after androgynous Klaus Nomi.
Is 007 now a black transexual?
Spoiler alert: James Bond dies.
Is this the end of the series?
And the Bond franchise has to keep the diversity in high gear.
Who cast this movie: Richard Torres-Estrada?
Bishop Garrison?
Lloyd Austin?
Mark Milley?
Michael Gilday?
At least Ana de Armas is charming.
I can’t say the same about Lashana Lynch.
What the fuck is this woke shit?!?
Ian Fleming would be puking his guts out.
Assange in Belmarsh.
But let’s make sure we have the score here.
The one representative of the CIA (Felix Leiter): black male.
Miss Moneypenny: black female.
The new 007: black female.
What percentage of the U.K. is black?
3.3%.
Three percent.
This is a British film.
Eon Productions Ltd.
Piccadilly (London).
Pinewood Studios.
But the film was also produced by MGM.
Beverly Hills.
Ok.
What percentage of the USA is black?
14.2%.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/
Ok.
So let’s look at the main characters.
Daniel Craig: British white male.
Léa Seydoux: French white female.
Rami Malek: Egyptian-American [African-American] male.
Lashana Lynch: British black female.
Ben Whishaw: British white male.
Naomie Harris: British black female.
Jeffrey Wright: African-American [black] male.
Christoph Waltz: Austrian-German white male.
Ralph Fiennes: British white male.
Billy Magnussen: American white male.
Ana De Armas: Cuban-Spanish female.
David Dencik: Danish-Swedish white male.
Rory Kinnear: British white male.
Dali Benssalah: French-Algerian male.
14 characters.
It’s nominally a British movie (although co-produced by American company MGM).
What percentage of the main cast is British?
6/14 (43%).
Less than half of the main cast is British.
What percentage of the main cast is American?
3/14 (21%).
That means 36% of the main cast is neither British, nor American.
Why?
Maybe the story called for it.
The evil guys have to be exotic.
Rami Malek (Egyptian heritage) and Christoph Waltz (Germanic).
Dencik (the biological weapons guy) is a Scandinavian playing a Russian.
Also a baddie.
What percentage of the main cast is white?
8/14 (57%).
The good guy (James Bond) is white.
But two of the three villains are also white.
The third main villain is of Egyptian descent.
What percentage of the main cast is male?
10/14 (71%).
It is an action movie.
Who goes to war?
Men?
Are women drafted into most militaries in the world?
Do they participate in combat roles?
How often?
What percentage of the main cast is white male?
7/14 (50%).
Let’s be honest.
The James Bond franchise cucked out to the looters and arsonists of BLM.
Eon and MGM kneeled in fealty to woke Hollywood.
Continuing.
What percentage of the main cast is black?
3/14 (21%).
This is the important number.
Britain is 3.3% black.
So blacks are WAY overrepresented in what is a British franchise.
But even if we figure in the American coproducer MGM, blacks are still overrepresented.
America is 14.2% black.
So blacks are even overrepresented here by 50% in relation to the American production company.
But here’s the other important part.
Of the top seven characters (as they are listed in the Wikipedia entry for this film [presumably based on screentime]), three are black.
3/7 (43% of the “stars” or leading roles in this film are played black people).
Compare that to the 3.3% British black population.
Or the 14.2% American black population.
This is an absurdly-high overrepresentation of black people!
For what?
Are 43% of box office returns in the USA because of black viewers?
I highly fucking doubt it.
And do the 3.3% of Britain who are black make up 43% of the viewership (i.e. revenue) there?
There is strictly no chance.
So this movie is a woke joke.
A woke disaster.
In terms of casting.
The worst is Lashana Lynch.
Not talented. Not charming. Completely ill-cast.
Jeffrey Wright is mediocre.
Nothing special.
The best is Naomie Harris.
SHE should have been the black, female 007 (if they were going to go that route).
For fucksake…she was a field agent in Skyfall.
Why the fuck did she get relegated to becoming M’s secretary?
She’s charming.
She’s capable.
Neither of which (in the acting sense) can be said about Lashana Lynch.
Lynch is most similar to Gloria Hendry in Live and Let Die.
At least Hendry was attractive.
Sexy.
And funny.
Or we could compare Lynch to another androgynous abomination: Trina Parks (Thumper) in Diamonds Are Forever.
Nothing like a flat-as-a-board, muscular black woman to get the heterosexual male fired up.
This is, again (after all), an action movie.
Who is the target audience?
Does the LGBTQ community really get into James Bond?
I don’t fucking think so.
At least Trump is right about this: “Everything woke turns to shit.”
There are disaster movies.
And then there are movies that are disasters.
This is the latter.
What a fucking woke piece of shit.
And who was responsible for this artistic abomination?
Bay Area failed-snowboarder, Japanese-American Cary Joji Fukunaga.
This dude was totally unqualified to shoot a Bond film.
And it shows.
What a fucking ripoff.
Don’t waste your money on this piece-of-shit film.
Danny Boyle (both excellent Trainspotting films) should have directed this movie.
It appears that Fukunaga not only killed James Bond, but killed the James Bond franchise as well.
Great job, fucktard!
Fuck you, you piece-of-shit, no-talent director.
-PD
bucolic [2021)
It starts just like Charlotte Gainsbourg.
5:55.
Air.
Nigel Godrich.
But there is something different.
A shruti box?
A little distorto guitar.
Ah, yes.
Chuchotements.
Françoise Hardy.
A little Yo La Tengo.
Built to Spill.
Guitar carries it for a second.
Good lyrics.
All mood.
And then into an Amon Düül II warble.
Like Marc Bolan.
Jim Carrey.
Most annoying sound in the world.
Into Pink Floyd.
David Gilmour.
Circa The Wall.
Strange sadness.
Almost a premonition of impending doom.
Calm before the storm.
J. Spaceman telephony.
Floating with no highs and no lows.
All mids.
Strong opening track.
Very slow-moving.
Luxurious.
Immediate Delgados shift.
Paul Savage.
Pauly Deathwish.
Glasgow effect.
Great counterpoint for a pop musician.
But if you check this bloke’s CV…
You’ll know he went through Fux.
Gonna have to say Elliott Smith.
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci.
Megan Childs violin.
Around the warm fire.
Welsh.
Expansive.
Strings open up.
Hate.
More Fridmann.
Pointillism.
Schoenberg.
Timbre.
Richard James.
GZM.
Beethoven.
Another Welshman.
John Cale.
Orchestral bass that Lou loved.
This guy’s a bastard.
Jaded.
Hurt.
Is this a breakup album?
I thought the last one was a breakup album?
Ahhh…
Into Gorwel Owen.
1968.
Floyd.
Atom.
Mad cow.
The last GZM album.
Rockfield.
Bohemian.
String band.
Money never runs out.
Cheap air organ.
Tubes?
Fan.
A very apropos album title.
Woody.
Tobacco.
Spring water Scotch.
And then the Great Reset arrives.
Like a fucking spaceship.
Dark shit.
What is this glitch business?
Thom Yorke blasts upon the scene.
Drums James Brown.
Good groove.
Savvy.
Whoa!
Marching band.
Drumline.
Snares.
Caught by Lee “Scratch”.
Guitar all mangled.
Melodies solid.
Mogwai?
Bert Jansch out of fucking nowhere.
Definitely Lips.
Pet Sounds.
Track rejected by Bond franchise.
Convincing.
Acoustic to electric.
Now it’s Serge.
Requiem.
Stereolab.
Break beat.
Absolutely boffo.
BOF.
More Brian Wilson.
Van Dyke Parks.
Phil Spector.
High Llamas.
Still a sadness.
That the old world is passing away.
FUCK!!!
Right into some Leonard Cohen shit!
Scott Walker.
How the FUCK was this recorded?
Sounds like 2″ tape.
Question:
how has this Pauly Deathwish released three albums in two months?
I can’t even keep up with this guy.
Mercury Rev.
Deserter’s Songs.
Levon Helm.
Chamberlin.
Mellotron?
Like a Christmas album.
See You on the Other Side.
David Fricke.
A review in the liner notes.
“Everlasting Arm”.
Definite vibe.
Record pillaging wizard.
Baritone.
Lots of fucking glockenspiel on this record.
But it’s nice.
Like Ennio Morricone.
Cinema Paradiso.
Mandolins.
Jackie Gleason.
Dean Martin.
Herb Alpert.
Tchaikovsky.
Again with sugar plum.
Slick!
Very light.
Chiaroscuro.
Fresher than the sweetness in water.
Hearing Dungen.
IV Thieves.
Makes sense.
“Frenchie” Smith.
Dig CV.
Light, British, airy.
Good hook.
Hooky.
Is this the single?
A little neo-psych Hendrix moment.
It’s definitely GZM.
Repetition until transcend.
Stereolab first album.
Not looped.
Manuel.
Carpenters.
Messiaen.
Definitely some breakup here.
Sonic Youth.
Sister.
Experimental.
Thurston.
Lots of drum machine.
Drum and bass.
Panning.
Definitely holds up with Radiohead.
How the fuck was this made?
PD tells us that it was all made on an iPhone with only a Telecaster.
That is some serious trickery.
Ear fooling.
This is COMPLEX music.
Mixes sound polished.
Clarity.
Some Chinese stuff.
Noise floor fucked for the first time ever.
Bacon?
Rollerskate Skinny.
It’s THAT good.
Shoulder Voices.
How was this made?
This heralds a new talent.
But this bloke is 44.
Tour sponsored by Ensure.
Not hearing a sophomore slump here.
Two albums in two months.
Review third forthcoming.
This dude is emo as fuck.
I dig it.
This guy is a mystery.
What is his deal?
This sounds more like a cohesive album that Introversion.
Introversion sounds like a debut album…in all the best ways.
Songs saved up.
A greatest hits.
Go big or go home.
This album deals much more in subtlety.
Not every song here is a home run.
This album breathes.
Ambiance.
Negative space.
More Beach Boys vibes.
70s.
Sad.
Bathrobe.
But mentally sharp.
A spark of genius.
A little bluegrass.
Bill Monroe.
Dock Boggs.
The old world is passing away.
Jonny Greenwood.
Georges Bizet.
Live forever.
Nonesuch.
Elektra.
Hoyt Ming.
Incredible String Band.
Wales, Scotland.
Back and forth.
And across to Ireland.
Oh, no.
There’s the single.
“Makes Me Wanna Stay in Bed”.
Emma Pollock.
Hate is all you need.
Coming in from the cold.
New Radicals.
Delayed bass from The Wall.
Pavement.
Spoon.
Good fucking song!
Eisteddfod.
All Is Dream.
Hard following up.
Unenviable.
Emma Pollock solo.
With Alun Woodward singing.
The Great Eastern.
New Spiritualized.
Banjo.
Let It Come Down.
Abbey Road.
Coldplay.
A Rush of Blood to the Head.
This bloke is serious as fuck.
Sad eyes.
I’m sensing a Jandek promotional strategy.
Final track Richter.
Ravel.
Emperor.
Philip Glass.
Conlon Nancarrow.
City/country dichotomy.
Urban/rural.
Urban encroaching.
Something felt.
Big symphony night.
Excitement of New York Phil.
The fucking french horns!
Automation.
A story in dynamics.
Lesson.
A folk album.
bucolic.
Pauly Deathwish.
iTunes.
Spotify.
-PD
Napapiirin sankarit [2010)
Here is a masterpiece.
Not since Aaltra (2004) has a movie so perfectly made use of the dark humor pioneered by Louis-Ferdinand Céline in Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932).
Lapland Odyssey is Finnish film which is currently free to watch on Tubi.
I cannot give enough praise to the director, Dome Karukoski.
This is not just a miraculous feat of storytelling, but the mise-en-scène of a true auteur.
I was born 15 days earlier than Mr. Karukoski: 43 years ago.
Our director hails from Cyprus.
Where Eric Schmidt has recently applied for citizenship.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/9/21547055/eric-schmidt-google-citizen-cyprus-european-union
Funny timing, that.
Wouldn’t Eric Schmidt welcome a Biden Presidency?
Does Mr. Schmidt fear something in the United States?
Perhaps the former CEO of Google knows something we do not?
Might it concern impending public corruption trials?
And, just maybe, a reelection of Donald Trump?
Lapland Odyssey premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2010.
That was the same year that Toronto-based company Dominion Voting Systems acquired not only Premier Election Solutions (an American company [Ohio]) from ES&S (Election Systems & Software [Omaha, Nebraska]), but also Sequoia Voting Systems [California] from Smartmatic [U.K.].
PES had only been acquired by ES&S the previous year (2009). Before that, PES was owned by Diebold.
Premier Election Systems was formerly known as Diebold Election Systems.
Before Diebold bought it, it was known as General Election Systems.
Before General Election Systems bought it, it was known as I-Mark Systems.
You get the picture.
Dominion Voting Systems is now owned by American private equity firm Staple Street Capital (which has extremely strong ties to the Carlyle Group [George H.W. Bush’s former benefactor]).
https://www.osler.com/en/expertise/deals-cases/dominion-voting-systems
None of this would have been possible without Jussi Vatanen.
Vatanen is our hero.
He is tasked with the impossible.
Find a digital TV receiver (“digibox”) in one night.
After the local electronics store has closed.
This involves a trip to Rovaniemi: the main city of Lapland.
[population 63,032]
Hundred of kilometers to get to Finland’s 17th most populated city.
In Finland, Lapland is not only the northernmost province, but it is also the largest province of the country.
It bears mentioning that there is also a Swedish province called Lapland.
The cleavage of these two Laplands dates to 1809: when Russia annexed the eastern part of Sweden and declared it the Grand Duchy of Finland.
My closest brush with this region was a single musical concert I played years ago in the town of Kiruna (in Swedish Lapland): Sweden’s northernmost town [population 22,906].
It was an experience which profoundly changed me and which stays with me till this day.
Finnish Lapland borders Sweden’s Norrbotten County. At Norrbotten’s northernmost point can be found Kiruna (north of the Arctic Circle).
At the southeast corner of Norrbotten County is Piteå: my favorite town in Sweden.
The town of Piteå sits on the Gulf of Bothnia–just across the water from Finland.
I also played a musical concert in Piteå.
It was, perhaps, the happiest time in my life.
So I can imagine Rovaniemi.
A city just four miles south of the Arctic Circle.
Jussi Vatanen plays the loser who makes good.
Which makes him, in fact, not a loser.
I can intimately relate to that.
I have lost my job (again).
I am addicted to drugs (again).
And I am addicted to alcohol (a first for me).
It is in these days, when I am having the first true experience in my life with alcohol withdrawal, that I come to this film.
It is the perfect film.
It is just exactly the film I needed at this particular time.
Because I, like Janne (Vatanen’s character), am trying my damnedest to get my life together.
Last week, I got engaged.
Actually, REengaged.
I exercise (pacing back and forth in my parents’ garage as my phone records my steps).
I drink less.
I exercise.
I drink less.
Nausea.
Dizziness.
ANXIETY.
And extreme fucking INSOMNIA.
When I was in Kiruna, the sun only went down for four hours.
I didn’t see the Northern Lights.
But you can see them in this film.
And they are glorious.
If it is CGI, then I am losing my touch.
Because I don’t believe it is.
I appears to be the genuine article.
Aurora borealis.
And headaches!
Lots of sunflower seeds.
Big red welts all up and down my arms and torso from nicotine patches.
I can no longer afford my General Snus.
Sure, I have some stashed away…
But my wise old psychologist once told me: “just move one thing at a time”.
- alcohol
- tobacco
- valerian?
- Ambien?
- Xanax?
I put question marks because I am unsure of the order.
Main goal is STOP DRINKING.
Or, should I say, the FIRST goal.
If I can get an MBA, surely I can stop drinking.
[God willing]
For every hero, there needs to be a doubter.
To provide context.
The hero forges forward (when it would probably be best to just quit).
The hero quits (when it would be much easier to just continue).
The hero is determined.
The hero gives energy and inspiration to those around him.
But the doubter adds richness.
Because it is human to doubt.
Will Donald Trump be reelected President?
We will find out when the Electoral College meets on my birthday to ELECT a new President-Elect.
Till then, Joe Biden is at best the worst kind of poseur.
He is doing exactly what he promised Chris Wallace and the American people he WOULD NOT do: to declare victory before the election is independently certified.
What a hypocrite.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-victory-election-independently-certified
Each state certifies its vote.
Biden does not have enough votes at the moment (by way of certified state votes and their concomitant electors) to declare victory.
N.B. It is the Electoral College which will ELECT the next President (who THEN AND ONLY THEN becomes known as the President-Elect).
And so we doubt.
Me and Jasper Pääkkönen.
Was there fraud?
I believe so.
And you may doubt in the other direction.
Was there fraud?
You doubt there was.
But I know there was.
Because I have basic research skills.
And I availed myself of Rudy Giuliani’s masterful delineation of the case for fraud.
[no thanks to American mass media (which completely blacked out all coverage of Giuliani’s press conference with Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis)]
So we all doubt, each in our own way.
And someone may convince us.
The law may even compel us.
The U.S. Supreme Court may weigh in on the legality of certain ballots in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Cold states.
Particularly Michigan and Wisconsin.
Fort Meade.
4thPOG.
Dark Horse.
Fly fishing.
Fort Bragg.
Timo Lavikainen is the late-bloomer.
Along for the ride.
But absolutely essential.
Able to love.
You must become like a child to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Sibelius.
Karelia.
1893.
News of war.
Siege.
National anthem.
At some point we might mention the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Which lasted about 500 years (until 1795).
For beauty, we have Pamela Tola.
She just wants a fucking digibox, for christsakes!
Something about those blonde bangs.
Then there is the villain.
A bit like Alex “Scott Evil” Soros.
A bit like Martin Vanger.
Kari Ketonen plays the boy who never got anything.
…and let it make him evil.
He plays the cheater.
The trickster.
A character with absolutely no morals.
Strictly driven by lust.
[and a good bit of narcissism]
He comes off looking a bit like Kip in another masterpiece of a film: Napoleon Dynamite.
Imagine Kip as an irredeemably-unscrupulous character and you will have a pretty good idea of who Pikku-Mikko is.
Little Mikko.
Short.
Short people.
Randy Newman.
Mikko moves in for the kill while the matrimonial bed is still warm.
Mikko false-flags his way into manipulating his enemy.
Mikko is a master of PSYWAR.
But God wins in the end.
And Moa Gammel is the real star of this film.
In a strange way.
Principal siren.
Debussy.
A Swede.
Almost the doppelgänger of Pamela Tola.
The Swede is the world image of beauty.
Alluring.
Beckoning.
The Finn is more quixotic.
Cute.
Harsh.
Soulful.
None of this, of course, means a damn thing.
And all the while Timo Lavikainen just wants to see Miia Nuutila’s tits.
License plate.
Ali G.
There will be helicopters.
-PD
The Girl in the Spider’s Web [2018)
EMERGENCY TRANSMISSION:
https://79days.news/watch?id=5fa480cc65f2d419a08b54e2
This has been planned for a long time.
The red hat.
Gate 45.
The chess piece is the watermark.
Sting operation.
Think it can’t happen?
Think ABSCAM times a million.
Sans FBI.
Every ballot watermarked with QFS blockchain encryption code.
Yes, it appears (from the testimony provided in the link above) that secret anti-fraud measures were put in place for this year’s election.
Watermarked ballots.
Trump has pulled back and is allowing the thoroughly-corrupt Democrats (who represent the globalists) and their pusillanimous media minions (99% of American mass media) to make fools of themselves.
It was a trap.
Sun Tzu, motherfuckers!
DHS (who will likely soon replace the FBI it its entirety) was in charge of printing ballots.
Non-radioactive isotope watermarks.
National guard called up in 12 states.
Washington [+D.C.?], Delaware, Texas, Arizona, Alabama…
The implication here is that the military will be used as law enforcement in some way.
That is how I’m reading it (by watching the above video).
Counter-coup II.
In 2016 it was Hillary (and family).
Now it is the corrupt Biden family.
Q: “Are arrests coming down the road?”
A: “Yes. They’re coming…not just down the road. They are being implemented.”
[…]
“People will be arrested as of tonight, tomorrow, and it will go on for quite awhile.”
Holy fuck.
“This is the biggest sting operation in our country…probably that we’ve ever had.”
Some sort of RFID (?) on the ballots for cyber tracking?
Some sort of radiation signature?
Enter the NSA.
Not exactly located in D.C. (as this movie would have you believe), but rather at Fort Meade in Maryland.
Firefall sounds (phonetically) like Skyfall (and, in substance, like The Hammer/Scorecare).
What happens when NSA tools escape?
Assange revealed some stuff in the Vault 7 drop.
For which the password was a riddle:
SplinterIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterIntoTheWinds.
Ahhh, the good old days of Vault 7 (leading up to the 2016 election).
SÄPO (Swedish FBI) again show themselves to be corrupt (and inept).
[like the former leaders of the American FBI…Comey, McCabe, Strzok…]
The Spiders.
Organized crime.
Certain elements are trite (like the half-hearted, passing device of framing Salander for shooting Balder).
Double-cross the double-cross.
Or as Guy Debord wrote, “deceit deceives itself”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50_BMG
Seeing through walls.
Tapping into “security” system.
Makes you sitting ducks.
Two technologies fused to create a sort of video game.
The mother of invention.
The absurdity of evil.
Beyond banality is the end scenario.
A rout.
Claire Foy is pretty damned good here.
So is LaKeith Stanfield.
Christopher Convery does a very fine job.
Cameron Britton makes a good Plague.
Quite a fine film from Fede Álvarez.
Even some very nice musical scoring from Roque Baños.
So get your popcorn ready.
-PD
Stieg Larssons Millennium: Del 1 [2010)
You thought we were done.
You’ve wasted so much ammunition.
Having fun yet?
Electoral College meeting date.
December 14.
Sandy Hook.
Harriet Vanger disappearance.
September 22.
Stieg Larsson’s death.
November 9.
Election day.
November 3.
Larsson dies before any of his novels are published?
Dies before the fantastic success of both the novels and subsequent films.
Heart attack at age 50 “after climbing the stairs at work”.
His grandfather had also died of a heart attack at age 50?
He was a smoker, they say.
Like Lisbeth Salander.
Search CIA heart attack gun.
Get this.
The Soviets developed first (ostensibly).
Just like MKUltra.
Not brainwashing, but “deprogramming” those POWs brainwashed during the Korean war.
Ostensibly.
And the Nazis were just “researching” when they conducted human experiments on Jews and other prisoners, right?
https://sofrep.com/news/watch-former-cia-employees-discuss-heart-attack-gun/
Per Oscarsson dies in house fire after appearing in the final Millennium Trilogy film.
December 31.
Wennerström.
Corrupt billionaire of fiction.
Stig Wennerström.
Actual Swedish Air Force colonel convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviets.
He was suspected by SÄPO (the Swedish equivalent of the FBI) of working for the Nazis as early as 1943.
From working with the Nazis (national socialism), he dovetailed into working for the Soviets (socialism/communism).
OPUS 240 Fascism comes from the Left!
Wennerström could have been executed by firing squad for treason because, after all, there was a war on (the Cold War).
War on Terrorism.
Was the end declared?
Instead, he was given a life sentence (which was later commuted to 20 years).
In 1972.
Think hippies.
What country do Bernie Sanders, AOC, et al. most want to copy?
Replicate their “democratic-socialist” utopia?
Sweden.
And I get it.
It is an alluring trick.
Sweden is a beautiful country.
The land is beautiful.
The women (with cans of General Snus in the back pockets of their tight bluejeans) are beautiful.
Even rednecks like me could be fooled.
Briefly.
By the façade.
The “Nordic model” countries (with their literal female models in tow).
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and (chiefly powering the Left’s zeitgeist) Sweden.
But Norway has a shit-ton of oil.
Oops.
But I see it.
Walk down the cobbled streets of a small Danish town and you too may be swayed by the seeming utopia.
America is not a Nordic country.
And as Nordic countries (particularly Sweden) attempt to mimic AMERICAN leftist policies (think immigration), they see their homogenous utopias ripped apart.
There are reasons certain forms of government work IN CERTAIN PLACES.
There are factors.
Variables.
America, at this point in its history, cannot whole-cloth adopt the Swedish system.
And any leftist with a brain knows this.
But it doesn’t prevent American leftists from dangling the Swedish carrot (fish?) in front of the noses of their moronic acolytes.
And, as alluded to earlier, it is meant to draw the weak-minded “across the aisle”.
“Come on over. Everything will be just like Sweden. Not the current Sweden, of course, but…you know: the old Sweden.”
Two years after Wennerström’s life sentence was commuted to 20 years, he was paroled.
He had only been in custody for 10 years.
10 years for sharing 20,000 secret documents with the Soviets concerning Swedish air defenses, clandestine Swedish bases, etc.
This was the Swedish custom.
Serve half your sentence and get paroled.
Initial sentence could have been death [treason] (Cold War).
Actual sentence was life.
Sentence commuted to 20 years.
Cut in half (10 years) by parole.
That’s Sweden (in the early ’70s) and, perhaps, quintessential Swedish policy.
The “Nordic model”.
Lovely.
No justice, really.
No defense, really.
No state secrets, really.
No sovereignty, in actuality.
Bad trajectory.
About as robust a defense apparatus as an IKEA bed.
Which is to say.
Cheap.
Disposable.
Nice-looking.
Interesting that Sweden is not a part of NATO.
What if the big, bad Russians (who have 20,000 secret documents pertaining to radar, strategy, mobilization plans…) actually were to invade Sweden?
Those are old documents by now, of course.
But the Russians have a very easy sell to potential Swedish spies.
“Don’t worry. There’s no declared war. This isn’t the Cold War. No treason. No firing squad. If you get life in prison, it will probably be commuted to a paltry 20 years. And you’ll be paroled after 10. If you even get caught.”
Great deterrence, Sweden!
Back to the “Nordic model”…
Guess who ARE members of NATO?
Denmark, Iceland, and Norway.
Finland, right on Russia’s doorstep, are (like the Swedes) not members of NATO.
For more examples of Sweden’s liberal (lax) justice/prison apparatus, see the case of spy Stig Bergling.
Sentenced to life (like Wennerström).
Fled to Moscow during a conjugal visit (you can’t make this shit up!).
Voluntarily returned to Sweden seven years after his escape.
And was PAROLED three years later.
Again, this was DURING the Cold War.
Bergling’s arrest was a full 15 YEARS after Wennerström’s.
In other words, this was the next generation (same shitty policies) of spies being slapped on the wrist.
Bergling was parolled in 1997.
Ahh, that liberal paradise…Sweden.
Unlike Switzerland, it has no natural defenses (mountains) to guarantee its continued paradisal existence.
Need more?
Bertil Ströberg.
Swedish Air Force.
Convicted of spying for Poland [Soviet bloc] during the Cold War.
Sentenced to a mere six years in prison.
Paroled after three years.
Which brings us back to the brilliant (I mean it!) Swedish storyteller Stieg Larsson…himself a committed leftist (going so far as to train guerrillas in Eritrea in the firing or mortars).
What of Vanger?
VOLVO?
Volvokoncernen.
ASEA (the now-defunct General Swedish Electrical Company Limited) removed the swastika from their logo in 1933.
The company’s swastika logo had been used since the late-19th century.
Etymology
What if it’s a similar sound?
Fanger
In Swedish, “catches”.
Like in a cage?
Fanger.
In closely-related Danish, “prisoners”.
Like in cages?
What if a letter is missing?
Svanger.
In Swedish, “pregnant”.
Like, pregnant with meaning?
[svan, btw, means “swan” in Swedish]
Pregnant swan?
Like Leda of Greek mythology?
Zeus, in the form of a swan, raped Leda (a woman) who became pregnant and gave birth to “the most beautiful woman in the world”: Helen of Troy.
And around whom does this mystery revolve?
The hauntingly-beautiful Henrietta (Helen?) Vanger.
Who had been been repeatedly raped by her father and brother.
[it is true that the Swedish equivalent of Helen would be Helena or Elin, but the initials match]
How did Larsson come to settle on this name Vanger?
Some have suggested Wagner.
Perhaps even Wegner.
Wenger?
Wolf, in Swedish, is “varg”.
Varger?
Vargar, in Swedish, is “wolves”.
Now we are getting somewhere.
But we must flesh out the story.
We are looking for three Swedish Nazi brothers.
I believe the fourth (the good guy) was invented by Larsson.
Three Swedish Nazis?
How about Birger, Gunnar, and Sigurd Furugård?
They founded the Swedish National Socialist Farmers’ and Workers’ Party in 1924.
It’s a good fit.
The good guy might just be IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad.
By “good”, I mean that he was a member of the Swedish SSS (Svensk Socialistisk Samling [National Socialist Workers’ Party…basically Swedish Nazis]) at age 17 and before that, at age 16, a member of the fascist New Swedish Movement WHO LATER DECLARED (in 1994) that his membership in the latter was the “greatest mistake” of his life. His association with the SSS wasn’t publicly revealed until 2011 (at which time he made no further comment on having been a part of these types of groups).
So maybe Ingvar Kamprad wasn’t the good guy after all?
Did Larsson meld the Furugårds (Nazis) and Kamprad (a successful business man…and Nazi) into the amalgamation we know as the Vanger family?
Kamprad, incidentally, is a variant of “comrade”.
Again, National SOCIALIST German Workers’ Party.
NAZIs.
So “far right” (says Wikipedia) that they were fucking socialists!?!
NAtionalsoZIalistische.
Socialist.
IKEA.
Sweden.
This is exactly what Pieczenik is talking about in the above video.
Fascism coming from the Left.
Kamprad started off with fascism (New Swedish Movement) and a year later went full-Nazi (National Socialist Workers’ Party).
Again, socialist.
You can’t take that word out of there.
And Antifa started as “anti-fascist” [against the Nazis, but FOR communism].
And they remain communist (leftist) and have devolved, ironically, into a fascist organization themselves (at least in America…where their tactics are indistinguishable from those of Hitler and Mussolini’s respective gangs [Sturmabteilung/SA/Braunhemden/Brownshirts & MVSM/Blackshirts/squadristi]).
BTW…IKEA was founded by a 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad.
Yes, that’s right: he is confirmed in the above link to have been a member of the SSS [essentially the Swedish Nazi party] that very same year.
1943.
As for Lisbeth, look no further than the alleged Norwegian witch Lisbeth Nypan.
Salander.
Salamander.
Fire.
“blotches on its back”.
From mythology to the real life fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra).
Poisonous.
Europe.
Frigidity (able to extinguish fire).
But also “a product of fire”.
Newts.
Witchcraft.
Wizards and warlocks.
1966.
Disappearance of the Beaumont children (on Australia Day).
Church of Satan formed by Anton LaVey.
Moors murder trial.
Five children (between the ages of 10 and 17) murdered in and around Manchester between 1963 and 1965. At least four were sexually assaulted.
Killer (Ian Brady) read Mein Kampf and books on Nazi atrocities.
Gertrude Baniszewski found guilty of murdering and torturing Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis. Paroled in 1985 [American justice failure].
Charles Whitman kills 14 people with a sniper rifle from above the UT-Austin Tower (after killing his wife and mother).
September 22.
Lindwal railway incident.
Anna Karina born.
Nick Cave born.
Magda 30112.
Sara 32016.
BJ 32027.
LI 31208.
Mari 32018.
-PD
Luftslottet som sprängdes [2009)
Epstein.
CIA hit.
Ghislaine.
Tighter security.
Fredrik Clinton.
“like the President”.
Sidney Gottlieb.
MKUltra.
Ajax.
Forrestal 19__.
CIA 1947.
Iran 19__.
2009 Obama.
Larsson liberal (socialist).
Premature death.
“a conspiracy, in a particularly sensitive area of government”.
We need “time to identify the players”.
Durham.
The Section.
A portion of the CIA.
SAD/SOG.
Renamed.
Baby carriage.
Potemkin.
Catharsis.
Plague.
Asphyxia.
“nuclear option”.
Force 1: Brennan.
Force 2: Comey.
Force 3: Clapper.
Force 4: Rice.
Force 5: Rosenstein.
Who would take down rogue element protected by SAD/SOG CIA?
-Delta Force
-Green Berets
-Navy SEALs
-MARSOC
-AFSOC transport if necessary
Evade compromised FAA, etc.
NORAD cleaned out?
Nakasone.
NSA/CSS.
INSCOM.
Direct.
We own comms.
DHS.
US Marshals.
DEA.
ATF.
CBP.
ICE.
Last chance for corrupt individuals to “flee”.
Look yourselves in the mirror.
You will be arresting your former superiors.
Some salvation on this Earth is possible now for those who turn back.
Apples and oranges.
America will not be destroyed by the corrupt CIA-within-the-CIA.
Tintinnabulation.
“The purpose was to guard the interests of our nation. Formally, they did not exist. Their base was a residential building.”
SNUS!
Steam-cured tobacco.
Nicosamides?
Carcinogenic if fire-cured (American tobacco).
Swedish steam-cured.
Norrtälje.
WKYBDYKU?
Cigarettes –> snus.
Vertigo.
Stairs.
Örebro.
-PD
Till det som är vackert [2009)
This is a perfect, imperfect film.
Like Russell’s paradox.
And I hope director Lisa Langseth won’t go all Frege on me and jump out a window.
Ah!
You know…
I have spoiled nothing.
And my words are almost completely inconsequential.
But similar things have been said about La Règle du jeu.
And I disagree with that.
In 1939, Jean Renoir made an unqualified (perfect) masterpiece with that film.
I qualified it only to distinguish from my initial example.
And so Pure (the title of this Swedish film which is currently on Netflix in the U.S.) is much like Asia Argento’s almost-masterpiece Incompresa.
I will be quite blunt.
Lisa Langseth stretches in almost the exact same dimension that Argento did with her fine film.
But the real similarity is acting perfection.
For a young child, Giulia Salerno was magnificent (really!) in Argento’s film.
And so Ms. Argento had the secret weapon.
A (very young) actress capable of cine-magic.
Ms. Langseth was blessed with more-or-less the same thing.
But even better.
[perhaps because the actress was a little older and more experienced]
Alicia Vikander makes Till det som är vackert go.
I mean, really…this is an acting performance unlike any other.
And so my only gripe with Ms. Langseth, the director, is that she stretched the story TOO FAR.
But that’s ok.
Because, you know what? Maybe I’m wrong.
Langseth and Argento both seem to be trying to tell every story they’ve ever lived…IN ONE FILM.
Argento is the guiltier party.
For most of Pure, Langseth sticks to a taut plot.
Buttressed by Vikander’s exquisite acting, the sum total is ecstasy.
And so, I find myself reacting against the Hitchcock tendency in two films.
Some directors NEED a good dose of Hitchcock.
Wes Anderson, for example.
That guy is so saccharine…that when the fingers come off in Grand Budapest, we finally have a filmmaker.
But Langseth and Argento are telling GRUELING stories throughout (in Pure and Misunderstood, respectively).
And so the heavy bass note…the one which when slammed births the 9th harmonic…it doesn’t work here.
Because the tritone.
To progress through the harmonic series.
And resolve on a tritone.
It takes a special auteur to do such.
And these two ladies are not the dodecaphonists to do so.
They have not worked out a coherent system to justify their heart-ripping atonality.
But fear not.
Pure is so, so, so worth watching!
This is as close as a film can get to masterpiece while still being flawed.
And it’s so very close, I’m wondering whether the flawed one is me.
[no doubt]
Let me correct the record (ouch…David “Scumbag” Brock)…
We get noodles with ketchup.
I mean, this film is Gummo real.
So I want to give some BIG compliments.
Till det som är vackert is the best Swedish film ever made by anyone not named Ingmar Bergman.
In fact, it’s BETTER than several of Bergman’s films.
Shall I name names?
Pure is worlds (WORLDS) better than Fanny and Alexander.
Bergman was in poseur mode.
That flick is so overrated.
And Lisa Langseth totally smokes (eats the lunch of) Bergman.
Further, Till det som är vackert is (in my humble, masculine opinion) the greatest feminist film since 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days…and in some ways EVEN BETTER than that timeless masterpiece.
And so, in general, I bow down in worship to Pure.
We have homelessness.
We have mental illness.
We have resilience.
Naturalism. Grit. The bird-soul of music…
The only thing we needed was an editor.
To say.
Cut.
About 20 minutes before the end.
Because Ms. Langseth wants to give us redemption.
She just seems to have her Raskolnikov in the wrong pocket.
It’s ok.
I’m the daftest son of a bitch on the planet.
One last thing…
This movie moved me so much.
The bulk of this film.
Did something to me.
Therapeutic.
And sublimely enlightening.
And so I thank God for Lisa Langseth and Alicia Vikander.
God bless you.
Thank you for making this kind of art.
As Nick Cave sang,
“It’s beauty that’s gonna save the world now”.
-PD
Vi är bäst! [2013)
IF you want to see a bogus, bollocks feminist film, watch Free the Nipple.
But if you want to see the real thing…a really empowering, touching story, then check out We Are the Best!
IT’s in Swedish.
So you’ll have to use your brain.
And your eyes.
Unless you speak Swedish.
But it will be well worth your time.
Vi är bäst! isn’t trite acting from a bunch of pseudo-provocateurs who just want to take their shirts off.
Nej.
This is the story of three 13-year-old girls.
None of them fit in.
Everyone tells them they’re ugly.
One of them is ostracized for being a Christian.
[now THAT’S punk!]
But it’s the story of three girls who come together and do the greatest thing possible: form a band.
Music!!!
And let me just say this: the acting is fucking fantastic!
Mira Barkhammer plays Bobo.
For me, she is the star of the film.
She is the outcast of the outcasts.
No make up.
No cool haircut.
She’s searching for her identity.
But she’s so smart. So truly unique!
She wears these little wire-rim glasses.
From one perspective, this film is her search for what’s behind the mirror.
Director Lukas Moodysson made a masterpiece here.
Bobo…
The name…
I think of Boris Diaw.
The whole scenario is aw-kward.
But so beautifully so!
And yet Bobo is not perfect.
Far from it.
It’s a team effort.
And teams, especially when they are ad hoc and organic, are inherently dysfunctional.
The actress who puts the dys in dysfunction here is Mira Grosin.
But she too is so wonderful in this film!
She is the inspiration.
The first one out on the limb.
The rebel.
The loudmouth.
She inspires her other two bandmates to fly their freak flags high.
But the most enigmatic is Liv LeMoyne: the Christian.
Director Moodysson is so deft in his handling of this dynamic.
LeMoyne’s character [Hedvig] has long, beautiful blond hair.
[At this point it is appropriate to address a strange form of class relations in Sweden: hair color.]
When I used to think of Sweden (which I did rarely), I would imagine everyone as a blond.
Perhaps the American vision of Sweden is a socialist paradise of blond bikini models.
At the very least, blondness seems to be the defining characteristic in the American popular imagination regarding Sweden (as far as I can tell).
This isn’t a scientific study, you understand…
But it is important to point this out.
The snottiest (in the stuck up, snobbish sense) characters in this film are mostly blonds.
The little girls who call Bobo and Klara [Grosin] ugly.
It is really heartbreaking.
These two BRUNETTE girls endure such humiliation throughout this film.
And so it’s no wonder that they want to start a PUNK BAND!
But they can’t play.
Like, not at all…
Their first halting efforts are in the vein of The Shaggs.
No, worse.
And that’s where the Christian comes in.
Hedvig is an accomplished classical guitarist.
It is, indeed, much like the story of Garth Hudson’s joining The Band.
Lessons.
So to speak.
Bobo and Klara are astounded at Hedvig’s talent.
They lament that they’ll never be as good as their gifted new friend.
But Hedvig is all encouragement.
It is [pardon the expression] a match made in heaven.
And so three misfits (for different reasons) band together (literally) and take on the cock rock ridiculousness of bullies like youth-center-rehearsal-room-“stars” Iron Fist.
The message is astounding.
I haven’t seen a film which does such honor to the idea of feminism since 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
But there’s no ulterior motive here.
This isn’t a George Soros production.
This is the real thing.
Just three young people (who happen to be female) wanting to make some noise in their world.
And we see how beautiful punk music is.
IT’s a catharsis.
Like Sonic Youth.
And we remember the true geniuses of the genre (like my hero, the late Alan Vega).
But we also remember the maxim: “three chords and the truth”.
Hedvig’s got the chords.
[Ah…harmony! What a concept!!!]
But Klara has the attitude.
And Bobo has the intellect.
They learn from each other.
“Here. Stay on this note. Good. Now move to this note.”
“Punk is about rebellion. It’s not about the school talent show. We’ve got to keep going. It’s a fight.”
“You really need to change your hair. Do something fun! Express yourself! Cut loose!”
Those are my translations of action, not dialogue.
But I can’t stress enough how great these three actresses are in this film.
Mira Barkhammer in particular is a prodigy.
But, as in the story, the trio is inseparable.
And for this kind of cohesion, we have but one place to look in thanks: the auteur.
-PD
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