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The Intelligence: Difference between right and Ron: DeSantis miscalculates (2023)
Interesting review of Ron, valley speak not so great
Alexandra seems bright, tapped in, good analysis. She should learn to not speak with a Valley Girl accent. It makes her sound less intelligent or serious. That said, am interesting discussion. We learn about what we have with Ron Dentist (auto correct, thanks). We can only hope the assessment is accurate, that Ron is making huge steps to the right, in a process of pandering to the Republican right wing, and that this will cost him with both voters and donors. That said, the assessment that we will be seeing similar rightward tilts from other states across the country is worrying. Couldn't this whacky shift by Republicans become accepted as normal. Or will Americans repudiate their autocratic tendencies? The next election cycle or two will tell.
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Good for the 10 and under set
My goodness, what a disappointment. Between Jar Jar Binks, perhaps the most annoying character for adults in the last decade, and the young future Lord Vader, at 7 flying fighters into the belly of a Federation battleship, we are left with a truly sappy and simplistic flic. Hopefully in the coming episodes Mr. Lucas will realize that part of his audience is out of grade school.
La muerte de un burócrata (1966)
A surprisingly critical and hilarious vision of Havana in '66
When lent this film by a Spanish professor, my expectations were not high -- I had no idea this film from the early years of revolutionary Cuba was by Gutierrez Alea, Tinton, the director of Strawberries and Chocalate. Now, having seen the film, I wonder how it is that such a wonderful, imaginative work is not better known. For a good laugh, this can hardly be beat.
"Death of a Bureaucrat"(Muerte de un burocrata) is the story of a body that just can't get in the ground, and the frustrations suffered by the deceased's family in trying to address this situation. With the themes of bureaucratic rigidity, death, burial and the challenges of (then) modern-day Cuban life, we see linkages to Tinton's last work, "Guantanamera". The director has played with a range of techniques borrowed from some of the greats -- we find Bunuel's dream sequences, Chaplin's battles with the machine, and Keaton's daring-do. Hopefully, with the success of Tinton's final works, some of his earlier works will come into vogue.