"The [animal] is much more content with mere existence than man; the plant is wholly so. . . ." Arthur Schopenhauer
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
The Power of the Dog Movie Score Suite - Jonny Greenwood (2021)
I couldn't even get through the first half of the movie, which is truly awful. It's got the right visuals, but beneath them lies pure shit. Jane Campion is a great filmmaker, but she's slid off the road and into the ditch with The Power of the Dog. Even if I watched the balance of the film and found it to me good, it would be forever marred by the rest. This film borrows from Paul Thomas Anderson's, "There Will be Blood," but does little else. And that's just the first quarter of the film. It might have been entitled, "The Power of the Feminist Solidarity Movement." Campion won the high prize for this shit. John Campion would not have been nominated. Pure F
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Great cover of Walking on the Moon, by one of my favorite bands, the Police. This is a great song about falling in love.
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NPR did a piece called "This I Believe" a few years back. Listeners were invited to recite their core beliefs about anything...