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The Underground Railroad (2021)
A Masterpiece!!!
The Underground Railroad is a masterpiece and writer/director, Barry Jenkins, is an American cinematic treasure. I loved Colson Whitehead's stirring book. It was a tough read due to its focus on the unimaginable atrocities fellow human beings suffered, yet beautiful for the lives it thrust into existence, and and for the immortality it gave to those whose time was ended far too soon. And with prose so visual, evocative, and delicious, I didn't think there was anyway possible any filmmaker could cinematically replicate the literary brilliance of the book. But Mr. Jenkins and the filmmaking team he recruited have given this powerful work a remarkable visual life all its own. Instead of trying to compete with a stroke-for-stroke interpretation of the book's genius, the filmmakers refused to challenge unique literary devices and brilliantly adopted masterful cinematic devices (like evocative sound and breath-taking cinematography) to replicate the truest meaning and spirit of the indomitable and inimitable Cora Randall and her harrowing journey to freedom. I'll leave the summaries to others (none will capture the experience of experiencing), but this is a must see of what it means to truly have Faith and to never give up hope.
Whale Wars (2008)
Reality TV does NOT equal reality
Commenting on the aptitude of the Sea Shepherds based on what you see on TV is ridiculous. You are not watching facts. You are watching hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of footage edited together for the greatest dramatic effect. If all we saw was constant perfection, there would be no conflict. No conflict = no drama = no TV show. What is a FACT is that several dozen people spend MONTHS sailing the most inhospitable waters in the world waging a VERY dangerous campaign that HAS reduced the number of whales killed ever year, i.e., success with objective, i.e., making an actual difference - and every member of the Steve Erwin crew has returned from every campaign safely. Not bad for a bunch of volunteers. Hardly an "inept" feat. As to the "terrorists" vs "freedom fighters" debate, it all depends on whether you genuinely believe that the Japanese whalers are conducting necessary "research," or if they are taking advantage of ridiculous loopholes in the IWC Convention so that they can make a lot of money off people who like to eat whale meat. I personally believe the latter.