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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: Is This Not Real Magic? (2022)
I am SO MAD. What did I just watch? This has some SERIOUS issues
This episode gave two VERY SERIOUS SPOILERS about another kind of old series (from the 2000's) I had started to watch this year, called the sopranos, and I found that to be completely absurd and disrespectful. For someone like me, who still had not completely watched sopranos, and was in the middle of watching it, that just completely ruined it. I mean, there was absolutely no need for that. They have two very serious spoilers in the middle of a show who has nothing to do with it. The only reason I can see they did this is to "lessen" HBO (sopranos is a historic HBO series), which is one of the main competitors of Disney along with Netflix, but this is a very low stroke, and to me it was unnecessary. Initially I thought it was some kind of homage to the show, but it is far from it.
I was watching she hulk (like recent marvel movies) because I feel like I need to follow the "main" marvel shows so I don't lose any important story threads, but i realized that is not necessary at all, because this show and many other recent movies add absolutely nothing and are actually horrible. I am done with marvel, they suck very bad, it's not worth it anymore. The golden age is passed.
The Last Shaman (2016)
Good story with great meaning
This movie was a little bit anguishing to me at times, moving at others, and in the end, it was relieving.
In the beginning, I thought the story would be only about James, but throughout the movie we see that it is much more than that, it also covers the community in Peru and its local drama and issues around the use of Ayahuasca as "a business", like stated the movie.
The story passed about the year of 2011 if I am not wrong and I am pretty sure that the commercialized Ayahuasca has taken over peru and other places by now (2022), since there is huge number of centers that conduct such ceremonies not only in Peru, but also in other countries.
Anyway, aside from that, the story of James is anguishing at times, like I said, but you can see that he is looking for something real, he just does not know where to look to solve his issues. And like many people who suffer from depression can relate, conventional medicine and psychiatry frequently doesn't help at all.
So he goes for Ayahuasca as a last resort for answers. In Peru, he goes through some issues which I will not go into detail, and also a few different shamans in a what was possibly a very long and courageous stay in Peru, far from his home.
By the end, what he learned from the plants is that the answers to his problems are inside of himself, like stated in the beginning of the documentary. So what I learned is that we can see that there really isn't a magic solution to anything, but the solution is really inside ourselves, and this realization can help us reorient our lives and give us the needed courage, energy, motivation, honesty and sincerity with our own selves to keep going in our lives towards what we really want and will make us happy. So in the end he is not cured, but he has renewed hope and he knows that he can get better somehow.