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JonahVarque
Don't play with a woman's heart, she only has one of those. Play with something she has two of. That's right, her earlobes.
Yes, children, the planet was destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.
Reviews
Bones: The Patriot in Purgatory (2012)
1. Emmy Material. 2. One for the Archives
The Patriot in Purgatory.
Powerful, deep, moving, important. The importance of people. The importance of teamwork. The importance of science. The importance of doing what's right. Wow.
The Bones writing team touched all the bases on this one, and the cast treated it with more seriousness than they do the typical episode. I think I burst into tears 4 times. I think the acting was a bit more intense than the average Bones episode as well, and all the characters and actors shone.
I don't often watch Bones, but was recommended to see this and I'm so very glad I saw it. I hope this episode wins a boatload of awards.
Seven Pounds (2008)
Nice ending after a tedious journey
As an homage to this film, I'll write this review on my blackberry while driving.
At 123 minutes, this film manages to stretch a 45 minute concept quite a bit beyond where it needed to go. This story would have made a great 90-minute made for TV slot (66 minutes of actual film). Viewers are given so much spare time on while watching that we all can collect together the various cuts we would have made to perk the thing up without losing any story (like every scene with his wife, for example); and do it in real time as the film crawled along.
I am pleased I stuck through the tedium of the first 115 minutes, because ***spoiler*** the last 8 minutes where the threads of the script were tied together were very nicely done. Even though we can all debate considerably whether suicide is the right solution for anything. ***end spoiler***
Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma (2008)
Courage, Testimony, Honesty, Truth. Graphic truth
This is one of those films that all of the world's citizens should be required to watch at least once in their lives. There may be no more than 4 other important films on that list.
Orbinski's international career is examined in a series of vignettes. Return visits to Somalia and Rwanda where he worked about 15 years previously with Doctors Without Borders; then brief notice of his acceptance of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize as president of Doctors Without Borders, then some mention of what he is doing now as founder of the AIDS assistance NGO Dignitas.
The film focuses on the horrors he saw and the impossible choices he had to make as a medical service provider in 2 civil wars. The film is nowhere near as preachy as it could have been. It does not have to be. By depicting more or less factual reminiscences, each viewer cannot help but come to important conclusions by themselves about what life is about and what is important in that life.