printThe closest I’ll come to watching the 68th Annual Golden Globe Award is “Fashion Police”: a sartorial send-up by the magnificent Joan Rivers. She’s the only comedian and great wit who can get men to watch a program about fashion. Like me, my husband hates all “estrogen oozing” TV programing, but greatly appreciates Rivers. And rightly so. She’s lethal. Alas, the lantern-jawed Kelly Osbourne is an unwelcome addition to this show. Prissy and sanctimonious.
Wait a sec. I did watch “Salt” with Angelina Jolie. Is that up for an award? Can’t be.
Watching “Salt” was unsettling. America’s XBox, special effects, language-less movie culture reflects a certain reality-averse atavism. Up-close, Jolie the star is frightening. In this film she has cultivated a comic-book look with a newly sculptured nose and cheekbones that might have been enhanced. Her mouth is hemorrhoidal. And her come-hither glances! A CIA agent, or whatever she is supposed to be in this moronic movie, struts her stuff in a skirt slit up to her panties, which she promptly removes to make a bomb (an underwear bomber). My G-d; that’s not even Avatar-like clever. (Well, they say Avatar was clever. I don’t know; I could not bring myself to watch such far-removed stuff about a blue people fighting for their invaded fairy forest. I guess I’m just too wedded to reality.)
Fashion Police (http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/fashion/index.html)
You might enjoy “Dances with Blue People”, even if Sci-fi isn’t normally your thing. It is fairly predictable – the noble savage, the humans destroyed their own world, and all that. All the Conservative chest-thumping about anti-Americanism was misguided. Does the film glorify the primitive, subsistence-level existence of the natives? Sure. But the viewer also sees the product of corporate/government collusion (perhaps unintentionally I grant you). There is only one mining company on Pandora, and it has a merc/paramilitary army.
The protagonist comes to humanize the native, sentient people, and tries to walk the fine line between force/fraud and the Natural rights of the people. He convinces himself that he can find a peaceful resolution…
Of course the environmentalist, living-as-one-with-nature, who-needs-indoor-plumbing message is predominant. Not hard to see why the warfare statists missed the human struggle. Oh, and it looks really cool!
“But the viewer also sees the product of corporate/government collusion (perhaps unintentionally I grant you).”
It was not unintentional: the intended implication is that government is basically good unless it allows itself to be influenced by “evil” companies.
Once you understand the leftists’ prime motives, you will see their messages intertwined in almost every film, television series, news broadcast, newspaper article, etc.