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"I love reading plays. Part of the reason I became an actor was that I would read one and think, 'Ah, it’d be fun to be in that.' Arcadia is about the discovery of certain theories of physics and math, but it’s also a love story — a sad love story — infused with ideas of early feminism and the Industrial Revolution. The action bounces back and forth between the early 1800s and modern times stylistically and smoothly. And the words are just beautiful. Stoppard has an amazing command of the English language. He moves the plot along in such a way that if you’re not paying close attention, you won’t catch the five or six things that are going on. This is probably my favorite play — it’s got this weird combination of excellent dramatic writing and math and science. It sounds kind of nerdy, but there you go."

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LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Minari (2020) in Movies

Aug 5, 2021

Minari (2020)

2020 | Drama

8.7

(3 Ratings)

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Minari is a wonderfully realised and fleshed out tale of family, failure, hope, aging, faith, and gender expectations.
It has excellent sprinklings of humour throughout its very human and often crushing narrative, and is backed by one of the most beautiful music scores I've ever heard.
The entire cast is superb, especially Yuh-Jung Youn, who essentially plays two characters to great effect, and then of course to Alan Kim, quite possibly the most adorable kid in the history of film, and who puts in one hell of a performance. This is all complimented by some seriously stunning cinematography, which manages to achieve an almost dream like quality amongst all the realism.

Minari is a triumphant piece of cinema, that managed to absolutely break me and had me on the verge of tears for most of the second half. Thanks a lot Minari you emotional, brilliant bastard.

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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated The Pearl and the Carnelian in Books

Oct 5, 2020 (Updated Oct 5, 2020)

The concept behind this book is a good one, and I believe Fielding has a very interesting story to tell. The problem with this book, however, is that it takes far too long to see any progress, and this causes the reader to lose interest.

Furthermore (and I know that this may just be the copy I have), I was disconcerted with the many instances of grammatical mistakes, and improper usage of English. However, what bothered me the most, was an overtly excessive use of commas. This might not bother other readers, but as someone with mild dyslexia, seeing a comma actually makes me pause while reading the sentence. Because of this, the overall flow of the text was disrupted.

That said, I believe this could be an excellent book, if Fielding can find an editor to help her focus her narrative and eliminate these errors.

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Christmas Evil (1980) in Movies

Dec 22, 2020

Christmas Evil (1980)

1980 | Horror, Mystery

8.3

(3 Ratings)

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You Better Watch Out

Christmas Evil- is a psychlogical horror film that tells the story of a tramaic Harry who was tramaist as a child. He witness santa claus, so he believes is santa claus making out. Now as Harry as grown man goes around dressing up as santa claus and starts killing people.

This reminds me so much of Joker. Think about it. A trama man who is insane, crazy and dress up and starts killing people. What really ticks off a human being. It takes a deep drive into the psychological espect of what makes a man go mad. He's trying to live a normal life but society/the world that he is living in is saying no.

During production, the film had the working title Santa. Originally titled You Better Watch Out, also known as Terror in Toyland.

Its a excellent film.