Movie Recommendations 2017

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Ok so Iv only seen two films from this year lol thought it was entire history but il recommend both🙂

Arrival - because the overall theme is interesting.

Wonder Woman - because it's actually a decent film, and chris pine is a really solid and underrated actor.

Notable mentions that I haven't seen🙂

Wind river..the only film I'm really looking forward to..written by Taylor's Sheridan who's a beast when it comes to Neo noir westerns..

Think there's reviews on blade runner and get out on this forum..

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Just finished watching this:



It's on Netflix right now as well.
I watched this the other night. I've always wondered how the Hasidic community managed to be so insulated living in one of the most culturally diverse and electric cities in the world. But aside from that, it really drives home the heightened sense of survival these people cling on to after WWII. They pretty much deprive their children of outside experiences that breaking away from the community would mean difficulties sustaining an identity outside the Hasidic circle... not to mention the sense of invisibility to the point they condone abuse and think the govt can't or won't touch them.
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yeah for me it was great film because i think it really captured the nuance regarding what life is like in deeply religious communities.

there are a lot of parallels between the Hasidic community in New York and some mormon communities , Jehovah's witness communities , as well as other religious communities located around the nation ....the list goes on......

on one end

when you're a member of deeply religious community you are deprived in so many ways because of rules that are meant to keep you away from the secular world.....

different types of media like , tv shows , movies , even music etc. are sources that are forbidden as they are viewed as things that can ultimately bring you further away from God for example .

religious doctrine is your life. you're extremely sheltered and subsequently limited in your growth of finding out who you are and what you desire out of life

things that makes us human

also as you semi alluded to religious communities also often have issues like rampant abuse ( physical , sexual , emotional) that are also pervasive everywhere else in society

but the set up of these communities limits access to other resources that could aid in addressing the underlying factors that are causing these issues ( which 99.99 percent stem from a history of trauma the community has historically faced and often individuals still face to this day linked to ethnicity which is also linked to class)

on the other end

the idea of God , as an ultimate powerful entity that can protect you and help you overcome anything , including the world that is supposed to destroy you

is not the worst coping mechanism

i think believing in the idea of a higher power when you are from a marginalized community is better than the alternative a lot of members often fall into like drug and alcohol abuse

( really true in for example black and hispanic communities)

the idea of God and being a part of a community has been linked to the success of movements like the civil rights.

without the ideas of that #1 Go is on your side and #2 is the ultimate say on how your life will turn out and #3 the community you belong to will ultimately transcend the hardship's it faces in the long run due to God having the ultimate say i think

a lot of people belonging to these communities would have given up in the past

as for them God was their only source of hope at surviving the harsh realities of this world that are especially harsh when you belong to a particular class / ethnic group.

also as a byproduct of the fact that some religious communities do encourage education as it is linked to ascending socioeconomic class which in turn actually benefits the longevity of the community in the long (run presuming that these educated members remain party of the community)

there is a significant portion of members from these communities that as a by product live better lives as they were able to pursue education via the aid of religious institutions they belong to.





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Just finished watching this:



It's on Netflix right now as well.
I couldn’t watch all of it. It made me so angry and frustrated.
how so?

The domestic violence, the sexual abuse, the isolationism, the apathy of the community members when individuals suffer consequences from that community.

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Happens everywhere not just in the Hasidic community unfortunately.

These issues are so pervasive I wish there was more effort to bring awareness to them.
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Just finished watching this:



It's on Netflix right now as well.
I couldn’t watch all of it. It made me so angry and frustrated.
how so?

The domestic violence, the sexual abuse, the isolationism, the apathy of the community members when individuals suffer consequences from that community.


Happens everywhere not just in the Hasidic community unfortunately.

These issues are so pervasive I wish there was more effort to bring awareness to them.
I like the idea of those types of communities but in the real world I wouldn’t have a bar of them. It seems to be a breeding ground of sexual abuse and domestic violence. Children are especially vulnerable. When you’re closed off to society and it’s law enforcement, anything can happen.
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yeah definitely.

i didn't realize how separate of a community they are in NYC.

I'm from LA and the Hasidic community is a bit different in terms of class. I also don't think they have a separate police force and buses for their schools.

I could be wrong though.

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saw this last night,

holy crap...

this is a great example of being married to a wealthy man and you're from a poor family...







Summary Spoilers...







and he thinks of you as this great muse he married and he's a successful writer and philospher but his mother is the most doting, meaning too controlling. you'll see what i mean. lol

and she is longing so desperately for love and attention. it's so sad. she starts losing her hair and her health declines from so much lack of love. and he is soooooo cold!!!! and hates her touch. omg it's terrible. she is dying just being with him. the wealth is not worth it and she can't do anyhtihng cause his family paid off her father's debt.



emma thompson as always great actress.

this is based offf that John Ruskin dude who is super famous in philosphy/art.



he is Aquarius sun/ Aquarius jupiter & Rising Aqua, Capricorn stellium.4 planets, and Cancer moon.



https://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/John_Ruskin



https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/29/ruskin-effie-marriage-inconvenience-brownell

"The scandal surrounding John Ruskin, his wife Effie, and John Everett Millais still fascinates a century and a half after the events. What makes it famous is that it wasn't a sex scandal but a non-sex scandal.

The circumstances in which Effie left her husband for the pre-Raphaelite artist have generated at least half a dozen books as well as an opera, a silent film and assorted plays. One of the plays, The Countess, was at the centre of a just-resolved copyright dispute between its author, Gregory Murphy, and the actor Emma Thompson. Thompson has written the screenplay for Effie, a big-screen telling of the story starring her husband Greg Wise as Ruskin, Dakota Fanning as Effie and Tom Sturridge as Millais; the film is scheduled for release in May. "





holy crap... it's like the Elvis Presley/ Priscilla Presley fiasco, where he won't touch her.... BUT at least Elvis touched Priscilla to have one baby but then after that...no more touching.



you'll see the relationship with John Ruskin and his mother.... she is a mean and cold woman.
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saw this last night,

holy crap...

this is a great example of being married to a wealthy man and you're from a poor family...







Summary Spoilers...







and he thinks of you as this great muse he married and he's a successful writer and philospher but his mother is the most doting, meaning too controlling. you'll see what i mean. lol

and she is longing so desperately for love and attention. it's so sad. she starts losing her hair and her health declines from so much lack of love. and he is soooooo cold!!!! and hates her touch. omg it's terrible. she is dying just being with her. the wealth is not worth it and she can't do anyhtihng cause his family paid off her father's debt.




that's sad 😢

i think she's a taurus in real life and he's a gemini

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nope...i just edited.



he's an Aquarius stellium with Capricorn stelium with cancer moon.



his mother was...so terrible. effected his way of women.

he was just not fit to marry anyone cause he didnt know how to love a woman.

but only know how to love a painting or work.



oh wow!!! she was a taurus lady who fell in love with a GEMINI guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Everett_Millais



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i gotta do their chart. lol



why did the Taurus love the Gemini guy? 😛 it's like Donald trump and Melania trump.



holy crap!! I found it doing his chart at astrotheme, @sierra....



Gemini sun/ Taurus venus/Taurus Jupiter/ Mars Leo/ and possible Moon Gemini.



so she NEEDS the taurus energy. lol



She's Taurus sun/Pisces Mars/ Sag moon/Taurus venus.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effie_Gray

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@sierra...

look what else i found on Ruskin's thoughts on women. He wouldnt touch her cause he wanted to "Preserve" her innocent and maidenly look. what??

i've heard of men like that...so scared to touch a woman. to defile them.

what the hell??

Ruskin also has a 6th house moon, all about his work.



https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/29/ruskin-effie-marriage-inconvenience-brownell

"Those "certain circumstances" have been the cause of much salacious speculation. The reasons mooted range from his aversion to children, his religious scruples, a wish to preserve Effie's beauty and to keep her from exhaustion so they could go Alpine walking, to a revulsion with body odour and menstruation. Effie herself was the inadvertent source of the most famous of explanations: Ruskin, she said,

"had imagined women were quite different to what he saw I was, and that the reason he did not make me his Wife was because he was disgusted with my person the first evening". From this emerged the canard that Ruskin, used only to the smoothness of classical statues of the nude, was repulsed by the wedding-night revelation that Effie had pubic hair

It may not rival Cleopatra's nose, but poor Effie has gone down as the possessor of the most famous genital coiffure in history.
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A Romanian film!!



@Damnata & other Romanian residents on dxp.



A 2017 Sundance award film...



middle aged woman lives with two grandparents, her two children who are in their 20s, one of them a son who stays home all day and goes on the computer. no work. Her daughter goes to school but is dating some guy who lives with them. Her and her husband live there with the grandparents and grown children...it's a bit crowded.

She's a full time high school teacher. And she decided she's gonna live with herself without the husband and children. She will take care of herself cause her mother did all the cooking and cleaning at the house but this time she will live the life of a single middle aged woman. I think she was going crazy with the stress of living with so many people. it's a small apartment. It's a feminist view of life in the Eastern Europe.