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Watched "Reality," with Sidney Sweeney. It's based on the true story of ex Airforce airperson Reality Winner who was working at the NSA as a translator. She spoke Pashto, Farsi and another language, I forget, and wanted to get higher clearance to be sent abroad to Afghanistan. However, she leaked an article from an internal magazine confirming Russian interference in the 2016 elections. The movie uses the transcription of the FBI recordings as the script and just reenacts them. Thus the whole movie is just the FBI agents showing up at her house with a search warrant and eventually getting a confirmation/confession that she indeed took that article and sent it to the online paper The Interceptor. While some of the information in the movie is redacted, because it is redacted in the documents, a quick google search tells you everything. She was given the longest sentence (5 years) for any said case under the Espionage Act. The movie also shows, albeit briefly, the aftermath where she is paraded as a traitor, an enemy of freedom and someone who "hates" America. Keep in mind The document she leaked confirmed Russian interference, something the government had been denying, yet clearly knew about and somehow she's made out to be the bad guy. Also, the Interceptor came under fire for not protecting their source. Shit storm all around.
 
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Feel like this got a bit of a bad rap at the time, finally watching it all these years later and it's actually really solid.
 
Saw The Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling. It's unbelievably bad film, imo. :facepalm: They got it all wrong. Important part is not the action scenes but charisma of actors, flirt and romance. Look at thematically similar movie starring Jean Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch L'Animal. That film is GREAT GREAT GREAT and very funny. That's how you do it!
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Convinced my younger sister to watch Fellowship of the Ring, she said she wanted fantasy. Somehow she didn't hear me saying it's a trilogy and was surprised when the movie ended without resolution. It takes like an hour to leave the Shire and you think in 30 minutes we're making the entire journey to Mount Doom! Well she does want to watch to second movie tomorrow so she probably liked it :)

Also watched the Israeli detective rap opera The City twice more this week. All of the dialogue rhymes, and it has a weird side effect of making everything sound like rapping for a good hour after watching. Generic plot but it's secondary to how great the idea and the execution are. Sadly I can't recommend it here considering subtitles are useless for capturing wordplay.
 
I just watched Tarkovsky's "Stalker" with two friends. Already watched it once before, it's on YouTube with English subtitles. Wonderful movie, but I'm here to tell you about the uncanny parallel between being a second-time watcher guiding and providing answers to two friends who don't fully connect with the film, and the plot of the faithful Stalker guiding the Writer and the Scientist through the Zone. Look, I'm even doing the monologue at the end of the movie!

In the final scene in the Zone the trio is sitting at the entrance of the room which grants supposedly your innermost desire. The shot is taken however from within the room, and one interpretation of it that I love is that the viewers are the ones who enter the room. However, to enter the room you have to believe the movie has meaning, otherwise you'll never reach this interpretation, and it would just be about the three characters sitting outside. I saw the shot as from within the room, while my friends were salty no one went inside after two hours of film. I was granted my wish of a meaningful movie and they were disappointed.
 
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In a surprise move, it's reached Netflix :yey:
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Watching it now.
After watching it twice, I have to say that this is a great movie. I actually cared about the human characters and the story itself. Something that has been lost in the American versions as of late minus Godzilla 2014. This isn't your typical big monster movie.
 
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