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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 6 months

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The Iranian people, including inside of Iran, have been the people who offered me the most condolences, I mean, they're active on social media speaking out against Hamas, in favor of Israel and Israel's right to self-defence, because they understand. They understand the reality of what Hamas actually is. Of what Islamic Jihad in Gaza actually is.

So, the reality on the ground in Iran is that they're very, very pro-Israel, they look to Israel as an example and they want Israel to help them as well. So, any attack on Israel they take very personally.

I've spent the better part of the last year traveling quite a bit to different locations for lectures and for meetings, but more importantly, to meet with members of different Iranian diaspora communities, connect them with the Jewish communities, since we have the same goals and the same interests, and also, honestly, a shared history that a lot of people aren't aware of. The Iranian people are definitely not enemies of Israelis.

Iran was actually one of the first countries, one of the first Muslim countries actually, to recognize the state of Israel. So, the friendship of Iran and Israel is much longer than, you know, being enemies. That's something new that only came with the regime in 1979.

So, in the last year I have been meeting with different lawmakers about how to hold the Islamic Republic accountable, whether it be designation of IRGC or sanction enforcement. And then at the grassroots level, I've been an activist within Iran, in the Persian community, organizing protests of solidarity on the ground in Israel. And the point of this is to motivate the people of Iran and to show them, and to show the world, that we stand with them in their pursuit for freedom, and that regardless of Israel and the conflict with the Iranian government, the people of Israel stand united with the people of Iran.

And I think what's interesting about what's happening right now with the operation in Gaza and the war that we're facing from Hamas terrorists - who of course, incidentally are supported, funded and trained by the Islamic Regime in Iran - so, it's been really, really moving to see how much the Iranian community, even inside of Iran is supporting Israel.

In fact, before I even saw a Jewish community's posting about rallies that they were going to host in solidarity with what's happening in Israel against terrorism, I saw that the Iranians had organized flyers and promotional materials for holding a rally of support for the state of Israel. So, it's just been incredible to see that these people who have been told that they're our enemies are in fact not at all. They're our greatest defenders and they're our greatest allies and I have nothing but love for the people of Iran and I think I can speak for the majority, if not all, of Israeli citizens as well.

I think that the only option in Iran is regime change. Unfortunately, we've had a lot of people who spoke up against Iran and some of them tried to work within the system in the last few decades. None of them have been successful because, frankly, the Iranian Regime is very intelligent. They do know what they're doing. They use unbelievably complex psychological warfare even on their own people, and that's part of the reason that they've been able to maintain control with such an iron grip for so long.

So yes, I think the reality is we're not going to see a change in Israel-Iran, as a state, relations until there is a regime change. But when there is a regime change, there will be peace the next day. Iranians and Israelis will be the best of friends, publicly and openly once again.

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So many of the people who supported the Iranian people against the Regime with #WomanLifeFreedom, suddenly developed amnesia in supporting the Hamas terrorist regime.

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al-kol-eleh · 2 months

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Emily Schrader

Over three months later and nothing has changed.

#israel #antisemitism #emily schrader

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archtroop · 2 months

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Visegrad24 presents an in-depth series covering the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. This comprehensive series features on-the-ground interviews, bringing firsthand insights from a diverse range of voices, including politicians, professors, journalists, experts and influencers.

Our guest today:

Emily Schrader : Journalist, writer, lecturer and expert on Israel, Iran, democracy and human rights

00:00- Introduction

02:26 - Social Media and Biased Media on Oct. 7th

05:38 - BBC and Hamas

06:37 - Fake News about Gaza Hospital Strike

08:00 - The Islamic Regime in Iran

09:07: The Iranians Have Had Enough

11:34 - Western Ignorance about Iran

12:36 - Iranian Diversion Across the World

13:31 - Iranian People aren't the Enemy

15:25 - Difference between Iranians and Palestinians

16:20 - The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)

19:02 - What to do about Iran

21:05 - The Khomeini and Arafat Alliance

22:40 - The Alliance between Russia and Iran

#woman life freedom #israel #Emily Schrader #visegrad24 #in depth #interview #gaza #iran #Islamic Republin of Iran #Youtube

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denimbex1986 · 10 months

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'Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has already received a handful of strong first reactions, but now comes a huge claim from “Taxi Driver” writer and “The Card Counter” director Paul Schrader. The Oscar nominee attended the New York premiere of Nolan’s atom bomb epic and took to social media afterwards to hail it as “the best, most important film of this century.”

“If you see one film in cinemas this year it should be ‘Oppenheimer,'” Schrader added in a Facebook post shared widely across social media. “I’m not a Nolan groupie but this one blows the door off the hinges.”

“Oppenheimer,” based on the 2005 book “American Prometheus” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, tracks the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II through the eyes of theoretical physicist and Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer. Cillian Murphy stars in the lead role. The film also features Matt Damon as Manhattan Project director Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. and Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh and Benny Safdie also star.

Bird previously raved about Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” adaptation during a conversation at the Institute for Advanced Study last month.

“I am, at the moment, stunned and emotionally recovering from having seen it,” Bird said. “I think it is going to be a stunning artistic achievement, and I have hopes it will actually stimulate a national, even global conversation about the issues that Oppenheimer was desperate to speak out about — about how to live in the atomic age, how to live with the bomb and about McCarthyism — what it means to be a patriot, and what is the role for a scientist in a society drenched with technology and science, to speak out about public issues.”

“Oppenheimer” opens in theaters nationwide July 21 from Universal Pictures.'

#Oppenheimer #Christopher Nolan #Taxi Driver #The Card Counter #Paul Schrader #Cillian Murphy #Matt Damon #Leslie Groves #Robert Downey Jr.#Lewis Strauss #Emily Blunt #Florence Pugh #Benny Safdie #American Prometheus #Kai Bird #Martin J. Sherwin

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adamwatchesmovies · 2 years

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Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)

Before we dig into Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, a bit of history. In 2005, the film was largely finished but Morgan Creek Productions didn't think it would be commercially viable. They brought in Renny Harlin to reshoot some scenes and make it more of a conventional horror film. The results were Exorcist: The Beginning. When that effort was a critical failure and failed to bring home the dollars, someone higher up had an idea. So much of this film had been reshot for The Beginning that it wouldn't take too much to complete this movie and maybe - just maybe - get lucky on a re-roll.

It’s hard to say if Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist is better, or worse than its half-brother. It’s certainly classier, with less cheap horror elements, but all the promise is shows initially evaporates by the time we get to the climax, and the special effects are some of the worst I’ve seen in a theatrically-released film.

Former priest turned archaeologist Father Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård) is excavating a strange church in the Kenynan desert. It looks as though the ornate place of worship - which predates Christianity in Africa - was buried immediately after completion. When the doors are breached and the people on the site begin acting strangely, Merrin's colleague, Father Francis (Gabriel Mann), believes a demonic force is responsible.

You can tell both prequels came from the same branch. They share several plot points. Some characters – although tweaked – are recognizable. A few actors – notably Skarsgård - play the same role. Each picture is also easily distinguishable when placed side-by-side. If one were good and the other bad that might mean something but they're both as appealing as a bucket of green vomit.

The most noticeable blemish on Paul Schrader's film are the special effects. Usually, I'm pretty lenient on CGI, costumes, compositing, etc. I’ll take a film that's rough around the edges but is inspired over something slick but without brains. Even that attitude has limits. Watching this unfrightening spookfest, you can’t help think “is everyone being possessed by the demonic spirit of a Playstation 1”?

As soon as you see that first CGI hyena, you're doomed. While you may remain interested in seeing what's next, nothing this film has to offer is memorable, not even the ludicrous climax. I want to give the film credit for reigning in the gore and lame jump scares, for avoiding obvious references to William Friedkin’s iconic picture, but what we get instead? It’s no good. Lame dream sequences, questionable actions by multiple people, missing scenes, obvious twists… Dominion wants to treat the idea of evil seriously, but it goes about it the wrong way. I dare you not to laugh when the film’s titular exorcism is performed. This film must feature the most non-threatening devil I’ve seen since Glen or Glenda.

Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist looks and feels cheap. Paul Schrader wasn't given the necessary funds to color-correct the footage. The result is one scene after another that looks like a made-for-TV movie. Not helping is the dreadful score and sockpuppet-level special effects but even if the time and money had been available, this picture wouldn't have been successful. Like the other Exorcist prequel - also released in 2005, this one's got no reason to exist. Exorcist: The Beginning was conceived from greed. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist was released out of desperation. What’s worse? Does it matter? (On DVD, October 27, 2017)

#Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist #the exorcism of emily rose #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Paul Schrader #William Wisher Jr.#Caleb Carr #Stellan Skarsgard #Gabriel Mann #Clara Bellar #Billy Crawford #Ralph Brown #2005 movies #2005 films #exorcist: the beginning

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the-garbanzo-annex-jr · 8 months

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by Emily Schrader

Lucy Lipiner is no stranger to antisemitism. A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, she was forced to live through one of the worst atrocities to ever take place in human history. Yet her lived experience still hasn’t prevented the torrent of antisemitic abuse that she, and all Jewish people, currently are experiencing on social media – in particular on Elon Musk’s “X” (formerly known as Twitter). This week was no exception.

“I was appalled at the rise in antisemitism that seemed more blatant – less hidden than in the past and more like what we had seen before the war in Europe. … I felt, as a survivor, compelled to speak up,” she told Ynet.

And she has definitely spoken up. Lipiner regularly uses social media to call out Holocaust denial and revisionism, using her own personal story from Nazi-occupied Poland, as well as her own collection of family photos from the Holocaust, to share the truth.

From taking on former UFC fighter Jake Shields for spreading antisemitic conspiracies to calling out anti-feminist right-wing pundit Pearl Davis for her antisemitic song, to exposing the antisemitism in UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s tweets, Lipiner is extremely active in the conversation on the X platform.

Lipiner considers anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism.

“I also thought the rise of BDS was simply a veiled form of antisemitism in the guise of anti-Zionism, which increasingly felt like nothing less than today’s version of age-old hatred of Jews,” she said.

This week, when she published a post on X about the anniversary of the lynching of Leo Frank, she was met with a massive onslaught of white supremacist antisemitism in response. The result was a community note – a fact-checking tool meant to add context to tweets - which incorrectly stated that Leo Frank, the victim of the lynching, murdered and raped a 13-year-old girl. In fact, Frank was wrongly convicted for the rape and murder of Mary Phagan, in a case that is widely believed to be permeated with blatant antisemitism akin to the Dreyfus affair.

“I tweeted about the 108th anniversary of the lynching of an innocent Jewish man Leo Frank who was accused of murder amidst a horrifically antisemitic community environment. His lynchers were never brought to Justice. A community note says it all: antisemitism is still alive and kicking today,” she said.

Beyond the community note, the responses to her tweet were also antisemitic. One comment read: “Gee it’s almost like they were kicked out of 109 countries for a reason…” Another: “You don't have to be in colonized Palestine to defend the indefensible, you simply have to be a zionist.”

While hundreds pushed back and eventually the X platform removed the community note, the evidence of the antisemitic mob remains. Lipiner said that she routinely receives ugly antisemitic threats and messages in her private messages on social media as well, including users mocking her with Holocaust jokes about gas chambers.

“Hate-filled trolls seem to enjoy engaging with me. Mostly they deny the Holocaust ever happened or diminish it, compare it to other events- or a favorite of trolls is to co-opt the term Nazi, using it to describe Israel and its right to defend itself against terror,” she said.

In another message, Lipiner shared with Ynet, an X user wrote to tell her that she is “not a real Jew” and that “the Torah says the Jews were and are a black race of people. You're not black so stop spreading lies to the public. …We are sick and tired of you stealing our history.” Not the real Jews is a phrase most commonly used by Black supremacists – including Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam and the Black Hebrews movement - claiming Black people, and not Jews, are the true chosen people of God.

Yet in the face of such vile conversation, Lipiner isn’t backing down; instead, she’s doubling down.

“The trolls honestly don’t bother me. I’ve dealt with so much worse, and I guess I must be relevant,” she joked. But she is concerned about the level of vitriol on social media, in particular X.

#lucy lipiner #holocaust survivor #antisemitism #twitter #x

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hero-israel · 2 years

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Hi there! So I have what feels like a stupid question, but I'm coming up empty and you are very knowledgeable. When I first started learning more about Judaism and Israel, I was coming from a leftist goyische American viewpoint that sees Medinat Yisrael as guilty of atrocities as a baseline belief, even if it didn't name specific incidents. Whenever I would look into these claims to understand the specific allegations though, I would just see more generic claims about how Israel is a settler-colonial state, how Israel is trying to genocide Palestinians, how Israel is a warmongering apartheid country, but very little in the way of specific incidents to back up these very serious accusations. Anything that seemed like it might go into that was either 1) in Hebrew, 2) in Arabic, and/or 3) so virulently antisemitic as to make it a compromised source. Occasionally I would find a claim that made sense to me, and then I would immediately find another source thoroughly debunking it. Eventually I just kind of gave up looking for any evidence of malfeasance and just waited for the (typically Jewish sources only) retractions to roll in 3 months later. Anyway at this point, years later, I'm now a progressive Zionist Jew, but I'm still baffled and it makes me feel like I'm losing my mind a bit, because I've literally never found what they're talking about and it's made me question every other political situation more, because what if there's a similar situation? I'd be fine to hear genuine criticisms of Israel and things to address, but so far I haven't found anything based in verifiable facts. At this point my trust in mainstream media is zero, so I guess what I'm asking is (a) are there genuine atrocities happening and if so, are there non antisemitic sources reporting on it and progressive Zionists trying to address them, and (b) if not, besides frustrated incoherent sputtering, any ideas about how to get goyische leftists to give a shit about facts and fact-checking? Any favorite sources that aren't right-wing and/or Islamophobic/anti-Arab?

....how did you ever get an Ask that long?

It is okay to feel unsure where to start, since Israel is a topic where most of the "common knowledge" is complete lies and many of the "expert sources" are antisemitic conspiracy crackpots. That includes the New York Times (probably the most prestigious newspaper in the world, openly loathes Jewish distinctiveness and whitewashes those who murder and ethnically cleanse us), the Lancet (most prestigious medical journal in the world, turned its pages over to KKK and 9/11Truther memelords to "criticize Israel"), every reporter and NGO who bought into the "Jenin massacre of 2002" hoax, every Twitter account that says "Israel sterilized African Jews and trained cops to kill African-Americans", and the United Nations (which is just Congress but with less democracy and more racism).

Recommended sources for accurately reporting on Israel - both the good and the bad - include:

Benny Morris

Tom Segev

Yair Rosenberg

Matti Friedman

David Schraub

Bari Weiss

Aviva Klompas

Eve Barlow

Emily Schrader

I could have listed more if you hadn't specifically asked me to avoid people who self-ID as conservatives. Hope this helps!

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psychoticblorbobattle · 4 months

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Twenty-three contestants so far! Submissions end on the 15th, so if your character isn't here, please get them submitted asap!!!

#important #submissions info #update #psychoticblorbobattle

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stels-sanderssides-au · 7 months

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I've made some MAJOR changes to my au so here's some details that are important

This is a 'human' au. The sides are reincarnations of spirits. And Thomas is there too

It doesn't take place on Earth; it takes place on an alternate Earth called Azeron.

Roman Mixon, she/they trans woman. 36

Remus Mixon, he/him trans man. 36

Patton Liddell, he/she cis man. 35

Virgil Moriarty, he/she/they bigender. 34

Thomas Sanders, he/him, cis man. 34

Nico Flores, any/all cis+. 34

Emile Picani, he/they, cis man. 34

Janus Schrader, she/he/it transfem genderfluid. 31

Remy Smith, ze/hir trans man. 30

Logan Redd, he/it trans man. 29

Roman and Remus are the princess and prince of the country Enteralia.

Virgil is the prince of the country Kora, just north of Enteralia.

Roman and Virgil are married.

Patton and Janus are married.

Logan and Remus are married.

Thomas, Nico, and Remy are all engaged to each other.

Patton and Logan are friends with benefits.

Janus and Remus are dating.

Roman and Remus family members: Terry Mixon (father, deceased), Gina Mixon (mother), Julie Mixon (older sister)

Patton family members: Franklin Liddell (father), Tonya Liddell (mother, deceased), Drew Emily (stepfather), Mildred Liddell (younger sister), Jason Liddell (son)

Virgil family members: Kai Moriarty (father), Karen Moriarty (mother), Veronica Moriarty (older sister)

Janus family members: unknown father, Kira Schrader (mother), Linda Schrader (grandmother, guardian)

Remy family members: Westley Vella (father), Thalia Smith (mother)

Logan family members: Reginald Redd (father), Ashley Redd (mother), Xyler Redd (younger brother), Fran Redd (younger half-sister), Tuesday Redd (younger sibling), Michael Redd (younger half-brother)

Emile is Thomas' twin brother.

Patton had his son Jason with his ex girlfriend Jessica. They have split custody.

Patton has PTSD. His emotional support animal is a pit bull named Lolli.

Janus has fibromyalgia and epilepsy. Her service animal is a golden retriever named Tuck.

Remy is blind. Hir seeing eye dog is a husky named Venti.

Logan has schizophrenia and PTSD. His emotional support animal is a sphinx cat named Lulubelle.

Roman and Remus are Christian

Patton is Jewish

Virgil was raised Christian but has never practiced

Janus is agnostic

Logan was raised Catholic but is atheist due to religious trauma

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 5 months

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This is a message for those who claim to care about protecting innocent Palestinian lives.

Yes, I'm speaking to you, Angelina Jolie, Rashida Talib, Cori Bush and of course Bella and Gigi Hadid.

Where were you when more than 4,000 Palestinians in refugee camps were slaughtered in the Syrian Civil War?

Where was your outrage when Lebanon banned Palestinians from working as doctors, lawyers or from owning land?

Where were you when it was exposed that the Palestinian Authority tortures Palestinian prisoners?

When Palestinian Police murdered journalist Nizar Banat for opposing the government?

Where were you when 850,000 Palestinians were displaced by the Syrian Civil War?

When Lebanese militias killed 2,500 Palestinians in refugee camps and displaced another 30,000 Palestinians from 1985 to 1987?

Where is your outrage over Hamas dragging the bodies of innocent Palestinians through the streets of Gaza for collaborating with Israel?

Where were you when Hamas stored rockets in Palestinian schools?

When they recruited children to join the Jihad?

When they murdered one of the last Christian Pastors in Gaza?

When they stole electricity, water, fuel and humanitarian aid for their own terror activities instead of supporting their people?

Where is your protest against Arab states for refusing to accept a single Palestinian refugee, even temporarily?

If you're only outraged by Israel's actions, you aren't pro-Palestinian and you don't care about Palestinian lives, you're blinded by your own hatred of Israel.

The best way to protect Palestinian lives is the destruction of Hamas.

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They don't care. They neither know nor care anything about the region. They're looking to be fashionably virtuous, and if that means revealing their latent antisemitism, well, then the mask comes off. They care about joining in the trends and using all the "correct" hashtags.

Reminder: There is a border crossing between Egypt and Gaza. Egypt has done nothing to facilitate citizens evacuating through that border. Because it doesn't want them. So, Hamas doesn't want them to leave because they'll lose their human shield, Egypt doesn't want them at all, Israel has tried to get them to leave and has sent in Arabic-speaking medical teams to help minimize harm to civilian because they only want to destroy Hamas... and Israel is the bad guy?

Exterminate Hamas.

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#Emily Schrader #rape is not resistance #Instagram #Rashida Tlaib's accusation was wild

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My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. This is my confession. If you're watching this tape, I'm probably dead, murdered by my brother-in-law Hank Schrader. Hank has been building a meth empire for over a year now and using me as his chemist. Shortly after my 50th birthday, Hank came to me with a rather, shocking proposition. He asked that I use my chemistry knowledge to cook methamphetamine, which he would then sell using his connections in the drug world. Connections that he made through his career with the DEA. I was... astounded, I... I always thought that Hank was a very moral man and I was... thrown, confused, but I was also particularly vulnerable at the time, something he knew and took advantage of. I was reeling from a cancer diagnosis that was poised to bankrupt my family. Hank took me on a ride along, and showed me just how much money even a small meth operation could make. And I was weak. I didn't want my family to go into financial ruin so I agreed. Every day, I think back at that moment with regret. I quickly realized that I was in way over my head, and Hank had a partner, a man named Gustavo Fring, a businessman. Hank essentially sold me into servitude to this man, and when I tried to quit, Fring threatened my family. I didn't know where to turn. Eventually, Hank and Fring had a falling out. From what I can gather, Hank was always pushing for a greater share of the business, to which Fring flatly refused to give him, and things escalated. Fring was able to arrange, uh I guess I guess you call it a "hit" on my brother-in-law, and failed, but Hank was seriously injured, and I wound up paying his medical bills which amounted to a little over $177,000. Upon recovery, Hank was bent on revenge, working with a man named Hector Salamanca, he plotted to kill Fring, and did so. In fact, the bomb that he used was built by me, and he gave me no option in it. I have often contemplated suicide, but I'm a coward. I wanted to go to the police, but I was frightened. Hank had risen in the ranks to become the head of the Albuquerque DEA, and about that time, to keep me in line, he took my children from me. For 3 months he kept them. My wife, who up until that point, had no idea of my criminal activities, was horrified to learn what I had done, why Hank had taken our children. We were scared. I was in Hell, I hated myself for what I had brought upon my family. Recently, I tried once again to quit, to end this nightmare, and in response, he gave me this. I can't take this anymore. I live in fear every day that Hank will kill me, or worse, hurt my family. I... All I could think to do was to make this video in hope that the world will finally see this man, for what he really is

Is this from that one TV show I watch with Emily

#class of 09 #ari class of 09 #i always forget what it's called

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'Wars change the course of human history – not only the present and the future, but also the past. The consequences of the two major world wars of the twentieth century are not unknown to us. One of the most infamous instances of the destruction and degradation of humanity took place, ironically, with what essentially brought an end to the Second World War – the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945.

The repercussions of creating nuclear weapons in this context and the justifications of their practical use have been major topics of discussion for almost eight decades now. Christopher Nolan’s 2023 film Oppenheimer rekindles this debate using cinematic and generic conventions, and provides a unique perspective of looking at the philosophy of warfare.

Veteran screenwriter Paul Schrader, in a Facebook post, called Oppenheimer “the best, most important film of the century.” While this is entirely his personal opinion, the latter part of his statement would be hard to disagree with. Oppenheimer is, indeed, one of the most important films of the century in several aspects – technical, formal, cultural, and political.

The film is based on the 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, focusing on the life of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb.” Nolan’s adaptation depicts the development of the Manhattan Project and the proceedings of Oppenheimer’s security hearing of 1954, blending the genres of the historical drama and the thriller, along with Nolan’s characteristic finesse.

Oppenheimer is not a forgotten personality, but Nolan brings him back into the present collective memory, focusing more on his psyche and conscience than his scientific prowess. Doing so, he opens up the possibilities of getting to know the man more intimately. This becomes important for illustrating the dissonance between the “creator” and the “creation,” and for understanding how politics determine the most decisive moments of human history. This film is neither a glorification of J. Robert Oppenheimer nor a celebration of USA’s victory over the Axis powers, but it is rather a strong critique of the politics of warfare.

Nolan chooses to dramatise specific events from the pages of history, and he uses film language to do so. We get to look at the world from a different viewpoint, most strikingly, through the eyes of the creator of the atomic bomb. We enter into Oppenheimer’s mind and share his emotions. We identify with his feelings – his fears, his anxieties, his affectations and his confusions – they become a part of us. Cillian Murphy brings Oppenheimer to life, delivering one of the best acting performances in the history of cinema. In fact, the entire cast delivers an incredibly convincing performance. Robert Downey Jr. is impeccable in his portrayal of Lewis Strauss. Emily Blunt also stands out in her role as Katherine Oppenheimer.

The film is dialogue-heavy, but its most intense moments are expressed using pure visual language. Hoyte van Hoytema’s cinematography makes every moment look grand and feel important. Every frame of the film is spectacular in every sense of the word. Using both colour and black-and-white scenes in the same film is not something too out-of-the-ordinary, as filmmakers have been using this technique for narrative purposes for several decades now. Nolan, however, uses it to make a distinction between two subjective points of view – titled “Fission” and “Fusion” – colour for Oppenheimer’s, and black-and-white for Strauss’s. This also adds an additional layer of subtlety to the scenes’ emotional potency.

Jennifer Lame’s editing makes the film’s visual pace congruent with its narrative pace. The quick cuts and transitions serve the dramatic aspect of the film, in order to generate a sense of urgency. But the long takes in the film are what really leave a lasting impression on the viewer. Most of these long takes deal with Oppenheimer’s thoughts and internal conflicts.

Nolan has meticulously structured the screenplay, where every shot, every scene, every cut, every camera movement serves a purpose in storytelling. There is also the effective use of montage, which has become a distinguished feature of Nolan’s films.

The explosion of the bomb was one of the most anticipated scenes in the film, proven by all the buzz it had generated on social media after Nolan announced that he would not use CGI in the film but would only use practical effects. The explosion that is depicted in the film is that of “The Gadget,” the test bomb, and not the ones that were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This choice is justifiable, because the film is not simply about the application of the atomic bomb, but about the larger consequences of its creation.

The detonation is shown from Oppenheimer’s perspective. It is not presented as a typical countdown scene, and is not a strictly “realistic” depiction, but rather a psychological one. Specific scenes from films and TV shows gain some sort of autonomy in popular culture, and get regarded as iconic; the explosion scene in Oppenheimer definitely deserves to be ranked as such. Oppenheimer’s anxiety in this scene can be felt viscerally, as the creator looks at his creation and realises what he has unleashed into the world.

In the most heartrending moment of the film, as Oppenheimer feigns satisfaction with USA’s victory, he is haunted by visions of death and destruction that his creation has brought upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead of seeing the physical bombing of Japan, we get to see its psychological impact on the man who feels (and is) responsible for this. This sequence is one of the most harrowing in the history of cinema. Aesthetically, it is the perfect union of all the elements of film form; it reaches its full potential with the help of sound design and music. Ludwig Göransson’s score makes watching the film an almost transcendental experience.

The ending of Oppenheimer is particularly strong and moving. Instead of being confusing or debate-inducing like Tenet or Inception, Oppenheimer’s ending is poignantly powerful; it feels like the beginning of another fateful story – one that we, the spectators, are a part of. In the final moments of the film, all the elements of film form come together to create what is, in my opinion, one of the greatest ending scenes of all time. In this day and age of streaming services and the popularity of smaller screens, if there is one film that is meant to be watched in the movie theatre, it is Oppenheimer.

We live in a world fuelled by hatred, malice, and distrust. The arms race is thus inevitable, with the looming threat of nuclear warfare endangering all life on earth. But this has been universally accepted as a “normal” way of existing.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is not only the reenactment of a historic event, but also, in several ways, a cautionary tale. No matter what form any conflict takes, no matter what it is based on – geographical location, political ideology, religious belief, or ethnic identity – it only pits one body of flesh and blood against another. As long as such separatist ideals exist in the world, weapons of mass destruction will continue to be made, each greater and more dangerous than the other. But the fact is that the same weapons, which are developed for the sustenance of a particular group, destroy everything on the planet, irrespective of race, ethnicity, colour, and identity.'

#Oppenheimer #Christopher Nolan #Paul Schrader #American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer #Kai Bird #Martin J. Sherwin #Robert Downey Jr.#Lewis Strauss #Emily Blunt #Kitty #Hoyte van Hoytema #Jennifer Lame #Tenet #Inception

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Another own goal — Palestinian page proudly publishes a “Palestinian birth certificate” from 1942…a birth certificate that’s in HEBREW

Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר

#Israel #Pallywood

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I really hope he gets to be busy next year. He's been so unlucky recently (having to drop Emily because of a scheduling conflict; Brideshead and the Paul Schrader movie not happening as planned; Hamlet being delayed). One is bad enough, but all four 😢 Chloe (and/or someone similar) better come through or else 😂

Fingers crossed! I definitely feel like something is happening that simply hasn't been announced yet. Idk he's seemed so happy and bubbly lately and that would be kinda weird if he had absolutely nothing coming down the pipe. I also really like what he said at the end of that quote: "So recently it's been a rethink: Going forward, just jumping in in the same way but caring less in the right way." It just sounds like he's making a conscious effort not to stress too much about work. And that's great!

But yeah, I imagine losing out on a role because of external circumstances is probably worse than just missing out because someone else was a better fit for the part.

#lilly answers

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VENEZIA 79 - 90 ANNI DI CINEMA al LIDO di VENEZIA

Manifesto Lorenzo Mattotti

COMPETITION of 79th Venice Film Festival

1. WHITE NOISE - OPENING FILM by NOAH BAUMBACH starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André L. Benjamin and Lars Eidinger/ USA / 136'

2. IL SIGNORE DELLE FORMICHE by GIANNI AMELIO with Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano, Leonardo Maltese, Sara Serraiocco / Italy / 134'

3. THE WHALE by DARREN ARONOFSKY with Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Samantha Morton, Ty Simpkins / USA / 117'

4. L'IMMENSITÀ by EMANUELE CRIALESE with Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni / Italy, France / 97'

5. SAINT OMER by ALICE DIOP with Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit / France / 122'

6. BLONDE by ANDREW DOMINIK with Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, Julianne Nicholson, Lily Fisher / USA / 165'

7. TÁR by TODD FIELD with Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, Mark Strong / USA / 158'

8. LOVE LIFE by KÔJI FUKADA with Fumino Kimura, Kento Nagayama, Atom Sunada / Japan, France / 123'

9. BARDO, FALSA CRÓNICA DE UNAS CUANTAS VERDADES (BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS) by ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU with Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Andrés Almeida, Francisco Rubio / Mexico

10. ATHENA by ROMAIN GAVRAS with Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon, Ouassini Embarek, Alexis Manenti / France / 97'

11. BONES AND ALL by LUCA GUADAGNINO with Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, Jessica Harper, David Gordon Green, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jake Horowitz / USA / 130'

12. THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER by JOANNA HOGG with Tilda Swinton, Joseph Mydell, Carly-Sophia Davies / UK, USA / 96'

13. SHAB, DAKHELI, DIVAR (BEYOND THE WALL) by VAHID JALILVAND with Navid Mohammadzadeh, Diana Habibi, Amir Aghaee / Iran / 126'

14. THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN by MARTIN MCDONAGH starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan / Ireland, UK, USA / 109'

15. ARGENTINA, 1985 by SANTIAGO MITRE with Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Norman Briski / Argentina, USA / 140'

16. CHIARA by SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI with Margherita Mazzucco, Andrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Luigi Lo Cascio / Italy, Belgium / 106'

17. MONICA by ANDREA PALLAORO with Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Adriana Barraza, Emily Browning, Joshua Close / USA, Italy / 106'

18. KHERS NIST (NO BEARS) by JAFAR PANAHI with Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiar Panjeei, Mina Kavani, Reza Heydari / Iran / 106'

19. ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED by LAURA POITRAS USA / 113'

20. UN COUPLE (A COUPLE) by FREDERICK WISEMAN with Nathalie Boutefeu / France, USA / 63'

21. THE SON by FLORIAN ZELLER with Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Quarshie / UK / 123'

22. LES MIENS (OUR TIES) by ROSCHDY ZEM with Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Meriem Serbah, Maïwenn, Rachid Bouchareb, Abel Jafrei, Nina Zem / France / 85'

23. LES ENFANTS DES AUTRES (OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN) by REBECCA ZLOTOWSKI with Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira / France / 104'

OUT OF COMPETITION

1. The Hanging Sun, by Francesco Cozzini - Closing Film of the Festival

2. Kapag Wala Nang Mga Alon (When the Waves are Gone), by Lav Diaz

3. Living, by Oliver Hermanus

4. Dead for a Dollar, by Walter Hill

5. Kone Taevast (Call of God), by Kim Ki-Duk

6. Dreamin' Wild, by Bill Pohlad

7. Master Gardener, by Paul Schrader

8. Drought, by Paolo Virzi

9. Pearl, by Ti West

10. Don't Worry Darling, by Olivia Wilde

OUT OF COMPETITION - NON FICTION

1. Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, by Evgeny Afineevsky

2. The Matchmaker, by Benedetta Argentieri

3. The Last Days of Humanity, by Enrico Ghezzi and Alessandro Gagliardo

4. A Compassionate Spy, by Steve James

5. Music for Black Pigeons, by Jorgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed

6. The Kiev Trial, by Sergei Loznitsa

7. In viaggio, by Gianfranco Rosi

8. Bobi Wine Ghetto President, Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo

9. Nuclear, by Oliver Stone

OUT OF COMPETITION - TV SERIES

1. Riget Exodus (The Kingdom Exodus) - episodes 1-5, by Lars von Trier (1 September)

2. Copenhagen Cowboy - episodes 1-6, by Nicolas Winding Refn

OUT OF COMPETITION - SHORTS

1. Camarera de Piso (Maid), by Lucrecia Martel

2. Look at Me, by Sally Potter

3. As for Us, by Simone Massi

4. When the war is over, by Simone Massi

ORIZZONTI

1. Princess, by Roberto De Paolis - Opening film

2. Obet' (Victim), by Michal Blaško

3. En Los Margenes (On the Fringe), by Juan Diego Botto

4. Trenque Lauquen, by Laura Citarella

5. Vera, by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel

6. Innocence, by Guy Davidi

7. Blanquita, by Fernando Guzzoni

8. Pour la France (For My Country), by Rachid Hami

9. Aru Otoko (A Man), by Kei Ishikawa

10. Chleb I Sol (Bread and Salt), by Damian Kocur

11. Luxembourg, Luxembourg, by Antonio Lukich

12. Ti mangio il cuore, by Pippo Mezzapesa

13. Spre Nord (To The North), by Mihai Mincan

14. Autobiography, by Makbul Mubarak

15. The Syndacaliste (The Sitting Duck), by Jean-Paul Salomé

16. Jang-E Jahani Sevom (World War III), by Houman Seyedi

17. Najsrekniot Čovek Na Svetot (The Happiest Man in the World), by Teona Strugar Mitevska

18. A Noiva (The Bride), by Sergio Trefaut

ORIZZONTI EXTRA

1. L'origine du mal (Origin of Evil), by Sebastien Marnier - Opening film

2. Hanging Gardens, by Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji

3. Amanda, by Carolina Cavalli

4. Zapatos Rojos (Red Shoes), by Carlo Eichelmann Kaiser

5. Nezouh, by Soudade Kaadan

6. Phantom Night, by Fulvio Risuleo

7. Bi Roya (Without Her), by Arian Vazirdaftari

8. Valeria Mithatenet (Valeria is Getting Married), by Michal Vinik

9. Goliath, by Adilkhan Yerzhanov

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