This short film of the short story "The Lady or the Tiger?" was made in 1969. It looks ancient even to me.
The filmaker essentially put visuals and music to a reading of the story, so it is really an interpretation of the story more than anything else. I would like you to review it. Write 2 paragraphs (or more) as you will be explaining your opinions on a few things.
Think about the music choice. I don't like what they did with the sound, but you might. The characters and setting are interesting as well, as you can tell immediately what 'feeling' the filmmaker was going for when showing the 'semi-barbaric king'.
Watch the whole thing, and give your opinion about the film. Please use creative language so that your opinion comes out with clarity and force.
I feel it's important to send this out to you today. Especially now, with the Novel Coronavirus working its way around, and government officials and Corporate Media talking heads telling me what I need to do in order to be safe. People often wonder why I have trip-wire sensitivity and inherent distrust for the Government Media complex and their statements. The story below is the first thing I think of when I ask myself "are these people trustworthy?" It is also the first thing I talk about when people get angry at me for not instantly bending the knee and doing as I'm told by Corporate Media / Gov't.
It's a dark chapter in American history, and it wasn't that long ago.
The conspiracy theory, in the 1980's and the 1990's, was that the government was responsible for flooding the Black Neighborhood with crack cocaine. If you spoke openly of this, you were called all sorts of names. One of the more common ones was "Conspiracy Theorist". The problem was, it was all true. A reporter, Gary Webb, figured out the entire thing. The chain of command, why the CIA was sending drugs into certain areas, which government officials were involved - Webb had it all mapped out and he wrote a series of articles on it.
As usual, the Power Elite, mostly the Government and the Corporate Media, went after Webb, not his story. They didn't go after what he said or the facts They wen't after him. Hard. Webb killed himself eventually, shooting himself in the head twice. Re-read that last sentence.
He eventually turned the whole thing into a book, called Dark Alliance. I own it.
"Gary Webb’s troubles began in August 1996, when his employer, the San Jose Mercury News, published a groundbreaking, three-part investigation he had worked on for more than a year. Carrying the full title “Dark Alliance: The Story Behind the Crack Explosion,” Webb’s series reported that in addition to waging a proxy war for the U.S. government against Nicaragua’s revolutionary Sandinista government in the 1980s, elements of the CIA-backed Contra rebels were also involved in trafficking cocaine to the U.S. in order to fund their counter-revolutionary campaign. The secret flow of drugs and money, Webb reported, had a direct link to the subsequent explosion of crack cocaine abuse that had devastated California’s most vulnerable African American neighborhoods.
Derided by some as conspiracy theory and heralded by others as investigative reporting at its finest, Webb’s series spread through extensive talk radio coverage and global availability via the internet, which at the time was still a novel way to promote national news."
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The above article is really good. I recommend it.
There are some good videos, documentaries and movies on this topic. Here are some of them:
Crack in the System: It is the go to documentary on who was responsible, and how they did it. By using Freeway Ricky Ross, an illiterate high school tennis star, as its lens, the documentary gives you chapter and verse on the path of destruction created by the Federal Government and the Media.
Gary Webb lays out the process in this video. This video was originally erased from Youtube until recently re-uploaded:
The story was made into a Hollywood movie, which, while only a cursory analysis, is actually pretty good:
After going through this material, I don't think there is any way you can, from this day forward, look at Corporate Media and / or government officals with anything but distrust.
If they're willing to not only cause this level of death and destruction, lie about it, and kill the messenger; what else are they willing to do?
The smart students in class invariably ask who the Controllers are. Who are "they", and how do they manage not only the mass-men and mass-women, but the beat to which they dance?
It's a fantastic question. One of the parables that answers the question, and gives you the solution going forward, is the book, the Wizard of Oz. The movie changed some things, one of them subtle but devastating, but it was made in an age when they (see what I mean?) couldn't radically alter it too much or the Real Americans would have balked.
Inspired by Owen Benjamin's podcast on the topic, here is my explanation of the Wizard of Oz, and how it both identifies the Wizards, and gives you the path out of the Darkness.
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Younger readers won't know the name Richard Jewell, but the story of the man and what happened to him will sound familiar. Jewell saved lives as a security guard at the 96 olympics in Atlanta, but then, being a frumpy white guy, was pilloried by the press as a fraud. The "Intelligence Community" set him up as the fall guy and stereotyped him as it leaked fake information to the press.
The echoes today are loud: the Duke Lacrosse Hoax and the The Covington Catholic kids come to mind immediately.
Steve Sailer has reviewed the movie, and the reaction, which is always the important thing to look at, will tell you almost everything to know.
Sailer's review is a good one to use as a template for your own book or movie reviews. There's a mix of background information on Eastwood, the movie, the event, and the reaction. Read it carefully.
