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BREATH OF FRESH AIR

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Movie Review...May December

(2/5) Chile this movie was weird (I can't even sugarcoat that). One of the actors kept showing on my timeline. So I searched for interviews to see why he kept coming on my timeline. Rave reviews about his performance from peers and critics a like intrigued me to look into what was going on. What did I just watch. This was full on drama...soap opera...TP for WPs (if you can decode you are the real MVP). Even the score was something out of Dallas or Dynasty.

I am not sure if the events in the film was based on a true story but foundation of the characters were. As one google review states, "This film, based on the Mary Kay Letourneau case, depicts the Mary Kay character (Julianne Moore) and the twelve-year old boy she raped, and got impregnated by, twenty-three years later as a married couple with kids heading off to college." I myself was in the middle school around when this story was taking over the news headlines but had no clue what was going on.

Overall description and feeling of this film is uncomfortable. From the clearly inappropriate foundation of the couples relationship, the intrusiveness of the method actor that clearly evolved into some obsession (Portman's character was giving The Talented Mr. Ripley), the makeup scene, the kids relationship with the parents, the towns relationship with the family...all weird and uncomfortable.

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, Gracie Atherton-Yu and her husband Joe (twenty-three years her junior) brace themselves for their twins to graduate from high school. When Hollywood actress Elizabeth Berry comes to spend time with the family to better understand Gracie, who she will be playing in a film, family dynamics unravel under the pressure of the outside gaze. Joe, never having processed what happened in his youth, starts to confront the reality of life as an empty-nester at thirty-six. And as Elizabeth and Gracie study each other, the similarities and differences between the two women begin to ebb and flow. Set in picturesque and comfortable Savannah, Georgia, May December is an exploration of truth, storytelling, and the difficulties (or impossibility) of fully understanding another person.

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Movie Review...Monkey Man

(3/5) A short synopsis of the film is that it starts off as a misguided revenge story but evolves into purpose driven rebellion. The only reason/s I couldn't give this film any higher scores because it's one of the cases where they have all the right things but was misplaced or used incorrectly in my opinion. When speaking with a friend about the film we shared the same thoughts. The story told wasn't cohesive.

His first attempt at revenge wasn't planned well and was just fueled by emotion. Which I get was his story arc (like I mentioned with the short synopsis), but I think that should have been presented another way. Here I'm thinking he losing fixed fights just to get money turns out he really can't fight.

Injured during his failed revenge plan and escape, he is rescued by a transgender/non-binary community... briefly trains with them and is now John Wick? And again I get the themes behind it and actually like the emotional journey he went on but if presented a different way this film would have gotten a higher score.

Dev is one of my favorite actors and with his first go at director plus all the issue that occurred during filming I think he has done a good job for the first time. My overall feedback would be the development of the plot.

Check out Monkey Man...

A young man ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he's beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, he discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city's sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

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FUTURE

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Creativity is a flow state. Creation is a form of divine energy. Do not become so obsessed with your creative projects or self-development that you inflame and stress your tissues and blow your circuits out. Do not overdose on how-to, self-care or motivational YouTube videos which can have an adverse effect and drain your vital energy. A certain element of healthy obsession is required but you do have to make time to rest, nap, play, exercise, lay up, spend time in nature, and prep nutrient-dense meals. Begin now building your capacity to feel safe in this world when you permit your work move a bit slower. Initially it may feel difficult or impossible—be okay with mastering the difficult or impossible. This is the magic of deep tissue nervous system work. It means learning to breathe deeply through uncertainty and the discomforts of the unknown and not always have dates, times, or answers while witnessing other people finish projects or level up around you. It means listening to your body when it needs to urinate and not just waiting until you are about to pee on yourself before you get up from the computer to relieve your overworked bladder. It means discovering ways to relax when you take days off. It means eating real food. It means turning off your phone or computer and playing records in low lights for the evening. It means letting yourself relax and just play with no aim or objective. Be okay with stepping out of constant productivity and hustle culture and aligning with the smaller, the slower, the gentler. This appears simple and easy, but for most, it will be surprisingly difficult and uncomfortable. But when you do so, you will be more magnetic, aligned, and healthy in the long run. Because female physiology doesn't run off of just light or achievements. It needs a strong foundation of supreme care, nutrition, and tending, or else it begins to weep and eventually scream. The female body is the pillar of the entire family/village/community and requires a lot more love and respect from us. Never forget that. -India Ame'ye, Author

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It's time to remember who you are. MONKEY MAN (2024) dir. Dev Patel

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Keep pushing forward G

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O u t K a s t

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New project up on my site!  Karl Glusman / Esquire…check it out here

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DEV PATEL 'Monkey Man' behind the scenes

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Dev Patel as Kid in Monkey Man (2024)

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JACOB ANDERSON 2024 | Aaron Hurley ph. for Head Above The Clouds

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The pain… It will leave you once it's finished teaching you.

MONKEY MAN (2024) dir. Dev Patel

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Dev Patel in MONKEY MAN (2024)

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Dying star, Konstantin Korobov

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Movie Review...Asphalt City/Black Flies

(4/5) Can we talk for a second. This is art. This is film as art. The aesthetic is gritty from the setting and cinematography... but the performances and theme are what stand out. I didn't expect to get emotional at the end, but man, the amount of dust in my eye was unacceptable.

I think this film is hitting a cord with me because some similar scenarios are currently happening in my life. Do you let this world...this dying, ugly, unjust world turn you into a monster or do you stand on the foundation of your character, your integrity?!

Millennials and Gen Zers...this is the question we have to ask ourselves entering into adulthood, into corporate, into the workforce. I currently work in a work culture where I am a first-hand witness on the unholy marriage of willful incompetence and "white privilege." These people have been with the company for decades with no oversight or consequence, and now it is the norm. If I can get away with doing the bare minimum and still get paid, why doing more? That is the motto of the majority of people I work with.

So how do you navigate a work culture like that; on top of everything that has happened or is happening in your life outside of work? This is what this movie illustrates near perfectly.

Tye Sheridan was superb in this film. I haven't seen a lot of his films but more people should be talking about this performance. Him sharing a screen with Sean Penn, Tye did a group job. I would have liked more dialogue with Penn's character. One particular scene his reaction was not filled with words but his performance showed his heartbreak. That heartbreak led to his sad decision toward the end.

This is a film you should check out...

Asphalt City follows Ollie Cross (Tye Sheridan), a young paramedic assigned to the NYC night shift with an uncompromising and seasoned partner Gene Rutkovsky (Sean Penn). The dark nights reveal a city in crisis; Rutkovsky guides Cross, as each 911 call is often dangerous and uncertain, putting their lives on the line every day to help others. Cross soon discovers firsthand the chaos and awe of a job that careens from harrowing to heartfelt, testing his relationship with Rutkovsky and the ethical ambiguity that can be the difference between life and death (rottentomatoes.com

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