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[quote]She saw everything in Elaine she had lost, but seemed to be sending her along the same road she had been down, even though she loved her. [/quote]
Yep.
After losing her self respect (something that happened years before Ben I'm sure), she could at least live vicariously through Elaine if nothing else.
Except that interpretation is wrong.
The story wasn't about making it "easier" for Bookman, it was a story about an older man whose time had come and was too stubborn to go with Death. Once he realized is stubbornness was going to cost the young girl her life, he made the sacrifice to take her place after he fooled Death with his pitch. If Death wanted to make it easier for Bookman, I don't think the trauma of watching his young friend being run down in the street to the point of death was making it "easy", not to mention the girl herself or her parents..
The problem is though that the writing is a bit clunky and not quite believable.
The Stranger: Don't know the man.
Sheriff: Well, you missed your chance; you killed him yesterday.
Same person, same name..
I don't see Bonasera as you do, but everyone has his opinion.
The only thing I do want to comment upon is your comment that Bonasera wanted the Don to do murder because his daughter was "roughhoused" by a couple of guys.
Those two boys tried to rape her and, when she resisted, beat her to the point of disfiguring her. Hardly a slap across the face. I don't have a daughter but understand the anguish a father would feel, particularly back in the 50s.
[quote]Everybody knows that Cabaret should have won the Best Picture in 1972.[/quote]
And it would have if there wasn't a better picture running against it.
I don't know who you are although your "name" looks familiar (I pop into MC once or twice a week at most). But my question is why people leave any public forum and see the need to announce it?
I've left plenty of forums over the years for all sorts of reasons, but never once announced it.
I live in a small town, and we have a volunteer fire dept. The town pays for the top notch equipment and training, but otherwise the costs are low.
Perhaps some retired vets would volunteer, particularly those with kids or grandkids in these schools.
Agree. Investing in armed professionals in schools will almost guarantee they won't be needed, like armed air marshals on every domestic flight. Leave the soft targets for things like SJW meetings..
I had Italian for dinner....
But, for lunch my brother and I stopped for a corned beef sandwich (yes, at an Italian deli...)
"-Imagine someone celebrating the passing of Rosa Parks by saying "Now she's free from racism! She'll never have to sit in the back of the bus again!" It's not a good sentiment."
I know I shouldn't be responding to you any more because you use circular logic, but let me ask you this: other than the bus incident and other acts of racism (which as a black man I have plenty of firsthand knowledge), did Rosa have any good days? Did she laugh, did she dance, did she hold a child, did she walk barefoot in the grass, was she able to wipe her own ass? I never knew her, but I'll bet that in general she enjoyed her life.
Hawking was never able to do any of those things. He lived his last years with supreme indignity.
"-Find someone who is disabled to the point of needing a wheelchair, or being bed bound, etc. Talk to them for a while. Then see if you would say this: "Just think, some day you will be free of your disability, because you'll be dead. Won't that be wonderful?"
Locate my post responding to your toy post an hour before you posted the above. That says it all.
[quote]There's nothing wrong with Hawking toys:[/quote]
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How offensive!!!!
That toy shows Hawking operating the wheelchair with his left hand, something he's been unable to do for many years. And smiling? When was the last time he was able to smile???
And a helicopter wheel chair? Implying that he could only find freedom through an apparatus that doesn't even exist? A mechanical boxing glove? Demonstrating with great clarity that he's unable to use his own hands for defense???
It looks to me like that toy is more for making those not so afflicted feel better about that poor man's condition..
I hope you're ashamed of yourself.
[quote]You think paralyzed people would want to be free of their wheel chair if there's an afterlife, or no?That's the crux of the whole argument.[/quote]
Those who are "offended" are offended at pretty much anything. I've found that those easily offended by condolences that reference a release of suffering though death are hyper-atheistic in general.
One of my clients suffered and died from ALS, and she told me she couldn't wait to be free of her vegetative body and *walk* along the lake shore with her previously deceased husband. I'm agnostic at best and wish I could have her faith, but I do hope she made it.
[quote]Saying that wheelchair-bound people can only find freedom in death really is pretty offensive.[/quote]
Well then don't say it. Those who commented on Hawking didn't.
LOL! She's now called an "ableist" because she dared say that he was constrained by his disability. Someone tell me with a straight face that Hawking wouldn't have wished to be NORMAL physically if he could have had that wish granted.
I remember I innocently used the word "midget" when describing a person of uncommonly short height. Some SJW flared her nostrils at me for being insensitive. I of course immediately apologized and rephrased it as "vertically retarded". Boy did that cause a sh**storm!!! LOL.
I would consider it more of a dramedy than a pure comedy. Despite it not being a pure drama, I believe they did show the elements of greed, materialism, and object worship.
My real reason for posting is that I think Paula has one of the most severe cases of smoker's voice I think I've ever heard. She could have done Patty and Selma's voices and not even changed her natural voice!
I don't think a cryo-prison would be any more a deterrent than a conventional prison, but that's not the point. In fact, given the option, I'd rather do my time frozen than risk being attacked by some perv.
A cryo-prison (as designed in this film) is not a deterrent nor is it supposed to be; it's a rehabilitation facility. While the prisoner is being a consicle, he's being reprogrammed into a useful citizen. We saw Sparton given the skill to knit or crochet whilst frosty.
I'm a proponent of capital punishment, but only if there is no dispute as to guilt. The fact that some death row inmates were later cleared of all crimes by DNA troubles me. But, for those cases where guilt is undisputed, I'm on board for sure. I also don't think that the death penalty is a big deterrent, nor do I care. I think it's value is that we don't have to pay for a lifetime of care for someone who can never be returned to the general population. Better for us, better for them if you think about it.
Still, the vast majority of criminals are in prison for crimes other than capital ones. We continue to need prisons; we can't just "off" anybody who is convicted for any crime.
So, a cryo-prison makes sense if it could be implemented. Not only would criminals be rehabilitated, they can be given skills that will help them land on the productive side of the economy, not the take side.
Jerry Goldsmith and Henry Mancini are two of my favorites.
I think Goldsmith will become more revered as the decades pass.
You can't. You also can't really find a word to describe her either..