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PHOENIX PLAYS JESUS AS HE PROBABLY WAS
Much a I love this series..
This Movie is not bad
Elizabeth's expression when..
The Original Actors:
Lollobrigida's Hair
It was strange...
Lagertha
***POSSIBLE SPOILERS***** There are lots of stories in the 12 volumes of Poldark left to be told...
I Just Saw Part of The Movie
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People who resort to name calling have no credibility.
I may listen to opinions. That does not mean I have to agree with them to make everybody feel good.
Watching the series, I am able to see the
situation with the mindset of the time and place in which it is set. The aristocratic Crawley family is seeking a suitable match for Mary hoping to avoid the entail on the estate. If she had called out for help, she coùld have set in motion an international scandal because of who Pahmuk was. A woman who was at the center of such a scandal would be seen as soiled and less likely to be considered as a suitable bride for the aristocratic wealthy husband the family was hoping for.
I think you should do a little more reading, and if you don't know what an entail is, look it up.
In fact, I can't believe Fellowes missed that point.
Anne's execution was merciful by the standards of the day. Henry had him specially brought from Calais. He was an expert swordsman, and his aim was true.
The axe was an uncertain instrument. Margaret Plantagenet Pole, another of Henry's victims waa executed by axe, and was hacked to death.
My wisdom takes into consideration a lot of factors that you do not.
Hana-Ogi had a respected profession before she met Gruver, and he showed all of the marks of the stereotypical American husband of the time who expected a submissive Japanese wife to bear his kids and wait on him. She also was able to observe Gruver's buddy and how he treated his wife to whom, even though loved her, he was patronizing.
Then there was the official military attitude toward soldiers marrying Japanese women and bringing them to America.
Back in America, many Japanese had been forced into internment camps.
Hana-ogi would be respcted in her old age as a teacher. She made a wise choice.
Mediterraneo
Corelli's Mandolin
Yes, I can, no matter what Fellowes or Dockery said. Calling for help would have produced a scandal not just for the Crawleys, but also, because of who Pahmuk was, have provoked an international incident. In a situation like that there was nothing Mary could have done. He jumped on her uninvited, and was insistent.
I don't usually look for plot holes, but this was certainly one.
I think the white laundry is because Lista supports herself taking in laundry. When we first see her, she is scrubbing something on a washboard.
I thought it must have been because she was away from the village when the massacre occurred. It looked like she had been out gathering flowers or herbs. She was carrying a basket.
Me, too.
But I think the old man committed suicide because returning to the site of the village, and seeing Lista, the only other living villager, the old woman, who had been the girl that witnessed him, miraculously survived from the massacre, throwing his jacket with the yellow star identifying him as a Jew back into the pit, and walking away from his Jewish self, was at last able to reclaim his identity. She remenbered him, and his penchant for carrying around books that he loved to think about, but could not read. She gave him back himself. The suicide was his way of rejoining his compatriots. He had spent his whole life hating Jews, denying his identity. As Alex says, the expression on his grandfather's dead face was that of a man content to be where he was, that is, back with his own kind. The headstone on the memorial to the village restores to the grandfather his Jewish name.
I loved this movie, and especially Lista, who preserved the village of Trachimbrod through the mementos of the slain that she gathered and preserved for 'those who might come searching."
I agree. I was a teenager in the 1960s. Those were the styles of dresses many of us wore. I saw this movie when it came out. I was 16. I developed a crush on Horst Bucholtz.
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