The closing scene of Mystic River is a very dramatic demonstration of why you don't want big men taking punishment into their own hands. I can't tell you why without spoiling it. But it is so powerful. #
It's okay to be angry, it's definitely not okay to act out that anger on other people's bodies.#
- We're still under Putin's thumb. #
- That's the uneasy feeling that somehow the public discussion is missing the big picture. There's something that should be factored into every story but is being ignored. We're under Putin's thumb. Ukraine might be a mistake, or a distraction. But it's still true that the odds favor the Repubs, Putin's party, taking over everything by 2024. I can't imagine Putin thinking that the prize is Ukraine. The prize is the US Treasury.#
- Putin's army in the US is Fox News.#
- The only mystery is what the deal is, who's paying whom. Murdoch and Putin, they're in charge. We're also under Murdoch's thumb.#
- Until we fight back.#
- I watched King Richard over the weekend, so it's fresh in my mind. #
- There's a scene where Smith and his daughters are on a tennis court in Compton, all of his daughters, not just Venus and Serena. There are a bunch of asshole teenage boys nearby who are hassling one of his daughters who's trying to study. #
- After they're done practicing, Smith confronts the boys. They beat him up. He does nothing to respond, he just takes it (like Chris Rock last night).#
- Later in the movie he's bullied by an agent and his response is to fart out loud at him (which I like, it's aggressive but nonviolent). The agent definitely had it coming.#
- Later, the character tells Venus a story about him getting beat up as a kid, and his father was nearby and did nothing to help him.#
- The speech Smith gave in accepting his award could have been the speech the character in the movie would have made. About protecting people. #
- It's odd how closely the events last night track the ones in the movie, but opposite. What the character did is hard. The character did it right. The actor was confused, life is not a movie, and he got it wrong.#
