Understated Brilliance

March 13, 2025

Understated Brilliance

Years ago, Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson teamed up for the second time in a film called The Remains of the Day. Hopkins plays the head butler; Thompson plays the head house maid. Their sexual tension is palpable but Hopkins character, Mr. Stevens, puts duty above all else and won’t entertain a relationship. Meanwhile, they work for an English lord who gets bamboozled into aligning with Germany before the onset of World War II.

Edward Norton and Naomi Watts sizzle in The Painted Veil. After discovering her infidelity, Walter, a bacteriologists, brings Kitty to China to battle a cholera epidemic as punishment. There, they rediscover their love.

The Station Agent is about three lost souls -a man who inherits a defunct railroad depot he converts into a home, a woman who lost a child, and another struggling to find himself – whose lives intersect at a time when they are desperate for human connection.

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What movies or TV series have you watched more than 5 times?

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Michael DeStefano

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abn4eternity

March 13, 2025

If I like a movie or series, I tend to watch them over and over.

The movie, the Tme Machine is probably one of my favorites. Even though it shows a bleak future, there is also the possiblity of changing the bleak to hopeful.

One of my favorite series was a short lived one called Terra Nova. Starts off in a future society where mankind has over populated the Earth and corporations have destroyed the enviroment. But thanks to a breakthrough in texhnology and quantum mechanics, time travel is used to send lottery winners to the far distant past where they build a community and live surrounded by dinosaurs. The one problem is corporate and government greed that overshadows life in general. However, the possibility of going back to a time mankind has not supposedly evolved, according to the official narrative government and science wants us to believe.

I like the possibility of changing the future even if it is in the past. But what is time anyway? It is the progession each individual experiences, whether we are here and now, go to the future, or yravel backwars in time. It is still that individual’s future.

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Michael DeStefano

March 13, 2025

The space/time continuum does leave one pondering the infinite possibilities beyond the scope of our finite planet. It has, as you said, a quantum mechanics aspect, and also a spiritual one.

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