Never Look Away<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\nAn Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and winner of other awards, the story spans the life of an artist as a boy in Nazi Germany and a man in East Germany. He flees to West Germany right before the Berlin Wall was built. It\u2019s of interest to history buffs and\/or people interested in how art can be therapeutic to traumatized lives.<\/p>\n
For consistent-lifers, its highly personal portrayal of the Nazi euthanasia program is shown as historically connected to war.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s also another film in which an abortion is inflicted on a woman who\u2019s devastated about it. The abortion is performed by her formerly Nazi father, an ob\/gyn, for eugenic reasons. He doesn\u2019t think the baby\u2019s father is worthy for his bloodline.<\/p>\n
This theme of a coerced abortion as part of a sea of violence isn\u2019t a common one in award-winning films or in Hollywood movies. But another example of a major studio film in which abortion was inflicted by men who see the woman as having no say is the Ides of March<\/em> (see the third movie commented on in our previous post<\/a>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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This is the story behind the official report on torture of prisoners of war under the Bush administration, with the euphemism \u201cenhanced interrogation.\u201d\u00a0 One point made crystal clear is how utterly wrong is the idea that violence, while regrettable, may be necessary to prevent greater violence in some circumstances. Building rapport with prisoners sometimes works as a way of getting information. Torture, on the other hand, always<\/em> gets information that was false or already known.<\/p>\nTherefore, to make the case against torture as a war tactic, we need not rely entirely on the assertion that it\u2019s wrong. It\u2019s also demonstrated to be entirely useless.<\/p>\n
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Dark Waters<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>A large company is poisoning the waters in the county where their employees work. The hero is a corporate lawyer who \u2013 knowing them as the neighbors he grew up with \u2013 takes the side of the poisoned.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/consistent-life.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/3-blog-Dark.jpg\")
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That the poisoning is injuring unborn children is one of the shocking details of the callousness of the corporation. It has their pregnant mothers continue working in dangerous conditions. The mothers, of course, don\u2019t know of the danger, but the corporate bosses do.<\/p>\n
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For more of our posts with movie reviews, see:<\/em><\/p>\nHollywood Movie Insights\u00a0<\/a>(The Giver<\/em>,\u00a0The Whistleblower<\/em>, and\u00a0The Ides of March<\/em>)<\/p>\nA Consistent Day in the Neighborhood<\/a><\/h5>\nJasmine, Aladdin, and the Power of Nonviolence<\/a><\/h5>\nThe Darkest Hour<\/em>: \u201cGlorifying\u201d War?<\/a><\/p>\nMovies with Racism Themes: \u201cGosnell\u201d and \u201cThe Hate U Give\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
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This is the story behind the official report on torture of prisoners of war under the Bush administration, with the euphemism \u201cenhanced interrogation.\u201d\u00a0 One point made crystal clear is how utterly wrong is the idea that violence, while regrettable, may be necessary to prevent greater violence in some circumstances. Building rapport with prisoners sometimes works as a way of getting information. Torture, on the other hand, always<\/em> gets information that was false or already known.<\/p>\nTherefore, to make the case against torture as a war tactic, we need not rely entirely on the assertion that it\u2019s wrong. It\u2019s also demonstrated to be entirely useless.<\/p>\n
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Dark Waters<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>A large company is poisoning the waters in the county where their employees work. The hero is a corporate lawyer who \u2013 knowing them as the neighbors he grew up with \u2013 takes the side of the poisoned.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
That the poisoning is injuring unborn children is one of the shocking details of the callousness of the corporation. It has their pregnant mothers continue working in dangerous conditions. The mothers, of course, don\u2019t know of the danger, but the corporate bosses do.<\/p>\n
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For more of our posts with movie reviews, see:<\/em><\/p>\nHollywood Movie Insights\u00a0<\/a>(The Giver<\/em>,\u00a0The Whistleblower<\/em>, and\u00a0The Ides of March<\/em>)<\/p>\nA Consistent Day in the Neighborhood<\/a><\/h5>\nJasmine, Aladdin, and the Power of Nonviolence<\/a><\/h5>\nThe Darkest Hour<\/em>: \u201cGlorifying\u201d War?<\/a><\/p>\nMovies with Racism Themes: \u201cGosnell\u201d and \u201cThe Hate U Give\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/p>\nTherefore, to make the case against torture as a war tactic, we need not rely entirely on the assertion that it\u2019s wrong. It\u2019s also demonstrated to be entirely useless.<\/p>\n
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Dark Waters<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>A large company is poisoning the waters in the county where their employees work. The hero is a corporate lawyer who \u2013 knowing them as the neighbors he grew up with \u2013 takes the side of the poisoned.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
That the poisoning is injuring unborn children is one of the shocking details of the callousness of the corporation. It has their pregnant mothers continue working in dangerous conditions. The mothers, of course, don\u2019t know of the danger, but the corporate bosses do.<\/p>\n
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For more of our posts with movie reviews, see:<\/em><\/p>\nHollywood Movie Insights\u00a0<\/a>(The Giver<\/em>,\u00a0The Whistleblower<\/em>, and\u00a0The Ides of March<\/em>)<\/p>\nA Consistent Day in the Neighborhood<\/a><\/h5>\nJasmine, Aladdin, and the Power of Nonviolence<\/a><\/h5>\nThe Darkest Hour<\/em>: \u201cGlorifying\u201d War?<\/a><\/p>\nMovies with Racism Themes: \u201cGosnell\u201d and \u201cThe Hate U Give\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n
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That the poisoning is injuring unborn children is one of the shocking details of the callousness of the corporation. It has their pregnant mothers continue working in dangerous conditions. The mothers, of course, don\u2019t know of the danger, but the corporate bosses do.<\/p>\n
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For more of our posts with movie reviews, see:<\/em><\/p>\n Hollywood Movie Insights\u00a0<\/a>(The Giver<\/em>,\u00a0The Whistleblower<\/em>, and\u00a0The Ides of March<\/em>)<\/p>\n The Darkest Hour<\/em>: \u201cGlorifying\u201d War?<\/a><\/p>\n Movies with Racism Themes: \u201cGosnell\u201d and \u201cThe Hate U Give\u201d<\/a><\/p>\nA Consistent Day in the Neighborhood<\/a><\/h5>\n
Jasmine, Aladdin, and the Power of Nonviolence<\/a><\/h5>\n