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The Beautiful Truth (2008)
Exposes the entangled business interests which have molded our medical professions and pharmaceutical industries, plus other conspiracy theory gems.
If you are lucky enough to watch this film after reading any of these reviews, good for you. This film will expose you to a lot of Left-leaning prose, and a lot of scatter-shot facts about the controversy around the entangled business interests which have helped form our medical health system and practices, plus some other conspiracy theory stuff. If you like a good conspiracy theory you're gonna like this film. It's not trying to prove Gershon heals cancer, don't think of it like that. It's trying to build a logic cube in your head, let the facts flow in, then later start researching what you've heard, and don't stop when you find something you like, look for the other side too. After a while your mind can make new connections between the new information and what you're been taught. This stuff's too important to gloss over. It's important to learn new ways of thinking about things which incorporate more facts and more reality, and if you're only watching the narratives shown on TV, radio and news papers, you're not being exposed to the real controversies around our medical and pharmaceutical industries. Why would I want you to doubt the FDA is protecting you? because I found out about some of the controversy - it's not just one thing, and they're all important to know about. How else will we ever hope to demand our elected officials change it? Look for the Vanity Fair article called Dangerous Medicine. Some of the controversy is starting to be reported in mainstream media. Look to Democracy Now or the Huffington Post for more. Stick with it, get mad, don't withdraw from the hopelessness of it, stay mad, it helps with the petition signing you'll end up doing.
I'm Still Here (2010)
How To Break The Lens of the Popular Media
You could say he just wanted to do his own Tila Tequila show, and went about doing it in a very organized way, but his greater intention was to expose the narrative of the popular media and ask us to question how we hold them (the stars).
This movie left me feeling somewhat betrayed at first, but as I made connections between what i saw and what i see every day on TV and radio, that was replaced with a sense of awe and appreciation for the sacrifice Juaquin made to help us wake up, because once you "see" the "lens" of the "popular media" it is really broken, you start to see the talking points, and can even discern white house from republican right-wing and the echoes of Fox anti-news.
I literally feel like I have been pushed out of my pod in the Matrix, having felt so plugged-in for 45 years, only to wake up on some dank ship in the bowels of the corporate machine. hahaha Tila Tequila, or has he saved us all? Looking at the movie's facebook page it is obvious that most do not get it, but maybe if you start watching Link TV and Democracy Now! or Huffington Report, it will make a lot more sense.
I wonder if Noam Chomsky has seen this film, I bet he would love it!
Defying Gravity (2009)
Does God Prefer a Penitant Man? The aliens in this show sure do...
There is no comparison to Grey's Anatomy. This is a simple story line, where aliens are found and very soon humanity is enrolled in a project to do something they don't perticularly understand but are brought into willingness to perform. And the aliens we're helping prefer their humans be "tuned up on regret" instead of enlightenment. it's a subtle, but clear point in the story, and they don't dwell on it. One astronaut talks openly about feeling at one with the universe, and the aliens immediately get him kicked off the program, thus introducing the just the right mix of regret to keep him in line for the rest of the show. I happen to agree that a certain amount of humility and regret keeps us clean. I didn't get Grey's Anatomy at all, and I watch it every week and just do not see any parallels. This is a story about people who are on an extraordinary journey to do something for others without knowing the others or what value the journey holds for themselves or the human race, but... they seem to be quietly taking leaps of faith one by one to get on-board with the program, and you the watcher are convinced quickly that the program has value for us as a race, spiritually, though it's not fully understood (which is good, leave some mystery, but let us know it's moving in a positive direction, and there is no element of "aliens tricking or eating us"). Nice production values considering the sets look stark and simple, you really believe the space suits and moon walks, even if you don't believe the hallucinations, but they're devices to carry the people to a state of mind, and are not supposed to be real. I really liked seeing some of these characters from other shows that died before their time, like Daisy from Dead Like Me. Wish the networks would wise up and get more intelligent sci-fi in the pipeline. Re-runs of Jeremiah have their place, but I really like this type of stuff. Feels independent, but well made, simple but deep at the same time. may i have MORE Please?