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Supai Zoruge (2003)
Main Point of the Film is missed by the Critics.
Dear Pacific War students,
I lived in Japan from 1963 until 1980 trying to discover why FDR and his administration began committing acts of War against Japan in the mid 1930s at the time of FDR's Great Depression and when Japan was the greatest trading partner of the USA. I began my collection of books on the subject then and continues to this day. This film provides a crucial piece of the puzzle. While in Japan I learned little but upon return with the greater availability of books in English, many out of print, many stripped from library shelves by FDR defenders, many just burned or slandered but all available on the used book market the pieces began to form a picture of the truth behind this unnecessary war.
Sorge was a truly effective genius and tipped the balance. It was the huge Asian Soviet Army equipped and trained for winter warfare that raced back to Moscow and save Stalin from Hitler about 15 miles from Moscow at the very moment that the Pacific Fleet was sinking to the bottom of Pearl Harbor thanks mostly to Roosevelts determination to drag us into a TWO FRONT WAR to get him into the war with Hitler. Why a two front war? FDR was a mad man who knew nothing of fighting wars, and on diplomacy was an intellectual moron. Had FDR's administration not been infiltrated with Communists, the CPUSA in NYC and financed by Hollywood, FDR and our State Department just might have seen into Stalin's Grand Strategy of getting us to protect the back of the USSR by war with Japan. Stalin was clearly the most cleaver of the leaders of the 20 Century. Sorge played a huge and successful part in all this.
Just imagine Japan at War with the USSR, no two front war for the USA, and all our resources going after Hitler, both Naziism and Communism would not have survived WWII, no Communist China, no Kennedy Johnson slaughter in Viet Nam and no Truman war in Korea.
Holiday in Mexico (1946)
A great comedy for the kid of days now forgotten.
This film is so good that I want to own it. Jane Powell was 16 when she hit MGM with this bomb shell performance as the daughter of the Ambassador of the USA to Mexico in Mexico City. Just compare this to the current crop of films about teen agers of this year, 2006.
Her delivery of crystal clear singing in a slightly opera trained voice is beautiful like a carillon tower's bells. Jose Iturbi's piano is an added treat. No nude scenes, no profanity, no miserable bed room scenes misdirected and miscast and massacred just great comedy and very classy acting all around.
The 16 year old Jane has the prettiest blue eyes seen in a long time. I saw this movie with my mom back in the 40's and now in the 21st Century it is even better. This is one you won't be afraid to show your kids and it will bring back a lot of long forgotten memories.
Doctor Zhivago (2002)
Stunned beyond my imagination.
Miss Knightly was 16 or 17 when she played this role in Doctor Zhivago. It is very gratifying in 2004 to see our youngsters performing in such a splendid way. What we are lucky enough to see is the birth of a star who in our life time, will become a Super Nova. Movie fans WILL NOT forget and tire of her as she says in her comments. She is going to own our hearts.
Not once in this film was Miss Knightly even for a moment unbelievable in the role. I've also seen her in Pirates and Beckham but in Zhivago she was fantastic. The entire film's staging was totally believable, realistically showing the way the U.S.S.R. came into existence with the insane brutality of Lenin persecuting his people and attempting through force to change "human nature." To read books like The Gulag Archipelago & The "Black Book of Communism" that resulted from the opening of the Soviet secret archives following President Reagan's destruction of "The Evil Empire" is to slightly understand the sad insanity of "Having to Break Eggs to Make an Omelet" the excuse of the Communist leaders for the killings shown in this portrayal and that swept through large parts of the world and into China and Cambodia.
Miss Knightly has a lot to be proud of here. I would like to see this screened on the big screens of our theaters.