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Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special (2021)
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As a writer better than me says "The cultural divide broadens still further when we consider Oprah Winfrey, one of America's greatest mysteries. But boy, does she have hauteur and dominion. It is very difficult for us to understand why the Yanks so revere the woman. She is an appalling interviewer, seemingly utterly incurious, every question submitted for approval and the answers rehearsed over and over again. Ill-informed, incapable of asking an interesting question, always slightly more regal than whoever it is she is interviewing. There is no intellect on display, just a perpetual desire to paddle about in the shallows, or indeed barely skim the surface, of the subjects before her. " Rod Liddle the Spectator
Hamilton: I nationens intresse (2012)
Sorry it's no James Bond/Bourne -
After reading the hype about this film i was hoping for something fast paced and interesting. Sorry but i found it dull, slow paced and uninteresting and peculiarly poe faced. I couldn't even bother to finish the film as i made zero connection with the characters.
Ie ni kaeru to tsuma ga kanarazu shinda furi o shite imasu. (2018)
Mistranslation
In reply to Gordon the movie makes more sense when it's explained that the words Chie says -"the moon is beautiful isn't it?" and the phrase "i could die" .Natsume Soseki and Futabatei Shimei translated the words "I love you" as "The moon is beautiful, isn't it?" and "I could die", respectively from a european love poem that Chie liked at school. Both are Meiji era (October 23, 1868 - July 30, 1912) writers which they didn't do direct translations and used literary allusions. Back then, in Japan there wasn't the same direct expression of love that we have now, so they had to get creative.
Because Jun was worried about their 3rd year wedding anniversary (his first marriage broke up after 3 years and he didn't really know why it broke up) Chie tries to reassure him by 1) pretending to be dead - i.e I could die and 2)continually saying "the moon is beautiful isn't it?" It would have been easier if she just told him she loved him - but then their would be no film.