Jafar Panahi's Taxi (2015)

#note.//It is shot in Tehran. Nasrin Sotoudeh makes an appearance.
He probes executions. I just heard sermon on Justice or is it Revenge and James Bond killing the villain. We want the bad guys not only to pay, but suffer for their crimes. That is revenge.

His niece is in it. With her typical hand gestures of that area! So cute.

Sotoudeh is radiant. The movie was released in 2015. In 2018 she was arrested again, and sentenced back to prison on 12-March-2019. She is 56 years old



#actor.//
Jafar Panahi is the driver.

#dirctor.//

Jafar Panahi is also the director!

A Spell for Chameleon

#author.Piers Anthony

#published.1977

#note.//

This is a book I read in my youth, somewhere in the early 80s. It is the first in the Xanth series of I don't know how many books. I read a lot of them! They mostly involve quests! Young characters seeking their identity. Now at 49yr (2018), I hope to have found my magical powers already. And perhaps I am like Bink, a paradox. 

Spoiler alert!

Bink is main character. He is seeking answers to his identity. In a land of magic, he seems to have none. Are you like me, like he, like JoJoBrand3 in three?

No magical powers, yet we have in some higher order dimension, along some variance, magician level divergences! Some of us will be clustered together by the Harry Porter Sorting Hat algorithm into this identity, the identity of JoJoBrand3. 

 

Der Vorleser - The Reader

#note.//
Hanna is the protagonist. I feel like her sometimes--caught up in the events, economy, and political structures that moves us along history. Eventually, society puts me on trial for crimes we did.

This is different than the Hannah.movie who is given powers to break the course of events. Powers mostly to kill people.

My niece use to watch a lot of Hanna Montana.TV. Now they're both so different people.

We Others: New and Selected Stories

#author.Steven Millhauser

bought thru Kindle.20140517

FINISHED.current

#note.//

I compared the short story, The Invasion from Outer Space with the bamboo concept presented in Soft Apocalypse.20150717

The short story, The Visit has a memorable quote. When asked why he hadn't contacted our protagonist in nine years, the answer was that he didn't have anything to show our protagonist until now -- a delapidated house out in nowhere, living with a frog wife.

Soft Apocalypse

#author.Will McIntosh
#publication-date.20110401
#setting.near-future-date.2023

checkout local library thru Kindle.
FINISHED.20150716


#note.//
The interesting SciFi is Doctor Happy virus and enforced homogeneity!

The bamboo is interesting, but biologically improbably, like The Invasion from Outer Space from We Others by Steven Millhauser


Homogeneity of a community probably correlates with and is causation for less member-on-member violence within the community circle.

It makes me think along this line of thought.

The Military's goal is to eliminate people outside the circle (outside our tribe). We want to engage, escalate, and then use our superior force and mobility to neutralize (kill) people outside the circle.

The Police's goal is to protect members from other members within the community circle. Therefore, when we engage, we should deescalate the situation by using our superior force and mobility so that we don't have to neutralize people within our circle, who are by definition, us.

Just two memorable quotes (thanks Kindle):

I missed them to my bones. I had no proof now, that I had a past, that I’d once been a child. I never would have guessed it would hurt so much to lose them.
Read more at location 1692

when the world was running down, make the best of what’s still around.
Read more at location 2168

The last quote I couldn't remember where I heard it before. Eventually, I found the memory with Google. It's a Police song.

Throne of the Crescent Moon

#author.Saladin Ahmed
checkout local library thru Kindle.
FINISHED.20150615

#note.//
It started off good. The big, bad guy seemed interesting, but the ending kinda fizzled. I'm not sure you could do more unless the writer wrote a longer story and fleshed out the villain more.


Thanks Kindle for saving my 4 highlighted passages, and 2 notes:

Adoulla and his friends had dispatched enough fiendish creatures over the decades to make him suspect that the old threats were starting to regain a foothold on God’s great earth.
Read more at location 260
Note: evil.dark lord returns to the Land.


Instead of a blissful marriage, he had monstrosities on his mind and a pile of “should haves” pressing down upon his soul.
Read more at location 387
Note: And what if you forsake blissful marriage to fight monsters to find none. Would you be great or fiendish enough to create your own ghuls?

I've got a good twenty years left in this world if God wills it. Thousands of days, thousands of nights. I'm not going to spend them all alone. I’m not.
Read more at location 2514

“O believer! When you meet a man on the road, know that God, who makes broken things whole, has cobbled your kindest fates together,”
Read more at location 3345

Special ID

#note.watched with Lil; kung fu undercover cop.

Kung Fu Dunk

#note.watched with Lil on the recommendation of Ta Lette.

The Usual Suspect

#FINSIHED.201404 #note.// crossed my stream for some reason, probably on a list of must see movies. possible interlace.unreliable narrator #actor.Kevin Spacey

Ready Player One

#author.Ernest Cline
#FINISHED.2014.04.24

#ref.movie.ghostbuster

"dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria."

#ref.song.dead man's party.oingo boingo

#ref.game.Adventure.atari.Warren Robinett

"three keys appear, spinning slowly in the air in front of  him. They appear to be made of copper, jade, and clear crystal"

>interlace.20140415//the Eclipsed Moon is not really blood red, but rather copper in color.//

The City the City

#Author.China Mieville
FINISHED.201402

#notes.
Two psychological city, one murder.
Wrote in good ole detective novel.
linked.wikipedia.