henrymakow.com – July 21, 2021
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After the Wedding (2019) is a Work of Art. I was actually afraid to read how badly it bombed at the box office. It grossed $3 million. It probably cost at least ten times that to make. Critics gave it 46% on Rotten Tomatoes while audiences gave it 76%. This is why movies today are shitty. The good ones bomb.
By Henry Makow PhD
“A manager of an orphanage in Kolkata travels to New York to meet a millionaire benefactor.”
This is how the movie was marketed. It’s not what it’s actually about.
The “benefactor,” magnificently played by Julianne Moore, is dying of cancer. She is trying to re-unite the “orphanage manager” played by Michelle Williams with her husband (Billy Crudup) and her step-daughter (Abby Quinn) because the manager is actually her step-daughter’s birth mother.
Admittedly, the set-up, based on Susanne Bier’s 2006 Danish movie, is ridiculous. Supposedly the Williams and Crudup characters had a baby and agreed to put it up for adoption and separate. But Crudup changed his mind before the “grace” period expired and raised the child (Grace) himself without telling the mother who had left for India. He later married the Moore character who became a famously wealthy entrepreneur.
People are not ‘sophisticated, complex and loving’. The vast majority of people are no better than animals, and in many cases, worse.
The ‘pandemic’ has shown the masses for what they are – cattle.
@ Anonymous. I don’t believe most people have been fooled by the pandemic. What I do believe is most people are fooled into thinking most others are fooled by the pandemic, because of their low opinion about their fellow man’s intelligence. It remains to be seen who’s the majority being fooled but I think it’s more likely those who think they’ve got a better grasp on life because they believe their intelligence *superior*. You often see this with comments like, “Am I the only one who hasn’t fallen for this BS?”
Sounds like 30 million wasted dollars to me regardless of any pretense of complexity and sophistication. The last thing we need is contrived and scripted emotions which are inevitably more repulsive and saccharine when portrayed by Americans.
That’s the example of humanity? A bunch of schizoid, systematically tortured, dissociated celebs from military families who got thrown together in a Hollywood production?…
Julianne Moore was born at Fort Bragg. ‘Nuff said.
Just NO.
There’s some good movies out there like Hellraiser (1987) & The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971). There might only be 50 to 100 films possessing any artistic value though.
But one of the greatest works of cinematic production is the scene from Ken Russell’s ‘Dance of the Seven Veils’ (1970) when Hitler (played by actor Kenneth Colley) makes his appearance accompanied to the music of ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra’ by Richard Strauss. In this short clip Russell masterfully relates the revolutionary (religious) spirit of Nazism by showing it’s opposition & struggle to overcome the idiocy/lunacy of its two primary ideological enemies: Judaism/Christianity
Boycott Hollyweird forever, as Corey Feldman, McCauley Culkin and many other young actors have said. HELLYWIERD IS A DEN OF INIQUITY where the biggest problem in Hollywood is Pedophilia.
May it burn in internal Hell.
“contrived and scripted emotions which are inevitably more repulsive and saccharine when portrayed by Americans”
Couldn’t have said it better .
(the exception being very old films especially pre 1950’s )
Hitler scene…Dance of the Seven Veils..begin viewing at the 3:45 mark…
“Hitler was born to fulfil The Book of the Law. I realized that as soon as I picked up Mein Kampf. Hitler’s coming was foretold in the Book. I am not the author of it by the way.” –Crowley
The new revelation/religion for Aryan man.