Valentine's Day, 2020: Explication for Such an 'Unpatriotic' Blogpost
Yes, I refuse to join with those - including the much-feted TV3/TV1 Hollywood reporter Kimberley Crossman (I believe her name is) - who've been - understandably enough, I must concede - virtually beside themselves with bouquets innumerable for the incredible Oscar success of noted Maori actor Taika Waititi in this year's just-completed award ceremony in the U S...
For who doesn't like to celebrate, and profusely, the success of 'one of our own' in such global 'fests'?
That all doubtless being true, even irrefutable, I will never ever 'celebrate' a film which - even conceded to by said Oscar-winner himself, and pretty well any and every commentator introducing the subject, even upon the 'great day,' itself...
...in any way, shape or form - if 'merely' by its clear as *midnight comedic animatronics thereabouts - thus 'papers over' and satirizes what is generally accepted as being the darkest chapter in human history...
next to the horrid, very public, shameful and shameless execution of this species' Very Maker...and Redeemer...upon Golgotha, Calvary's **Cross some almost 2,000 years ago now...
*Yes, the saying is 'clear as daylight', but whenever and wherever Adolph Hitler's deeds are mentioned, such a word cannot decently be used in the same sentence...
**And no, I'm not hung up about whether it was a crossbeam (as commonly imagined and depicted) or simply a tree 'stake', as in a single vertical beam - quite frankly, folks, it matters diddly squat!
Yes, I refuse to join with those - including the much-feted TV3/TV1 Hollywood reporter Kimberley Crossman (I believe her name is) - who've been - understandably enough, I must concede - virtually beside themselves with bouquets innumerable for the incredible Oscar success of noted Maori actor Taika Waititi in this year's just-completed award ceremony in the U S...
For who doesn't like to celebrate, and profusely, the success of 'one of our own' in such global 'fests'?
That all doubtless being true, even irrefutable, I will never ever 'celebrate' a film which - even conceded to by said Oscar-winner himself, and pretty well any and every commentator introducing the subject, even upon the 'great day,' itself...
...in any way, shape or form - if 'merely' by its clear as *midnight comedic animatronics thereabouts - thus 'papers over' and satirizes what is generally accepted as being the darkest chapter in human history...
next to the horrid, very public, shameful and shameless execution of this species' Very Maker...and Redeemer...upon Golgotha, Calvary's **Cross some almost 2,000 years ago now...
*Yes, the saying is 'clear as daylight', but whenever and wherever Adolph Hitler's deeds are mentioned, such a word cannot decently be used in the same sentence...
**And no, I'm not hung up about whether it was a crossbeam (as commonly imagined and depicted) or simply a tree 'stake', as in a single vertical beam - quite frankly, folks, it matters diddly squat!
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