Thursday, April 4, 2019

Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I did enjoy "Dumbo"  yesterday.  I went with my friend and we accidentally bought tickets for a Dolby Sound system that had very loud sound and vibrating seats.  We laughed throughout at the simulation of an earthquake.  We were definitely the wrong audience for rumbling.  Oh, well.  The tickets were more as well, but then, there is a sucker born every day, and two yesterday.  The film was gorgeous to look at and Dumbo so sweet it made your heart curl.  Michael Keaton, Colin Farrell, Danny DiVito and the kids were great, but Eva Green was strange.  It was as if she was impersonating Lisa Marie, Tim Burton's former muse.  The flying brought tears to my eyes, as it was meant to do.  I cannot really remember the old movie at all.  But I recognized a song from it; the one song in this movie but a great one.  Did Keaton's villain remind me of our current president?  Definitely, and there is plenty of plot for the PETA people and also those with missing mothers, and antiwar activists.  All ends well, and the final circus has only people not animals entertaining the masses, which is the way it should be.  Why harm animals in the making of this trope?

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