If there are any Nobel Prize that you should take back – from the knowledge that we have had for the past 30 years, so is it from my ethnological glasses Egas Moniz Nobel Prize in Medicine. For the discovery of lobotomy and its therapeutic value in psychiatry. Because the injuries that many people received from this experimental surgical, they are very well documented. And above all, this prefrontal intervention was used very frequently in Sweden - where you drilled in the forehead bone on a person, and went in with a probe and just drove around a little in the brain, in order to cut off various brain threads. Who the doctors believed was the basis of the patient's uncontrolled outbursts, psycho-ses and mania. But what also appears in this documentary by Måns Berthas. - where he interviews both former patients from Sidsjö mental hospital and some of Sweden's leading psychoanalysts. It is that the method maintained within
the Swedish mental hospital until the 1970s. Which is absolutely horrible. Because, as it appears in the film, so did many patients suffer from severe side effects. Where one of the most horrible made the patient emotionally mutilated. Yes, this is not a fell-good experience. But I still think that you should look up the film on ytube and see it, because this is really a part of Sweden's history that everyone should be aware of.
If there is one thing that is really vital in this documentary, which has taken the filmmaker Ashley Bell several years to put together – so is it how patience you have to be, if you are trying to help an elephant (or several) who have been abused and threated very bad and ugly for many years of their life’s at circuses, amusement parks or as pets by rich people. This kindness and compassion have also, almost everyone that we meet in this documentary. It really stays that you can not bee an elephant rescuer if you are restless. No, the elephant caretaker Lek Chailert would never have been able to save over 150 elephants - from various captives in the last 20 years, if she had pushed some of her elephants over the limit. And that, of course, applies to the rescue operation that we get to follow in this movie. Because it definitely makes any idea of rescuing a 70-year-old elephant from a life in chains, if she also feels that the new home is as bad as the last one. So even though she is now partially blind and has started singing the last chorus, to use a Swedish expression – as we say when something are were old and on the brink of destruction, so is his elephant really strong. So, to transport her through a large part of Thailand to freedom. It must be done with a really gentle hand. And it is this journey that we see in this movie. And it is really breath taking.
How many of you out here in cyberspace have heard of the Borough Park neighborhood? Well, if you have, then do you know that it's a Jewish ultra - Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn. I had however no idea about their existence. It was therefore really interesting to follow the Jewish lawyer Rachel Freier. Which makes something very radical, when she tries to start a civic ambulance force with only women in this area. Because, immediately so is she almost stone walled by the community. And it happens from every side that you can think of. As even her husband is against it, which are not so cray if you know how the traditions that you are living after in this area. According to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish tradition so can a woman only be touched by her own husband, except in emergencies - which I think your are jumping from your house, as it are are burning down. Or you are forced to give birth in your home. But it is not accepted by these “religion” But giving up the fight, that is not Rachel intends to do in the first place. Throughout the documentary, we then follow her commitment, which she has with some other female believers, who are actually making some progress. But will they succeed
in their intention to really break through this patriarchal societal norm? Yes, that is the main premise of this documentary, which has a good tempo, structure and clarity. As a viewer, I never have to think about what is happening. We also get other side votes.
Making a versatile documentary about the Swedish Singer / Songwriter Björn Afzelius. That is something that you don´t do over a coffee break, to use a Swedish expression – which means that it is not a easy task. Yes, there will always be someone in his circle of friends who, among the general public, thinks that you (as a director) have not made a fair portrait of this artist. And a clear example of this problem can you see through his "friend" Göran Skytte. Because, in interviewed in several articles in Expressen, so is he really angry over that Marianne Lindberg De Geer, with Afzelius has a daughter together, is given so much space in the film. – as she only is a mossy ex-wife. And who wants to be portrayed by their old flame? And she's talks over a quarter, which blackens Afzelius' from how De Geer describes Afzelius in the film. Well, I think Skytte reacts like this because he is upset about the fact that he has no role in this movie. Because, more people than De Geer in this documentary are saying that Afzelius had a girlfriend in every city he visited when he was out and played many gigs whit his group in Sweden. And De Geer is also very self-critical. Yes, she says very clear that she could not let go of Afzelius, even though she knew that it was a real disfavor to stay by his side after every affair. So, it is established beyond all reasonable doubt that Afzelius was a womanizer. Yes, it’s impossible for Skytte to contradict.
In the beginning of October 1997, so released The Pat Metheny Group their album Imaginary Day (Warner Bros. Records). It was their ninth studio album since their debut in the late 1970s with Britz Size Life (Geffen Records), and it is perhaps (well at least from my musical ears), their best. And they probably also fought (and especially the composers Metheny / Myles), that the album was so good, that it deserved to be recorded on a DVD. And where their previous DVD: We Live Here - Live In Japan (Eagle Rock), was produced by an japanese so was this recording produced by the group's long-time bassist Steve Rodby. Which has both several advantages and a number of drawbacks. Because, with Rodby as the producer, so have they full control over every aspekt of the product. So they have thefore full kontroll over both the sound mix and all the camera work. But they are thereby sponsring the hole thing by themself. Which is visible in some parts of the concert. Becouse, a trained director, he had not used handheld cameras, to the same extent as happens during the concert. However, the music are played and perfomed as a old Wine.
If I had lived in London in November 2007 and heard a rumor, about that a very special musical event where scheduled to occur whit the 63-year-old jazz/rock guitar legend Jeff Beck at the legendary Ronnie Scott's jazz club at 47 Frith Street in Soho, So, would I have been camped outside this concert hall to get hold of a ticket. Even if a never before had listened to this legend. Because, if an artist is getting
the opportunity to play five nights in a ro, then so must he be a really big artist. But when I when I stumbled upon this guitar legend on a video from this event on YouTube, so, had I never heard him play before this concert. And that was the same for my father about the bass-player Tal Wilkenfeld, who also was a big mystery for Beck. Yes, when he first was introduced to this woman by the drummer Vinnie Coluiato. So, did he thought that it was a joke, because she looked more like someone's 15-year-old daughter, then a bass-player who are 20-years old. And many comments from guys on the YouTube video, where they are saying that Beck only let her play whit him because she had a big sex-appeal. But as I know how difficult the music is that Beck plays, so is that a really stupid assumption. Yes, Wilkenfeld are playing bass alongside Beck because she is a really good bass-player. And hear it really loud and clear on the blu-ray.
Who I received from Dischop.se after a big delay. Yes, this concert where so popular that is was out of stock from this Swedish store in over two months. But if you wait for something good, so are you not waiting in vain, as to use a Swedish expression. Because, from the opening of the concert whit Beck's Bolero to Space Boogie so are they on fire.
When I first saw this very appreciated documentary by the now sadly deceased Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul, in an almost empty cinema in Hallstahammar. So was it a really deep moving event. Because, neither in front nor behind me, so, did I have another viewer, how crunched on a nosy sweet, except myself. As I could not help myself from buying a Marabou Milk chocolate roll. But as the city of Detroit started to occur on the screen, through a black and white illustrations in the beginning of this documentary. Which Malik himself had drawn, added music to and edit, as there was no money to hire a professional painter so where I really blown away. And the feeling lasted until I found out that the musician Rodriguez, which the film revolves around would have committed an extremely cruel suicide. By either setting himself on fire. Or shot himself in front of a small crowd during a bar gig.
Well, it made me so stunned that the chocolate bar was uneaten during the whole movie. Because, from this moment, so do we already knowing how the story going to end. So why should I then see it to the end? Well, for me. So is it nice to hear about his carrier Which consisted of playing in small bars here and there in Detroit, in both the 60's and '70s. Until he was discovered by 2 Motown producers. And got to record an album in 1970 (Cold Fact), which certainly fell on critics' lips. But it flopped in terms of sales.
And unfortunately, things did not go better for his second album “Coming From Reality”.
So, he was dropped by his label. Which is surreal, because it occurred two weeks before Christmas - as he sings in one of his songs. And after we hear this news. So, is this movie hanging in the air, to use a Swedish expression. But luckily enough, so did a stay in my seat. I there-fore found out that Rodriguez was bigger than The Beatles in South Africa during the apartheid. As the album “Cold Fact” where smuggled into the country. But that was not reported to Rodriguez. No money where therefore getting into his pocket during this time and it has not either happen-ed even after this documentary where released as far as I know. But that is not a big deal if Rodriguez was dead. Witch is a really good question. Because, Bendjelloul makes his documenttary as if it were a murder investigation. We in the audience therefore never know more than 2 fans, who decided to find out the truth. And it keeps us on our toes at all times. And that's the best way to hear this story, and that's why I'm not going to say a word about how it ends.
The "interpreter" attacks current issues like terrorism and genocide. It illustrate our contemporary Western policys that often cover up what really going on in Africa. But it also shows who really strong individuals who fight for democracy can make a big change, whit out violence, and that it is very important. And I also like the view of vengeance are exists in the fictional country of Matobo in Africam Becouse Nicole Kidman's character är telling ous that "Vengeance is a lazy form of grief," And she illustrate it with this story, where a man who kills a member of your family is captured, tied up and thrown into the river. "And it is up to your family to save him, or let him drown. And If he are going down, so will you have vengeance, but you
have to grive for the rest of your life. And If you save him, so will you be realesed from your anger and sorrow. And that are One reason, to why I rank the movie as high as on the second place on my list over the in my eyes the world's best movies. And the second thing, that makes this movie one of the World's Greatest movies - that is Nicole Kidman. Yes, she really do a great acting, when she speaks Whit a vaguely South African accent. And Sean Penn är also matching her acting really well.
