Well, ever since “Bowling for Columbine” was released, I really got into Michael Moore’s documentaries!
I’ve wanted to see tis one for quite a while, but sometimes we just don’t make time for it… And so, in this Covid-19 quarantine, I got to see it and, off course, loved it…
“It’s funny ’cause it’s true” it’s an excellent quote for this one!
Michael Moore outdone himself, with hilarious situations and just giving it an edge for people think about it, really think about it…
Thank you, Mr. Moore and keep giving the US and the World a bit more to think about than we usually get to…
“We cannot want things to change, if we always do the same. The crisis is the greatest blessing that can happen to people and countries, because the crisis brings progress. Creativity is born from anguish just as the day is born from the dark night. It is in the crisis that inventions, discoveries and great strategies are born. Those who overcome the crisis overcome themselves without having been overcome.
Whoever attributes his failures and shortages to the crisis, violates his own talent and respects the problems more than the solutions. The real crisis is the crisis of incompetence. The drawback of people and countries is the difficulty in finding outputs and solutions. Without crises there are no challenges, without challenges life is a routine, a slow agony.
Without crises there are no merits. It is in the crisis that the best of each one emerges, because without a crisis, all the wind is a caress. To speak of the crisis is to promote it, and to remain silent in the crisis is to exalt conformism. Instead, let’s work hard. Let us end the once threatening crisis, which is the tragedy of not wanting to fight to overcome it.”
Ooooh, how I love Sonic… It’s a character that comes all the way from my later childhood, and was a partner throughout lots of afternoons and some mornings of gaming (when my parents let me, lol) at a Sega console!
And that said, seeing it again, on the screen, with this amazing special effects, was mind blowing…
You might say the story it’s basic, but it’s a Sonic story, so it has to be great to!!!! Oh, and Jim Carrey brings on screen a pretty funny Dr. Robotnik aka Dr. Eggman!
If you were a Sonic fan, let me tell you, this movie won’t let you down…
A picture taken on Feb. 8, 2019 shows the signature “AHitler” on a watercolor entitled “Im Wald” (In the forest) displayed at the Weidler auction house in the southern city of Nuremberg.
Hitler was turned down at the Austrian Academy of Fine Arts because he was only good at portraying buildings and landscapes. When it came to drawing or painting people, he lacked talent.
He said that the School of Arts was manipulated by the Jews. There are researchers who agree that this episode originated all their gigantic hatred for them.
In the 15th century, in a small village near Nüremberg, a family lived with several children.
To put bread on the table for everyone, the father worked about 18 hours a day in the coal mines, and anything else that came up.
Two of his children had a dream: he wanted to dedicate himself to painting, but they knew that his father could never send them both to study at the Academy.
After many nights of talking and exchanging ideas, the two brothers reached an agreement: they would throw a coin to draw lots, and the loser would work in the mines to pay the studies to the winner. When finishing his studies, the winner would then pay, with the sale of his works, the studies to which had stayed at home.
Thus, the two brothers could be artists.
They launched the coin on a Sunday when they left the Church. One of them, called Albrecht, won, and went to study painting in Nüremberg.
Then the other brother, Albert, started the dangerous work in the mines, where he stayed for the next four years to pay for his brother’s studies, which from the first moment became, soon, a success in the Academy.
Albrecht’s engravings, carvings and oils were much better than those of many of his teachers. When he graduated, he had already started to earn considerable sums from the sales of his art.
When the young artist returned to his village, the Dürer family gathered for a festive dinner in his honor.
At the end of the memorable party, Albrecht stood in his place of honor at the table, and proposed a toast to his beloved brother, who had sacrificed so much, working in the mines to make his dream of studying a reality. And said:
– “Now, my brother, your turn has come. Now you can go to Nüremberg and pursue your dreams, which I will take care of for all your expenses.”
All eyes turned, full of expectation, to the place of the table that occupied his brother. But the latter, his face wet with tears, stood up and said softly:
– “No, brother, I can’t go to Nüremberg. It’s too late for me. These four years of mine work have destroyed my hands. Every bone in my fingers has broken at least once, and the arthritis in my right hand has advanced so much it took me a while to raise the glass for your toast. I couldn’t work with delicate lines, with the compass or with the parchment, and I couldn’t handle the pen or the brush. No, brother, it’s too late for me. But I am happy that my misshapen hands have served that yours have now fulfilled your dream “.
More than 450 years have passed since that day. Today the prints, oils, watercolors, carvings and other works by Albrecht Dürer can be seen in museums around the World.
To pay homage to his brother’s sacrifice, Albrecht Dürer drew his battered hands, palms together and fingers pointing to the sky.
He called this powerful work simply “Hands”, but the whole world immediately opened his heart to his work of art and changed the name of the work to: “Hands that pray”.
The next time you see a copy of this work, look at it carefully. And it serves so that, when you feel too proud of what you do, and very sure of yourself, remember that in life … nobody triumphs alone!
Honestly, this is not a movie to rewatch during this time of quarantine… bu I really wanted to, so I did it!
It’s a blockbuster, it’s a very long movie, lots of special effects, but in the end, it’s a story about survival, the need for humanity to unite… And that’s what is going on nowadays… We have to unite in order to defeat this Covid-19 (coronavirus)!
I’ve found some strength here, believe in what we need to achieve together…
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