Ronson PB

Wokies wasting their time and money. "white people have never collectively admitted..." Nup, this isn't a communist country (yet). Most people don't do collectivism, they have jobs and a life to get on with. Also, wokies seem to have trouble with concept of time, all the people involved are long dead. And what country/civilization on earth doesn't have an atrocious past, eg. Arabs and Chinese? We all benefit from living in late 20th century - early 21th century standards, which most people didn't have until the last 60 or so years. Until recent history, it was mostly aristocracy privilege, whichever kingdom/civilization it was, not "white privilege", and considering the white slavery throughout Europe and Arab empires.

Overall interesting enough, but some unconvincing nonsense. I watched this again recently after some years. I had to fast forward some of the Wilson stuff. He's supposed to be a fairly smart adult in some scenes, good at math, but he's that shocked when a volleyball plops away into the ocean. And no injuries from the plane crash? It'd probably be at least a gash from debris from the exploding engine, which he has to mend on the island. He couldn't have talked/related to some of the birds or iguanas on Monuriki? Also used them as some food? I would have liked to see more of what it was like when he returned. Like did he quickly remember how to drive again? I like the minimal music in the island scenes. 3.5

I have liked this movie over the years. I suppose not everyone gets it or gets into it. TWBB is one which you can watch and think about and interpret different things about it. I've watched TWBB 3 or 4 times over the years. Once in 2007/2008 when I was 19 or 20, back then I probably thought of Daniel as more of a silly over-the-top character, but in recent years I have found interesting some other things about it. The depiction of the early 20th century oil industry, greed, entrepreneurship, how Daniel seems tough and sociopathic but deep down really wanted a family/be part of a family, and he ends up very wealthy but alone, How child Mary Sunday is the only person he seems to show some real care for early on, when she is apparently being b**ten by her father (Google thinks this review is spam). Was Daniel also abused similarly as a child, hence his personality and beliefs now? How a couple of scenes, in the desert at the beginning, and the bowling pin at the end, have some similarity/parallel to 2001 a space odyssey. The only thing is, I agree the ending is a bit clumsy/unsatisfying, perhaps a couple more scenes of Mary Sunday and HW and Daniel getting arrested.

There's really only a couple of scenes in this I find amusing, the prison Guard Barnes and the spaghetti, which I'll watch on Youtube occasionally. The rest of ACO is a shoddy/BS mess dressed up as arty/fancy. I watched it once all the way through. Like the scene when the "droogs" beg the wife to let them in the house and the old man just says "I supposed you'd better let them in", then they invade, clumsy rubbish from Kubrick.