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  The Company of Strangers 1990

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Jul 2024

  :)
  This movie reminded me of wisdom shared by Robin Wall Kimmerer: “the Three Sisters Harvest,
   is an Indigenous tradition of planting together the Three Sisters: corn, squash, and beans. In the spring, all Three Sisters are planted at the same time. Once the seeds are in the fertile ground, the corn will be the first to shoot up from the soil. The tall cornstalks lend themselves as stable structures for the beans, which climb up the cornstalks and joyfully…

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  The Man Who Planted Trees 1987

  ★★★★★ Watched 17 Jul 2024

  Lovely sketches; so peaceful

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  Udaan 2010

  Watched 26 Jan 2022

  जो लहरों से आगे नज़र देख पाती
  तो तुम जान लेते मैं क्या सोचता हूं
  वो आवाज़ तुम को भी जो भेद जाती
  तो तुम जान लेते मैं क्या सोचता हूं

  ज़िद का तुम्हारे
  ज़िद का तुम्हारे जो पर्दा सरकता
  खिड़कियों से आगे भी तुम देख पाते
  आंखों से आदतों की जो पलकें हटाते
  तो तुम जान लेते मैं क्या सोचता हूं

  मेरी तरह होता
  मेरी तरह होता अगर ख़ुद पर ज़रा भरोसा
  तो कुछ दूर तुम भी साथ-साथ आते…

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  RoboCop 1987

  Watched 25 May 2021

  love seeing social satire that spells out ideas which initially wouldn't be consciously acceptable by the audience. there's a perfectly nuanced bridge. but sometimes, repeated impressions of violence and humor primarily serve as a distraction to keep people from stripping back the layers into critical commentaries, usually in populist agendas. here, humor's used as a device to illustrate the steady moral decline of the u.s., with plenty of social critiques smattered throughout without getting preachy or overbearing in metaphors.
  anyway, Miner was right: "comic relief for a cynical time"

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