Recommend a movie

I saw Lone Survivor back in June and the thing that struck me most was the piss poor decision made by the Seal Lieutenant in letting the goat herder and his kids go. As I recall he presented three options: kill them, tie them up and leave them or let them go. Well how about you bind their hands and gag them and bring them with you until such time as your comms are back up and your men are the fuck out of there? Hell, they could have even brought them back to base and sent them back to their village at another time. At the very least I would have tied them loosely and left them there to buy time. The guy played by Ben Foster had it right. You first priority is your mission and your men. The mission was already compromised, so it's time to get your men home safe. That guy shit the bed, and he a bunch of other men paid the ultimate price for his bad decision.

I saw The Drop last night to satisfy my desire for content depicting white ethnic criminality. The film is based off of a short story, so the writing is comparatively superb by Hollywood standards. It stars James Gandolfini from the Sopranos, Noomi Rapace from Prometheus, and Tom Hardy the Chav.

The film centers on a "drop bar" used by Chechen gangsters to store their bookmaking profits. The bar and racket were originally run by the bar tenders, a pair of washed-up Polish gangsters played by Gandolfini and Hardy. Hardy's character is a seemingly autistic simpleton who regularly attends Church (fucking Cath-o-leek) and shows childlike empathy and beneficence toward injured animals and women. However his stunted affect and childlike naivete conceal a brutal, amoral detachment from the sins of the criminal underworld. Hardy demonstrates an unexpected depth to his acting ability in portraying this character; I must say that he outperforms the usually excellent Gandolfini, whose morbid obesity and wheezing throughout the film add an air of authenticity but also distract the viewer. Rapace's character is relatively boring, but she remains engaging because her Laplander-Iberian face is strangely captivating.

The film has a somewhat absurd premise and hams it up occasionally, but overall I thought it was entertaining and engaging. The Drop joins Out of the Furnace and Killing them Softly as another respectable depiction of white ethnic and working class pathology, as opposed to the cartoonish wish-fulfillment fantasies produced by Scorcese, in which white ethnic degenerates are transformed into comic book heroes sticking it to the WASP establishment. I give it 3 out of 5 .

I saw Gone Girl, and first impression was very good. Sailer had a recent review,
http://www.unz.com/isteve/gone-girl/
And points out that it might make feminists chimp
http://www.vulture.com/2014/10/yes-gone-girl-has-a-woman-problem.html (plot twists revealed)

I thought it was a good and sadistic comedy, not a thriller. I'm surprised it got good reviews and didn't make more people chimp at how "sick" it is. Maybe the reviewers were more relieved to have a mainstream movie aimed at above room-temp-IQ demographic, the way Sailer says, and didn't pay as much attention to the message. But like Fight Club (by same director) it's a multi-pronged mockery of American culture, domestic life, and the worship of women. Almost every woman in the movie is vicious, evil, or ineffectual, same as in real life. Both book and script written by the same woman, who might therefore be a good, misogynist woman.

Das Weiße Rauschen (The White Sound)

Driving through the countryside, Kati, Jochen and Lukas take some magic mushrooms. One of them, Lukas, is not coming down from them. Hearing voices like multiple different low turned radio programs, changing and mixing altogether. The diagnosis of the physician: paranoid schizophrenia. Not able to filter and interpret the sensations presented he encounters fear, inner voices, paranoia and is drifting away from reality.