... proved irresistible for them…. On their rare appearances, they would invariably sit down and watch. Karp sat directly in front of the screen. Agafia watched poking her head from behind a door. She tried to pray away her transgression immediately—whispering, blessing herself…. The old man prayed afterwards, diligently and in one fell swoop..."
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii-7354256/?no-ist
Thus are we all corrupted. But in the case of television and smartphones, why not I ?
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Yeah, now that Netflix carries all those French movies, why not you? Taste and sense arbitrate even in the midst of surrender to what is--for you, that is.
Does Netflix carry the splendid Iranian movies that never make it to the Land of the Free ?
Absolutely, they do! I have seen three of them--The Separation is excellent (almost won an Oscar), the Abandoned Train Station fascinating, and the one about the auto mechanic hooking up with a supposed widow, bleak, true, and unremittingly cruel. Who dares make these movies?
Oh, by the way, I paid $11.00 dollars a ticket for my wife and me to see the Iranian movie, The Separation. I saw it first in a theater in Orange County.
Netflix offer free membership for a month. Can I offer you Kaurismäki's The Match-factory Girl which is actually on youTube and is bleakly wonderful.
I strayed from my path yesterday and watched a Hollywood movie ! 'Thelma and Louise' which I absolutely loved. Excellent ending. However, I needed subtitles to understand some of the dialogue.
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