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This is the best american film of all times. I should immediately add it to my A list. But I won`t. What is really all the fuss about? I seriously don`t know. The film is all right, I must admit to that but certainly not more than that. Ok, the ending was good, but let`s face it - every good film has a strong ending because otherwise it wouldn`t be that good. No, I don`t say that it is worthless or something of that kind but I`m not really interested in the meaning of `Rosebud` THAT much.

What is the second commandment? Do you know the answer to this question? It says that Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. And what is this film about? Is it about appliance of religion in modern society? No, it isn`t. There`s Dorota who`s husband is in a very bad condition in the hospital and who wants him to get well once again. But she also has a lover, and she`s pregnant from him. She knows that if her husband will get well she`ll have to make an abortion, but if he`ll die she`ll lose him (logical, isn`t it?). Then there`s the Consultant - an old doctor who treats Andrzej (Dorotas husband) and who`s life isn`t a particulary happy one. He spends his time telling every day a part of his loss of his family to a woman that makes food for him and cleans his room. He`s not the kindest person in the world, but neither is the most unpleasant one. To end this review I want to say, that after having watched 3 parts of the Decalogue I`m still entertained and planing to watch more.

Once there was a time when I considered Viktor Pelevin my favourite writer. When I got hold of this book I thought this time to be over, never to return back. Now, a few days after reading this one I`m not sure what am I to expect from Pelevin now. On one hand, the book is thrilling, it has some very interesting strokes of word, but, on the other hand, the basic ideas are not more than recycling from Pelevin`s previous works. He doesn`t come up with very many fresh ideas, although the plot is twisted enough. What is it all about? Actually it`s a bit of a love story - she is a were-fox at the age of more than 2000 but looking like a Lolita. He is a were-wolf who works for the Russian FSB. He wants to become the uber-were-wolf but she already is the uber-were-fox. The language in the book is pretty explicit, although there`s no "explicit content" sign on the cover. I guess this novel is quite good at describing what life in modern Russia is like. Probably Mr. Pelevin is no optimist, his vision is one full of sex and drugs, but he doesn`t become too pesimistic and he certainly doesn`t preach what he wants the world to be like - that`s a very positive thing indeed.

This starts of as a romantic comedy with a clerk and a wannabe lawyer Norman falling in love with a girl he meets in an art gallery. After spending too much time with her he gets fired from his work and ends up living with his aunt in a small town called Selchester. His love life doesn`t go particulary well, especially after he sees the woman of his dreams performing oral sex with her sisters boyfriend. So Norman goes home very sad and falls into the hands of a weird lodger of her aunties - a bishop with a lot of titles but without a church, without a religion. Yet this strange fellow ordinates Norman as a bishop as well and so Norman decides to give it a shot and become a clergyman. He goes to a thelogical college where everyone turns out to be gay and everyone has a female nickname and sodomy is practiced everywhere. Meanwhile Norman has a relationship with his first girlfriends sister, named Cleo, she`s in love with him therefore he obviously isn`t. The father of both of the girls is a dean who doesn`t believe in god and has made a lot of money from his God-mocking books. Norman dies in the end jumping from the top of a cathedral. This clearly ain`t the funniest book I`ve read in my entire life and some of it`s parts may a bit too obscene for my taste but easy to read and a bit funny it is, why shouldn`t one like that kind of books?

Nupat es sevi esmu pārsteidzis - kā izrādās, man patīk simfoniskais metāls. Dīvaini, ka nebiju to piefiksējis iepriekš. Manas atmiņas saistībā ar šo "Rhapsody" ierakstu būtībā bija pilnīgi nekādas, nekad nebiju tam pievērsis sevišķu vērību, bet tagad atklāju, ka tas ir patiešām skaists.

Reizēm gadās, ka es lejuplādēju kādu filmu un tikai pēcāk aizdomājos, kāpēc to vispār esmu darījis. Vismaz ar "Orange County" tas ir tipisks šāds gadījums. Kaut kur man bija zemapziņā iesēdies, ka šo filmu vajadētu noskatīties, lai arī īsti drošs, kas tā tāda ir, es nemaz nebiju.

The book is supposedly a detective. I`m not really sure that it is. Jacob Vogelwart is a fellow who was a writer once but has become a thief later on. He mostly looks in his neighbours windows and spies upon them. Then there`s a woman named Nicole that`s looking for her sister that is lost somewhere in the town. In reality she knows perfectly well where the sister is but she doesn`t want the others to know (she`s not dead and buried and not even held captive if you ask me). Then there`s a strange fellow who owns several bars in the town and who likes to pretend that he`s dying. What does it make as a sum? Not too much, the book is readable but not worth being read.

Turpinot savu stratēģiju datora attīrīšanā no filmām, kas tajā mitinājušās jau gadiem ilgi, pievērsos Kim Ki-duka filmas "Sala" skatīšanai. Šo filmu man, ja nemaldos, ieteica kādreizējais kolēģis Delfos - Kaspars Bankovskis, kas ir liels orientās pasaules mākslas cienītājs. Taču es biju arī dzirdējis, ka šī filma īpaši baudāma acij neesot, bet es vienlaikus arī nebiju pārliecināts, ka runa bija tieši par šo Kima filmu.

Kad uzzināju, ka pēc Kadzuo Išiguro romāna "Dienas atlikusī daļa" eksistē tāda paša nosaukuma filma, kura turklāt vēl skaitās laba un pat tika nominēta vairākiem Oskariem (skaitā 8, lai gan beigās nedabūja nevienu), man nebija divu domu - filma ir jānoskatās. Turklāt papildu filmas skatīšanās iekāri veicināja vēl viens faktors - galvenajās lomās šeit spēlē Entonijs Hopkinss un Emma Tomsone - aktieri, kuru vārdi šaubas nerada.

Public opinion isn`t more important than a dead rat. Critical opinion isn`t more important than a dead bug. My opinion isn`t more important than a dead me. Mr. Steinbeck appears to be a Nobel prize winner (in Literature, of course), but at least this book of his has no sign of literary genius whatsoever. According to what the critics say this is a comedical farse, a parody or something like that. Mr. Eristale is an amateur-astronomer living in Paris who suddenly becomes the king of France for because of struggle between the political parties monarchists take over and monarchy is restored in France. He doesn`t want to be king, for he`s a man whom nobody notices, who just wants to look at the stars. But suddenly he`s popular to the sky, although nobody gives him any power, he`s just a puppet. But the king doesn`t want to be a puppet. He wants to stand up for himself but he fails miserably and he is no king any more. The book is probably a very sharp political satyre of the French democracy, but it a) isn`t funny, b) sounds terribly dated, c) isn`t original. If a man who could write this unintersting could receive the most respected literary prize in the world this world just isn`t any good.