Posted on 02/28/2005 1:05:33 AM PST by paudio
Best Motion Picture of the Year: Million Dollar Baby
What it is about: a female boxer who at the end asks to be given 'mercy killing' because she became disabled.
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year: Mar adentro
What it is about: The real-life story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30 year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die
Culture of Death, Hollywood style.
(Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News.")
Oscar? Didn't watch it.
Last year's movies? Didn't see one.
I'm batting two for two!
As the burden for expensive medical care at the end of life shifts from the individual to society-at-large, why should we be surprised when society-at-large decides that it would be altogether more desirable and economical if the terminally ill and crippled would just choose to dispatch themselves quickly and efficiently?
When the payer is separated from the consumer, it is the payer who is catered to.
I watched a really interesting show on the History ch about Hitlers secret plans to invade America. Darn I missed the Oscars......again.
Michael Medved should be interesting to listen to tomorrow!
It somehow seems appropriate. I didn't watch it but there are reports that the Oscar show was lame and on life-support.
Yes it is. They're (usually) the very best at what they do...which is telling stories.
That the stories they tell sometimes displease, disturb or even revolt you shouldn't blind you to their talent. Leni Reifenstall's "Triumph of the Will" glorified the Nazis. Frank Capri's "Prelude to War" glorified us. I hated the Nazis but there's absolutely no doubt that Reifenstall was a master and Capra a hack in these efforts.
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