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What I Saw At The Movies

11/9/2022

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Books By Patti Liszkay
Available On Amazon

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"Equal and Opposite Reactions" http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
and the sequel, "Hail Mary" https://www.amzn.com/1684334888
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​Available on Amazon.
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​​WHAT I SAW AT THE MOVIES

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​        Over the weekend my mate and I went to the movies to see the new Julia Roberts/George Clooney romp.
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        Despite the gorgeous Bali setting (or faux-Bali setting, as the flick was apparently filmed in Australia),
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...not to mention the gorgeous cast members,
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...I found "Ticket to Paradise" to be  kind of stanky and very inane. It did nada for me, less than nada, provoking not the slightest blip in the thinking part of my brain.
          However, what played prior to the movie was a different story. 
        As always, there was a barrage of ads and promos zipping across the screen before the house lights went down.
         There was Maria Menudos, host of the pre-movie show Noovie, 
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...interviewing an LGBTQ influencer,
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...before turning the screen over to a couple of guys commentating on the upcoming release of the new superhero movie "Wakanda Forever."
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     Noovie was followed by commercials for cars,
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....Coca Cola, 
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...more cars,
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...and a variety of goods and services that we, the theater audience, were enticed to buy or buy into by images of attractive, happy-looking folks for whom life seemed good.
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      After watching a couple of these advertisements - there must have been at least a dozen - I found myself focusing not on the products that were being peddled, but on the magical celluloid world in which the ads were set. 
         It was a world of racial and ethnic diversity, of 
people of various skin tones, ​
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...cultures,
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...and gender orientations,
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...working,
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...hanging out,
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...and getting along just as natural as can be.
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          And I thought, I feel no need for any of the stuff they're trying to sell me on the movie screen, but I definitely want to live in the world they're showing me.
2 Comments
jean
12/2/2022 12:57:58 pm

God bless.

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Patti
12/2/2022 05:00:52 pm

Thank you Jean - You, too!

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    "Tropical Depression" 
    by Patti Liszkay
    ​Buy it on Amazon:

    https://www.amzn.com/1685131832

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    "Hail Mary"
    by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

    https://www.amzn.com/1684334888

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    "Equal And Opposite Reactions"
     by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

    http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
    or from
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    of German Village,
    Columbus, Ohio
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