“This is an odd little film of immediately post War Britain that grew on me the second time I watched it. The first time I was somewhat confused plus I simply couldn’t understand the actors and their thick British accents when they spoke rapidly. The second time though, it grew on me. In spite of the fact that the viewer knows everything and it is the police who are trying to find out who the murderer is.
A woman is killed near a local fair, strangled, and apparently there have been several of these types of murders – all unsolved – over the last year or so. Scotland Yard is called in on the case. They beat a path to the actual murderer’s door almost immediately, but they don’t know that and the murderer is playing it cool. So much so that it is awhile into the film before the viewer knows that this guy is the murderer and not just some moody eccentric fellow with an exaggerated penchant for punctuality and that this is not going to be some kind of “wrong man” story. And it can’t hurt that the murderer is from a respectable household and is a respectable businessman as far as giving the police pause.
So in this film the accent is on the inner turmoil of the murderer, apparently tormented by the knowledge that his grandfather was a hangman. This is the kind of weird slant on things that I saw in the silent film “Hangman’s House” – insinuating that people who hang murderers who were convicted by somebody else and sentenced by somebody else are the actual murderers. Plus back in this time people still believed that genetics were destiny rather than possibility. As the murderer’s inner conflict intensifies, the rather haunting score of the film becomes louder and more constant.
The second time watching it, I noticed that this film was most economically shot. You never even see the first victim of the film, and subsequent scenes are shot outside or in small rooms. No elaborate sets seem to have been built. This tends to make post war British films high quality in the acting and plot departments since apparently there was not lots of money for art design.
I’d recommend this one. Just don’t get the idea that it is a police procedural or a noir because it really is neither of those.”
(0905) Morning all … one of my meds just tried to escape … started rolling away, suddenly took a turn and I had to pounce, little varmint. Not too bad out there, was bleah ealier, sun just came out now. By the way, if you have too much Vitamin D, it can impinge on your Vitamin K2, affecting your bones. Juss thought I’d mention that. (0926)
Ex-Biden Aide Neera Tanden Admits Under Oath to House Oversight Committee That She Controlled Joe Biden’s Autopen
Jewish Organizations Urge Mass Evacuation from NYC After Radical Muslim Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins Democrat Mayoral Primary
“There’s a Reason the President Calls Out the Fake News for What It Is!” – Pete Hegseth Demolishes Fake News Hack in Europe
Chief Mark Rutte Refers to President Trump as ‘Daddy’
Russian Fighters Step By Step Expand ‘Buffer Zone’ In Sumy, Repulsing AFU Counterattacks
Rates of sickness in New Zealand have gone up by 17-30% since 2019
(Portugal and Ireland rising up)
Much more.
3. The abused girls again
2. DAD at 1087
a) The Fête de la Musique, (a music summer street festival), held every year in France on June 21st, has turned over the years into a gigantic demonstration of the social anarchy into which France is sinking with determination.
b) France is becoming the Sinaloa drug cartel’s ‘new Mexico’.
c) Nestlé has announced plans to lay off 80 employees—one-fifth of the workforce—at its Krupka factory in Czechia’s Ústí nad Labem Region.
d) According to AFP, the German government has decided to end its financial support for NGOs involved in civilian rescue in the Mediterranean [picking up imm1gr@nts].
1. Forced political messages
… always for one side, the Woke excrescent side … this is at TDS today, (middle column, blogrolls).
“The latest player to be benched for non-compliance is Lyon midfielder Nemanja Matić. The Serbian international and former Manchester United star was handed a two-match ban this month after taping over an LGBTQ-inclusion message on his shirt in a recent Ligue 1 fixture. He has been forced by the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) to attend an “awareness-raising campaign… against homophobia in football”. Otherwise, he would face an additional two-match ban.
Banning players for their personal views has become a common occurrence in French football.”
Rather than focus on this specific issue for the rest of this item, I’d like to look at us personally, bring it back to us and our cross we have to bear, politically.
Hypocrites in this mock that we’re “hiding behind a keyboard” … these brave onliners themselves rattle off derisive tweets or whatever about other keyboard warriors but if we try to turn it back onto them … it’s, “Oh, I personally can’t of course … family to feed, rent to pay, job to keep, govt subsidies to lose.”
The angry mocker sees this, grins, then hits back: “But if we all do this, we’re no better than sheep, marching towards our doom.” Always meaning that you are like that, not me personally, that I’ve been banned, Them don’t like me, plus I have a house to feed, a family to water etc.
In another parable, it’s called who will bell the cat?
Rather hollow is it not? And Them know that full well … they count on this reaction, this, “You people are all pussies but I, on the other hand, am the brave keyboard warrior.”
Who exactly is flinging these things at the rest of us? Well, firstly … millions of very frustrated, very angry ordinary people, seemingly powerless. But there’s another type of course … the professional troll, the paid instigator, using tax money to atack the tax-money-robbed.
And as so many have noted … there’s this very deep, despising, dismissing, mocking of the normies, even the wide awake normies such as this one writing this now. Meanwhile, Them tighten the thumbscrews by degrees.
Lucy Connolly, Tina Peters, are necessary sacrificial lambs for the State to say, “Don’t even think about it, brave sheeple. Just shut it and obediently be herded into the trucks to Belsen.” This is the way it has always worked, for every despot, since antiquity.
Solution? Them control that too … revolution on the streets, ringleaders picked off and disappeared, sheeple give up and comply, cowed. It’s also Them’s litmus test … just how much will humanity take of humiliation, degradation and misery before they attempt to rise up? Which policies must Them backtrack on, which do Them safely double down on?
But why? Why? Why does Congress act this way? The Judiciary? The Parliament? The medical “profession”? Why do they so hate and despise us, humanity? The answer to that lies in the mists of time … the bible has as good an account as any. Myth? Hardly … it plays out exactly today.
Which religion is being slaughtered, churches burned down just now? When did you last hear of a Mosque or Synagogue burned down, people slaughtered inside? Have you eyes?
So my question again is … who precisely is the kingpin, the Mr. Big in all this? Behind it all?
This is not just little girl lies … this is someone morally retarded, minus ethics, completely brainwashed by the Woke Left Machine … look at a picture of her, look at whom she works for … retarded is not just an insult here … it’s a lack of mental maturity … she never grew up.
But it’s something else too … there are things we see with men when they defend someone and attack another … all sorts of white knight nobility enters into it, unless the guy is just a total animal, like those three raping that child. And there are far too many men who drop straight into physical violence. Yes, just acknowledging that.
Then we come to women’s foibles … one which Pammy has and Laura L is total schoolgirl loyalty to one man … everyone else can go take a jump … thinking through different sides to a question is not as paramount, unless he’s not a paramour. After that, women tend to be the goods … keepers … and then garbage, as the sshot says. Bonny Blue is garbage, sadly. The harpies of legend were.
This Bertrand is … well, she’s bad news, perhaps looking for Brownie points … whichever, whatever, there is no comounction in doing wrong and seeing it as a game.
13. Culture
12. Steve at 1087 with war room
Marc Caputo: “If He Pulls This Peace Deal Off, It Could Be The Greatest Feat Of His Presidency.”
Jack Posobiec: Mossad Indicated To CIA Planned To Continue Strikes Despite Peace Talks
Curt Mills: Report Suggests That IF The Iranian Nuclear Sites Were Destroyed They Would Be Able To Rebuild In A Matter Of Months
“There’s No Money In Peace” Tej Gill Reacts To Intel Leak Contradicting Iran Mission Success
Copy’s not fabulous, a bit dark, but the dialogue is clear enough for an evening, pre-politics movie:
Soul survivor (IMDb)
Made on a shoestring budget ,this movie was,at the time of its release , ahead of its time, predating such works as “bid time return” “Audrey Rose” ” fearless” and many more .Time warp was rarely used then (“portrait of Jennie” (1949) was a notable exception though)
An aging Ann Harding is the stand -out : she who was young in “Peter Ibbetson” (1935) ,a masterpiece of the fantasy genre , is ideally cast as this war fiancée who lost her sweetheart when his plane crashed in 1918.
The movie is shrouded in mystery ;clues are given to the viewer: a twelve-year -old drives a plane without having learned to do it ,the strange chemistry between the captain and his passenger ,the strange words the survivor utters when he regains consciousness .
The movie may be too talky for some, but it proves that a fantasy tale does not need a ton of special effects to impress the viewer ; it may be,according to your own sensitivity a Christian movie (soul is immortal) or a mystery science will later explain (the pychiatrist).
