Linked List: December 2019
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
- Greta Thunberg Time’s 2019 Person of the Year ✶
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Greta won’t care, but dictators and wannabe dictators around the world will be upset.
Friday, 6 December 2019
- Ad Astra ✶
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David Ehrlich writing about James Gray’s new film, Ad Astra:
In “Ad Astra,” strength isn’t the opposite of weakness — strength is the acceptance of weakness. It’s easier to build a wall than it is to construct a bridge, but only the latter will ever get you anywhere. Gray took that idea and expanded it into a vaguely Oedipal space-age myth about the fait accompli of a man becoming his own father, and the heroism required to set coordinates for a new destination.
It is a moving film, with understated music and wonderful cinematography, starring Brad Pitt in top form as a cool-headed astronaut.
I liked it better than Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time In Hollywood.