Stop the Internet Blacklist

The internet gonna stop existing.. Walk away from your computer for a while and think about that.

Welcome back, your computer is still connected to the internet. Read the following below.

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When it really matters to them, Congressmembers can come together -- with a panache and wry wit you didn't know they had. As banned books week gets underway, and President Obama admonishes oppressive regimes for their censorship of the Internet, a group of powerful Senators -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- have signed onto a bill that would vastly expand the government's power to censor the Internet.

The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was introduced just one week ago, but it's greased and ready to move, with a hearing in front of the Judiciary Committee this Thursday. If people don't speak out, US citizens could soon find themselves joining Iranians and Chinese in being blocked from accessing broad chunks of the public Internet.

Help us stop this bill in its tracks! Click here to sign our petition.

COICA creates two blacklists of Internet domain names. Courts could add sites to the first list; the Attorney General would have control over the second. Internet service providers and others (everyone from Comcast to PayPal to Google AdSense) would be required to block any domains on the first list. They would also receive immunity (and presumably the good favor of the government) if they block domains on the second list.

The lists are for sites "dedicated to infringing activity," but that's defined very broadly -- any domain name where counterfeit goods or copyrighted material are "central to the activity of the Internet site" could be blocked.

One example of what this means in practice: sites like YouTube could be censored in the US. Copyright holders like Viacom often argue copyrighted material is central to the activity of YouTube, but under current US law, YouTube is perfectly legal as long as they take down copyrighted material when they're informed about it -- which is why Viacom lost to YouTube in court.

But if COICA passes, Viacom wouldn't even need to prove YouTube is doing anything illegal to get it shut down -- as long as they can persuade the courts that enough other people are using it for copyright infringement, the whole site could be censored.

Perhaps even more disturbing: Even if Viacom couldn't get a court to compel censorship of a YouTube or a similar site, the DOJ could put it on the second blacklist and encourage ISPs to block it even without a court order. (ISPs have ample reason to abide the will of the powerful DOJ, even if the law doesn't formally require them to do so.)

COICA's passage would be a tremendous blow to free speech on the Internet -- and likely a first step towards much broader online censorship. Please help us fight back: The first step is signing our petition. We'll give you the tools to share it with your friends and call your Senator. """"""

Read the whole article here and find the links on how to contact senators etc.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-segal/stop-the-internet-blackli_b_739836.html

+200,000 Has signed.
http://demandprogress.org/blacklist/

https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?page=UserActionInactive&id=455

The silence

Some people surely makes a lot of noice, either by their mouth or by using explosives, like bombs.

Using bombs is Never a good thing, it doesn´t matter who use it, for what reason or against whom or what. It doesn´t get any simplier then that. Ofcourse some thinks it is difficult, some thinks it is a good idea. Like the swedish new law, they think it is a good idea... or do they?

On december 1st 2010, it will be Illeagal to talk/write in a possitive manner about terrorism. That is as easy as 1 - 2 - 3..?
But what is terrorism?

According to the old term; Terror, wich is latin by the way, it means Fear or dread.

According to the newer dictionary it seems to have a divided meaning.
War on terror - stated by George W Bush. It was to capture/kill Al Qaeda members and or Saddam Hussein. Or if you so will, Any muslim you/they can find. ( Read more on the Abu Ghraib story. And see also Guantanamo Bay)

A quote from the white house itself; "What is the War on Terrorism?
Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes on September 11, 2001 and crashed two of the planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania. As a result, thousands of innocent individuals from more than 80 nations lost their lives."
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/infocus/nationalsecurity/faq-what.html

So what about a person writing the following on his/her blog (for example).
" Today I recieved $49.000 on last days stockmarket. The stocks did get a 21.4% increase since the company ********** sold their ***** and moved it to another country, causing 17 people their job..."
Is that quote, if it would have been a real quote, would it be considered a terrorist propaganda quote?

Let me explain myself.
People all over suffers from the colapsing echonomy and looses their jobs, their income, their sallery, their right to have a house (for that you have to have money-to pay the rent and etc). But if some people gets sacked/laid off from their work and some people gain from it, would that then be a terrorist act? And maybe most important; Why wouldn´t it be?

Everyone knows that we, the people of this planet, are facing tougher times, darker times. Sure some blame a group of people or an religion, becouse it is easy to do so.
In Hungary antisemites/neo fascisms marches the streets and blames are upon Jews, Gypsys.
In Italy, the leading political party Lega Nord says things like "We should exterminate all gypsys."
In Sweden, a newly selected party wants to blame and send away every (or most of the) muslims from sweden. Gypsys has also been sent away and in Malmö 19 shootings has taken place, each of the victims are imigrants.

The defense minister in sweden; Sven Tolgfors has said in a radioshow that "The debate makes it harder for our serving troops in Afghanistan.."
The debate is if sweden should or should not have any troops in Afghanistan.
In short terms; those who think sweden shouldn´t; they make it hard for the troops - In long terms, it can mean that we (who don´t support the idea of troops being there) support terrorism.
That is what the new upcoming december 1st law is gonna be about. Do Not questioning or argue on why stupidity exists.

So what is terrorism?
Attacking a country and killing people there?
use torture against people, whom are not sharing your religion?
Buy and selling stocks? Causing people their wellfare, job, homes?
Writing a text and questioning why your government sends away people, so that they may die (for no political reason whatsoever) or that they serve as bodyguards to echonomical warmongering sadists - or even killing people of all ages and gender?
What is terrorism?
And what is the definition of terrorism according to the new law?

Be silent or be silenced?
Live and be silent or be silent and "live"?
I haven´t chosen what to do. But "Daremo karemo odoroku you na" - translated; Everyone it will surprise.

Social network

............the movie.

Or how the media once again running the capitalists, psuedo/wannabe pedophiles errand.

I will explain this on what I´m trying to tell you. But first things first.

Social network has been the talk of the big cinematic world for over 1/2 year now. Why is that? Have I seen the movie in the first place?
Haven´t seen it and will Not do so.

Why watch a movie that tells how a internet phenom (I´m willing to admit that anyway) was created; Facebook. Ain´t a user of it, have no friends - atleast to my knowledge, that uses it. It´s fair to say we have better things to do.

So the movie tells the story of a computer geek who started facebook and he also has a proantagonist (the enemy later on started Napster) and his day to day struggle..I guess.
I have wondered why this movie has been hyped so much, well when a big chance of collecting some more cash, ofcourse some people will promote it beyond insanity.

Why not make a big block buster movie on milk?
Ain´t talking about Harvey Milk (the homosexual politician in San Fransisco - the Sean Penn movie). I´m talking about milk, that comes directly from cows. Everyone in the western (modernised"?") world has tasted it, we use it in our everyday life more or less. But somehow it wouldn´t be interresting to make a movie about.

Other big hypes the last year in the cinema/DVD world?
And here is the pedophile part you sneaky b*sterds!

In a movie that has been praised as one of the last 10 years best movies, mostly from middleage male movie reviewers (actually I think I´m the only one who have the guts to hate it). In the movie a, at the time, 11 year old female shows her pussy. Sure the males gonna shout wild and hype the movie.
The title of the movie? Let the right one in.

Another big block buster hit was also a movie that starred a 11 year old girl, whom had a scene where she was dressed in a short skirt, long socks, white shirt, pigtails and had a confused look on her face. The ultimate lolita, the movie was ofcourse; Kick ass.

Now, it seems like the movie industry more willingly wanna portray young - and I Do mean Young - girls in speculative scenes. After all, the promo pictures of Kick ass was more or less all about hit girl posing in the outfit (as described above) with a big gun in her hand.

But it´s all entertainment someone says.
Sure I can buy that. Did I like the movies? No, do I think it´s ok that young girls are portrayed as this? Well Shirley Temple wasn´t exactly 20 when she had her breakthrough, neither was Elisabeth Taylor, nor Natalie Portman and the list goes on and on ... and yes I ain´t ashamed to tell the truth that Jessie Pham (also 11 - maby even 12 - at the time) was AMAZING in Martyrs. Or that Erica Scott also was phenomenal in Martyrs. Or that Sasisa Jindamanee was Amazing in Kerd ma lui, in Somtum aswell. Now that is the only young girl whom should been considered to have the nickname Kick (ass)girl.

So will social network become a monster hit and cash in even more billions? Sure why not. And meanwhile I´d be drinking some milk and writing a script about a 11 year girl named Anaïs, the title of the movie? Voyerisme.
And that ain´t about whatever you may fantasize about. It ain´t either a entertaining movie, you will understand when you see it.

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Note.
Let the right one in Gets in a scale 1-10 a solid 1 1/2.
Kick ass gets 3 (out of 10).
Voyerisme, however will have a 10.
Remember that is entertainment.

Mang shan

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020972/
A.k.a. Blind mountain
In a rural small village somewhere in China a young, newly graduated girl, are going by a bus along a beautiful mountain road. She is looking for work and a young man says he is gonna help her. Bai Xuemei (Lu Huang) happy and a bit to naive accept his offer, now she can find a job. What she will find is far more terrifying then she ever could have dreamed of, she is drugged and kidnapped by a man in a small
village in northern China where she will be used and serve as his bride, she will also be used sexually.

By the time Bai Xuemei gets to the mountain village, she instantly tries to run away, some men drag her inside a house and tie her up by the bed, soon her new husband enters the room…
The story takes place in early 1990´s China and is NOT a violent movie
by any standard, so if you are looking for a violent movie do not
bather with Mang shan. Even though, Bai Xuemei get beaten sometimes during the movie, it´s not a bloody or disgusting movie with explicit imagery. On the cuntrouary it is actually a beautiful movie (cinemathograpic wise that is), really well acted. The villagers are no real acters, infact they are real villagers living and working as portrayed in the movie, they have talent and it makes this a documentary gritty feel to it. In fact, Lu Huang is the only proper schooled actor in the movie.

Bai Xumei













The chines government laid their filthy hands (filthy as in censorship) on this movie and cut out a lot - so the story goes anyway. So an uncut version of this may never see the light of day (something tells me the scenes that was cut out will never be replaced or discovered).
Mang shan critisizes the whole sexslave/human trafficking scenario and knowing that the government actually have cut this movie (what did they actually cut out? After all they left the rapescenes intact(?) ..)

Bai Xumei tied up













Mang shan a.k.a. Blind mountain is a drama and is told and acted in a
slow phase wich at times can make it hard to watch, but it�s well worth
the time to follow her tragic time as one of many traffic victims and
her attempts to freedom (yes she escapes sometimes).
I did however during the movie come to think about the Stockholm
syndrome* (see link below) and you do feel for Bai Xuemei as long as
the movie goes on.

The first rape













Bai Xumei doesn´t react after a while to how the men threats her. It is painfully, in a sad classic chinese dramatic way portraid in a specific scene, that her will has gone and she has in some way accepted her faith.













Yang Li has made a powerful, touching, a bit provocing and sad movie. This is only his debut; In other words keep an eye on this guy. Keep also an eye on Lu Huang.
If you haven´t seen this I highly recomend Mang shan and if you by some odd reson have made it through this porly written review (believe me, the movie is much better then I can describe) you copy and paste this link and order the DVD. You will Not be dissapointed, well maybe you will - but that dissapointment will not be on the movie, but on the way some men and some laws actually support things like this. As sad this movie is, it is uplifting (Finally the cinamatic world have the guts to do movies about this topic) and that is really important.

http://www.dvdasian.com/_e/China/product/27134/Blind_Mountain_aka_Mang_Shan_DVD_.htm


Official trailer
http://se.youtube.com/watch?v=hESnR20g0ow

* About the Stockholm syndrome
http://ask.yahoo.com/20030324.html

Mang shan won the FACE awards in Istanbul for it´s Human rights issues.
Read more here
https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1277543&Site=DC&BackColorInternet=F5CA75&BackColorIntranet=F5CA75&BackColorLogged=A9BACE

Trade

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399095/
Make a movie for an estimated sum of $12 MILLIONS and add some of the most horrific and most important issues of today and the opening weekend the movie will have a gross intect of only $215.000 after a month.. is this how sick/naive the world is? Or is the movie asking to many questions about a topic that is so scary that people avoided it?

Adriana (Paulina Gaitán) is a young girl living in Mexico city with her family, infact she has just turned 13 and gets a bike from her brother Jorge (Cesar Ramos) as a birthday present. Their mother suspects that Jorge has stolen the bike, Jorge leaves after an arguement to join his friends. Adriana however, happy for the present sneaks out the other day with her bike, a car follows her, some russians kidnapp her - soon even Adriana is one of many many sextraffic victims.

The kidnapping of Adriana












Veronika(Alicja Bachleda-Curuś) a polish girl, arrives in Mexico City at the same time as the kidnapping of Adriana. She meets a woman and some men at the airport, Veronika seems a bit nervous meeting them, the intention is as I see it that we are made to believe she is an illegal imigrant. The men sets her up outside of the airport and take her away in their van.
She is being taken to an hideout where she will be beaten and raped.

Jorge and his friends manage to spot the kidnappers and Jorge sets out after them. The kidnapping of his sister seems not to have been an act of random, infact this is an organized well founded gang who have taken more children together with Adriana. Jorge later on meet Ray (Kevin Kline) who works as a federal investigator, now they both have to find Adriana before she is sold over the internet to some pedophile.

Trade is a extremely important movie based on Peter Landesman's
Story "The Girls Next Door" from NY Times about sextrafficking.
Mang shan a.k.a. Blind Mountain, a review of that will be posted soon also,
touches upon the same dark issues.
Trade however is more told, written, shot and acted as Steven Soderberghs
oscarwinning movie about the drug trafficking between Mexico and US;
Traffic. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181865/
They both uses the same "lightbrown layer/filter" in various scenes and in all honesty; Trade outnumbers Traffic completly.

So, does Trade handle this issue well?
The acting is really good by everyone in the cast, maby mostly from Kevin Kline, Cesar Ramos and Alicja Bachleda-Curuś.
It´s after all not an topic that is easy to handle but the director Marco Kreuzpaintner and the screenwriter Jose Rivera has done a great job to make this movie. For the topic and for trying to raise the awerness of all this, it might be together with Mang shan some of the most important movies in the last decade.

Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdeHCL_DO5E

Official site
http://www.tradethemovie.com/

More on Peter Landesman´s article
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/magazine/25SEXTRAFFIC.html?pagewanted=1

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- You pay for this. I make sure.
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- First fuck is here.
- Sorry?
- You gonna fuck the little virgin right here.
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Adriana & Veronika

Paranormal activity

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179904/
The tagline to the movie is; Don´t see it alone.
My thought on that And the movie is as easy as the tagline and the plot of the movie; See it when you are tired.

Now people who read this may smile or laugh about the whole thing, but I do believe in ghosts, spirits and demons, evil as good.
So by that this movie should scare me really good, right?

A young couple; Katie (Katie Featherston ) and Micha (Micah Sloat ) are having something uninvited in their lovely home, well Micah is kind of suspicious about it, but Katie has experienced this before. The uninvited thing is a thing .. or… a demon? A ghost? A spirit? Or is it only in Katies head?

We start the movie right away, so to speak, Micah has bought a big videocamera (wich actually makes this movie a old 70/80s feeling to it, allthough they have a modern home and a big plasma tv). He starts speaking in a ironic way about the possible entity that are in the house, even Katie kind of smiles about it. The days goes by, mostly we see the camera on a tripod shooting Katie and Micah in bed at night, scary creepy things starts to happen.
Doors moving, sounds from the room, light being turned on and off..

Katie and Micha has a "good nights" sleep..?













Paranormal activity has been using the same idea (double time) as Blairwitch project. That is, shot in extreme small budget with a handvideo camera using unknown actors.
And, secondly, using simple promotion by the internet.
The smart idea is ofcourse the simplicity of it, to let the unknown actors having their real first name as the characters (it (in some way unitentionally) will make you think that these people do exist for real and that this has happened).

After 10 minutes into the movie I had it all figured out and knew how it would ended, and that is a big weekness that this movie has.
It tries to copy the Blairwitch project completely and it succeds at more or less every level. However, Paranormal activity plays also on the claustrofobic tense since all is taking place in the house (actually the director/screenwriter´s Oren Peli´s own house). It also doesn´t get chilling untill the last 4-5 minutes, as did Blairwitch project.

Some thinks that this is one of the decades most horrific movies, or even one of the scariest movies of all time. For me, it´s an good one time watch, at best.
The reason for the quote ” See it when you are tired.” is that Paranormal activity, as stated, mostly takes place in the bedroom and that it is slow and builts up to the ending scene - wich atleast I had figured out long time ago.

I thought I would like it, due to the claustrofobic nature and the spirit/ghost haunted thing. But I became annoyed and quite frankly angry. Not angry on the filmmaker or the acting, nor on the script - since I like the idea a lot. Maby it was to much of a let down (read; the hype of it all) for me.

Allthough this ain´t exatly a movie I will watch again, it is an enjoyable little flick and in some way I can admire the intention of it. But I do Not think it is a phenom or a scary movie of the year.
Worthy one watch and if you feel like watching it, do watch it when you are tired.

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- It´s here.
- What do you mean it´s here?
- It´s here. I can feel it breathe..
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Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSSqxrh5kp8

Official site
http://www.paranormalmovie.com/

Official french site
http://www.wildbunch-distribution.com/site/paranormalactivity/

Official japanese site
http://www.paranormal-activity.jp/pc/

Kakashi

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296032/
Long time ago in Japan, farmers used to burn human and animals hair, only to protect their fields from evil beasts and spirits. That was called Kagashi.
Later on, the farmers built manlike dolls in hope to scare the spirits, these dolls was called Kakashi; Scarecrows.

The legendary Itô Junji made a manga on the Kakashi myth. This is the movie based on the manga.
Kaoru Yoshikawa (Maho Nonami )

searches for her brother Tsuyoshi (Shunsuke Matsuoka who also starred as Chihiro´s boyfriend in the classic Furiizu Mii a.k.a. Freeze me) and in his apartment she finds a letter, inside the letter there are dried short straws wich has significant meanings to the story.
She goes to the small village Kozukata. Kaoru finds it and to get to the village she has to go trough a tunnel, most like Chihiro and her family does in Chihiro no kamikakushi http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/
It can be seen as a portal into another world.

Kaoru soon reaches the Kozukata village













While at Kozukata, Kaoru finds a lot of strange eerie people, just like you would expect from a Itô Junji adaptation (see Uzumaki for example). Among others she finds a woman with a perambulator, but in it is not a baby or an infant, but a scarecrow.

Kaoru then meets the Miyamori family, or atleast what´s left of it. Their daughter Izumi ( Kou Shibasaki from batoru rowaiaru and Chakushin ari ) has died and she was the one who have send the letter to Tsuyoshi as an invitation to the village, a village that co exists with death.

The director Norio Tsuruta is more or less perfect for this movie since he did made the third Ringu movie ( Ringu 0: Bâsudei ) a year before Kakeshi, 3 years after, he also did Yogen. Norio rely more on the story, characters and the atmosphere then on violent or chocking images/blood and gore. It is refreshing to see that, since a lot of movies nowadays tends to be brutal just for the brutalatys sake so to speak. Itô Junji is also a master of creating stories that captures you and he doesn´t either put gore into his stories.

The festival is about to begin













Kakashi is maby not your everyday horror, it´s built up and acted as a drama, with some mixes of heartbreaking scenes and also some unexplainable horror.
The horror is the unhumanlike humans (sounds wierd I know) in the village, they are more like spirits, cast under some spell with no facialexpression whatsoever. That is the scary thing, seeing these mindless walking bodies with no emotion staring at Kaoru as she arrives at this small village.

Kaoru meets, beside the Miyamori´s, Sari Chen/Gurêsu Ippu (actress Grace Yip ) who at first sight seems to be as all the others, so what is ”wrong” with all the people?
Sari is reported missing, we see her picture by the side of the road as Kaoru finds the village, soon Kaoru also finds the horrific and sad truth about the village. She also finds her brother. But will the villagers let them leave during this scarecrow festival?

The acting is topclass and special credits to Kou Shibasaki becouse she shows what she can do, even though her screentime is minimal.
The sceenery/cinematography is really really good and in some way ads to the sad story.
In the beginning of this review I mention that the farmers usel to burn hair, in the prefecture Tôhoku (located in northern Japan), more specially in the capital Yamagata helds a Kakashi festival each year. See more info below.

Izumi sneaks up on Kauro













If you feel like watching something different and beautiful at the same time (with a touch of sadness and, with the ”typical zombie ending”) I suggest you give Kakashi a try.
It may not give you chills or a wet eye, but it will touch you and that is what Itô Junji is so good at - his stories will not leave you that easy.

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The only real thing is your face.
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Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJQ2UuUi0xA

Fansite to Itô Junji
http://junjiito.trilete.net/

Official site for Yamagata city - in japanese
http://www.pref.yamagata.jp/

Official site for Yamagata city - in english
http://www.pref.yamagata.jp/ou/shokokanko/110012/kokusai/english/eindex.html

The 40th festival has been held, be sure to visit if you can.
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eventcalendar/search_result_en.php?num=737

Some pictures and info from the 38th festival
http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/1617993/


Izumi, Kou Shibasaki, will point at you if you don´t give this movie a watch

When I´m 64

If I'd been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door,
Will you still need me, will you still feed me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3HAJ4DjMhY

The famous words from The Beatles song. So why writing about that now? Does it have somethiung to do that the french government (President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan) to raise the retirement age to 62 from 60. All becouse accordingly to them " becouse the echonomy depends on it."

So, working two years longer doesn´t seems that hard?
But what we have to understand, people live becouse out of free will and work is not (in most cases) a free will. Work is something that is essential - a Must, to make things barely worth living. That Is a fact, a solid and honest fact. So, the reteriment is something that a lot of people are looking forward to - not only becouse having sparetime and hopefully to be able to do things as long as You can without getting extra help.

By raising this to 62 instead of todays 60, two more years, LESS, to live and enjoy life. But it may get even worse "Unions hope the turnout will oblige the government to back down over the flagship reform of Sarkozy's five-year term, which would also raise the age at which people can retire on a full pension to 67 from 65."

So, no wonder that 2.9 million had marched against this legislation. As I wrote in Vive La Révolution back in July this year; Paris, the mother of city protests - every year approximantly 1.000 protests is held - Every Year.


French daily newspaper L'Humanite showed more than 70 percent of people backed the day of action.
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In Sweden we have 65-67 (that is you can if you will and are healthy enough, work untill you get 67) before you can get an pension.
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In Japan it is 62,1 year before you can go into retirement.
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More on the protest in France
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101002/wl_nm/us_france_pensions_protests
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkGjHPKrOI0

And wouldn´t it be better to have younger people pushed into the work as early as possible, like 20-22, the don´t have to be unemployed, they certanly don´t have as high sallory as a 60 year man/woman. So they can save money...oooh the preassure money. And these 60+ workers has a time to enjoy life more. And Bosses, directors of borders, politicians, believe me; You Do Not Need All Your Cash You Get.

I do hope that the french people has once again seen the face of capitalism and won. VIVE LA RÈVOLUTION - beaucoup d'amour les gens de France, Nous montrer comment protester!!

Nightstalker

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342835/
Gabriella Martinez (Roselyn Sanchez) and Frank Luis (Danny Trejo wich also is the co producer) are two officers in Los Angeles in the mid 80s. It is the time of insanity and the time of the night stalker; Richard Ramirez ( Bret Roberts).

Officer Martinez & Luis













Another serialkiller movie based on real events, I mainly bought this becouse of Roselyn Sanchez, Danny Trejo and that Ramirez was a serial rapist/serial killer. I didn´t mind that the ratings was low and that it had gotten bad reviews.
So was it a good call buying this or is it as bad as the rating says?

First this movie clearly try to show that Ramirez was an really disturbed individuell - by showing him tossing his head in ultrarapid while strange sounds and backmasking(?) voices speaks to him in his head. Even the trailer is full of those clips.

Ramirez is about to sneeze whit a pale man in the backseat


It feels like it is not needed to demonize this man any more then what his crimes has given him “credits“ for. Sure he was a devilworsipper and clearly insane. But it doesn´t have to be shown as in fast edited clips and subliminal fast images of a pale white man - a demon who commands Ramirez to do his evil deeds. We do understand that Ramirez was insane without those techniques.

We don´t get to see much of the actual rapes or killings, just the results of some of the murders and when he chain up a girl it is with fast flashing images so it´s hard to see what really happens.
The acting is solid however I thought Danny Trejo, who is a great acter, could have done more though.





And speaking of a rape/killing that happened in real, but ain´t in the movie. A 13 year old girl get raped and stabbed to death, shortly after her mother had gone trough the same thing, the mom dies but the daughter runs away (or gets killed "off screen"













It is a bit interresting that the movie also try to put in some sexual- and rasist scenes/comments towards Gabriella. Her police chief slaps her ass, tells her that she has an impressive background (as in what her education concerns) and that she is good looking and smart, wich he thinks is a rare combination.
To put those scenes in this type of film feels a bit strange - for me anyway.

Roselyn Sanchez is as always good looking and I do hope she can be in bigger and better productions someday, she deserves it.
Nightstalker is not a good movie, if you however feel more attracted to Roselyn Sanchez then the serialkilling movies or movies about women being raped (there is a brief scene wich happens outside the screen), then you maby atleast should see this.

Don´t you fucking dare to cut my nose, it´s pekinobos favourite thing to kiss...emh













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I will kill her for you.
I will rape her for you.
And then what?
Then what?
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Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4hOVLE-zAI

More about the real Richard Ramirez
http://crime.about.com/od/serial/p/nightstaker.htm