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30 Nov 2025 6 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Apart from rocket science, truth, in its basic everyday variety, is something simple and attainable. So it seems until you get into a situation where you have to stand for it. Only then do you realize that it might not be all that simple and perhaps...
8 Nov 2020 6 minute read 1 comment mgaft1
Here we were, in the bar with large sticks being pointed at us. Dun Dee and Jasper just snatch three large boxes of fries from the two families seated near the kangaroo statue. Luke, being the smallest of us four, snagged a couple of bags from tod...
5 Nov 2020 4 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
A couple of days ago, I watched the film Witch (The VVitch: A New-England Folktale) the movie about religious obscurantism. The film is dark, heavy, and unpleasant to watch for those who don’t enjoy horror movies. I am one of those people who don’t...
2 Nov 2020 8 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
In short, Queen's Gambit is a show about a girl prodigy (Elizabeth Harmon or Beth, as she preferred to call herself), who,despite difficult life circumstances, and contrary to, so to speak, the power of the patriarchy in chess, nevertheless be...
25 Oct 2020 8 minute read 2 comments mgaft1
The movie is the adaptation of the novel written at the beginning of the 19th century. At a first glance, it seems a simple moralistic story about a rich and influential man, who, because of his prejudice and arrogance was about to destroy the happin...
17 Oct 2020 6 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Part 1 So the wrapper... It started with a black baby being abandoned in their garden of a well off white family. The police intend to charge the child's mother, with abandonment and attempted murder. However, the liberal and compassionate wife of t...
16 Oct 2020 4 minute read 2 comments mgaft1
Amadeus was the first movie of Miloš Forman’s that I’ve seen and I was charmed. To this day I love to watch some of its iconic scenes. This one is where to a priest saying “All people are equal in God’s eyes” Salieri responds “Are they?” This one th...
4 Oct 2020 4 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Part 1 Part 2 Living Conditions Compared to the cost of living in the West, my parents paid very little for the accommodation, maybe 1/20 of their combined monthly income. At the same time, securing a decent place to live was a problem. It was...
12 Sep 2020 2 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh SafdieWriters: Ronald Bronstein, Josh SafdieStars: Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, Idina Menzel In this movie, Adam Sander plays Howard Ratner a scatterbrain Jeweler, which is both schlimazel and schlemiel. For those who d...
2 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
When Frank came home after work he didn’t recognize his usually messy apartment. Everything was in its place, kitchen, bathroom, and guest room shined, and everywhere there was some unknown clean and pleasant smell. Frank looked at his wife inquisiti...
