ABIGAIL

I started watching this Social Distancing Era movie at predawn today, Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024, in bed 🛏️ via my cellphone's 🤳 TUBI Streaming App.

Scene Commentaries:

'Fooled you, didn't I? 😉  You thought that it was The OTHER movie!  😁 😁 😁

Okay, during the COVID Lockdown someone decided to make a movie about it. But in an extreme scenario kind of way. Eddie Marsan is the only familiar face in this movie. And everyone speaks in English. I just don't know where it was filmed. I'll just have to wait 'til the Ending Credits rolls up to find out where it was filmed.  😕

I'm shocked to learn that Eddie Marsan is way younger than I am but looks older! 😧  I hope that he's not suffering from some kind of biological disorder.

Friendly betrayal is a low-blow!  👎 Oxymoron Alert❗You can't really trust your friends and neighbors in such an authoritarian society.

Anyone who's hiding an infected family member "... will be charged for Treason for having put Public Safety at risk." cdc director faux (na)-zi could have said it, given enough time! 😠

Shouldn't the interrogator be practicing "social distancing" and wearing a mask 😷 and a pair of gloves 🧤? Just asking a Common Sense question, that's all❗

This movie has a '40s feel to it.

I like how the change of angles in the scene of Abigail walking around the stranger's home is choreographically timed with the phonograph's music.

This movie is shaping out to be like a "Harry Potter met an X-woMAN and they had babies" kind of movie .... 🤔

He just had to Misgender her!  🙄  At least she didn't want to march in lockstep with the Loonies ❗👍❗ 

I remember when I was very much younger and would get mistaken for a girl on occasion; it was downright embarrassing. And there were times when an older person would misgender me and I would just play along by changing my voice so as not to embarrass the older person. Oh, boy, the things that I did just because it was expected of me to Respect My Elders. Well, it's My Turn Now❗😎❗I'll be singing that R-E-S-P-E-C-T song anytime soon!  👴

👉  https://youtu.be/A134hShx_gw?si=aNYGaSIX9X4qJAEt

Mirror, mirror on the wall. What's your secret for as all?

"A society of equals" is what the Nazis aimed for with their Aryan Race movement. Yup, this movie DOES have an intentional '40s feel to it after all ❗Damn that faux (na)-zi!

If your enemy is running away from you in a straight line, you and your comrades have a much better chance of killing them off if you just stop, form a tight row and shoot at the fleeing enemy, Execution Style!  🤨  I hope that I don't get moderated for this again.  🤞

If you love him so much, why would you deliberately put him in harm's way❓🤷‍♂️❗🤦‍♂️ Believe me, NECROPHILIA ain't fun!  😜

I sensed that there was something wrong with this movie. At first, I couldn't figure out whether it was the acting, the script dialogues, the pacing or the directing. It's the script! They should have brainstormed the ( sometimes unintentionally funny ) dialogues with me, Cine-Man!  😏

Speaking of which, the Audio is not in sync with the Video!  👎

Her car has Suicide Doors. Is it symbolic?  🤔 

Oh, great .... That's just swell. The resistance movement is being led by a Fairy!  🤦‍♂️ Am I the only one who sees the Tongue in Cheek humor in this Mollywood movie?  🤷‍♂️

The bad guy reminds me of Adrien Brody!  😕

Yeah, this movie might have received a positive response had it been shown on the Big Screen here in the USA:

KD Studios LLC was founded in 

Russia back in 2012. They

make good quality

non-WOKE

movies.

If any of my Russian readers have connections with this studio, please hook me up! And be sure to remind them of my Sob 😢 Story, that it's part of my Bucket 🪣 List! That should elicit some attention from them. 🤑  They seem quite proficient in the English language. So, it should be easy for me to negotiate terms, and to collaborate,  with them in the Horror, Action & Sci-Fi genres! 🤓 ( Fortune Favors The Bold, i.e. Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat )

Tidbits:

I broke my pre-Blood Draw fast yesterday by going to Selecta Pilipino Buffet Restaurant for lunch. The 2 cloves of Raw 🧄 Garlic that I brought with me were still alive! I mean, whenever I would bite into them, the feisty little ones would bite my tongue back❗😖  I wonder if I'll be met with the same kind of resistance from their siblings this coming Sunday .... 🤔 

Then, I went next door to see what the close-out sale at the 99-Cents Only Store had left for me to pick through. They only had about 10% left on their sales floor stock inventory.  🙁

There was nothing that I 

wanted to buy.

But something interested me outside of the store on the right side. Two young ladies, a Pinay and a Chicana, were giving away free phones 📱 with free 🆓 monthly service. What's the catch? To qualify, you have to be on government assistance program. The Cloud C7 Mobile Phone is basic with a 5 MP front camera & an 8 MP rear camera. A 2.0 GHz Quad Core CPU. And only a 2 GB RAM/16 GB ROM Internal Memory. But it has Dual Sim so you can get an SD Card for more GB since once you activate it, most of the available GB will be used for its own functions! And you have to use it each month to keep your free service active. Lastly, it is a 4G living in a 5G world. But It Is Free And "Beggars Can't Be Choosers."

They only get a commission of 

$10 for every free phone 

that they can give

away. 👎

But I don't know if it is a good idea for me to help them to spread the word about the free phones. Because such free phones really aren't free at all. If you use such a phone because you need emergency ambulance 🚑 service to the hospital 🏥, you just might end up becoming an unwilling Organ Donor because it's Big Business on the Black Market! 😳 Such phones have a direct connection to an organ harvesting "ambulance service" that takes an emergency patient on a one-way DOA trip to the hospital, according to a military service veteran who dines at Selecta Pilipino Buffet Restaurant. I asked him how he could tell that the ambulance is just a disguised organ harvester. He personally saw one respond to a life emergency and was the first of 3 ambulances that arrived on the scene near the Oakland California Airport; and it had an organ harvesting logo on its sides unlike the other two! You see, with or without an Organ Donor Card, the "government" can make something useful out of the homeless, the addicts, the drunks, the runaways, and the gangbangers anyway they need to❗ Nothing In Life Is Free❗❗This Should Make For A Good, Investigative Movie ❗❗❗

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Here are today's 24-Hour Le Cine-Man's Race winners. Drumroll 🥁 please ....

Congratulations to Hong Kong for 

winning in 1st place!

🎉🎆🏆🎇🎊

🇭🇰🥇🇭🇰

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🍾

Congratulations to China for 

winning in 2nd place!

🇨🇳🥈🇨🇳

❗❗

Congratulations to Israel & USA 

for tying in 3rd place!

🇮🇱🥉🇺🇸

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And congrats to Australia & Germany 

for tying in 4th place!

🇦🇺🏅🇩🇪

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Thanks to all of the countries that took part in today's 24-Hour Race to the Finish! 🏁  🛣️  🏎️

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THE WARRIOR'S WAY, R ( 1 hr & 40 min )

where: CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when: Friday, December 3rd, 2010
show: 4:50 p.m.
costs: $7.50 Ticket + $4.50 medium Diet/Zero ( w/ Barq's & Cherry flavors ) Coke = $12.00
auditorium: 13
seat: 7th row, 9th column

synopsis/overview: An assassin (Jang Dong-gun ) has a change of heart and becomes the number one target of his own clan. He flees to the American Wild West to start a new life. But he is pursued by his fellow assassins as he helps a rag-tag community fight-off the henchmen of an evil Colonel ( Danny Huston ).

noteworthy scenes: 1.) The reflection in the water; 2.) Baby; 3.) Roadside eatery; 4.) Wild west town of Lode; 5.) Laundry house punks; 6.) Circus; 7.) Learning time; 8.) Scars; 9.) Execution; 10.) Blindfolded; 11.) The frowning baby; 12.) Sad flute; 13.) Sailboat; 14.) Sword training; 15.) Soap bubbles; 16.) Christmas party; 17.) "Did that stop your heart"; 18.) Party crashers; 19.) Bound and gagged; 20.) Dental inspection; 21.) Blown cover; 22.) The sound of the sword; 23.) To the rescue; 24.) Wrong target; 25.) The stash; 26.) Drunk man's ( Geoffrey Rush ) secret; 27.) "Places to kill your enemy"; 28.) Dynamites; 29.) Ferris Wheel; 30.) Swordsmen vs. gunslingers; 31.) Revenge; 32.) "Wear something naughty"; 33.) Master vs. protege; 34.) "They have to listen for this to cry, not her"; and 35.) "It's free."

favorite scenes: The frowning baby.

The one in which the drunk examined the sniper rifle. I've never seen that kind of old sniper rifle before. It looked simple but in a good way.

I liked how when the drunk interrupted the target shooting just so he could have a free drink.

audience reaction: There were some laughs here and there. So, I guess that the audience found this entertaining.

recommendation: Last year's NINJA ASSASSIN was a little better. Wait for this to come out as a rental.

spoiler alert! The "fly-by-wire" from under the water is visually stunning but, nonetheless, is just plain ol' bull. Some of the sword fights were just hokey. Heck, I wouldn't trust someone who's blindfolded like that! What was with all that dental inspection? It was not clearly explained. That knife that she ( Kate Bosworth ) threw at someone didn't look like a Throwing Knife at all--it didn't look like it was balanced for throwing use. When the Ferris Wheel exploded, they didn't dive for cover even though they were still near it. Two things will happen if you have a Gatling Gun propped on your shoulder while it's being fired: You'll go deaf and your shoulder will get burned; also, the spent cartridge shells falling out of the ejection port will burn your lower leg and, probably, your backside, too. Why would you train someone to become the deadliest assassin after you've killed his father before his very own eyes? When he moved to the new place ( Alaska? ), how were they able to track him down when they could only do so if he unsheathed his sword? Remember, in that new place, he had no occasion to use his sword for killing. He walked away from the wild west town with nothing but his sword. So, how did he end-up with a phonograph when he didn't take anybody with him to the new place? I'd like to know how long they were submerged in that ice water. ( Brrr ... fre-fre-freezing co-co-cold! )

fyi: In my Cultural Anthropology class, years ago, we watched a movie about Eskimos and their ingenious use of their limited resources. One of which was fish. They arrange fish, overlapping tail to head, in a straight line and wrap it up in leather. Then, they cut a hole in the ice and put the wrapped fish in the water until the whole thing freezes solid. Once solid, they unwrap the fish and use them as skis for their sleds. They work quite well; and they also serve as a reserve food supply, too!

word of advice: Question authority.

People slow down with age.

tidbits: After the movie, as I walked out of the men's room, a girl posed with the Justin Bieber cut-out poster as her girl friend took a picture. Sheesh!

Then, I went to Hancock Fabrics and to the Dollar Tree Store, both located at the Target Shopping Center, to buy some stuff.

And since I was low on gas, I swung by the Redwood Street Chevron Gas Station to buy $7.00 ( 2.21 gallons ) worth of gas.