GANGSTER SQUAD, R ( 1 hr & 50 min )

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where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Monday, January 14th, 2013
show:  4:40 p.m.
costs:  $7.50 Ticket + $3.75 2.5 oz Jamba Tropical Trail Mix + $4.50 1-litre Dasani Water = $15.75
auditorium:  14
seat:  6th row ( from the front ), 4th seat ( from the left )

synopsis/overview:  An ambitious mob boss, Mickey Cohen ( Sean Penn ), wants to own and run Los Angeles, CA, with the help of his thugs, and corrupt cops and politicians. But a war veteran/hero police sergeant, Sgt. O'Mara ( Josh Brolin ), and his hand-picked men, wage a personal war against Cohen to retake Los Angeles.

noteworthy scenes:  1.) "Los Angeles belongs to Mickey Cohen"; 2.) "Welcome to Los Angeles, man"; 3.) Seedy hotel; 4.) Elevator shaft; 5.) "Etiquette tutor"; 6.) "We're losing her to an Eastern enemy"; 7.) "New mission"; 8.) Recruits; 9.) "Los Angeles is my f-cking destiny"; 10.) "One rule"; 11.) Bad cops; 12.) "You can't shoot me. You're a cop"; 13.) "Jailbreak"; 14.) Home invasion; 15.) Target shooting; 16.) Wiretapped; 17.) "I can't believe we're going back to Burbank"; 18.) "You retired"; 19.) "You know the drill"; 20.) "Shove him in the right direction"; 21.) "Stepped-up timetable"; 22.) Pride and joy; 23.) "I'm looking-out for you"; 24.) "Your dad's a genius"; 25.) "We already took care of that"; 26.) Beaten-up police; 27.) Gangster squad; 28.) "Like a dog with rabies"; 29.) Acid; 30.) Chinatown; 31.) "My boxing days are over"; 32.) "Well, Sarge, this is where I get off"; 33.) Bathtub; 34.) Witness; 35.) Warrant; 36.) Hotel lobby; 37.) Fountain; 38.) "Help me aim"; and 39.) Alcatraz.

audience reaction:  The audience seemed "lukewarm" to this movie. But a little, old white lady gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.

recommendation:  It was okay. But I couldn't help being distracted by Mickey's nose--'something weird about it--whenever it would pop-up on-screen. The movie seemed "run-of-the-mill" to me. You may or may not want to go see this Gangster movie.

spoiler alert!  I really don't think that a hide-away bed, designed with space-saving utility in mind, has enough room in it, in its closed position, for the trapped girl to right herself up and turn around to face forward. Multiple shots were fired inside the jail cell but no bullet ricocheted. Why couldn't the guard dog hear and/or smell them? This movie is not a true depiction of Mickey Cohen's rise and fall as a mob boss. A disclaimer in the Ending Credits says that the characters, events and places in this movie don't bear resemblance to real people, events and places. To Whom It May Concern: Fire the person responsible for this gaffe and hire my services as Cine-Man, Ending Credits Editor, instead! Ha, ha, ha.

fyi:  Usually, if a movie is based on actual people, events and places, the disclaimer in the Ending Credits will say along the lines that certain characters were created and/or composited and some dialogue was created for dramatic purposes or suchlike.

According to Northern California-based Bay Area News Group's Contra Costa Times movie reviewer, Randy Myers ( in the Timeout Section, page 1E, for the Friday, January 11th, 2013, edition:

"The film noir originally was slated for release this past September, but it was delayed after the Aurora, Colo., tragedy ( mentioned in my Batman blog, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES [ July 23, 2012 ]--Cine-Man's note ) to accommodate for a reshoot to replace a sequence involving a shooting in a movie theater ( the scene which replaced it is the Chinatown scene--Cine-Man's note )."

A mugshot of the real Meyer "Mickey" Cohen ( source: Wikipedia ). He kind of looks like Danny DeVito! Don't you think so?

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If I were the Casting Agent, I would have picked Danny DeVito for the Mickey Cohen role! LOL. ( I found this on the Internet. )

word of advice:  Read-up on Mickey Cohen.

tidbits: Before I went to see this movie, I went to the Fed-Ex Kinko's store to make a zerox copy of a bill payment. Then, I drove by the Springstowne Post Office to drop-off my bill payment.

Then, I went to the Selecta Pilipino Buffet on Springs Road to have lunch and to read-up on some news articles in a couple of  Pilipino newspapers.

After the movie, I wanted to ask the little, old white lady what she thought of it, knowing that she probably knew certain things about the real-life Mickey Cohen. But, I changed my mind ....

Maybe I should add an interview: subhead to some of my future blogs. Yeah, I think I'll do that! It's a good idea waiting to get implemented.

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A HAUNTED HOUSE, R ( 1 hr & 26 min )

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I went to see this movie on Friday, January 11th, 2013, here in Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO, for the 3:55 p.m. show in auditorium 12, 4th row ( from the front ), 8ht column ( from the left ).

Quickie Review: In this parody of "found footage" horror movies, a man's girlfriend moves in with him. And he wants nothing more than to immortalize on film the opportune live-in arrangement  by videotaping their bedroom sexual romp. But his girlfriend comes with an extra "baggage": An angry ghost.

Some people in the audience liked this movie. A woman, in particular, enjoyed this movie.

I didn't like it. In fact, I dozed on and off as I watched this movie ( and I wasn't on a pain killer medication--or any other kind of medication, for that matter ). This movie's humor is not to my liking. This movie is strictly for those who don't appreciate a sophisticated sense of humor. See this only as a DVD rental.

Let's see what are unappealing about this movie: It relies heavily on sexual humor, most of which are inappropriate for the Big Screen. If you like male butts, this movie has scenes aplenty of such! And the characters in this movie make for undesirable company: A lecherous priest, a horny homosexual psychic, a racist camera technician and his imbecile brother, a kinky swinging couple, a stereo-typed cleaning lady, a gangster relative, and a perverted man with a pseudo-zoophilic proclivity.

The only thing that I found amusing in this movie was the scene wherein the possessed girlfriend was dancing.

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ZERO DARK THIRTY, R ( 2 hr & 37 min )

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where: AMC BAY STREET 16 in Emeryville, CA
when: Monday, January 7th, 2013
show: 8:50 p.m.
costs: $11.50 Ticket + $4.75 1-litre Dasani Water + $1.50 Parking Fee + $5.00 Carquinez Bridge Toll = $22.75
auditorium: 5
seat: 5th row ( from the front ), 10th column ( from the left )

synopsis/overview: The hunt is on for History's Most Wanted Criminal, Osama bin Laden. And a group of CIA agents do everything they can to find him. They reach their objective at "zero dark thirty" ( half an hour past midnight ).

noteworthy scenes: 1.) Voice recordings of 9-11 victims; 2.) First interrogation; 3.) "You can help yourself by being truthful"; 4.) Torture box; 5.) Saudi terror attack; 6.) "Our work will go on for a hundred  years"; 7.) Interrogation tapes and CDs"; 8.) CIA black site; 9.) Monkeys; 10.) "Most trusted courier"; 11.) Burqa squad; 12.) "Kind of like Gandalf"; 13.) Hotel; 14.) "America doesn't torture"; 15.) Black cat; 16.) "He's dead"; 17.) "We're failing"; 18.) Telephone number; 19.) Lamborghini car dealership; 20.) Ultimatum; 21.) "White faces don't belong here"; 22.) White car; 23.) "You're on their list"; 24.) The hide-out; 25.) Twenty-one days; 26.) Fifty-two; 27.) Third male; 28.) Polio Vaccine; 29.) "How do you evaluate the risk of not doing something"; 30.) Area 51; 31.) One hundred twenty-nine; 32.) "One hundred percent"; 33.) "I've done nothing else"; 34.) "Her confidence"; 35.) "Tonight"; 36.) "We've lost power"; 37.) Neighbors; 38.) Osama bin Laden; 39.) Books, DVDs, CDs and Hard-drives; 40.) Pakistani Air Force; 41.) Body bag; 42.) Visual confirmation; and 43.) Cargo plane.

audience reaction: The auditorium was almost fully-packed. And the unanimous consensus was that everybody liked this movie. But, it didn't get a "Hands Clapper" ending.

recommendation: I liked this movie for its historical value. Go see this movie to get a general "feel" for what it was like to hunt down History's Most Wanted Criminal.

spoiler alert!  "Third floor, northeast corner." What ... are CIA agents in the habit of giving such directions? I'd need a compass and a map to find my way around inside of a CIA building, just in case I need to visit one someday! That tortured man was kept in solitary confinement for a L-O-N-G time yet his beard stayed the same length!

fyi: Recently, a couple of female health workers in Pakistan were killed because they were giving-out the Polio Vaccine. I wonder if it was in retaliation for Osama bin Laden's execution.

I don't recall why the monkeys were killed.

>>>CIA Chief Pans Zero Dark Thirty
Morell complains about emphasis on interrogation By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 22, 2012 1:32 PM CST
STORY  COMMENTS (19)

(Newser) – Add none other than acting CIA chief Michael Morell to the list of critics of Zero Dark Thirty. In a memo to employees, Morell says the movie about the capture of Osama bin Laden gives too much weight to the use of harsh interrogation, reports E! Online. "The film creates the strong impression that the enhanced interrogation techniques that were part of our former detention and interrogation program were the key to finding" bin Laden, he writes. "That impression is false."

Morell also complains that the movie suggests only a few people were responsible for the successful raid, when in fact it was the result of a 10-year effort by "hundreds of officers." The CIA's Office of Public Affairs "interacted" with Kathryn Bigelow's film crew to some extent, he says, but the agency had no control over the finished product. Earlier this week, Dianne Feinstein and John McCain were among those who publicly criticized the movie for its emphasis on interrogation.<<<

word of advice: You can't have a secure compound if you don't have posted guards and guard dogs on duty.

tidbits: I started the day with a Chiropractic appointment here in Vallejo. Then, I went to the Admiral Callaghan Lane Safeway to do some grocery shopping. I went home to rest-up for a while. And I went to Goin' Postal on the corner of Tuolumne and Redwood Streets to drop-off my bill payments.

I was on my way to Oakland, CA, after all of that, to visit my friend, Hector, and his family--and his two kittens:

Sylvester and Snow White.

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As it turns out, Sylvester is female and Snow White is male! Boy, oh, boy ... these two kitties are gonna grow up confused about their sexual orientation! Ha, ha, ha.

Harry Potter, the kitten formerly known as Snow White.

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I renamed Snow White. He is now officially, Harry Potter. Why? Because, just like his namesake, he is white and has a "lightning streak" mark on his forehead. The mark is in the area that I encircled in the above photo. You can see it better if you magnify the picture.

As Hector, his wife and I gathered at the dining table for some afternoon snack, I told everybody that I haven't drank coffee and softdrinks in over a week. I've been drinking water since December 28th of last year--an early start on my New Year's Resolution. And I don't miss either coffee or softdrinks, and I am not suffering any kind of "withdrawal symptoms" at all.

For dinner, I planned on cooking some Au Gratin Potatoes and some Buffalo-style Chicken Breasts. I had also brought with me a Spiral Glazed Ham and some Sausages, both of which I decided to just save for later. And Hector was gonna cook Teriyaki Chicken and Rice. But, he was out of some ingredients. So, he and I had to go to a grocery store.

Hector and I went to the Fruitvale District Lucky's Supermarket to buy the groceries. This union Lucky's store is being converted to a non-union Food Maxx store. Both stores are owned by the same company. But I guess that the long, drawn-out contract negotiation between Lucky's and UFCW ( United Food and Commercial Workers Union ) had a drastic impact on the store chain's bottom-line and they decided to cut their losses by converting their under-performing stores into non-union stores. I felt sorry for the employees at this store because they either must choose to get themselves shipped-out to other stores or elect to stay and become non-union workers with lower pay and fewer health benefits!

The store had 1.5 pound bags of Roasted Salted Peanuts and Roasted Unsalted Peanuts at the close-out price of just $1.00! Hector bought a bag of Roasted Salted Peanuts. And I bought a bag of Roasted Salted Peanuts and two bags of Roasted Unsalted Peanuts. I haven't had roasted peanuts of either kind in a long time, and I couldn't wait to tear into the bags!

After dinner, we had some of Hector's Lemon Meringue Pie and some of the Safeway Select Mint Chocolate Ice Cream that I brought with me. All in all, it was a good, hearty dinner--but nothing like what I usually have at an all-you-can-eat buffet, of course! How I maintain my svelte ( ahem! ) figure, Lord knows ....

On Movie2K.to, a Jackie Chan movie, CHINESE ZODIAC, was featured. But I didn't have enough time to stay and watch it.

As I stood in the main lobby of the theatre, a man walked by and mentioned to his friend that he was thinking of having a charcoal portrait done. I wanted to say that I was a Charcoal Portrait Artist ( on a 25-year hiatus, mind you ). But I kept quiet. I don't want to make this talent of mine become "commercialized" for two reasons: Lack of artistic freedom; and doing such artwork is really bad on my eyes--I'm very near-sighted because of my many years spent in portraiture. ( Note: I would spend three weeks doing each portrait to make sure it measured-up to my exacting standards, the consummate perfectionist that I am. )

But, as I mentioned in my previous blog, I want to get back into charcoal portraiture. But I will be very selective about my subjects. I will only do portraits of my relatives ( unless Bill Gates offers me a gazillion dollars to do a portrait of him and his wife ). And not just any relative, mind you; I'll only do portraits of my good-looking relatives! LOL

In the auditorium, a man seated two seats to my right was trying to impress his date by calling-out some of the visual cues in the movie, visual cues that were pretty obvious to just about everybody ( I bet that the man was just over-compensating for the fact that he doesn't have his own movie blogsite. Ha, ha, ha.  ). I guess it made him feel like he was smart. But not so smart as to impress me, Cine-Man, who sits quietly and attentively watches a movie with a pen and notepad at the ready! Yup, I've got "movie smarts", alright!

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TEXAS CHAINSAW in 3-D, R ( 1 hr & 32 min )

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I went to see this today, Friday, January 4th, 2013, here in Vallejo, CA, at the CENTURY 14 VALLEJO for the 3:45 p.m. show in auditorium 10, 4th row ( from the front ), 10th column ( from the left ).

Quickie Review:  An only child finds out that she's adopted when a letter arrives informing her of the recent death of her maternal grandmother. When she, along with some friends, goes back to Texas to claim her inheritance, she learns of her family's long-kept deep, dark and deadly secret.

There were just a few people with me in the auditorium. And a couple of guys weren't too interested in what was going on on-screen because the assholes talked to each other throughout the movie. And one idiot asshole in particular was commenting on the unfolding scenes! Why, was his companion blind?

I didn't like this movie that much. I swear, nude scenes would have made this movie better than it is! I mean, that usually is the cardinal rule of making an R-rated B-grade movie: Lots of T & A. There are some sexual teasing going on, but it doesn't get any hotter than that. Wait for this to come out as a rental.

If you must go see this movie, wait until after the Ending Credits for a Bonus Scene. And don't bother seeing this in 3-D.

Here are some things that I found wrong in this movie: The dining table place setting was arranged for what party and/or occasion? If the grandmother was buried, whose corpse was that? And wouldn't they have smelled the corpse's stench? If he was locked in the cellar room, who fed him all of that time in the absence of his caretaker? If he was locked-up, how did he gain access to the bathroom since there wasn't one in his room? If you're gonna shoot someone standing outside of your door, look first at where his feet's shadows are at to get an approximate location of your target's body's center-line. There isn't enough blood in the human body for it to leave a long, bloody trail like that! That person should have suffocated to death after being kept in that freezer box for even just a few minutes--or died of hypothermia! But it looked like the freezer box had no lock on it so that the person inside of it could just have easily gotten out. Duh .... The slaughterhouse was located in the outskirt of town. So, how was he able to walk the distance and arrive there before the sheriff did?

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I went to Chase Bank on the corner of Tuolumne and Redwood streets here in Vallejo, first thing this morning, to make a deposit into my checking account.

Then, I went to the Admiral Callaghan Lane Safeway to pick-up my prescription.

I, then, went to the MacDonald's Restaurant at the Target Shopping Center on Admiral Callaghan Lane to have breakfast, and to check on my e-mail, my Facebook page, and my blog's stats. And I proof-read ( as best I could ) my blog on LES MISERABLES.

And I drove to Selecta Pilipino Buffet on Springs Road to have a late lunch. The proprietor and I got into talking about his days back in the Navy during the '80s after I mentioned a Philippine newspaper's headline about how China is bullying its neighbors. He hinted at "classified top-secret" weapons of mass destruction in the US Navy's arsenal that could have easily destroyed any bellicose/belligerent country in the world! We're talking about war technology and war weaponry from thirty years ago! And we're talking about just one branch of the US Armed Forces here, folks!! And these weapons are considered obsolete by today's US Military Standards! How scary is that?!?!?! I think that I'm gonna have nightmares tonight! Those "bad guy" countries would immediately stop taunting the US if only their leaders know what I now know!!!

The box office clerk gave me a Collector's Edition 3-D Glasses. I promptly went back to my car to get my spare pair of 3-D glasses so that I could keep the collector's edition as a souvenir.

After the movie, I went a few doors down to Michael's, an arts and crafts store. I mentioned a long time ago that I was once a Charcoal Portrait artist--and a darn good one at that, too! I'm thinking about getting back into it. So, I bought an art tracer projector for $32.58 ( it's faster than drawing a subject freestyle ) because the one I had was stolen when someone broke into my storage unit about 15 years ago.

I still need to buy other art supplies, though: Charcoal pencils, blending stumps, kneadable erasers, sanding block, chamois, portrait-grade paper, easel, eraser shield, sharpener and fixative spray--that about covers it, I think. Now, I just need to save-up between $200 and $350 to pay for all of it. ( Ahh ... it sure ain't fun being a "starving artist"! )

I just found out that they have colored charcoal pencils now. I gotta try them someday!

Then, I went to the Starbucks Coffee Shop at the opposite end of the Target Shopping Center parking lot from the MacDonald's Restaurant to blog about this movie.

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LES MISERABLES, PG-13 ( 2 hr & 38 min )

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I took this photo after the movie.

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where: BRENDEN VACAVILLE 16 in Vacaville, CA
when: Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
show: 2:00 p.m.
costs: $8.00 Ticket + $4.25 1-litre Aquafina = $12.25 ( I forget how much I paid for the buffet lunch, but it was over $12.00 plus tip )
auditorium: 16, with a THX Surround-Sound System ( but I don't even think the system was working properly because the sound was rather muted and came from just the front speakers, it seemed--I should ask for my money back )
seat: 4th row ( from the front ), 6th seat ( counting from the left )

synopsis/overview: A man, Jean Valjean ( Hugh Jackman ), is cruelly put in jail for the petty crime of stealing some bread to help feed his sister's child.  A kindly old priest helps the embittered Jean Valjean to mend his ways. And he tears his parole document to shreds in protest of the unfairness of the justice system. Through hard work and dedication, he becomes a successful businessman. When one of his employees, Fantine ( Anne Hathaway ), is wrongfully discharged and becomes gravely ill, he vows on her deathbed to take care of her daughter for his chance at moral redemption. But the law, in the guise of Javert ( Russell Crowe ), is determined to hunt him down and put him back in jail once and for all.

noteworthy scenes: 1.) Dry dock; 2.) Flag; 3.) Parole; 4.) Theft; 5.) Forgiveness; 6.) Repentance; 7.) Parole document torn to pieces; 8.) Trapped under a cart; 9.) Hair and tooth; 10.) "I Dreamed A Dream"; 11.) "I rescind this judgment. You, sir, return to your post"; 12.) Moral dilemma; 13.) "I'm 24601"; 14.) Hospital; 15.) "My castle on a cloud"; 16.) Inn; 17.) "I speak with her voice and stand in her place"; 18.) Checkpoint; 19.) The man with the cart; 20.) Love at first sight; 21.) Foiled robbery; 22.) Red and Black song; 23.) "The secret that you keep"; 24.) The meeting; 25.) Escape in the night; 26.) "One More Day"; 27.) Funeral procession; 28.) Barricade; 29.) "What have you done"; 30.) "A letter from the barricade"; 31.) "Give me the spy, Javert"; 32.) "Hear my prayer"; 33.) "We're the only ones left"; 34.) Child martyr; 35.) Cannons; 36.) Abandoned and surrounded; 37.) Defeat; 38.) Escape; 39.) "Damn if I live if I let him leave"; 40.) "Empty Chairs and Empty Tables"; 41.) "There lived a man named, Jean Valjean"; 42.) Uninvited wedding guests; 43.) "My last confession"; and 44.) Reunion.

audience reaction: The audience really liked this movie and gave it a "Hands Clapper" ending.

recommendation: I liked this movie, too. Go see this Big Screen adaptation of a famous opera and feel like you belong to snotty high society but in a "popcorn" sort-of-way. As for me, the only way that anyone could get me to see a live opera is if the venue has a concession stand with popcorn and everything else!

I liked how the shipwreck served as a metaphor for Fantine's miserable life.

I liked the scenes with the "sticky-fingered" inn-keepers played by Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter.

I liked how most everyone was depicted in this movie: With bad oral hygiene! ( How could they even talk up-close and personal way back when? Kristen Stewart would fit right in in this crowd--for sure. Ha, ha, ha. )

And I liked the "Tear-Jerker" ending scene---But I ain't telling you guys whether or not I shedded a tear or two ( or more )! So, sue me. LOL

spoiler alert! For someone who was hiding from the law, Jean Valjean sure made a habit of frequenting the locality. Ha, ha, ha. Bullet wound + Sewer = Death by Sepsis!

fyi: In most of today's societies, such a severe penalty handed down for such a petty crime is deemed morally reprehensible because the punishment doesn't fit the crime at all--some unfortunate souls had their hands cut-off or were even put to death for committing such a simple crime! Just how much does a piece of bread cost anyway? It can be paid off easily with just half an hour's worth ( or less ) of labor.

This severe judgment has its origin stem from one of The Ten Commandments of The Bible: "Thou Shall Not Steal." But it is a wrong interpretation of such a specific commandment. This particular commandment had to do with Personal Property Rights of Tribal Inheritance. You see, each of the Twelve Tribes of Israel was given a Divine Inheritance by God. So that if you steal someone's inheritance ( usually, land and/or procreative rights ), you destroy that man's distinct identity before God; and for such a willful wrong-doing, severe punishment ( death by stoning ), must be handed-down and God's Curse be put upon that guilty man's bastard children ( through an unlawful adulterous procreative union if such [an] act[s] took place ) to the third and fourth generation!

As a deterrent to such a crime, another Commandment was given: "Thou Shall Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Property ( i.e. Inheritance )." In other words, don't even think about it!

But the Roman Catholic Church abused its position by imposing severe penalties for any and every thievery committed just so it could wield Absolute Power over the illiterate and/or ignorant masses!

By the way, there is a Biblical precedent to this issue of petty thievery in The Old Testament: King David stole the "showbread" from God's Tabernacle! But the High Priest didn't have him put to death--it must have been because David and his men were armed with swords, knives, spears, sling-shots and bows and arrows, and were quite adept in the use of such weapons. Ha, ha, ha.

Seriously, though ...

In the movie, where Jean Valjean was forgiven by the priest for stealing the church's expensive silver utensils, he had an epiphany: He became remorsefully penitent because he was not jailed or put to death for such a serious theft whereas he was forced to endure injustice through years of incarceration in his simple theft of a little piece of bread! Jean Valjean then protested the unfairness of arbitrary human law by tearing-up his parole document. But he kept and treasured the two silver candle-holders ( the most precious of all the silver in the church, according to the priest ) because to him they were symbolic of his moral enlightenment and the priest's spiritual enlightenment; for although there were two different candle holders before the altar of God ( i.e. Eyes of God, in this example ), the left one representing Valjean's former bad nature and the right one representing the priest's holy nature, their respective candles ( i.e. inherent goodness ) and their respective concomitant lights ( i.e. spirituality ) made them both equal in the presence of God as shown in their eventual reunion in the House of God filled with lit candles.

I cannot help but think of Susan Boyle whenever I hear the song, "I Dreamed A Dream." Who sang it better? 'Hard to say. But Anne Hathaway's version conveyed the right emotion.

word of advice: Life's Lessons will change a man.

"Man does not live by bread alone." ( Old Testament of The Bible; Deuteronomy Chapter 8, verses 2 & 3 )

tidbits: I decided to have lunch first at Tin Tin Chinese Buffet before seeing this movie. As I was getting ready to make a left turn into the parking lot of the shopping center where the Chinese buffet is at, an Asshole driver of a big pick-up truck made a left onto the roadway with part of his truck hanging over the opposite lane where my car was at, almost running into my car in the process. I honked at the idiot to let him know that he doesn't know how to drive safely. What is it with redneck idiots who drive big pick-up trucks although they don't know how to drive safely? Are they driving big vehicles just to compensate for some penis-size insecurity? I bet such redneck idiots need a guide dog to help them "hit the target" when they engage in sexual intercourse!  ( I know this guide dog "thing" doesn't make any sense, but it just came to mind and I just had to put it out there. )

While I was at the buffet counter, some fat bitch just came up close to me because the hungry pig found something in the trough that she liked! She didn't even say, "Excuse me," even though she clearly invaded my personal space!! How rude of her!!!

I swear, with my more than a dozen years of experience eating at "all-you-can-eat" buffets twice or more per week, it is only the ugly and dumpy bitches who rudely cut in line!!! What's up with that? ( Here, Ms. Piggy. It's feeding time. Oink, oink! )

During the Ending Credits, the audience clapped their hands when Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway's names were shown.

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