"Palestinians redefined everything:
War is now “genocide”
Rape is “resistance”
Hostages are “prisoners of war”
Evacuating civilians is “ethnic cleansing”
They didn’t change reality.
They just wrote their own dictionary."
“Run away and join the circus. Get a tattoo, hop a train. Plant a garden and save the seeds. Get married, have kids, wear a hat. Get good with a bullwhip. Don’t lie, don’t cheat, don’t steal. Everyone must put beans on the table. Be devoted to the unification of the diverse aspects of yourself. Remember, most of what is essential is invisible to the eye. The quality of time you spend with someone far out-weighs the quantity. And there’s a lot you can do with a wah-wah pedal and a bullet mike.”
-- Tom Waits
Milan Kundera, from the Unbearable Lightness of Being:
"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect, mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."
“If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.”
— Hermann Hesse
Here is to art.
Here is to film.
Here is to the movies that move us, the stories that stretch our hearts, and the performances that leave us in awe.
Here is to the shows that remind us of the power of love, the series that sustain and strengthen our spirits, and the episodes that awaken our empathy.
Here is to laughter in dark theaters, tears in quiet living rooms, and the shared experience of seeing ourselves reflected in the lives of others.
Here is to those flickering lights dancing across a screen, carrying us to distant places, only to bring us closer together.
And here is to the creators who make it all possible. Through imagination, courage, and craft, they remind us of an enduring truth:
That beyond all our differences, beyond the distances between us, beyond the borders and barriers we build,
we are human,
and we belong to each other.
op: @cineatomy
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“This simple observation has nothing to do with cultural pessimism – nor with any optimism either, of course; for the darkening of the world, the flight of the gods, the destruction of the earth, the reduction of human beings to a mass, the hatred and mistrust of everything creative and free has already reached such proportions throughout the whole earth that such childish categories as pessimism and optimism have long become laughable.”
— Heidegger
Acclaimed Hungarian Jewish director László Nemes just dropped a truth bomb at Cannes: “There’s an orgy of antisemitism, an absolute, shameless orgy of antisemitism, overtaking the West.”
His 2015 masterpiece Son of Saul — a harrowing film about a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz — won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the Cannes Grand Prix.
Today? He says it “wouldn’t even make the Oscar shortlist.” Because “of the politicization of cinemas, because anything that’s Jewish is now considered . . .nobody would touch it with a 10-foot pole.”
This is where we are. Jews are being erased from the stories of their own genocide while Hollywood and the cultural elite cheer. The entertainment industry’s antisemitic purge is real — and it’s accelerating.
We must call it out. Every single time. Thanks László Nemes for doing so at the risk of your own career.
#JewHatred #Antisemitism