A Movie

 This past week....'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' came to Netflix.  It was my first time viewing it.....I've watched it three times since that evening.  If you haven't seen the movie....I'd heavily endorse a viewing.

First, to the subject of it being a Tarantino production?  He tends to produce masterpieces, and the type that you want to go back to for a second viewing.  He puts effort into the dialog, the characters, the story, and the ending.  

Second, to the subject of this being a 'what-if' situation....where in 1969, things unfold, and the Manson crowd will go and screw with the wrong people on that fateful evening, and the 'Cliff Booth-character' (Brad Pitt) is dished out over the whole movie as being a guy who never fulfills his destiny.  In this 'what-if' ending.....Cliff ends up meeting Tex and two of the teenage Manson gals, and things really don't go well for the Manson team.

Third, in the last third of the movie, Tarantino introduces you to Cliff's moments at the 'ranch' where the Manson crowd are hanging out.  In some odd way, Tarantino labels them in a way as 'woke' and consumed with their version of reality.

It's a five-minute scene where you really think hard over this scene, and today's reality with woke-idiots.

Between Charlie's talks, the drugs, and the continual indoctrination.....none of the ladies at the ranch have any respect.  They've lost their ability to grasp reality or to handle real-life situations.   Tarantino gives you the 'ladies' using bully-tactics, condemnation, and threats....to get their points across (the same as the woke-crowd today).

The fifteen minutes of the movie?  It is ultra violent and you are fairly shocked over how Cliff, his dog, Rick Dalton and 'Brandy' are going to handle the situation with Tex and the two ladies. 

So I'm left with this long pondering situation over Charlie's 'gang'.  All of them went through some type of mind-melt or brainwash.  None of them ever showed this significant amount of violence before this event.  They were cultivated, charmed, and simply became pro-Charlie (no matter what).  

I'll recommend the movie, but just say clearly.....after it ends, you probably need a half bottle of wine, and will go back to contemplate five different scenes in the movie.  

Eventualities

 This is an essay over ten things that I anticipate will become eventualities. 

1.  Shortly after the 2024 election, and going into the 2025 spring....I anticipate that Youtube, Twitter and Facebook will be given an order to 'clean-up' their mess, refuse, and all will be yanked off the internet for a seven-day period (to which the GOP President will suggest that 'children' get a time-out).

2.  Half of NFL football teams by 2024 will confess that they are not financially viable.  While enlarging their Chinese audience....getting American fans into the arenas is now a major problem.  'Big' contracts are not a common thing anymore.

3.  President Biden, after the 2022 mid-terms, draws a circle, and lessens his public appearances.  By mid-2023, you only see him once a month in a tightly controlled situation.  No more town halls.  No more open Q and A sessions.

4.  The 6th of January 'truth-commission' issues a 2,000 page report in October of 2022.  Six months later, journalists ask around and discover that literally no one in DC has read the entire document.  

5.  The vast majority of TV production companies leave California for either Florida or Texas by the end of 2022.

6.  As the fall of Afghanistan occurs....an exodus of Afghans occur, with more than half-a-million trying to make their way via various routes to Germany.

7.  A gang thug leader gets himself onto the DC mayor's list for the next election and shocks people by getting 30-percent of the vote.  His chief slogan?  "Stop the hate."

8.  A new fact-check association arrives....only to check fact-checkers themselves.

9.  A test is applied to a west coast university over history, to which 90-percent of the 18-year olds are regarded as lacking.  In response, the university requires two non-credit history classes in the first year.  Students completing the two courses....are shocked over history.

10.  Stores in America by mid-August....admit that various school supplies are on back-order and still on ships coming from China....as the new school year starts.  Students are shocked to be told....write on the back of sheets to save resources.