The Night Porter

There are much better reviews than I could write at IMDB on this film so I'll just add that it was a welcome piece of art after researching hundreds of hours on CIA organized crime and global drug dealing. There's no way a film could be made today that reintroduced a Nazi war criminal with a Jewish female victim for S&M scenes of relived sex and power. There's also a splendid homo-erotic ballet scene with Nazi officers standing around, silent but intensive. Like Leni Riefenstahl the Nazi politics are ugly but the Hugo Boss SS uniforms are evil sexy. Nazism is probably the best branded ideology of the 20th century in terms of aesthetic. Like corporate Western branded ideology it hides its savage destruction in the background but what's up front looks good if like advertising you like to wear black. For this reason we should interrogate all we have and all we do. Not just look at the surface.

Like Graham Green's The Third Man it is set in post war Vienna and if anyone knows any other movies from this time and location, particularly black and white I want to see more so do let me know please.

Here's a write up:

This is quite dark. If you are seeking material that can be described as "happy" or "light", you will not find it here. I didn't know anyone in this prior to viewing. This deals with Max, the night porter of the title, who has tried to put his past in the SS behind him. One night, he spots a woman, Lucia, and they both recognize each other... she was one of the concentration camp prisoners, and the two had a specific relationship with one another. The plot is captivating. This is deliberately paced, and those who have short attention spans, and/or wish for a lot of developments in a feature are not the intended audience for this. I found the behavior of all of the characters chillingly psychologically accurate, and this definitely takes a long, hard, unflinching and uncompromising look at human nature and the mind, and not everyone is going to like the observations. The acting is excellent. All of the leads disappear into their roles. They are all well-cast, too, talent as well as physical types. I don't know if anything similar to this has truly happened, but I can imagine it, and this does pay respect to the historical events. The editing mixes flashbacks and the present effectively. This has disturbing content, including violence, sexuality that is not graphic and explicit nudity. None of it is gratuitous. The DVD has credits and posters, and while the print starts out looking shabby, it turns out to be perfectly fine. I recommend this to anyone who believes they can handle it, and is mature enough, from reading this review. 7/10

Black Swan

Natalie Portman in Black Swan is extraordinary. The rest of the cast are flawless too including the protagonist Vincent Cassel of Irreversible; another great movie. I've had this post in drafts for some time so I I don't feel like writing too much about it except to say I enjoyed that I found Natalie Portman's character annoying about half way and started to root for her to fall apart. I know that sounds bizarre but I like the change of emphasis from rooting for her in the first half to wishing her downfall on in the second half. She's still an extraordinary actor and one of the finest female artists of her generation. I'm impressed and her ballet skill was not negligible in this film. She excelled.

The Men Who Stare At Goats

I wrote this elsewhere but it is something I wanted to touch on as I've researched the subject of remote viewing recently. The movie is a a much more provocative film than many realised. Scientific remote viewing is seen to the uninitiated as voodoo yet it is proven to be more accurate than satellite imagery. The question that lingers with the thoughtful viewer, remains why isn’t this kind of science taught at schools and universities?  Well, it's because the military don’t want humans to know that we are all gifted to some extent with these powers and so if a little research is done into the subject it pushes forward other questions like what else does our scientific materialist establishment not want us to know? MKULTRA? MILABS? Human genetic experiments? Underground bases? Undersea bases and that’s six months research there into a reality that is concealed from humans by a group of people who understand fully the power of parapsychology, occultism, numbers and symbols like the Pentagon shape for example. You know, that funny building that the military designed their HQ around and which usually sits inside a Pentagram.

In plain sight it’s known as to observers on the net. It's a mind control issue as so many people can't see what the problem is. Those same people usually watch a lot of TV and commercials telling them free trade and free speech is the American way.

The obsession with the esoteric by the establishment is clearly seen by googling Washington D.C. and masonic layout. A typical symptom of mind control or permitting one's reality to be painted by corporatised media is that very same evidence of satanic occultism in the heart of the nation's capital often raising very little objection even when odd wars keep emerging in strange countries nobody really thought too much about before. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil works both ways doesn't it.

One of the anomalies of the unit that did the remote viewing and other paranormal techniques is their unusual temperament. You can see Ingo Swann on Youtube for yourself and establish that the movie would have been too disruptive if it dealt with the issues in a humourless manner. 


It was a smart move to turn towards comedy (to get round the censors), but make no mistake it's a serious movie. Clooney is saying to a thoughtful public. Go ahead, dig around. This is for real and so the slavish attachment to iPhones and iPads or the delusion that CERN Large Hadron Collider is going to save the day and give people their own teleportal devices (when we're still using fossil fuel tech mobility - no chance) is merely to distract humans from knowing what is going on at the big boys level and yet still, most people think this movie is an accompaniment to popcorn.

I haven’t even touched on the topics that are so far leftfield that most people would prefer they weren’t mentioned if brought up in conversation. I'm only describing what happens in real life.