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Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders (2022)
More like Keeper of the Trashes
There are actually two stories here.
One is a horrible tale, the other a horrible tale about the murder of three little girls in scout camp.
I was unaware of Kristin Chenworth's existence until I watched this, but my god, what a freak show!
There are only two options here, both awful.
Option one: someone decided it would be a good idea to have a documentary about a horrific child murder hosted by a looney-tunes-voiced, plastic-surgery-bonanza-faced simpleton?
Option two: this was a vanity project of said simpleton.
She shows absolutely no empathy to the actual victims' families.
It's always, "it could have been me" and "it haunts me."
No, Kristin, you are not the story or victim here.
You can't compare your experience of maybe saying "hi" to one of the dead girls to the actual parents who gave birth and raised the girls.
And as the icing on the cake, she ends the whole debacle by singing a sappy duet from her famous Broadway show, intertwined with more ramblings about semi-dead trees and "this is part of the healing process."
No, Kristin, you don't have or need a healing process.
Someone said that "time heals all wounds" does not apply here.
Where did they say that?
In your own documentary.
In this very episode.
A few minutes ago.
Concentrate!
Use the part within the Botox layer around your head.
On the other hand, this is truly worthy of an SNL parody.
Dear Basketball (2017)
Mamba mediocrity
Q: how did this win an Academy award?
A: well, Kobe is a brand name and many, many Academy members are Laker fans or closely related to Laker fans.
Kobe proves himself a lukewarm wordsmith.
There is nothing new and original here.
It's Just some pap that would never have been filmed had some average Joe penned it.
Mamba out!
Lauf Junge lauf (2013)
Worthy adaptation of an amazing book
Like others, I'm amazed at the relatively low score this movie has received.
It's one of the best films about this period, and tells an incredible, unique story about overcoming all odds.
Having read the book a few years ago, I was afraid the movie might be kitschy and too feel-good, like many adaptations.
But the movie succeeds in being authentic, and in capturing the amazing tale in less than two hours.
There were some changes from the book, but they did not spoil or change the story dramatically.
Funnily enough, the line used in the title of both book and movie, "Run, boy, run," does not appear in the movie.
Srulik was taken in by farmers, only for the man to lock Srulik in a room while he went to fetch the Germans.
The wife broke down the door, let Srulik out and told him this memorable line.
Also, the Gestapo soldier, played Better Call Saul's Werner Ziegler, did not meet Srulik at the farm. In reality, Srulik was returned to the same Gestapo base a short while after his escape, where the Gestapo officer took pity on him and sent him to work for his girlfriend, in what is surely the most shocking part of the story.
Please watch this movie and recommend it - it's worth your while.