Zenorb Reviews

Red Widow (2013)

Excellent

[9/10 · 8 October 2015]

Just binge watched this and really enjoyed it.

Superbly wrapped up in the final episode with twist after twist.

Well constructed and executed storyline in the limited episodes.

Forgot Rahda is an Australian actress. Enjoyed her performance. Too bad she didn't get her kit off more often. What a body. Looks like doing yoga and being a vegetarian is very good for you. Inspired! Great emotional performances showing humanity and forgiveness in this diabolical world of crime and greed where misdeeds and betrayal can come from unexpected sources.

Loved the ending. What a family.

Messed up.

Well done team. You should be proud.

Like I said, I enjoyed it.

Death Defying Acts (2007)

Redemption in the dialogue - the games people play

[7/10 · 15 December 2008]

Warning DOES contain spoiler so don't read until after you've seen the movie.

I just watched this last night on DVD and really enjoyed it. I'm so easily disappointed in movies these days. Disappointed in most of them. Big budget. Big name actors. Hugely technical stunts. Ho Hum. What was the moral of that story? I often find myself asking at the end of the movie - what was the moral of that? What message can I identify with in the real world?

This seemed like a delightfully creative little fictionalisation to me. The movie has been represented as creative fantasy so no need to take it too seriously. I didn't mind the title at all. Afterall Houdini's (show) life was based on Death Defying Acts. But this movie turns out to be a love story with an element of the very spiritualism he was trying to debunk. I couldn't help feel that Houdini always wanted to pay someone that prize money. I suspect deep down he was always hoping he would find that inexplicable connection to the afterlife even though he knew it would be unlikely as he was most qualified in the tricks of that trade.

Those rare few individuals that have the wonderful talent to tune into visions or cosmic consciousness or whatever are the first to concede others will call it a delusion and science will always find another explanation. Usually.

So street tough and street wise Mary (Catherine) is focused on the scam of a lifetime. The character is obviously supposed to be a beautiful woman practiced in the art of beguiling men. Catherine pulls it off for me. I find her exquisitely beautiful. Houdini's (Guy) interest is a little peculiar (kinky?) perhaps. She even wonders herself is he falling for her because she's beautiful and she's growing attracted to him or because she reminds him of his mother?

These two get in each others head space and I had to laugh when when the daughter (psychic sidekick) says (in her concern of watching her mother fall for the charismatic and artful player) "don't have just another roll in the hay - like you did with my dad."

Ah the dynamics of the interpersonal relationships between men and woman. Lust. Love. As a man maybe it's easier for me to have trouble telling the difference some times. But it's all in the game.

This is where we get to that perfect little dialogue. I liked it anyway.

"Look what you've done to me"

"I only made you fall in love" (Sounds like a player line to me. Maybe she had it coming. The player you are the player you get baby)

"That wasn't love. That was infatuation. Just another fling. But it didn't quite happen did it."

"I'm afraid. I'm afraid of myself. What I feel for you. What I want. It's shameful"

"It's not shameful Harry. Who taught you that? It's what men and women do and sometimes if you're really lucky in between the sweaty sheets you'll find a little bit of true human love."

"Did you ever find it?"

(If you watch the movie you'll get the answer)

The moral of the story. Sounds just like real life -

Yes I'm attracted to you. Yes it feels like love (for the moment anyway) and it's the best feeling I've felt in a while. But my life - it's someplace else right now. Love. Eternal or ephemeral. You decide.

The Elegant Universe (2003)

Do We Live in the Realm of Science or Philosophy?

[10/10 · 28 September 2006]

The Elegant Documentary -

Don't watch this movie ... if you're an egotistical know-all student of physics. This much less than one percent (miniscule fraction) of the population may find that this show just tells them what they have already learned and already know.

Do watch this movie! - If you're one of the massive majority of people that fall into the greater than 99% of the population that does not study or already have a sound knowledge of the theories of physics including Relativity, Quantum, String and M-theory.

What a brilliantly architected documentary. Starting with some helpful historical background you will be lead step by elegant step into a Universe of pure magic - and dimensions beyond. I have always had a huge appreciation of Mathematics. This movie can easily give you an insight into what an exquisitely beautiful language mathematics is without making you feel like you're about to fail the grade.

The show is repetitive at times as the original format was a mini-series split over three shows. It therefore makes sense to give us polite little reminders of the principles being presented. I found this immensely helpful as it kept reminding me of the multitude of questions and possible answers that make up this amazing tapestry of our very existence.

We are all (and everything around us) is vibrational-energy with a natural tendency towards harmony. This movie may blow your mind - or at least help you realize that the universe is far far bigger than that which we see around us (even with the Hubble Telescope) and far far smaller than the protons and neutrons within the atoms we learned about in high-school. M-theory holds many magnificent magnitudes of 'possibility'.

It just seemed so appropriate that all of this elegance should by it's very nature move (by admission by the many brilliant scientists presenting) out of the realm of Science and into the realm of Philisophy.

You do not have to be religious at all to feel like this movie brought you one step closer to God.

Bravo Brian Greene. Well done indeed.

P.S. If you're interested in feeling even more comfortable and at home in your place in the Universe and would like some more insight into the 'possibilities' Quantum mechanics blended with Spirituality (of all things) can bring then I highly recommend that you also watch "What the Bleep!? - Down the Rabbit Hole". Yes I know they make a few silly mistakes by suggesting a Shaman may not be able to see a boat if he hasn't seen one before (my eyes process light reflections just fine - I see things everyday that I've never seen before) and brain cells are cells in the body that actually don't divide. But if you can get over these little hurdles and put down the things you don't like and hang on to those that you do - there is a lot to like about this film.

Then watch "The Secret" (2006 documentary about The Law of Attraction - search for IMDb title "tt0846789"). This information just might change your life profoundly - forever. If you search deeper you might even find the Universe is talking to us with thought (if you'll listen) - and some are - and that is truly incredible. There is a modern day Jesus/Mohammad/Buddha (those, among others, that history suggests have communicated with the non-physical) alive today and she lives in Texas. I know some of you know what I'm talking about.

I do not consider myself religious by any traditional definition but I have never felt more at home or as comfortable in the Universe as I do now.