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- Trump Torches MAGA — Blasts His Biggest (Now Former) Supporters
- How to Start A Revolution – #SolutionsWatch
- The New York Times Article Everybody Is Talking About: It Seems To Me They're Between Acts, Shifting Narratives, And Preparing Scapegoats
- Iranian Media Reports Passage Of Oil Tankers Stopped In Strait Of Hormuz After Israeli Strikes On Lebanon; Trump Calls Lebanon "A Separate Skirmish," Says "They Were Not Included In The Deal."
- Israel Goes Rogue: "Unprecedented" Bombardment Of Lebanon
- Aftermath: Prominent American Voices "Sick" Of Trump's Ultra-Violent, Genocidal Social Media Posts REGARDLESS Of Whether Inscrutable Negotiating Wizardry Turns Up In The Fossil Record In 2,000 Years
- A Name In The Sand
- Sour Grapes: Israel Not Happy With Two Week Ceasefire Between US and Iran, Says It Is Abiding "Reluctantly," But Stresses The Deal "Does Not Include Lebanon."
- Could Judas Have Been Forgiven—Like Peter?
- “Who Will You Leave Your Children With?”
- ‘Don’t Like Carbon Capture? AI Is a Whole Lot Worse’
- Episode 497 – The “Multipolar World Order” IS the New World Order!
- Russian government judo-chops internet & cows
- April Open Thread (2026)
- ‘Carbon Capture Is a Trojan Horse for Technocracy’
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- Libertas.Earth – #SolutionsWatch
- Ron Paul: Still The Voice of Reason
- Remembrances for April - 2026
- Agitating for mind-revolution
- From Ben-Hur to the Fall of Constantinople: Lew Wallace, Faith, and the Limits of Historical Imagination
- Lord, it is Good to be Here: Building Orthodox Culture in America
- ‘Springtime of Renewal in Serbia, but What of Dixie?’
- New York Times: ’13 U.S. Bases Uninhabitable’ — We Could’ve Just Marched Home
- St John of the Ladder and the Order of the Heart
- How to Unload a Lorry of Bricks Without Growing Weary
- ‘More Solar and Wind Power Brings Increased Risk of Blackouts’
- War Isn’t Free … How The American People Pay Dearly For It
- Trump & Netanyahu: Who’s the boss? Maybe we’ll find out
- Trump vs. NATO — Would He Actually Leave?
- A New Television Series on the Life of Saint Joseph the Hesychast Coming Soon
- New Liturgical Handbook Illuminates the Heart of Orthodox Worship
- Why Temptations Often Intensify During Great Lent
- What Is Grace? How God Shares His Life with Us
- Image and Awe
- The King’s Iconographer on Hierarchy, Beauty, and the Crisis of Modern Art
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- No "security guarantees" for the peasants!
- Screens in our Lives and in Society (Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)
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- Introduction to the Divine Liturgy
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- “I Write As It Comes Down To Me”: Papadiamantis as a Poet and the Ethos of Inspiration. 115 Years Since His Repose.
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- Bach's Christmas Oratorio (Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Mani)
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| Invitatie la film: Tender Mercies | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
| Critica de film |
| Scris de Ninel Ganea |
| Vineri, 03 Iunie 2011 14:52 |
Din acest motiv, pentru a gasi filme cu adevarat inteligente si placute marca Holywood, din care sa nu transpara eternul refren “sex, alcool si razboi”, este nevoie de o mica incursiune in timp. Asa ca recomandarea mea se opreste la “Tender Mercies”, un film foarte delicat si sincer de la inceputul anilor ’80, cu Rober Duvall interpretand exceptional rolul unei foste vedete a muzicii country, ajunsa la faliment moral si financiar.
Spre deosebire de povestea tipic moderna in care eroul incepe sa arunce resposabilitatea esecului pe umerii tuturor celorlalti, mai putin ai sai, in “Tender Mercies” personajul principal nu are o relatie prea blanda cu sine. Salvarea sa survine in primul rand din constientizarea trecutului si din asumarea unei schimbari totale de perspectiva asupra vietii, ilustrata in film printr-un moment al botezului. “I don’t trust happiness. I never did and I never will”, spune la un moment dat personajul interpretat de Robert Duvall. Stralucirea starului country, adulatia publicului, contractele fabuloase (practic toata scara de valori moderna) sunt inlocuite de o viata cuminte si asezata la tara, in mijlocul unei familii deloc instarite, dar cu o caldura sufleteasca inimaginabila pentru un om de azi. Filmul reuseste sa redea admirabil acele momente de tandrete si bucurie in mijlocul unei comunitati de oameni simpli, din care fosta vedeta pare ca nu a lipsit niciodata. In alta ordine de idei, “Tender Mercies” poate servi si ca o buna introducere in cultura Sudului Statelor Unite ale Americii, identificabila in imaginarul ultra modern doar ca “rednecks” si rasism. Ca bonus, filmul beneficiaza de o coloana sonora superba din care se detaseaza doua melodii interpretate chiar de Robert Duvall. |




In ultimii ani Holywood-ul a produs foarte putine filme bune, in pofida (sau din cauza) investitiilor foarte mari si a incasarilor fabuloase ale unor succese de casa. Bineinteles ca excelenta cinematografica nu se masoara astazi in numarul de spectatori si nici nu cred ca s-a facut vreodata.

