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The second movie on the list of Richard Brody’s Top 36 movies of 2020. I didn’t plan on watching them in chronological order but I’ve heard a lot of things about this movie so I decided to watch it on Netflix.              I went into the movie blind. I didn’t watch the trailer, I feel that it’s important to watch since it’s released when the Black Lives Matter movement in the US is gotten louder and its message amplified throughout the world. I’ve been planning to get reading material or anything that can provide me with knowledge and a brief history about racism against black people and person of colour in the US. And being Indonesian, I acknowledge that racism is also happening in the country where I live in. With the movement finally getting the attention that it deserves, I kind of in a quest of gaining myself the nuances and what’s happening in the past that getting us to this point where crimes and inhuman acts based on race, gender, people’s ...

A movie by Miranda July. The first movie on Richard Brody's 36 Top 2020 Movies.  The first movie on the list and the one that I most anticipated. I watched the trailer before it came out and I was just hooked immediately. The movie tells about a family of 3, the daughter, Old Dolio Dyne portrayed by Evan Rachel Wood, the dad–Richard Jenkins, and the mother – Debra Winger. As a family, their dynamics more like partners in crime rather not unusually portrayed in films. The Dynes basically live on coupons, eat leftovers and scavenging. Their home is an office whose walls occasionally leaked pink foams rented to them by a man work in a factory. The movie opens with a heist in a post-office. Old Dolio rolling around the front of the post office, entering the crime scene, and taking mails and looking for the items in it that can be turned into money. Earlier, I mentioned that the Dynes rented an office to be their home and the fact that they haven’t paid their due bill for the rented o...

I already mention that I'm also a movie person. But, I also like to write. Combine them together, I become a movie person and someone who like to rants about movies and the experience I have when I'm watching movies or series and other cinematic arts. I mean, it's not hard to conclude that, right?  Anyway, since I like to rant about movies, books, music, and other things, one of the things I like to do is reading and/or listening to other people's rant about the thing I have watched, read, and listen to. You might ask why am I torturing myself and wasting my time with that kind of activity? Well, why, because I like to enhance the experience because you know I have no people in real life that I can actually ask to join me ranting on those things. That might sound sad but it wasn't actually because I enjoy contemplating with my own thoughts. You know, alone. Not that I can't help it. But. I literally have no one to talk about that stuff around me.  Back to my poi...

A. About the Author               Bill McKibben is an American journalist that writes and reports extensively about climate crisis and the impact of global warming. He is a co-founder of a climate campaign 350.org and several other campaigns. One of many McKibben's challengers, Alex Epstein who graduate with a Computer Science degree along with Philosophy degree, said "You're not a Scientist" to McKibben in one of the debates they have. Epstein thinks that McKibben is misrepresenting science and oversimplifying the fact to his readers and audiences because McKibben is no scientist. McKibben until now keeps promoting his stance on the climate crisis and its impact through his writings. He also contributes to change the face of politics inside the US and outside by giving an insight into the urgency of the crisis. B. Personal Takeaway of The Essay: The End of Nature by Bill McKibben      This essay of him called The End of Nature...