Early last evening I finished watching the 1991 movie Night on Earth. As Wikipedia explains, the movie comprises five short stories, each of which involve a different cab driver and taxi; and the locations varied, the first two stories taking place in the States (L.A. and New York City), the second story in Paris, the third in Rome, and the fourth in Helsinki (Finland).
Each were filmed on location, and the dialogue for each was in the language of that specific country. As a result, only the first two stories were in spoken English. I watched those first two stories with my brother possibly as much as 10 days ago ─ certainly at least a week ─ using our Android TV Box, but I could not find a decent source for the movie that was subtitled with English.
A day or two later, I found the movie at FMovies.to, and saw that it had a built-in closed captioning (CC) option that the viewer could select along the bottom right of the movie screen. However, due to how scant the impact of the two English stories had on my brother, I finally decided not to bother trying to enlist him in viewing the three foreign stories with me.
Besides, the primary reason that I even wanted to watch the movie in the first place was for actress Béatrice Dalle who appeared in the third (French) story ─ I have become something of a fan of hers. And my brother does not like having to read subtitles ─ I prefer not hearing his complaints.
By the way, Winona Ryder ─ who played a very young cabbie in the very first story (L.A.) ─ did an amazing acting job, I thought, and showcased her early self beautifully.
Overall I definitely would recommend the movie, as long as you do not expect action or suspense. The stories were more of a 'human interest' vein. Unfortunately, some of them should have been made into full movies on their own. I would have loved to have seen a movie based on either of the two English stories if the original actors had been cast, and the same goes for the French and Finnish stories. Only the Italian story did not work for me.
By the way, be careful with the movie website that I linked to, for you may initially meet with some unwanted advertisement popups or screen overlays.
Last evening's T.V. entertainment with my younger brother (once he finally got home after 10 p.m.) ─ and which was made possible via our Android TV Box ─ included an episode each of Killing Eve, then The Graham Norton Show, and finally The Conners.
I will be a little sad to come to the conclusion of Killing Eve ─ my brother and I only have three new episodes remaining.
When my brother and I were done with T.V. for the night, I drew his attention to my eldest stepson who was busy readying for his imminent flight to Cancun, if I remember correctly. The 27-year-old had told me a couple or so weeks back of the trip, but my brother knew nothing of it.
A friend of my stepson's ─ and the friend's fiancée ─ are also making the trip, for they plan to wed in Cancun. But that is not all ─ there may be 14 family members (and possibly very close friends) of the couple who will also be on that flight!
Consequently, my stepson will be potentially having quite an entertainment-filled trip.
However, he did not prepare at all ahead of time, and was only starting to ready for the trip late last evening. I am unsure just when the flight was to have been, but he was either leaving home around 4 a.m. overnight, or else having to be at the airport (YVR) by then. And so he was not going to have any sleep whatsoever.
He said that he would be away for 10 days.
I am pleased to say that before leaving, he transferred a generous contribution towards the annual property taxes that are due July 4. For the first time in a long, long while I am feeling at ease about that miserable expense ... as well as the monthly mortgage due quite late into the month.
But I will need my wife to keep her selfish fingers out of our chequing account!
The holidaying lad's 23-year-old younger brother will meanwhile have full access to his older brother's car in the latter's absence, so I am certain that will ease any separation pangs for the younger sibling.
But I wish now to talk a little about the morning television fare that my younger brother and I watched today ─ again, made possible on T.V. through our Android TV Box.
I led us off with Christopher James' (A Warrior Calls) latest Rumble upload of July 1: We Stand for Truth. At a little over an hour (1:11:56) in duration, Christopher's two separate guests on the show were first Marcus Ray, and then Christine Massey.
Next we were to watch Action4Canada's Tanya Gaw's June 26 upload to Rumble: The UN/WEF Agenda to Infiltrate Schools & Indoctrinate/Sexualize Children. This video was a little more than 1¼ hours (1:17:00) in length, and was actually a condensation of a longer video exceeding two hours that I deliberately chose to bypass for that very reason.
Tanya Gaw, the Founder of Action4Canada, discusses the radical UN/WEF Agenda that has infiltrated schools across Canada and is deconstructing societal norms by using our children as “Agents of Change.”
Parents and concerned citizens, we cannot ignore this message. Our children and youth are being subjected to twisted ideologies using social justice as a means to indoctrinate and groom them. From the highly politicized radical LGBTQ agenda to the made-up critical race theory, the government has a target on our children’s heads, and we need to step up and put a STOP to it.
Use the following Notice of Liability and demand that; the SOGI-123 learning resource be immediately and completely removed from libraries and the education system; all of the books listed, including titles by the same authors, be immediately removed; and that all educational facilities including libraries cease and desist promotion of any and all activities, performers and clubs that exploit vulnerable minors: https://action4canada.com/notice-of-liability-remove-explicit-books-and-radical-lgbtq-learning-resource/
The final video that my brother and I watched was reasonably short ─ a mere half hour (29:48). Also on Rumble, it was uploaded there by Canadian Citizens for Charter Rights and Freedoms on June 30: Major Russ Cooper (Ret'd) “In Hot” interview with Dr. Mary O'Connor.
Dr. Mary O'Connor practiced medicine as a family physician in Ontario for 47 years with nothing but praise from her patients and colleagues. Then came the draconian Wuhan virus pandemic measures that would suffer no opposition to unsupported, related mandates. So it was with Dr. Mary O'Connor who was taken to court by her College of Physicians and Surgeons for writing vaccine exemptions. She may have lost her license to practice to a bureaucracy but her principles remain firmly in tact along with the knowledge she is not complicit in the harming of her patients. Something many more doctors need to consider?
Somehow, every corrupt politician, medical professional, bureaucrat, 'journalist', and cop who are behind and promoting this abominable pandemic farce need to be taken down and jailed ─ and so many of them, jailed indefinitely.
Some even warrant capital punishment.
My brother sought a little bed rest following that last video, but I held off and had a small meal. I wanted to get in some afternoon sunning as soon as my brother left for the afternoon and early evening on his daily 'socializing'. My youngest stepson had left for work mid-morning.
And so I sunbathed well over an hour. Much of that time was under a vast spread of haze that was drifting across the sky, and which reduced the Sun's intensity quite a lot. From what I have seen in weather reporting, we may be at risk for a little rain from later this evening through into Monday night.
In other words, no sunning at all tomorrow.
I have plans for some very early grocery shopping tomorrow morning; consequently, if my brother is not home by 9:30 p.m. this evening, I will not be watching any T.V. with him. I want to be up tomorrow by 4:30 a.m.
Since I want to find a Béatrice Dalle movie to watch, so I am calling this post complete.
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