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Trying to change the world, one movie at a time (and other things)

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Trying to save the world, one movie at a time (and other things)

Speak Up, Ask, Answer

  • Writing/
    • Das Herz schlägt über und all!
    • Puls
  • Podcast/
    • Parents Guide Podcast
  • Writing About Movies/
    • 100 Movies of the 70s
    • 150 Movies of the 90s
  • Speak Up, Ask, Answer/
  • About Me/
    • Mission Statement
    • I love lists!
    • Film List
    • Theme Weeks
May 30, 2017

3 Years a Blog (Absent Friends)

May 30, 2017/ David Turgay
3 Years a Blog (Absent Friends)

Raise your glasses then

To absent friends

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blog business
anniversary, thoughts, autobiography, feedback
May 22, 2017

Book Report: Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun

May 22, 2017/ David Turgay
Book Report: Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun

"See how contented they look."

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books
play, book review, school, civilization, culture, greed, indigenous people, inca, counter-culture, imperialism, binary thinking, noble savage, christianity, religion, communism
March 16, 2017

Kong: Skull Island (2017)

March 16, 2017/ David Turgay
Kong: Skull Island (2017)

No news from trope island.

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movies
movie review, animals, speciesism, stereotypes, female characters, indigenous people, black characters, culture
February 17, 2017

The Comfort Zone of Unhappiness

February 17, 2017/ David Turgay
The Comfort Zone of Unhappiness

"Don’t Worry About Me, I’m Perfectly Unhappy"

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thoughts
unhappiness, happiness, prison, culture, society, relationships, movies, books, TV, life sucks, popular songs, normal, normalization, change, fear
February 01, 2017

Nocturnal Animals / La La Land (2016)

February 01, 2017/ David Turgay
Nocturnal Animals / La La Land (2016)

Reality is catching up with me / Taking my inner child, I’m fighting for custody

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movies
movie review, reality, dreams, musical, revenge, superficiality, writing, weakness, manhood, laws, idealism, romance
January 09, 2017

Comics Are for Everyone - Less Escapism, More Veganism

January 09, 2017/ David Turgay
Comics Are for Everyone - Less Escapism, More Veganism

Killer Shark likes kale shakes for his Rumi. Obviously.

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comics
trump, comics are for everyone, protest, police, superman, constantine, red lantern, green lantern, rage, anger, xenophobia, racism, 9/11, vegan, villain, torture, vegetarinism, veganism, world, escapism, fear
January 03, 2017

Moana/Vaiana (2016)

January 03, 2017/ David Turgay
Moana/Vaiana (2016)

The Disney skeptic's heart is filled by the ocean and its awesome protagonist.

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movies
movie review, strong female character, disney, villain, indigenous people, culture, nature, materialism, surface, diversity, tradition, tribal societies
December 31, 2016

Last Year's Man: Looking Back at 2016

December 31, 2016/ David Turgay
Last Year's Man: Looking Back at 2016

Take the time to waste a moment

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thoughts
autobiography, 2016, last year's man, looking back, lists
December 11, 2016

Arrival (2016)

December 11, 2016/ David Turgay
Arrival (2016)

One of this year's best movies

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December 11, 2016/ David Turgay/ 4 Comments
movies
movie review, science-fiction, aliens, language, culture, civilization, rules, science
November 12, 2016

None of the Above

November 12, 2016/ David Turgay
None of the Above

No one man should have all that power

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politics, current events
election, politics, Trump, obama, clinton, change, media, sanders
November 03, 2016

The Invitation (2015)

November 03, 2016/ David Turgay
The Invitation (2015)

The dangers of the surface.

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movies
movie review, pretense, surface, warning sign, paranoia, truth
October 19, 2016

Here's My Future (6)

October 19, 2016/ David Turgay
Here's My Future (6)

This story just keeps on getting better.

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school
school, future, change, students, teacher, hope
August 23, 2016

A Series of Series: Stranger Things, Season 1

August 23, 2016/ David Turgay
A Series of Series: Stranger Things, Season 1

Strange days have found us
And through their strange hours
We linger alone
Bodies confused
Memories misused
As we run from the day
To a strange night of stone

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August 23, 2016/ David Turgay/ Comment
TV
culture, collapse, TV, kids, parents, adults, authority, misery, government, paranoia, conspiracy, monsters, class system, pretense, powers
August 18, 2016

What's Your Escape?

August 18, 2016/ David Turgay
What's Your Escape?

What do you do when there is nothing left to do?

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thoughts
culture, world, destruction, hamster wheel, purpose, daniel quinn, collapse, life sucks, bad news, good news, job, school, violence, no one right way
June 23, 2016

Demolition (2015)

June 23, 2016/ David Turgay
Demolition (2015)

From detachment to deconstruction.

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movies
movie review, detachment, emotions, tragedy, mourning, death, destruction, creation, relationships, money, culture, society, surface
June 14, 2016

Here's My Future (5)

June 14, 2016/ David Turgay
Here's My Future (5)

How bad can a good school be?

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school
future, school, students, teachers, criticism, vision, school sucks, poetry slam, writing, project, culture
June 04, 2016

The Raven (2012)

June 04, 2016/ David Turgay
The Raven (2012)

If you want to know how to portray women as inferior, The Raven is a very instructive movie. 

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movies
movie review, violence, women, women in refrigerators, men, edgar allan poe, misogyny, serial killer
May 30, 2016

2 Years a Blog (Up, up, up)

May 30, 2016/ David Turgay
2 Years a Blog (Up, up, up)

It's been two years. We have to talk.

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May 30, 2016/ David Turgay/ Comment
blog business
anniversary, feedback, metafiction
May 24, 2016

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

May 24, 2016/ David Turgay
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

X-Men: Apocalypse is a disappointment by relying on cultural tropes instead of its stellar cast

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May 24, 2016/ David Turgay/ 1 Comment
movies
movie review, comics, superhero, x-men, humans are flawed, apocalypse, female characters, human nature, women in refrigerators
May 22, 2016

Music Box: Sia's "This Is Acting" (2016)

May 22, 2016/ David Turgay
Music Box: Sia's "This Is Acting" (2016)

Sia's latest album tackles the things our culture forces us to struggle with

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music
music box, popular songs, pop music, lyrics, culture, perfectionism, change, struggling, suffering, relationships, pretence, death, money, psyche, void
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A blog about saving the world by looking at movies, music, comics, books, school and anything else connected to society.

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David Turgay, teacher and writer from Germany, writing about things he thinks about too much, mostly movies, comics, books and school. And now this podcast.

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  • January 2023 (6)
  • January 2023
    • Jan 19, 2023 Introduction Jan 19, 2023
    • Jan 18, 2023 #001 - Airport (1970) Jan 18, 2023
    • Jan 17, 2023 Deep Dive: Disaster Films of the 1970s Jan 17, 2023
    • Jan 16, 2023 #002 - Deadlock (1970) Jan 16, 2023
    • Jan 15, 2023 #003 - Wanda (1970) Jan 15, 2023
    • Jan 14, 2023 Connections - From Airport (1970) to Airplane! (1980) Jan 14, 2023

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