Sunday, July 31, 2016

"Onboard" - Movie from 1987

Goldie Hawn plays the rich bitch horror who is beyond every pale in human behavior ... until she falls overboard and suffers amnesia.  Since she had ripped-off Kurt Russell the same day, he saw on easy way to exact payback if he fooled her into thinking she was his wife.  The big jig of the movie is she finds this impoverished lifestyle is better.

Some may dismiss that as only in the movies but I know from my own life there are good things about poverty in finding more honesty down here than I ever see in those who fancy themselves superior to us and it's vastly more honesty than I saw from the bank.  The overlord from that place I wouldn't trust to do his job in a dog fight ... even if he's one of the dogs.


There's a much better world in which we're not beholden to anything from that artificial construct which means so much to them.  There's no TV, newspaper, or magazines so we see almost nothing of that rubbish except by scanning with a newsreader and that takes far less of my time than you may think.  It still puts me ahead of the game since most people don't read, at least most Americans don't.

I remember a Euro friend commenting about Americans, "They never stop eating."

Maybe that's why they don't have time to fit reading into their busy schedules.


Yevette is obsessed with conspiracy theories because she wants to know every damn detail but my only response to that is you can chase the conspiracy theory all you like but you won't find real validation and in the end the result is the same:  we're still fucked.

Best to walk away from it ... or fall off a boat, whichever works best for you.  I'm not obsessed at all with conspiracy theories and instead go to the movies which often give more truth than the real world anyway.

Let's see ... follow Alex Jones or kick out and watch a movie ... how do I decide.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Was that Overboard?

Unknown said...

It's a great movie until Goldie Hawn discovers Kurt Russell's ruse and that gives some excellent weepy when she leaves ... but she comes back ... oh joy, oh joy.

There's a minor editorial on the trivial lives of the rich and how they search for amusement but never find it. Mostly, tho, the movie is a lot of fun.