Jewish musings, Monday, Aug. 14

[gazelle18]

What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.

Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:

Frieda
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy

And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to, but you are also welcome to chime in. Don’t be shy!

[gazelle18]

Hi everyone,
Yesterday , DH and I went to see the movie “Oppenheimer.” It’s about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called “father of the atomic bomb.” It was a wonderful, riveting movie, and I recommend it. I learned so much history during the course of watching the movie, including the fact that many of the quantum physicists who helped develop the bomb were Jewish. I came away with a deeper knowledge of this chapter of history, and I doubt I’ll forget this movie.

Topic of the day: What movie have you seen which had a profound impact on you, either positive or negative, or because you learned a lot just from watching the film? I’m not talking about movies you necessarily enjoyed, I’m talking about impactful movies. What was the impact of the movie on you?

[peachymom1]

Good morning! Thank you, Lynne, DH and I have been talking about seeing that movie, and now we definitely will.

I tend to see movies way later than other people, for one reason or another. Just last week we saw "On the Basis of Sex," about Ruth Bader Ginsberg. It was outstanding. I knew a lot about RBG, but DH didn't, and afterward, we had some interesting discussions about how women's rights and social conditions have changed in the last 50 years. DH and I have been together for 46 years, so we have a lot of personal history that we looked back on together. And even though I knew how the court case would be decided at he end of the movie, it still packed it punch and got us thinking. If you missed this movie like me, I highly recommend it.

[lee058]

Good morning everybody. Hope you are all well and SAFE!

Re today's topic: As a longtime movie buff, I could list movies all day that affected me. I don't know where to start. Happy movies, sad movies, historical ones, kids' movies.... the list goes on.

Actually, one movie that I've recently seen a few times that affected me was an animated kids' movie called, "Inside Out." It's the story of a girl with many features of her thinking process. It gave me all kinds of ideas about how people think. Also, I loved it.

Casablanca, Citizen Kane, the various versions of adaptations of Jane Austen's books, ditto on Little Women, many noir pictures from the 30's and 40's, and so on and so forth..... I'm sorry, I can't narrow this down. I like pictures that show character development and that try to figure out why people act the way they do. There are so many!!

I'll try and write more later. Have a peaceful day, Lee

[happysavta]

Most impactful movie was Zorba the Greek (1964) with Anthony Quinn as Zorba. Zorba's message to the younger man, played by Alan Bates, who was intellectual, bookish, proper and aloof was to be engaged in life, to live every moment with passion. I never took that advice, of course.

This Thursday, I will be doing the radiation therapy. On Wednesday, I have a breast biopsy to figure out what that mass is. 

[louise]

I'm coming up blank right now probably becasue I see so few movies. Duh! I'm definitely planing to to see Oppenheimer (and actually Barbie too).