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Yesterday I went to watch Avatar 3, presumably to replenish my positive emotion supply and be able to function through the year.

As a result, replenished the whole spectrum of emotions from the positive to the most undesirable - because too many associations with the current state of the world.

In Avatar 3 the beautiful story remains unfinished, and we don't know yet if Pandora continues its existence as paradise, or turns into ashes.

Still, it's incredibly beautiful and aerial as in previous two episodes.

To watch the new Saint-Ex film on a big screen in 2025 - check.

Mon Dieu, it's gorgeous. Especially in French (and a bit Spanish) original version with subtitles, not ruined by voice translation.

I've just found a living breathing piece of myself from 2019, buried deep under COVID pandemic and the following cursed war. Me watching fair mountain peaks of South America from the airplane window, flying across the Andes from Lima to Cusco.

I feel alive. So alive.

I've always loved, do love and will love French movies for their ability to drive the most subtle and exquisite emotions from very mundane and real-life situations. From our usual everyday life put on a screen without special effects, fantastic monsters, aliens, spaceships and cities of several million habitants falling down in a fire or storm.

Nobody is blowing up huge things in this film, there are no car races and no sex scenes.
Just a lot of rocky mountains, sky and snow. And two very old airplanes.

I'm pretty sure critics are already putting this piece of art down, but if people continue filming this in our crazy times, I'm still having hope for the humanity.
Because it means that life, struggle, suffering, and joy of just one "ordinary" but authentic and brave person outside a big crowd do have value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Flight_(novel)

Here the musicians are performing a beautiful piece by Italian Baroque composer Arcangelo Corelli, far less known than Vivaldi but not less beautiful.

Here the music of Corelli (again variations to The Spanish Passion) as a soundtrack for a short animated film Le moine et le poisson (what idiot managed to designate it as a movie for 3+ kids I do not know, it's definitely not).