three foreign films

Okay between a week ago Sunday night, and this just happened Sunday night I saw three foreign movies with subtitles, so it seems like time to review them a bit.

Cuts are because of length. I'm trying not to put in too many spoilers, though it's hard.

Atanarjuat

This movie is in Inuit, filmed, written, and acted by Inuits, telling a local story set 2000 years ago. The timing for it's setting I got from the website. Within the movie - the time is pretty timeless.
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Ringu

This is the Japanese original movie on which the movie the Ring was based. I saw the American version a few days later.
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Before the Rain

Macedonian movie that phygelus showed us. Three part story, Set in mostly in Macedonia in the mid-90s with a bit of London in the middle.
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War is not Healthy for Children and Other ...

War is not Healthy for Children and Other ...

My mother had the postcard with the flower and that saying posted next to the kitchen table most of my childhood.

I've been thinking of that a lot. Apparently the son of a founder of Another Mother For Peace is both trying to protect the copyright and distribute merchandise with this logo, see http://www.warisnothealthy.org/

Last night the store link just said 'Sorry unavailable', today it shows a sticker. On this messageboard he says that he's only selling stuff for 1 cent over cost, that he's mostly interested in spreading the image again.

So I'm not sure why he's got such obvious copyright notices everywhere? To keep other people from making money from it? What if we just want to post the image on our sites? Guess I'll need to try emailing him.

Anyways if you've never seen this, or do remember it and want to see it again, just click either of the above links, you'll see it right away.

Peace ?

While I'm not pro-war, I'm not sure that 'Peace' is exactly the right thing to be wishing for. It seems like they are both effects and externals, not causes and roots.

Love, joy, kindness, freedom, calm acceptance of diversity, liberty, real respect these are needed.

Visualizing only world peace gives me the willies. It's likely at this point, if not tempered with the above qualities, to become a fate as bad as or worse than war.