Death, Horse, Death, the Devil, and a CRAZY person

A Family Undertaking is a movie about home burials and taking care of our dead loved ones at home.  This movie is incredible.  I think that one man whose wife had just died and they were taking care of her at home summed it up the best, that having her in the home after she died was more helpful for the family to see that she was truly gone.  Another woman who lost her seven year old daughter in a car accident was talking about how her two sons were in the car when the accident happened, and after she felt that if her daughter’s body would have been taken to a funeral home, the boys would never have gotten the opportunity to understand and see that their sister had died.  Great movie, I highly recommend.  It’s making me want to go take the $465 course to become a home death practitioner. 

HeroinTown is a movie about a news story.  60 Minutes came and did a story about this small town and it’s horrible heroin problem.  This movie is in response to the 60 Min story, and yet it is really poorly done. It’s like they gave a camera to someone and said
“here, make a movie” and he did.  Not worth watching, didn’t keep my interest, I was ready for it to be done after 15 minutes, and then it kept going for another hour and seven minutes. It does make me a little melancholy for the Curben. 

Right To Exit is a movie about Dr. Kevorkian’s legal battle and time in prison.  He was a fascinating man, played the flute, spoke five languages, incredibly intelligent.  Good movie, I had just seen all the info before.

Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story.  Lee Atwater was a Republican campaign manager who worked for many, many candidates, and was the guy who came up with many of the dirty tricks that the Republicans use still.  He seems like the kind of person I have no respect for, he didn’t actually believe in the Republicans ideals, he just did it to make a name for himself.  He is Karl Rove’s mentor.  He used a opponents mental health history and said that he had been “hooked up to jumper cables”.   He was the architect of the “Willie Horton” ads, and changed the face of politics to this day.  Interesting movie, very well done.

Alive! Is Michael Jackson Really Dead?  This is a crazy movie.  I enjoy conspiracies, but this one is silly.  Things like the fact that the autopsy has the name “Michael Joseph Jackson” but his name is really “Michael Joe Jackson”.  Seriously.  This movie is messed up, with no real details but just questions and things like “Elvis lived in Graceland, MJ lived at Neverland”.  Seriously, crazy! She is adding meaning to his dancing, like making it into sign language. HA! Ok, she just used the Weekly World News as a source.  This movie is BS!