film about a guy who loves gold

during the gold rush. really loves it, appreciates it. can't bring himself to sell it for any amount of money

bothered by mediocre critics and pretenders

but the thing that especially irks is that they cannot be circumvented by the energy and intelligence you have at hand. they are moving targets and to triumph over them you would have to simplify them, as any human being would have to be simplified. it would take more than the disposable energy you have, unless you made your project to combat mediocrity, and is that how you want your light spent? or spent creatively...

a film about certainty, IMpenitance, NO regrets

going to one's grave unrepentant & RIGHT! Unlike McNamara, who grieved his mistakes and the lives they cost, Donald Rumsfeld is driven like a rivet in rectitude and will die that way. because in his personal code that is the most important thing. this is the zeitgeist. the last refuge from powerlessness is in being RIGHT

the reason why movies fail to move

I think has something to do with the McKee-ization of cinema.
Everyone's got the formula down pat, the herky jerky elaboration of plot
So that the elements are an afterthought, plug them in
Kind of like how Henry Kissinger viewed people, or populations, whole countries
as elements of realpolitik to be manipulated
the currency must be a given, gotten out of the way
But it's cinema that's being done away with by this calculation
Things learned, discovered about human beings on the screen
Felt.
This I know and feel to be true, and hold out hope of expressing
The field is wide open
The soul hasn't been ministered to for ages and languishes.

movie: guy gets fired

only job listing is motivational speaker
can't do it
someone gives him a pill
transforms his personality
does it