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Pele: Birth of a Legend (2016) highlights “ginga”–which means the beautiful game. Ginga was a style of soccer by the subject of this film, Edson Arantes do Nascimento. He is famously and affectionately known as Pele, the Brazilian soccer team forward. Pele’s Brazilian teammates also preferred ginga. The film tells us that ginga’s history goes as…

When Star Trek was funny.  I have written about how Star Trek crossed into the environmentally friendly. That environmental theme was in Star Trek IV The Voyage Home (1986, USA). It was an appropriate theme for the Star Trek series, which looked at life idealistically. The message was to look after the environment, particularly whales, before…

Which Star Wars film should we see…if we only have one choice? Would A New Hope do? What about The Empire Strikes Back? We may imagine what life would be like if there was only one Star Wars film ever. But among all the choices we now have, what is the essential Star Wars to see?…

Revenge of the Sith, the third episode of Star Wars, is a ‘primal’ fantasy. By primal I mean a type of basic human experience, in the form of a fantasy. Entitlement and power The experience of entitlement in Star Wars is based in power. Senator Palpatine (who later becomes the Emperor) is really a dark…
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