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Hostile (2017)
Okay but poor underlying message to men
The movie should be recategorized as a Mystery.
The mystery of why a Rich, Handsome, Cultured Frenchman decides to save a lowlife, junkie hoe from her crappy life and rehabilitate her. The dream of every Instagram and Tik Tok THOT out there. He's dumb enough to move her into his mansion and knock her up. The real apocalypse would be when she divorced him and took half his stuff, but I digress.
Other than that, the 30% of the movie that was actually about her survival and had elements of horror were enjoyable.
The Coming War on China (2016)
Not a bad documentary but a little too one sided.
As a Canadian and one who wrote a paper back in college about American hegemony and how the CIA infiltrated labour unions in Latin America and overthrew many democratically elected governments and replaced them with Juntas that were easily controlled and allowed the siphoning off of resources to American corporations, I'm not averse to strong criticism of American foreign policy. I did feel that it soft pedalled Chinese foreign policy and took the word of a few domestic champions of Chinese foreign policy that China had very modest goals compared to the US. If you follow the non mainstream news, you'll read many pieces about the Chinese takeover of many strategic and economic assets around the world from Venezuela and especially Africa through their rather clever and insidious loans that allow China to take over ports, airports and resources like natural gas to pay for delinquent loans. China is also in the midst of a massive naval buildup and is claiming gas and oil fields as her own with her artificial islands and screwing countries in Southeast Asia and the Philipines. I also had first hand experience while visiting Cambodia when the locals told me Chinese money is flooding in buying up everything but the only locals who benefit are corrupt politicians; also the idyllic island of Koh Rong was leased for 99 years to a Chinese consortium which is going to build 25 casinos, an international airport and a ring road on the tiny island which will destroy it. At the current pace China will own Africa in the not too distant future and there's even talk of as many as 200 to 300 millions Chinese colonists going to Africa in the coming decades, presumably to secure Africa's resources and ensure a loyal and steady supply.
America has done much harm to many nations and is responsible for 100s of thousands of dead, so bravo for criticizing her policy in Asia since WWII. I just felt that it could have been a little more balanced. Still a good watch though.
The Daniel Project (2012)
Good introduction to eschatology for the unitiated.
Not sure why the raging skeptics are demanding a counter argument. I don't recall anywhere where it's written one must always present a counter argument when presenting ones argument. God knows, the atheists like Dawkins certainly don't share the podium with theists with a counter argument. If you want to hear the counter argument, merely surf the internet or watch mainstream media. They are replete with anti Christian voices. I agree with the criticism that there have always been wars and famines and earthquakes. I believe those prophecies of Jesus refer specifically to the seven year tribulation period when half the earth will be burned up with fire and half the population killed. There are certainly rumblings of war in the Middle East in late 2017 and Iran, Russia and Turkey appear to be assembling for the invasion of Israel predicted by the prophet Ezekiel in chapters 38 and 39.
Certainly there have always been people who said they were in the times of the apocalypse for two thousand years of church history, but they willingly ignored that there was not a state of Israel which has always been central. There must be an Israel and a Temple in Jerusalem for prophecy to be fulfilled. The fact that the Jews were scattered across the globe for 2000 years who maintained their identity and were able to return to their ancient homeland when they were completely at the mercy of foreign powers is a moder miracle. The land became desolate just as the Bible predicted. The land of Israel is very fertile so it's significant that it languished under Arab and Turkish stewardship and became desolate. It is only extremely fertile under Jewish ownership. They are also surrounded by hostile powers bent on her destruction just as the Bible predicted and the nations are obsessed with Jerusalem a relatively insignificant city just as the Bible predicted (Zekariah 12). Israel miraculously survived the various Arab assaults in 1948, 67 and 73 when they should have certainly lost at least in 1948.
I'll just say it now, if you want something to hang your hat on, Iran, Turkey, Libya and Sudan are going to Marshal forces North of Israel (likely Syria from the way things are playing out) and invade Israel and will probably be lead by Russia (best candidate for Magog in Ezekial) and be destroyed miraculously on the mountains of Israel by earthquake and pestilence and fire will be rained down on some of those nations. When that happens in the near future I'm sure the skeptics will still insist it's a coincidence. Read for yourself and study, there are 16 books of the prophets in the Bible with many details about the time we live in. Like Joel predicted the nations would part the land of Israel. Never before in all history did the Jews experience international pressure to divide the land of Israel.