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The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Written by editor on 06 December 2017

“The Killing of a Sacred Deer”(2017)

Drama/Thriller/Mystery

Studio A24

**** out of five stars

Heart-wrenching is what Â«The Killing of a Sacred DeerÂ» is with irony of a doctor performing open-heart surgery in the opening scenes. Doctor Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) is seen in a beautiful hospital standing outside his office talking to a teenage boy named Martin (Barry Keogham) who has made an unscheduled visit to see the doctor. Apparently, Steven is the one who operated on his father; who, sadly, has deceased. Steven takes an interest in Martin, a kid seemingly with few friends, a classic loner, someone in need for another person to talk to since his father is gone. Steven invites the lad over to his house to meet his ophthalmologist wife Anna (Nicole Kidman), and children,12-year old Bob (Sunny Suljic) and 14-year-old Kim (Raffey Cassidy). Martin takes up the invitation at the Murphys”' house with “normal” interactions.

There is one scene in the movie where a watch may or may not be a key to Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos”' (“The Lobster”) enigmatic, dark, oddball film. One of the characters says about a watch, “I prefer a metal strap.” (Alfred Hitchcock often uses a bird, such as in “The Birds” and “Topaz” for something ominous to follow.)… Read the rest “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”

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FRANK REFLECTIONS: Whose land is “Our” land?

Written by editor on 06 December 2017

BY FRANK ERICKSON

Homelessness within the Native American Community is much higher than the white community. What white Europeans have done to Native Americans is beyond words.

The most important issue our society will deal with in the next 100 years is”“who has the right to own things around here.

My ancestors come here, unjustly take the land, and then play capitalism into the equation. So the wickedness grows every day as the white landlords continue to raise rents and the rate of homelessness among Natives only increases, the chance to get a roof over their heads becomes further out of reach.

Greed is just the surface problem. The whites have no right to own the land and the commerce.