From: drsteerforth@yahoo.com   
      
   On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:57:44 -0500, Bill Anderson   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 7/14/2021 8:34 PM, wlah...@gmail.com wrote:   
   >> Hey,   
   >>   
   >> Although I was raised Irish Catholic in Queens, NY, during the 1950s and   
   1960s, it didn't take long before I jettisoned the idea of supreme beings and   
   organized religions. While I did catch some   Hollywood religious epics, that   
   soon ended and my only    
   infrequent brushes with Catholicism was reading James Joyce or Graham Greene.   
   >>   
   >> So I really don't have an explanation of how or why I came to see this film   
   years ago (on VHS) with the possible reason being that I watched Jerry   
   Schatzberg's Street Smart and was more impressed with Kathy Baker and Mimi   
   Rogers than I was with the    
   film.   
   >>   
   >> The story concerns a woman who is a telephone operator by day and by night   
   cruises with a male partner for anonymous and group sex. She ends her hobby   
   and is raising a girl child when she beigns hearing about the Rapture at work.   
   One thing leads to    
   another and she ends up in the desert and one of the best endings in a   
   religious-based film that I've seen. No matter what your beliefs – or lack   
   thereof – this is one that shouldn't be missed.   
   >>   
   >> Written and directed by Michael Tolkin. Cinematography by Bojan Bazelli and   
   music by Thomas Newman. Starring Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Patrick Bauchau,   
   and Will Paton, among others.   
   >>   
   >   
   >It has been a long time since I've seen this one and now that you've   
   >reminded me I will see if I still have a copy.  It blew me away with its   
   >literal depiction of the end of times as described in the Bible and I'm   
   >still impressed with Mimi Rogers' defiance. I remember recommending it   
   >to a religious friend I thought would appreciate it but he found it   
   >immensely troubling. So to maintain peace I stopped talking about it and   
   >kept my opinions to myself.  But I really admired this movie.   
      
   Take it all with a grain of salt, Bill.  This from an Assyrian tablet   
   dated to 2800 BCE:   
      
   "Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the   
   world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common;   
   children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book   
   and the end of the world is evidently approaching."   
      
   https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1801/biblical-apocalypse/   
      
   As I often say, we are in the 21st Century.  Time to put away "magical   
   thinking".  Time for civilization to grow up and become civilized.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)