Best artist Drama of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ He tells with all his delicacy about hopes, disillusions, cries, daily life, despair.

❝ It’s an album made of a warm, thick, rough voice, an acoustic guitar, and nothing else, and believe me, it’s no small thing, it is a choice that signifies courage

❝ I’ve heard him called the singer of the rain, and it’s very true

❝ Komorebi is a Japanese word that means: "the light filtering through the trees."

❝ "We are everything we have"

❝ "A cowboy always makes an impression"

❝ The end is within us, we just have to explain it to ourselves, each in our own way.

❝ Haneke is mocking you: there is no salvation, no happy ending, there’s only the nightmare, even if you’re on the good side, the victory will be for the bad guys.

❝ Violence must be present, but it should never be shown.

❝ It's like Taxi Driver for the Marvel generation, but a Taxi Driver with many ingenuities.

❝ In my opinion, one of the best films of the year.

❝ Ugly!

❝ “3-Iron” (Bin-Jip), is Kim Ki Duk's masterpiece, a sublime balance of form and substance.

❝ Kim Ki Duk is without a doubt one of the greatest representatives of Oriental cinema, and with his works, he has created a purely romantic and lyrical way of filming and understanding cinema, giving a poetic touch to films that remain absolute masterpieces of this art.

❝ Pietà is a highly dramatic film. There is never any laughter.

❝ “Hate is baggage: life is too short to be pissed off all the time, it's not worth it.”

❝ Hate is a ball and chain:
life is too short
to spend it always angry,
it's not worth it.

❝ Hatred begets only hatred; the moral of a violent and harsh film that hits the stomach more than once.

❝ Mommy is an extraordinary film precisely because it argues the necessity of being happy and taking life positively, essentially relying on nothing.

❝ The images are shot in an unusual, cramped, and narrow format of 4:3, which makes it difficult for two people to share the same frame.

❝ A clear step back compared to Mommy, Xavier Dolan's new film is extremely ambitious in its intentions.

❝ “Repression is civilization!”

❝ “Private property is theft.”

❝ “A masterpiece that continues to resonate across decades, dated yet current because the methods change, but the concept of exploitation remains unchanged today as it was then,”

❝ right from the start, cinematically speaking, Nocturnal Animals stands out as one of the most interesting and original dramatic thrillers of the last few years.

❝ Let it be clear: Nocturnal Animals is a solid film, but it is not a great film.

❝ You should be careful when you fall in love because it might not happen again...

❝ Robert Redford is an icon of democratic America.

❝ Four Oscars, including Best Picture and Director, a film with some flaws but all in all successful and touching.

❝ He still thinks that with common sense and words themselves, the world can change...

❝ Three women. Three eras. One day.

❝ To look life in the face... always... and to know it for what it is... to love it for what it is... and then... to put it aside... forever, the years... forever, the love... forever, the hours.

❝ Stephen Daldry crafts a difficult film.

❝ «And suddenly they realized there are neither God nor gods: they understood there is neither good nor evil. Then they saw (and understood) that if things were like that, then they themselves didn’t exist either».

❝ “What they build and what they will build, what they do and what they will do is only deceit and lies. What they think and what they will think is ridiculous. They think because they are afraid. And those who are afraid know nothing.”

❝ "I can't feel the coldness, only their falseness..."

❝ In every respect, Saltburn is a precious and fascinating film for this reason, because of its inevitably divisive nature, making it even more interesting.

❝ An aesthetic container, where symbols, sex, and excess don’t deepen the drama, but rather simplify it, reducing it to mere surface.

❝ There is an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay if you’re interested in knowing.

❝ Cherry on top, a direction so dumb as hadn’t been seen in a long time.

❝ These are all the elements that make Donnie Brasco a magnificent portrait of Italo/American crime and that contribute to making it one of the major gangster movies of the nineties.

❝ TO BE SENT TO THE STAKE, THOSE WHO CHARGE YOU 7 EUROS FOR THIS RUBBISH!

❝ it is one of the highest points ever reached by cinema, not just Italian cinema.

❝ The history of cinema divides into two eras: one before and one after Roma città aperta,

❝ This film, shot in Berlin in the summer of 1947, is intended to be an objective and faithful depiction of this immense semi-destroyed city, where three and a half million people lead an existence that is appalling and desperate, almost without realizing it, living in tragedy as in their natural element, but not because of strength of spirit or faith, but out of weariness. It is neither an indictment against the German people, nor a defense, but a serene statement of facts; but if someone, after watching the story of Edmund Koeller, thinks that something must be done, that German children must be taught to love life again, then the effort of those who made this film will have been rewarded.

❝ The film, technically flawless despite having some clunky moments in some parts of the story, relies on the excellent performance of Andra Day (awarded the Golden Globe in 2021 as best actress, just as Diana Ross had been for the same role in 1973) who is very skillful in embodying the legendary Billie.

❝ But what makes "Precious" a work of calibre is that while it tells us about this outsize girl, it offers an acute, raw, and undelicate snapshot of an uncomfortable and ignoble America.

❝ Ladies and gentlemen, here is the most awaited and awarded film of the year, a dramatic and sentimental work based on the novel of the same name by Sapphire.

❝ Considering that this is the first work of two young filmmakers, we are witnessing a small cinematic miracle.

❝ The technical aspect is perhaps at a unique level in the landscape of contemporary Italian cinema.

❝ You come out of the new D’Innocenzo brothers’ film feeling like you’ve just stepped out of a tanning lamp.

❝ Magmatic and overflowing, labyrinthine, anguishing, alienating, Possession by Andrzej Zulawski is one of those dark pearls of world cinema unjustly unknown or forgotten by many

❝ If I have to choose a single adjective, and here I conclude, I would say that Possession is the most disturbing film I have ever seen in my entire life.

❝ The unique visionary nature of this work, the extraordinary cinematography, together with the skilful mastery of the director in directing the actors (in this, one cannot help but remember Werner Herzog) makes this film an objectively "sui generis" work.

❝ “Midnight Cowboy” (1969) remains one of the finest films of those years alongside “Easy Rider” and “The Graduate.”

❝ A tense thriller full of suspense, aged very well (which is no small feat, considering I watched it on videotape with all the commercials from those years), and featuring that great torture scene, a nightmare for people with sensitive teeth.

❝ A frantic use of zooms by director John Schlesinger (well-deserved Oscar for Best Director in 1970) perfectly conveys the chaos of the Metropolis—capital M—of the United States.

❝ A film to be seen and savored in every minute detail.

❝ The cinema of Nichols is particularly mature and calm. Without shouting, without emphasis, it still manages to dot all the i’s.

❝ “Life is hard work,” says the father to his son Ellis.

❝ It’s difficult to immediately get into the mood of the film, if what you expect is a linear movie;

❝ Carax’s cinema is symbolic, metaphorical, magnetic.

❝ Nothing more to add in front of these 134 wasted minutes.

❝ Everything is sealed by the splendid melodies of composer Luis Bacalov.

❝ Unforgettable Massimo Troisi, who passed away just 12 hours after the end of filming, managing to embed in his character suffering, humility, and simplicity, in an absolutely exceptional performance.

❝ For those interested, I recommend reading the novel first and then watching the film (which otherwise might seem disjointed and unconvincing); for those who have already read the book, a film not to be missed.

❝ Kaibutsu, which means monster in Japanese, is the original title of the new film by the master Kore'eda. But who is this monster?

❝ Why did you teach the children to steal?
Well... because I had nothing else to teach them.

❝ If someone asked me why Maboroshi no Hikari / Illusion (1995) is my favorite movie, I would find myself in serious difficulty, and probably the answer would fade into a gloomy silence.

❝ Beautiful work by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, deservedly awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

❝ This film is like a hyper-realistic painting: the situations, the characters, the dialogues... everything is meticulously detailed.

❝ Fixed plans, sparse and direct dialogues in a bleak and desolating scenario describe a story like many others in 1980s Romania.

❝ Tarkovsky does not have a seat in the Olympus of great directors; he has an armchair, therefore "Solaris" (1972), being his most famous work (debates could arise whether it is also the most beautiful), must be labeled as a masterpiece.

❝ Like in his masterpiece The Mirror, Tarkovsky prioritizes 'subjective logic' over 'the logic of the subject'.

❝ «Two guys are accompanied by a man who calls himself the Stalker; it's unclear where they're going, then it all becomes something metaphysical... an extremely heavy film, but one that touched me deeply.»

❝ Indeed, because La sfida is a film-denunciation and denunciation will be a hallmark of Rosi's filmmaking.

❝ With this debut, at thirty-six years old, Rosi signs his first feature film presented at the 19th Venice International Film Festival in the summer of ’58 (at the time I couldn't see it because, well, I was born in December of that same year when the games were already over, well, but today I caught up by watching it after completing today's tasks assigned to meby my superiors), immediately winning a Silver Lion.

❝ the director who, since his high school years, has made political commitment his guiding star; and, regarding truth, to seek it with a film, he believed it was necessary to connect the origins and causes of the narrated events with the effects that result from them.

❝ The three-act structure is a classic of cinematic storytelling, and Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game follows it with almost textbook precision.

❝ “Byzantium” is a film that does not work and fails to develop in a convincing manner, and perhaps the biggest misstep of this great director.

❝ In short, a film that is almost perfect in stylistic appearance, but not at all engaging in purely cinematic terms.

❝ The film, Oscar 2006 for Best Foreign Language Film, is beautiful.

❝ If you haven’t done it yet, go see it.

❝ It’s a pity that the work in question, “The Tourist”, does not have a gram of the visual and emotional impact of its predecessor.

❝ There are no heroes and no salvation. It’s the West.

❝ We are all orphans of Sam Peckinpah, but a great actor like Tommy Lee Jones must miss him even more.

❝ "Show me a single religion that does not prepare for life after death. Show me one that prepares for nothingness. Now, that would be the one for me."

❝ A beautiful film, romantic.

❝ If poetry does not come naturally as leaves to a tree, it is better that it does not come at all.

❝ the aesthetic beauty that this work emanates from start to finish, the cinematography, and the choice of music reach a very high qualitative level, and the screenplay is extremely refined but even more extraordinary is the work done with the actors.

❝ the film is terrible.

❝ There is something good: Jasmine Trinca is undoubtedly a great lead, Accorsi knows his craft, Alessandro Borghi is excellent and confirms himself here.

❝ Thisfilm does not aim to be a chronicle of history, it seeks to show us how ordinary Americans lived these intense moments of elections where they managed to realize, at least in their own minds, a better future.

❝ They made a desert and called it peace,

❝ I realize that my opinion might meet with the opposition of many, but honestly, the cinematic rendition of "Fahrenheit 451" by Francois Truffaut has always left me quite indifferent.

❝ Bahrani chooses to shoot with a quasi-documentary style, and the repeated use of a handheld camera is a clear symptom of this.

❝ What Assayas has created is perhaps the most anomalous ghost film ever, certainly one of the most interesting.

❝ In reality, "The Next Three Days" is a thriller with multiple nuances, shot impeccably, possibly only too "cold" in some sequences.

❝ An essential denouncement film, without excesses, which I did not find to be rhetorical in delivering a strong and clear message.

❝ there's no comparison between the fragmentation and redundancy of the latter faced with the rigorous sparseness of "In the Valley of Elah."

❝ The film is particularly appealing because in the complex whirlwind of events in a rapid, almost frenetic succession, it manages not to fall into the trap of producing just a sterile documentary.

❝ The latest creation of Michele Placido, "Il Grande Sogno," is first and foremost a strongly autobiographical and nostalgic work, then a film about the Sixties.

❝ But the thing that absolutely must be celebrated when talking about this film is the splendid interpretation by Kim Rossi Stuart in the role of the leading bandit, a role that seems tailor-made for him, theatrical in his movements but convincing in the result thanks to which he reproduces the same brashness and the same charm that at the time the newspapers attributed to the real Vallanzasca.

❝ The camera seems to fly through the versatile hands of Yimou who, among acrobatic convergences and situations even on the edge of credibility, delivers some textbook sequences.

❝ The screenplay is superb, a masterpiece in itself regardless of the brilliance of the project.

❝ This film truly shows you China from a different perspective.

❝ "Tragic events have the power to transform even the strongest personalities."

❝ I believe a film is made because you encounter something. From this encounter, you receive an emotion. What do you encounter? There are three possibilities: the works of others, the news events, and oneself.

❝ Oshima's love has always worn forbidden colors.

❝ Hold my hand tight and follow me, I’ll take you through the depths of Demir Debirkubuz's murky cinema, I will tell you about his magical and mysterious Turkey, also dangerous.

❝ I won’t go further because then I’ll be rightly accused of talking too much about the plot; I’ll just say that Innocence/Masumiyet, although I consider it slightly inferior to Destiny/Kader, offers us equally the lightning style of Demirkubuz and the charm of Turkey and its characters.

❝ This review could easily have a subtitle like this: the ultimate masterpiece of independent literature.

❝ The novella I am about to review, unfortunately, is a huge and colossal NO.

❝ Professor Stabellini's writing is very light and makes us feel how passionate the author is about the story and art in general.

❝ Ruthless. Indeed.

❝ The film is very beautiful, intense, delicate.

❝ The performance is, as noted, superb and perfectly communicates the protagonist's inner drama,

❝ "It's not enough to rent the Easy Rider tape to be a rebel" (Dennis Hopper as Huey Walzer in"Flashback" by Franco Amurri, 1990)

❝ "Oh no. What you represent to them is freedom."

❝ "Well, how about we take a look at these supermotos we've heard so much about?".

❝ Bobby is a brilliant and restless person, irascible and perpetually dissatisfied.

❝ A mere $800,000 from the proceeds of "Easy Rider" allowed Bob Rafelson to make a pivotal film of the new Hollywood.

❝ Farhadi unfolds his story with a grace, a restraint, a realism that are truly uncommon.

❝ The truth is never objective.

❝ Ildikó Enyedi, the director, draws a tale cloaked in ancient solitude, detached, dark, transversal, implausible romance... like life.

❝ To tell a non-conventional love story, even at the risk of being incomprehensible for long stretches.

❝ Au hasard Balthazar is a 1966 film by Robert Bresson.

❝ The film was a commercial flop, to the point that it was pulled from theaters after just a few days.

❝ Making it clear that it's about this, that is, myth, I liked The Darkest Hour.

❝ As far as the set design, photography, and costumes are concerned, Joe Wright and his entire staff take an extremely meticulous care.

❝ to create a film that I would describe as an excellent and very varied blend

❝ Filmed in the first half of 1969 and released in German cinemas at the beginning of 1970, this was the first feature film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

❝ Fassbinder's most successful film remains perhaps his most famous and important work, and is undoubtedly among the masterpieces of the new German cinema.

❝ Shock Corridor is not only Fuller’s most successful film, it is also one of the most beautiful films about madness and how madness is tied to history, and to people’s lives in an indissoluble yet disturbing manner.

❝ White Dog, indeed, is a film about racism.

❝ It criticizes the stupidity of governments, both Western (Israeli) and Eastern (Syrian).

❝ Happy ending. For the first time, the Supreme Court revises a military tribunal's decision in favor of Palestinians.

❝ A wise saying goes: «There are three types of secrets: those we confide only to a friend, those we confide only to ourselves and those we do not even confide to ourselves».

❝ Instinct screws you over, but fear is even worse.

❝ The film is the narration of different characters while following the various paths of small stories mentally narrated by Anselmo, the group's rebel who keeps futuristic and cubist reproductions in his room and wants to escape, ending up continuing to manage his father's business.

❝ Francesco Maselli, a communist and anti-fascist, had everyone's eyes on him, being the namesake of an internationally renowned book.

❝ A beautiful work by Roland Joffé, with the contribution of an absolutely perfect cinematography by Chris Menges, skillfully blending the natural cold colors of the vegetation and monumental waterfalls with the warm ones of the rocks, the mud, and the Indians, in addition to carefully crafting perspectives that give the viewer the ability to imagine a limit in the shots.

❝ This film is among the best I've ever seen, a combination of components at the highest level.

❝ Naomi Watts, thank heavens, doesn’t pretend to be Garbo, but does her best to perfectly construct the character of Kitty: a British bourgeois woman caught in the whirlwind of her frivolities, for whom the encounter with the most blatant poverty serves as a warning for inner redemption.

❝ Curran relies too much on the available actors. And he is wrong...

❝ Some men get the world, others get an ex-hooker and a trip to Arizona.

❝ Wall Street has a gambling problem and if we save them, these gamblers will never learn their lesson

❝ The director (Tom McCarty), unknown to me, shows great talent in knowing how to tell an intense,contemporary and dramatic story with delightful humorous interludes that nevertheless do not spoil the prevailing bittersweet flavor that will accompany us when, once the credits have rolled, we get up from our seats.

❝ Over two very demanding hours: the writing is truly excellent and manages to explain the entire complexity of the story.

❝ A MUST-SEE!

❝ Guillermo Arriaga has made a film in an immense flashback where various stories converge, but where the starting point does not change, while the characters evolve.

❝ “When a man falls in love with me, I want to slit his throat, watch him die before my eyes, set him on fire. A woman's power lies in contempt.”

❝ “Isabella Santacroce writes music, juggles tones, detaches cross rhythms and metric axes, organizes chaos, watches cross-eyed, prints dissonances. If you let her play...what you hear is music”

❝ With "Sangue - la morte non esiste" De Rienzo debuts both as an author and as a director.

❝ They call me Adrian Rudolph Valentine Aquilini, but only the professors during exams or the cops checking my criminal record.

❝ All this is skillfully captured by Gregory Hoblit's direction, which suffuses each modern and luxurious shot of Los Angeles with twilight, pleasantly intertwining shadows and reflections of light.

❝ "if you want justice, go to a whorehouse; if you want to get screwed, go to court,"

❝ Edward Norton, however, will be "sentenced" to be a celebrity!

❝ Yet, there is something that must be made clear from the outset: "Another Earth" is not a science fiction film.

❝ A low-budget film and the first feature by Mike Cahill, who cites "The Double Life of Veronique" as an inspiration

❝ The terror is therefore conceptual rather than visual (and much sooner than cinematic, it must be said): people are afraid to watch the film because they fear suddenly finding themselves as children again, defenseless, with no weapons, facing a nightmare turned flesh.

❝ And let’s not talk about the CGI! The "monster" is presented right from the opening prologue in all its splendor (am I watching a body horror or a creepy movie?), and it’s completely computer-generated.

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"Scanners" is and will always remain the matrix of the works that Cronenberg will create in the future and in my opinion, remains the Best that the director has ever made, at least until now.

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VideoDrome is a film from 1983, although limited overall by the technology available in the early '80s, the concept that makes this film brilliant manages to go beyond these limitations, as it is absolutely futuristic for its plot and in some ways plausible both today and in a hypothetical future, perhaps not too far away.

❝ Cocaine is a 1988 film directed by Harold Becker and starring the great James Woods.

❝ In conclusion, a reflection on drones used on battlefields and in warfare operations, something which more than science fiction, can be considered reality and the present.

❝ The cinema of Lav Diaz, a monolith with which the cinephile eventually tries to engage, is inextricably tied to the history of his country, the Philippines: a melting pot of cultures, scarred by colonialism, corruption, and natural disasters.

❝ It is not the "classic Diaz film," it is not dominated by static long shots, silence, black and white, nor is it any of that.

❝ “there are crimes that inhabit you, crimes that hurt more than others.”

❝ The viewing of "Case 137," the latest work by Dominik Moll, brought to mind the phrase "the tragedy of life is that everyone has their reasons."

❝ Then the last image will clarify much of what you thought you hadn’t fully understood, the real meaning of the story, or at least of its second part.

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the greatest merit I assign to "Estranei" (original title "All of us strangers") by British director Andrew Haigh is its ability to stage, with the greatest possible effectiveness, a complex story that can be classified as mediumistic or paranormal, keeping the viewer's attention well awake.

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Lean on Pete is a beautiful film.

❝ “I would have appreciated it more if it had been an hour shorter.”

❝ This is a film of impressive stylistic and authorial refinement for a debut.

❝ "The thing everyone gets wrong when dealing with kids is considering them little adults. Made like us, but at a lower level. They talk like us, but a bit worse, think like us, but slightly less, that sort of thing. It's utter nonsense. They're not little versions of us. They're something else. They're a world. Completely different. They're like little visitors from another planet. The incredible and beautiful thing, the reason I chose this job, is that - every now and then - you manage to understand the language of that planet. And so you either show them the way to yours, or you don't, and you're left there, consumed by envy."

❝ "Adolescence talks about love and forgiveness. I found it a masterpiece."

❝ Anime nere stands out sharply from typical mafia movies; its richness lies primarily in its ability to strip away those tropes that seem inevitable when discussing this type of narrative.

❝ An extremely simple film. Predictable in its progression, but pleasant and recommended to the DeBaser audience.

❝ It’s a film about appearance, a good film.

❝ "Between living dead and dying living there is no difference"

❝ "Listen Pellegrini, you grew up with books, joints, and revolution but your parka was bought by your dad, I raised sheep and sometimes even slept with them, but now they call me doctor, there has to be a reason!"

❝ Dasy and Viola are two sisters, two sides of a coin, two truths.

❝ A tough film. The screenplay is by Guaglianone, the one from "They Call Me Jeeg Robot," and it shows.

❝ it won 9 sacred statuettes, the Oscars.

❝ An excellent "Italo-American" thriller, impeccable in many respects, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith.

❝ A work that received a whopping seven nominations at the Academy Awards

❝ A raw realism, in short, that scandalized and perhaps also intrigued American society of the time

❝ the truth that makes you want to bury yourself.

❝ "Living a life with 'buts' and 'what ifs' is like living a life with a thousand pasts and no future."

❝ Every eye has its secret, and every secret conceals a passion that, once discovered, can give a meaning, tragic or comic, to everyone's life, however "complicated" it may be, to use the adjective with which Irene Hastings, smiling, defines the state of things at the conclusion of the story.

❝ The talented Russian director Zvyagintsev is not fond of light subjects.

❝ Leviathan has the broad and profound breath of the classics.

❝ FROM HERE TO ETERNITY!

❝ Sometimes classic greats deserve to be dusted off, especially in this era where cinema is giving way to music video ugliness, stuffed with botox and computers, all for the modest sum of 170 million dollars.

❝ Super Dark Times therefore proved to be an exceptional and unjustly underrated drama, a child of those youth-styled films like "Kids" that simply narrate reality without overly emphasizing the context in a "hollywoodian" way.

❝ Antonio is unable to make love to his wife! In reality, Antonio is practically impotent! Who would have ever thought? Him… the handsome Antonio!

❝ This film is among my favorites of recent years and is unjustly little known in Italy.

❝ Does anyone know Chantal Akerman? I didn't, at least until a short time ago.

❝ “The Final Cut” (but the Pink Floyd have nothing to do with it here) is a film written and directed by Omar Naim, and its main point of interest - particularly for the general public - probably lies in the presence of Robin Williams in the leading role.

❝ Form is substance.

❝ We need more films like Pride, that's the first thought that crossed my mind as I left the cinema.

❝ Embracing the bleak and dreary atmospheres of the splendid noir "Winter's Bone" by Debra Granik, the unknown Tze Chun delivers to the cinematic world a genre film that has gone entirely under the radar, especially in our Italy, always excellent at concealing anything that doesn't guarantee box office success, well-supported by a film audience among the most gullible and naive in the European landscape.

❝ Kurzel remains incorruptible, faithful to the text: he finely works within the tiny interstices left free by the thrust of the dialogues.

❝ Hello, this time we are talking about “Foolish Wives” by Erich von Stroheim, his most ambitious and expensive film.

❝ He cares little about this and produces, writes, acts, and directs a thriller rooted in the classic Hitchcockian suspense.

❝ What immense balls the first lines.

❝ Kill Bill: 2004, Quentin Tarantino.

❝ Considering the general conditions in which the film was shot, I would say it impresses how the divide between cinematic fiction and reality is almost imperceptible.

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"England, you can kiss my ass!"

❝ Never cry for me

❝ In my opinion, the salient feature of "As bestas" is that it falls into the category of certain political cinema in the broadest sense, as was the case in the past in Italy with an author worth rediscovering like Elio Petri.

❝ Absolute masterpiece, no ifs, ands, or buts.

❝ PedroPáramo is a strange book.