Eli (2019 Film)

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What is it?

The 2019 American horror movie Eli.

What is it about?

This is how Rotten Tomatoes describes this movie:

ELI is the story of a young boy plagued with an unknown, debilitating illness that requires him to live completely sealed off from the outside world.

After exhausting every option, his parents put their trust — and his life — in the hands of a doctor whose experimental, cutting edge treatments may hold Eli’s last hope.

As Eli undergoes the tremendously intense process that could potentially cure him, he begins to be haunted by experiences that make him question who he can trust.

My Thoughts

This movie would have worked better as a short film in my opinion and the opinion of my brother GC, it was longer than it should have been (not too long, but still longer than it should have been), it was not bad though and the production value was better than I had expected.

But I did feel that performance given by the actor and actress who played the parents, especially the father, were weaker than they could have been like they were not trying as hard as they usually do (I know they can do better, but at least the mom’s performance was better than the dad’s), but everyone did an acceptable job.

The best parts of this movie were when things picked up at the end as you started to learn what was going on finally, and there was a cool scene that I have not seen done before that is worth at least seeing a clip of but I do not want to spoil it.

According to a news article called DeRidder Gothic Jail To Be Used In Upcoming Horror Film the main building used in this movie was actually partly made from a 3D render(?)/image that they made of the old Beauregard Parish Gothic Jail (I went there before when I was a kid during a school field trip, but I can not remember the layout because I was very young back then) in the city of DeRidder in the state of Louisiana in The United States Of America, which I think was cool and I am glad that they did something in the city of DeRidder, but I wish they could have filmed some scenes inside the Gothic Jail and around the city of DeRidder instead of just the city of New Orleans.

Hopefully more people will start making movies, filming scenes, filming renders, et cetera from small cities and towns like DeRidder.

Anyway this movie was not bad, but if they were to edit this movie and shorten it then it would be better and I would then probably rate it a 3.5 out of 5.

The end,

-John Jr

My Dad Buying Me An Automobile? | At A School-Like Building With My Coworkers | Do I Still Look Dateable?

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Dream 1

All that I can remember of this dream is that I was inside a blue van/Ford Explorer-like automobile with my dad and some of my brothers.

My dad either had just bought this automobile for me or he was going to buy it for me, and we were looking inside of it and driving it.

It was pretty spacious inside and was more van-like inside, but that is all that I can remember of this dream.

Dream 2

All that I can remember of this dream is that I was inside a school-like building with some of my coworkers and there were some other people inside the building, and it seemed that we were there for some kind of training and/or all-staff meeting and/or an event and/or something like that.

As I was walking around the building I saw my former female classmate TC trying to get inside a women’s bathroom to deal with a female issue, but a female employee with dark-color skin was trying to stop her because of some kind of strict rules in this building.

TC managed to force her way inside the bathroom, and then I kept walking.

I remember walking down a hallway with rooms on both sides that was like a school hallway, and some of my coworkers were standing outside a classroom looking inside so I stopped to see what they were looking at.

My female coworker TR was one of the coworkers standing on the outside looking inside the classroom from outside the glass on the closed door, and I saw that inside the classroom were students/people sitting at desks while a woman was standing up in front of the class at a chalkboard or something with her back facing us.

From behind the woman looked like my female coworker JB, she had her hair pinned up in the back with it divided in two parts that were partly curled with one on the left side and one of the right side, but even though she looked like JB from behind this made no sense to me for her to be teaching a class so I assumed that maybe it was not JB.

It was possible that she was not teaching the class and just happened to be up at the board doing something, but I had not idea because her back was facing us so I could not see who she was or what she was doing exactly.

But that is all that I can remember of this dream.

Dream 3

All that I can remember of this dream is that I was inside a carpeted room with my female coworkers JB and TR, JB was sitting at a desk against the wall on the right side looking straight ahead at the wall and down at the desk as we talked, TR was standing outside the opening of a small storage-like room to the right of JB, and I was standing in the doorway of the storage-like room.

There was possibly a small window at the top of the wall in the right corner but I could be wrong, if it was, then that was the light source but you could not see out of it really probably; but I could be wrong because I think that this window possibly had a view of the old hanging jail/Gothic jail/BP Jail in the city of D or I knew that it was nearby.

We were talking and TR started to tell us that she had recently went to tour the old hanging jail/Gothic jail/BP Jail, and I remember asking her where did she have to go to pay et cetera but it seemed that she did not hear me so I waited for a moment to ask again.

When that moment came I started to ask TR but then JB suddenly said something like: “Be honest with me, do I still look dateable?”.

I was still talking when JB said this so I paused in confusion trying to make out what she said and what she meant and who she was asking, during this pause, JB joked about this pause and mentioned that recently she has not been wearing makeup as much and as a result and from what she has noticed when looking at herself in the mirror she did not feel that she has been looking so great et cetera.

I then told her that I was still trying to process what she said and I said what I thought that she said, she confirmed that was correct, and so I said something to clarify a few things before giving her my answer to help reduce the awkwardness and to reduce the chances of offense and to reduce the chances of anything being taken as inappropriate.

I then responded with something like: “I think that you look perfectly fine as you are, that I think that you do not need the makeup, and the fact that you have been wearing it less often is a good thing in my opinion for most people; and if you were not married, then yes, you would look perfectly dateable and even if you did not that would not matter because your personality et cetera is great and you would be perfectly dateable based on that alone and looks would just be an extra bonus to go along with that.”

I woke up as we continued talking about this and what made her ask us that, the previous topic, et cetera.

The end,

-John Jr