Diary
March 2026
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008). This 2008 American comedy picture follows the life of the IDF super soldier "Zohan", (Adam Sandler), who is tired of being a soldier, and so he decides to fake his death to pursue his dreams of being a hairstylist in the U.S.A. After finally trying and succeding in proving himself of being a worthy hairstylist, he's recognized by Palestinians for being who he truly is, the "Zohan". This encounter will cause one of the bad Palestinian guys to come to America to kill him, but some Americans try to cause chaos between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and so because of this, these 2 opponents finally settle everything apart to unite together to fight the real enemy, The United States of America. Could this possibly be the hidden message of the movie, maybe this is what it could take for all the conflicts between Israel/Palestine/Iran to end, to go to the U.S. and fight the real enemy?
Fight Club
Fight Club (1999), a never dying masterpiece about self improvement, capitalism, role models and anarchy. This legendary film starts by having the protagonist (Edward Norton), talk about his day to day life, explaining his difficulties with insomnia, but manages to find a scapegoat by going through different support groups and making up different personas, as a way to cope with his insomnia. Even though at first this method of coping works, after a certain while he meets his first enemy, "a woman". This woman, who we shall refer to as: "Marla Singer", (Helena Bonham Carter), unsurprisingly starts infiltrating all of these support groups, ruining the life of the narrator, whom now falls back into his old habits of waking up in random places and not knowing what happens in his life. From waking up from an airplane to another, he suddently finds himself talking to a soap salesman, "Tyler Durden", (Brad Pitt), who critizes the lifestyle of the protagonist, made of consumerism and expensiveness, which is already an allegory to capitalism, which will be expanded in different ways all throught the movies. After arriving to the airport, the narrator goes back to his house, which he finds to have exploded for seemingly no reason, and now since he doesnt have a house to stay in, calls a friend, Tyler Durden, who he will help to stay in a new location only if they start a fight, and so one thing leads to another and this is how the "Fight Club" starts. Now this is where a lot of opinions regarding the "Picture" start splitting up apart, IMO the Fight Club itself is a way to show Men how they can be the best version of themselves. On one side we have the narrator, someone who is stuck in his own head and keeps making excuses for his lazy behaviours, stuck under this capitalystic system that opresses us, on the other there is Tyler Durden, he is someone who is not afraid to be himself, to be free someone who isn't scared to show who they really are, and do whatever the fuck they want. One could say, a perfect role model for young men out there, an enemy to capitalism. Tyler Durden is represented as leader, he is the main person behind the Fight Club, he makes all the rules, he organizes everything, even though the Club is supposed to be an anarchist system, Durden is able to brainwaish this little circle and use them as mascots for his own gains and convincing them its for the greater good of anarchism, which this is what the movie is criticing, pointless anarchy that does a full 360, and goes right back to capitalism, which also shows why liberalism is a better political way to help fix this corrupted capitalistic system (yes, Communism WOULD be better HOWEVER, it would lead to Murder). Something else that is worth to note is that, while Tyler Durden is a way to show how you yourself, can be a way to make yourself better in life, the protagonist keeps being distracted by Marla Singer, which we could say represents how many times "women" can be a distraction to your goals, by begging for your attention and being hysterical... A really cool thing that the character of Brad Pritt portrays, is that there is a scene in which, Tyler scares to death a guy working at a convenience store, which ends up with Tyler validating the dreams of this young man to become a veterinarian, (we all have our dreams, do not judge), and once the guy is let go he starts running, to which Tyler responds to, by quoting the infamous scene in the movie Forrest Gump (1994): "Run, Forrest, Run!", and as we all know Forrest Gump in his life is able to achieve his own dreams and live a life of dreams. Now the second part of this amazing, and captivating picture, is that it leaves you kind of confused, it's a very complicated and intricated part of the film, which is a way from David Fincher, (the director), to leave an open letter to the full meaning of the movie, it leaves you perplexed on whether or not the protagonist has achieved Tyler's dream of an anarchist system, or if he has succumbed himself to this capitalistic system that is drowning us all. Perhaps the real answer hides beneath you, the reader, the watcher of this film, the true change has to be done by you, maybe you are The Narrator, scared to make the next move, to dethrone the system, to overcome the political and sociatal difficulties and differencies imposed to us by corrupted politicians, and in the end we just end up choosing the "easy way out", instead of fighting and uprising this capitalistic world...
Fritz the Cat
Wow. This is just an incredible piece of art. A movie about racism made in 1972 featuring quite a funny cat. In the movie we can see his daily life, a normal life for someone that lived in the 60s-70s. A life full of: "Sex, drugs and Rock 'n' roll!". In "Fritz the Cat" we can see the cops be represented as pigs, (very clever), black people by crows and white people by mostly cats, dogs, other pigs etc. In this "Picture" we can see "Fritz", (the protagonist), try and hang out with "Crows", but he is not socially accepted by the Crows, as Fritz's people have been utterly violent, and have only segregated the crows all throught history. With some well placed nudity, a lot of drug usage and some sex scenes here and there, this picture is still able to bring up important topics that resonate with society even in modern days, for exemple at some point we can see Fritz listening to the radio, and the podcasters on the radio channel bring up topics like the war between Israel and Palestine. With all of this said, I'm not going to spoiler anything else, but I truly shall say that this picture is limitless, a piece of art that never dies.
Seized
Seized (2020), oh what a beauty you are... In this Picture we can see "Nero", (Scott Adkins) live in "Baja California", with his son "Taylor" (Matthew Garbacz). Nero is a former special agent that was forcefully transferred in Mexico after his wife was mysteriously killed in some weird accident... But living in Mexico is not all fun, the sun and the "plaja" may seem to indicate a life of riches and priviliges, but underneath we can see a family bond disrupting apart. The father/son relationship between Nero and Taylor is not the greatest, this is mainly caused by Taylor not doing good in school, picking up fights, and being called up by the principle every week. However everything shakes up all of a sudden, Nero is drugged, and Taylor is kidnapped, all of this happens because "Mzamo", (Mario Van Peebles), is going to use the kidnapping of Taylor as a weapon to force Nero in doing all his dirty work for him. When watching this movie for the first time it may not seem, but it actually has a deeper meaning, what this movie secretly wants to talk about is the societal power dynamics that hide inside the nuclear family now abrupting, the cartel and most importantly capitalism. In this movie the cartel is represented as evil, violent, able to do almost anything for the "green", (money), but we can also see the cartel work alongside the main people behind the patriarchy system in this state of Mexico, whom, with their power and their money use all of their advantages to take care of the opposition no matter the cost, a subtle reference to how capitalism has been ruining lives for centuries. Personally, I would say that this picture almost hit the center on how certain topics truly affect the world for the worst, but nobody is there to pay attention for it until it's too late...
