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Time To Stop Self Sabotaging
”The Real Enemies aren’t outside they are Inside”
A few years ago my wife and I decided to watch every film that had been nominated for an Oscar or a Bafta this century.
That’s a lot of films!
To make it harder, not only in the best film category but in several other categories, the list ended up at over 100 films.
Since then we’ve continued to add films to the list and are still working through them, there is no end in sight!
To give you some idea of the task, Gladiator was released in 2000, think of all the nominated films to come after that.
Hard Lessons In Celluloid
While there is no doubt about the quality of most of the films however, my biggest lesson so far came from one that was only nominated for 1 Oscar, Actor in a leading role.
That Film was “Roman J Israel Esq”
I am sure not many people have seen it, it’s one of those that slipped under the radar, so not too many Spoilers.
Roman J Isreal Esq contained two of the best but hard hitting lessons from a film that I’ve seen.
If you’ve not seen it, Denzil Washington plays a (genius) Lawyer with what I assume Is Aspergers Syndrome (I’m not a doctor, so…
