This is a public service announcement.
I watch lots of Chinese language movies.
Last night I spent a week watching Yi Yi (A One And A Two).
Run for your lives.
Despite a good Rotten Tomatoes review, this is a 2:53 hours of your life you will never have back.
I hated this movie so much that I had to warn you.
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
A Daily Prayer for Priests
Nota bene: I do not answer these numbers or this Skype address. You won't get me "live". I check for messages regularly.
WDTPRS
020 8133 4535
651-447-6265
on ASK FATHER: “If a priest blesses something without following the ritual, is it really blessed? (BAD NEWS!): “These discussions make me quite sad. I usually seek out the services of a newly ordained parochial vicar for blessings.…”
on ASK FATHER: Can we Catholics observe Jewish feasts like Purim?: “Thank you, Father, for honoring the Elder Brother.”
on ASK FATHER: “If a priest blesses something without following the ritual, is it really blessed? (BAD NEWS!): “Once again I see how God has poured His blessings upon my unworthy soul. My beloved priest since Summorum Pontificum…”
on ASK FATHER: “If a priest blesses something without following the ritual, is it really blessed? (BAD NEWS!): “Well, now I’m totally confused. Almost every blessed item I have was blessed in English, even down to the Nativity…”
on ASK FATHER: Can we Catholics observe Jewish feasts like Purim?: “Father, you have really outdone yourself this time. This is ecumenism at its best.”
on ASK FATHER: Can we Catholics observe Jewish feasts like Purim?: “I wonder if Magilla Gorilla was Jewish.”
on Terrific podcast at Crisis with Scott Hahn. Don’t delay.: “Fr. Z, writing in 2019 on Archbishop Carroll’s “Prayer for Government”: “Fathers, you might want to have everyone pray this…”
on Rome Shot 87: “Also Dodici Apostoli is today’s Roman Station. “Even in death he can’t escape them.” Nor can we who live. Did…”
on Rome Shot 87: “This is the tomb of Clement XIV, a Franciscan pope, educated by Jesuits, who in his papacy would issue the…”
on LENTCAzT 2021: 09 – Thursday 1st Week of Lent: “The only choice is between fervor and sin.”: “Thanks, Father, splendid stuff!”
on LENTCAzT 2021: 09 – Thursday 1st Week of Lent: “The only choice is between fervor and sin.”: “https://aleteia.org/slideshow/slideshow-church-of-san-lorenzo-in-panisperna/8/”
on Rome Shot 86: “I can’t stop looking at this creative little space. There is so much to take in. I particularly like the…”
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful.
That way I have steady income I can plan on, and you wind up regularly on my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I periodically say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
My "challenge coin" for my 25th anniversary of ordination in 2016.
Want one? I do exchanges with military and LEOs, etc.
Loading ...If you travel internationally, this is a super useful gizmo for your mobile internet data. I use one. If you get one through my link, I get data rewards.
Loading ...
They find you a pro-life agent in your area who commits to giving a portion of the fee to a pro-life group!
Help Monks in Wyoming (coffee – UPDATED LINK) and Norcia (beer) and the wonderful "Soap Sisters" of Summit, NJ!
Please follow me on Twitter!
Visits tracked by Statcounter
since Sat., 25 Nov. 2006:
è¬è¬æ‚¨æ醒我們ï¼
“Set in Taipei, director Edward Yang’s three-hour film is a rich, funny and humane family portrait with keen observations…” from United States Catholoic Conference of Bishops
http://www.usccb.org/movies/y/yiyiaoneandatwo.shtml
God help us all!
“Last night I spent a week watching Yi Yi.”
Heh. I think that says it all, really.
sigil: ä¸å®¢æ°”!
Irulats: It’s still a truly lousy film.
Fr. Z: 我相信您。
Fr. Z!!! Z ç¥žçˆ¶ï¼ å“Žå–²ï¼ ä½ æ€Žéº½é€™éº½ç”¨ç°¡é«”å—呢？？ 多麽ä¸å‚³çµ±å•Šï¼
I saw that “气â€! My goodness! The angels are weeping at the use of those communist simplified monstrosities! æ°£ï¼æ°£ï¼æ°£ï¼æ°£ï¼!!
Fr. Z, I concur with your assessment of that movie. I admire your ability to stick it out to the bitter end. I lasted about 1/2 way through it before I could not take one more moment.
General MacArthur, where are you when we need you?
Fr,
Since you like Chinese language movies, have you seen “Raise the Red Lantern” yet? A dark and depressing movie, yet my wife and I found ourselves liking it a lot.
NeoCarlist
Thanks, Father. It’ll be tough, but I’ll try to avoid this one. :-)
For Goodness sake, are you all started to talk and write Chinese after watching some Chinese film? I cannot believe it!
Um… Father, if it was that bad, then WHY did you continue watching til the end instead of turning it off? You could have recouped at least some of that wasted time by giving up on the movie once you realized it was a ‘dog’. :-)
That’s the best movie review I have ever read. Short. To the point. Simple directions.
Thanks Father Z!!!
jane in memphis
NeoCarlist: have you seen “Raise the Red Lantern†yet?
Of course I have. That is a necessary film.
Janet: WHY did you continue watching
Take it from someone who has heard confessions. Sometimes people make really lousy confessions until they get their act together. Then the important stuff comes, after alot of hemming and hawing, at the end or when you least expect it.
I am an optimist.
sigil: If you understood this round-eyed foreign devil’s Chinese at all then pipe down.
heheh, Fr. Z., it’s ok, I’m a round-eyed foreign devil too!
I have never seen a movie with so many tomatoes before.