Message 966

Yesterday I went to PAMF and met with my urologist. It was nice to see him again, and he reassured me that I was doing as well as could be expected given all I have been through. He thought I looked good and said he thought I would continue to manage to get along. I finished reading The Shock Doctrine; The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein on my Kindle. The last quarter of the book was references and footnotes, so I finished sooner than I expected.

In the evening I watched a DVD of the old black and white movie The Night of the Hunter. I had never seen the whole thing but when I lived in Alaska it was shown often on TV. I did not have a TV, but I occasionally saw parts of it at other peoples houses. It was directed by Charles Laughton in 1956, and it had a great cast, including Robert Mitchum as the mass murdering preacher who marries Shelly Winters, the widow of a man who was hung for murder and robbery. He kills her and tries to get her two kids to tell him where their father hid the money he stole. The boy and girl escape down the river in their father’s old boat, where Lillian Gish eventually takes them in to join the other orphaned and abandoned children she cares for. Mitchum shows up in relentless pursuit and tries to get the children, but she calls the police, so he eventually get lynched by the enraged townspeople. It is a quaint and old-fashioned movie by modern standards, but it is very powerful. I give it five stars.