From The Guardian : Pedro Almodóvar spoke at Lincoln Center as the recipient of this year’s Chaplin Award. I listened to the speech and have made some silent additions and corrections to the Guardian transcription:
“I doubted if it was appropriate to come to a country ruled by a narcissistic authoritian lunatic, who doesn’t respect human rights” he said. “Trump and his friends, millionaires and oligarchs, cannot convince us that the reality we are seeing with our own eyes is the opposite of what we are living, however much he may twist the words, claiming that they mean the opposite of what they do. Immigrants are not criminals. However, they are created as such. Zelenskyy is not a dictator. Putin is. And however much Trump denies it, it was Russia that invaded Ukraine.”You can watch and listen to it all at YouTube. Even better: use the free app FreeTube.
Almodóvar continued: “Mr Trump, I’m talking to you, and I hope that you hear what I’m going to say to you. You will not go down in history as the great peacemaker of our time. Your naïveté is only comparable to your violence. You will go down in history as one of the greatest damages to humanity in this beginning of the century. You will go down in history as a catastrophe.”
comments: 1
Peacemaker? In Canada, around the time of the Russia's "special military operation" ...(A Russian could get 15 years in prison for saying "war," the atrocities victims in Bucha were "mannikins," the blasted buildings were because the "Ukrainians's were shelling themselves") ... a man said, "No rational person believes anything the Russians say"
The only people in the free world who believes the Russians are those few in the orbit of one irrational man.
Our children, in times to come, won't believe how U.S. elected representatives were fooled.
Post a Comment