Feb
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Die Hard
February 6, 2010 | Tagged 1988, Action, Atherton William, Bochner Hart, Crime, Davi Robert, Doyon Bruno, Gilyard Jr. Clarence, Gleason Paul, Godunov Alexander, Hayden Dennis, Johnson Reginald, Rickman Alan, Shigeta James, Thriller, VelJohnson Reginald, White De'voreaux, Willis Bruce, Wisniewski Andreas |
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IMDB rating: 8.10 Plot: New York cop John McClane, who has been a cop for 11 years, has just arrived in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. For the past six months, John’s wife Holly and their two kids Lucy McClane and John McClane Jr have been living in Los Angeles without John. In New York, Holly had a good job that turned into a career, and Holly was promoted to a powerful position in the Nakatomi Corporation. The promotion called for Holly to move to Los Angeles to work in the Nakatomi Plaza, a 40 story building. John stayed in New York because he didn’t think Holly would make it out in Los Angeles, and that she would come crawling back to him in New York, so John figured that there was no reason to pack his things for the move to Los Angeles. A limo driver named Argyle drives John to the Nakatomi Plaza, and John heads to the 30th floor, where a Christmas party is going on. John gets into an argument with Holly in the office of her drug-snorting co-worker Harry Ellis because Holly uses her maiden name Gennero instead of the name McClane on her nameplate in her office. Holly leaves the room to give a speech. While John is by himself in the office, John is wishing that the argument hadn’t happened. A few minutes later, a group of German terrorists led by Hans Gruber and his right hand man Karl enter the building and take everyone hostage on the 30th floor. John is able to avoid being taken hostage because Hans and his men don’t even know that John is in the building. John heads to the upper floors, which are still under construction. Hans takes Holly’s boss Joseph Yashinobo Takagi to an office, where Hans demands that Takagi give him the computer code key that will allow Hans and his men to start opening the building’s safe so they can steal the $640,000,000 in negotiable bearer bonds that are in the safe. Takagi refuses to cooperate with Hans, so Hans kills Takagi, and John witnesses it. Hans tells his technology expert Theo to start working on getting the safe opened, and Theo thinks it’ll take a couple of hours to do it. John frantically tries to find a way to alert the LAPD, realizing that the main phone lines in the building have been cut. Once the police do arrive, they prove to be incompetent under the command of arrogant deputy chief Dwayne T. Robinson, so it’s up to John to rescue the hostages. |
Actors: Willis Bruce,Rickman Alan,Godunov Alexander,Gleason Paul,White De’voreaux,Atherton William,Bochner Hart,Shigeta James,Johnson Reginald,VelJohnson Reginald,Hayden Dennis,Gilyard Jr. Clarence,Doyon Bruno,Wisniewski Andreas,Davi Robert,Action,Crime,Thriller,
Does this sound like bipolar disorder?
Sorry it’s so long.
There was a period in my life a few years ago where I know I was definitely depressed. This was around the time a close family member was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and it put a lot of strain on me.
During this time I also had panic attacks whenever I had to communicate with others and so became increasingly isolated and then increasingly depressed. It went on and on and things in life seemed to be falling apart. Around this time I was also severely anemic, but I got some iron tablets from the doctor and after a few months that cleared up completely, but my depression didn’t go away. I was sleeping all the time and barely eating, I was probably just about borderline anorexic (due to loss of apetite). Towards the end of this, someone I barely knew died and it had a huge effect on me, even though I barely knew the guy and I had experienced death before, and the person had been much closer to me.
I had a fight with a friend over something stupid and very small (in the wide scheme of things anyway), and became suicidal. It was like the last bit of life just seeped out of me. I didn’t have any fight left. I wanted to give up. Cease existing. I hoped there wasn’t a God so I would experience no afterlife. Up till this period I had been extremely aggressive all the time and lashed out for little reason. I even remember once physically attacking my sister after she had tossed a pencil at me!
After deciding I was going to kill myself, I became serenely calm. Somehow, I still got myself out of bed in the morning and went to work, but I was basically an empty shell. I was the most unproductive in my life that I’ve ever been.
On the day of my planned suicide I went to the graveyard to visit the guy who had died (that I barely even knew), and just sat there a while. My plan was that that night I would slit my wrists, late enough for no one to call on me, but early enough for me to die before morning.
However, while I was at the graveyard, something very odd happened (I doubt you’ll believe me), but it was like I had some totally crazy awakening. I’ve tried to explain this to myself but can’t come up with anything that makes sense, so I’ll tell it to you as it felt at the time.
It was like something passed through me, from behind, and ripped all the darkness out of my soul. Well, really it was like I’d had no soul and now it had returned to me. It was very strange and hard to explain. Anyways, I was totally spooked. I didn’t feel alone, and I just ran out of there and back to work (I’d just left when I shouldn’t have without even saying anything). But it was like everything I saw was different. It was all the same but just different somehow.
I turned up at work and went back to my desk as if nothing had happened.
It didn’t happen straight away but shortly after this incident I became higher than I’ve ever been in my life, but I wasn’t on any drugs or anything. After the graveyard, I totally FORGOT my plan to kill myself (!!!!). After this period, everything became totally insane. I had this new firm belief in God, and a firm belief that everything in the world was perfect and everything would work out fine for me no matter what. I fell crazy, madly in love with my boss (who was married!! this is so unlike me), and I just couldn’t leave him alone no matter what. I never stopped thinking about him. It was like a crazy obsession.
I drew a lot more in this time than I ever had in my life and I experienced periods of insomnia. I also still had the panic attacks but they didn’t depress me and for some reason I kept going even when they happened. My end of year review at work was awful because I had hardly done any work. I was shocked cos I was sure everything was going to be amazing anyway.
I felt as I had been in some way enlightened, and that God had chosen to save me from suicide. Crazy, huh? I’ve no doubt that this isn’t normal, but is it bipolar?
Right now I don’t seem to have any symptoms. I don’t even have the panic attacks anymore. What do you think happened to me? I’ve never heard of anything exactly like this happening to someone.
Gene Moss