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Amazing and amusing, well worth watching. Still wondering why they keep all these museum items in the air. There are many much better and more fuel effective turbo props and even jets on the market to reasonable prices. A little modernization would not hurt even when it comes to personnel management. Management by fear will hold Buffalo back just as much as outdated planes.

The movie is about a young man, 15 yo Olof, leaving his home and starting a life on his own. An Australian friend said: "This is Art House". I don´t agree. This movie captures ordinary people in the early 1900-hundreds, struggling to survive in a harsh environment and dreaming dreams ordinary, poor people dreamt, and still dream. The dream of a better future. That is, in a way, as mainstream as It could be. Another thing is that Olof´s saga is told with an outstanding level of cinematography. Jan Troell masters his tools extraordinarily, telling the story with extreme close-ups, astonishing panoramas, over-exposures, beautiful colors and grainy black&White footage. The sense of pictures and details characterizes Jan Troell´s work. It´s no wonder this amazing movie led him to the assignment of directing "The Emigrants" and "The New Land". Those movies made him internationally famous. Watch this, and you will see why.

"Defending Jacob", from Apple TV, is a mini-series I have seen with great pleasure. In eight episodes, we get to follow a small family: A father, A mother and their teen son, Jacob, through a grueling crime drama. The story begins broadly, then focuses more and more on the small family, it´s shortcomings, it´s loneliness and it´s increasing vulnerability, as justice gradually comes closer. The intrigue is sophisticated. Unlike other series in the same genre, it is exciting, throughout the last episode. Of course, Michelle Dockery, who played Lady Mary in Downton Abbey, is perfect as Jacob's mother. But the question is whether Chris Evans, in the lead role as the father, is even more impressive. Here is an actor, obviously talented far beyond the parts he had in "Captain America", "Avengers" or, for that matter, "Knives out". In "Defending Jacob" Evans shows real emotion. I truly want to see him continue to develop his talents, and the register of emotions he shows here. In this series, as a character, he carries not only the burden of a father in a family in crises, but also the heavy burden of the lead role. He does both beautifully.