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Philomena redux

 Almost seven years to this day I re-watched an English film titled - Philomena.

Funny how it works.

So this movie is memorable because of its superb screenplay.  Inspired by true events and all it is carried wonderfully by two Brits in their co-lead roles.  Steve Coogan and Judi Dench.

My seven regular readers know I like poop jokes.. or something to do with daily routines that are just that - banal.  So this movie opens with Coogan in a doctor's office.

Doctor says that his poop's outstanding.  To which Coogan is adequately impressed.  Upon which the doctor clarifies he has not yet got a stool sample from him.

Coogan is quite the British funny man and the wit and comedy are typical British dry humor.

Movie is memorable in how it begins and ends.  And so this one ends with Coogan quoting T.S Eliot - something about life going full circle only for us to discover who we truly are at the place it all began.

Coogan co-wrote the screenplay and is littered with odd phrases like 'bi-curious' and Judi's character having a 'bit of a cry' (when she is upset with the proceedings of finding her lost son, after having traveled from an Irish village to Washington DC to do the finding).

It also as many movie productions do throws a spotlight on the irony of the Catholic church which as George Carlin famously put - no bullshit story ever told holds a candle to the biggest of them all - Religion.

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