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Home invaders cross a man with a particular set of skills.

Hey it’s pretty good.

• Trailer

• 2023-10-19

• Watched before, possibly more than once; no notes were taken.

2023-10-19 ∞

• 1:00 — Soldering
• 3:00 — A woman died on screen!

• 3:30 — I’m sure other people would know where that is..

  • That’s a statue of William Penn atop Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia United States

• 4:00 —

  • Lawyers
  • Juvie
  • Conviction rate

• 4:30 —

  • RICO
  • Organized Crime Control Act of 1970

• 10:30 —

  • Old wives’ tale
  • Fable
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Death row
• 11:15 — Why would he shake the man’s hand? That makes no sense. Unless it’s there for the plot, which is is.
• 13:00 — Ten years later.
• 13:30 — French toast

• 14:15 —

  • Recital Concert
  • Julia Child
  • Cello
• 18:45 — Capital punishment
• 20:00 — Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution

• 24:45 —

  • Tetrodotoxin
  • Tetraodontidae
• 26:00 — Adrenaline

• 39:15 —

  • Duxiana
  • Lumbar
• 41:00 — “The art of the possible” is a reference to Evita (musical), which also has Tim Rice. I wonder if the last name “Rice” in the character in this movie is a reference..
• 42:30 — United States invasion of Panama
• 46:45 — Whatever else, that contempt of court is a serious offence.
• 48:00 — Potassium chloride

• 48:45 —

  • Del Frisco’s Restaurant Group
  • T-bone steak
  • Pommes frites
  • Asparagus
  • Butternut squash – I don’t know why he called it “butter squash”.
  • iPod
• 58:00 — Solitary confinement
• 1:01:30 — That lawyer just gave a prisoner contraband.
• 1:10:00 — But he killed his cellmate. That’s a charge that can’t get dropped.
• 1:11:30 — Pepsi in the background.
• 1:12:15 — And once again we see why there are so few older female lawyers, or female judges.

• 1:22:45 — von Clausewitz

  • See On War – (1832 book), by Carl von Clausewitz etc.
• 1:23:00 — Pulling the temple down is a reference to the story of Samson.
• 1:29:15 — District attorney
• 1:30:00 — Locking a city down. Locking that city down. Fucking unlikely.
• 1:30:45 — Armour-piercing ammunition – API are armour-piercing incendiary rounds.
• 1:35:30 — Semtex

• 1:42:00 — “Malglinite” is a reference to Napalm.

  • See also The Regulators – (1996 book), by Stephen King (read online)
• 1:44:00 — United States Department of Homeland Security

• 1:48:15 — This ending doesn’t make any sense.