Aldila Press https://aldilapress.com/ Publishing for stories that go beyond Fri, 27 Dec 2024 04:46:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/aldilapress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/aldila-favicon-swallow-on-white.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Aldila Press https://aldilapress.com/ 32 32 215637765 The Fortunate Pilgrim: the book that inspired the Godfather https://aldilapress.com/the-fortunate-pilgrim/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-fortunate-pilgrim Thu, 16 Feb 2023 01:06:06 +0000 https://aldilapress.com/?p=47 Mario Puzo’s The Fortunate Pilgrim is almost entirely unknown, yet it is his book he loved most. The Fortunate Pilgrim takes us to a world that has now disappeared. It is the squalid and desperate world of first and second generation Italian migrants in the bowels of early 20th century New York city. The Fortunate Pilgrim tells the story […]

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]]> 47 Gattaca: Will we lose our humanity in a Genetic Dystopia? https://aldilapress.com/gattaca/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gattaca Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:29:14 +0000 https://aldilapress.com/?p=41 It’s hard to work out if the 1997 movie Gattaca presents a vision of triumph or failure of humanity. It presents a dystopian future which echoes the dystopian elements of our present and past. In this future, people are judged solely by their genetic scorecard.  Those whose parents do not engineer them for success before […]

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]]> 41 The Hundred Foot Journey: crossing a cultural divide – movie review https://aldilapress.com/the-hundred-foot-journey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-hundred-foot-journey Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:10:56 +0000 https://aldilapress.com/?p=35 The Hundred Foot Journey, plays out against a physically short distance, yet the distance that keeps the people involved apart, is vast. The movie tells the story of a meeting between two cooking cultures:  Indian and French. Both are proud of their cooking traditions. An Indian family, displaced some time before to England by political […]

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]]> 35 Belle: Slavery, High Society and Family https://aldilapress.com/belle-movie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=belle-movie Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:23:44 +0000 https://aldilapress.com/?p=28 Humans are complex beings.  The movie “Belle” (director Amma Assante) explores human complexity, particularly as it manifests in everyday human relationships. The movie is set in the late eighteenth century at the height of the transatlantic slave trade.  Dido Elizabeth Belle (played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is the central character of the movie.  She was born into […]

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