Let's All Go To The Movies. Pt.11.

Absolutely to be read as a direct continuation of Part 10; https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2025/11/lets-all-go-to-movies-pt10.html

As I find myself finally arriving at my point, after a 100 page 20,000 word preamble. I think it's fair to say that I'm Still Here (2024) allows us to discuss a wide range of very big topics.

Obviously it explores the issue of Women aging within the Entertainment Industry. How they used to be forced to play characters old enough to be their Mothers then suddenly disappeared when they reached Perimenopause, around 40-50 years old. 

With Pedro Pascal having fled Chile during Operation Condor I'm Still Here also touches on the issue of Transgenderism and Transgender activism. Pedro Pascal's very vocal Transgender activism being driven by his Transgender sibling Lux Pascal. Pedro Pascal is currently probably most well known for the TV show; "The Last of Us" (2023-Present) in which he plays a sort of Father figure to Bella Ramsey's character. Bella Ramsey is openly Gay and has openly explored her Gender-Identity. These attempts to erase Bella Ramsey's Lesbianism by making it a question of Gender-Identity could well be the result of Pedro Pascal's overbearing Transgender activism. Something which might be worth bearing in mind if you watch Season 2 of The Last of Us. 

I think that the way that I'm Still Here's Oscars chances were torpedoed by scandal were part of that debate of how far storytellers can and should go in telling other people's stories. Through "September 5" (2024) this was a big theme of Awards Season 2025. Whether The Super Bowl 2025 went too far in interfering with the Genocidal war Hamas imposed on Israel. In attempting to explain what the Kibbutz's are that Hamas attacked in launching its Genocidal war I compared them to the community depicted in The Last of Us which features heavily in Season 2. So referencing Pedro Pascal and Season 2 of The Last of Us allows you to go into a lot of detail of Hamas' Genocidal war. I thought the Golem-style Zombie was a nice touch, particularly if it was created by A.I assisted computer-generated visual effects.

The reason why Pedro Pascal had to flee Chile was because his uncle, Andrés Pascal Allende, was the leader of the Revolutionary Left Movement (Movimento de Izquierda Revolucionaria/MIR). A terrorist group sponsored by Communist China and Communist Cuba. So it had the same sponsors who created the myth of "Palestine" during The War of Attrition (1967-1973). A period that ended with Cuba's defeat at the hands of Israel during The Yom Kippur War (1973). So you would expect that Pedro Pascal's bullsh*t detector to be more finely tuned than most when it comes to the lies Hamas fanboys tell.

Pedro Pascal also had to flee Chile because his great-uncle is Salvador Allende, the President deposed in The 1973 Coup d'état. As part of his Chilean Way To Socialism Salvador Allende established "Project Cybersyn." A centralised computer-based decision making system with economic information being provided to it through the nationwide "Cybernet" system. If A.I has existed in the 1970's then I don't doubt that Salvador Allende would have made Project Cybersyn an A.I assisted centralised computer-based decision making system. I can't help but wonder whether "Cybernet" was the inspiration for the "Skynet" A.I system at the heart of the "Terminator" movie universe, starting with "The Terminator" (1984). So referencing Salvador Allende's Chile certainly allows you to discuss Artificial Intelligence (A.I). 

At around 18:15 on 27/11/25 (UK date) I have to wonder whether I'll be able to pick this up on Monday now.