The One With The Luck Of The Irish

Fate protects fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise.

Riker, Star Trek: The Next Generation

I once stated that the above list should also mention born-on-Sunday girls named Karolina. And I stand by it.

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Btw:

Original Series over Next Generation, but Picard over Kirk.

Leonard, The Big Bang Theory

I agree.

Stay tuned.

The One With The Two Philosophers and The Psychopath

Boxtrolls

A visual eye-candy. Not a thing to criticise in that aspect. I even I wished that it had been in 3D (and I usually hate 3D, it gives me headache, but this time it felt like a way to emphasize the beauty of that incredible animation technique).
Warning: contains some black humour. And some witty remarks provided by two thugs, supporting characters, the minions of the main villain, who also happen to frequently comment on the narrative, and discuss the dichotomy of good and evil.
All in all - predictable, but, still, funny and entertaining.

Stay tuned.

The One With The Good Polish Movie

Gods (Bogowie)

No masterpiece, but still - a good Polish movie. Which is so rare that it always comes as a surprise.
Tomasz Kot is as brilliant portraying prof. Religa as they say. The story focuses on a period when he struggled to conduct one of the first heart transplantations in Poland, so it's not a complete biography - and that's a plus. Despite the fact that we all know the story, the movie is absorbing, gripping. Adequate balance of drama and humour. A good movie.

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The One In The Psychiatric Hospital

Literally.

Today there was a guided walk around the Kobierzyn Palace and Park Complex, which houses the Hospital. It had already been too late since I'd done some sightseeing in Kraków... and it was less than 3km from my place - so of course I went.
The complex is almost 100 years old, there are lots of beautiful, historical buildings, and the surrounding park makes it all look more like a setting for a Jane Austen movie - you'd never guess it's a hospital, if you didn't know.
They organise an event like this every season. You can learn about the history of psychiatry in general and about the history of this particular place. All in all, very interesting - totally worth freezing my buttons off.
(Interesting fact: nobody actually knows why the Hospital was named after Józef Babiński, since he was a neurologist...)

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