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You know why Malcolm X or Goodfellas are masterpieces Not only that the script is good or the director is capable, because Sepik Lee and Denzel know the world of Malcolm and the Nation of Islam, they have lived the black world of the 60s.

Scorsese knows gangsters well This series had the potential to show the atmosphere of Jews and blacks in the 60s with interesting references But those who made this series, apart from the script, showed a weak representation of a story structure and atmosphere of 60s Baltimore.

The characters were not shown well and the story has no coherence, for example, it was expected that the viewer would feel a peak at the end of the first episode, when Natalie Portman's character finds the body, but the director could not create the rhythm of the story at all.

Maybe the biggest problem of the series is its direction and I don't understand Natalie Portman's acting at all, it's more like a play than a coherent series.

Those who endorse racism and domestic violence are unlikely to enjoy this show and will probably leave negative reviews. The show explores the contrasting lives of two women in Baltimore.

"Lady in the Lake" is a 2019 novel by Laura Lippman, published by William Morrow and Company. The story told in "Lady in the Lake" began, in many ways, five decades before the book's release, in 1969. In June of that year, the body of Shirley Lee Wigeon Parker, a black 35-year-old divorcee, was found in a fountain in one of the city's parks. About three months later, in September, Esther Lebowitz, an 11-year-old Jewish girl, was beaten to death inside a fish store, in a gruesome, traumatizing killing that profoundly impacted Baltimore's Jewish community. Author Stephen King praised the novel in The New York Times, describing it as "extraordinary" and commending its plot twists and character development.

The filming style is exceptional.

Set in a retro Baltimore with a clearly generous budget, the narrative is compelling. I have only watched up to episode two.

LADY IN THE LAKE: social injustice versus mental health.

There is a poignant scene in the Apple TV series at 32 minutes into S1:E1.

A woman is responding to her compassion for a child who has been kidnapped.

The tone deaf guest, husband and teenage son are focused only on themselves and completely ignore the woman, whose moral leadership and priorities are righteous. It would be clear to an empathic observer that the woman is correct and the rest of the people are exhibiting narcissism.

They would not see it that way.

To them she is deficient.

Yet many would justify their narcissism as just fitting in to the crowd. The event is more important than the dignity of a person. Some must suffer for the comfort of others, whether they like it or not.

Rights are diminished.

By selfishness.

An empath would say we must always do the right thing and might propose that the priority is human dignity. But in this set period of time women are marginalised by chauvinism. The wife and mother is ignored, then undermined. No one is listening and so she smashes a plate in frustration. This is still an all too common scene in modern life. Which leads us to think about the tone deafness of people to social injustice.

The typical response of a selfish person to the inconvenience of paying attention to a plight of their neighbour is to blame the neighbours realistic response to their plight as a mental health issue. This kind of selfish orientation is so prevalent in society now that anyone who experiences an injustice of any kind is immediately labeled with a mental health problem.

Social injustice occurs routinely in all kinds of ways. Like income inequality. Yet corrupt governments benefit from corporate prioritisation and the rights of human beings play second fiddle, if at all. The true mental illness then is everyone other than the victim, everyone who is apathetic and not exhibiting a correct emotive reaction to an injustice.

In reality, most of our society is mentally ill by the kinds of definitions for empathy that either Buddha, Jesus, Krishna or Muhammad has taught.

Great art reflects this.

Attempts to step into Plato's cave and pull back the curtain on the false projection.

STOP BEING SELFISH.

We must each face up to the growing incidences of our societal narcissism with admonishment and rebuke. Supporting each other to speak up to abuse. Lest we end up with the kind of world that selfish people would like to design under authoritarianism.

Selfishness is the fuel of fascism.

It is destroyed by kindness.

Lives are lost by indifference, Saved by acts of timely caring. .

We must not fall prone to neglect.

Love your neighbour as yourself.