{"id":1638,"date":"2016-05-26T07:44:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T07:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frugalfashionshopper.co.uk\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2016-05-26T07:44:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T07:44:54","slug":"film-night-outfit-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frugalfashionshopper.co.uk\/wp\/film-night-outfit-may-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Film night outfit – May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Everyone<\/p>\n

Just squeezing this post in before I go. Here’s the outfit I wore at our May film screening.<\/p>\n

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Note that I wear quite utilitarian skirts and tops as there\u2019s work to be done and I need to look business-like.\u00a0 The top is an old one and that\u2019s an M&S Per Una skirt<\/span><\/a> at \u00a32.99 from my local charity shop. \u00a0 The skirt may look at first glance to be a bit tame, but actually it fits very well and has a hint of my pash, Claire Underwood<\/span><\/a>, I think.<\/p>\n

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Hey, do you see I\u2019m not wearing the boots! Instead, right at the back of my wardrobe (where I\u2019d been rummaging for my cruise decks) I found these quite formal shoes with kitten heels that I wore for work.\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t thrown them out as I thought I might one day wear them again, and I have!<\/p>\n

Our film was Hannah Arendt<\/span><\/a>, which showed to slightly less people than usual (55) but had a good feedback rating of 84%.\u00a0 Some people had commitments elsewhere, but I know others were put off by the subject matter.\u00a0 Because Hannah Arendt is the philosopher who covered the Eichmann trial for the New Yorker, and it is her analysis of Eichmann that is controversial \u2013 to this day! \u00a0It was an interesting and challenging film.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t over-dwell on the trial it was more about her thought processes and lord, did she smoke a lot while she was thinking.<\/p>\n

But very timely, I thought.\u00a0 The film showed Arendt questioning the nature of evil: could it be just a function of thoughtlessness rather than outright \u2018radical evil\u2019? \u00a0Arendt\u2019s emphasis is that we all need to be critical thinkers: to question and think for ourselves otherwise we allow the politicians, the naysayers, the downright fudgers and liars who use their way with words to turn facts upside down.\u00a0 And if we don\u2019t check and restrain the untruths, the nearly truths, if we don\u2019t take stock of what is happening all around us, then we lose both our humanity and our ability to see the humanity in others.\u00a0 And it is this lack of critical thinking that allows the denial of humanity to a class, a race, a people.\u00a0 But above all, she would not say that Eichmann was a monster; instead, she argued, he was banal, he was a nobody, and it was this which so shocked people at the time.\u00a0 He was not a dark Satanic force; he was an everyman.\u00a0 It is a timely film because it is still necessary to be on the watch for those who dehumanise the poor, the vulnerable, the disadvantaged, because that banal evil is still there today.\u00a0 What a film – proud to show it.<\/p>\n

Well, gosh, off I go to finish my packing.\u00a0 And here\u2019s something to end this rather sombre piece (not sorry to say all the above, though). \u00a0It\u2019s a little look at one of my dresses bought for \u00a35.99 just yesterday.<\/p>\n

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Thank you so much for your good wishes for the cruise. \u00a0\u00a0But also can I say a very big thank you to all<\/em> of you for sticking with me and reading this blog week after week – I appreciate you so much.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I have one pre-prepared post for the June hat session, but I probably won\u2019t be able to post anything else whilst away.\u00a0 I will take lots of pics though, and keep a bit of a diary so I can tell you all about my travels when I get back.<\/p>\n

Very best wishes to you all<\/p>\n

Penny, the frugalfashionshopper<\/em><\/p>\n

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