{"id":103,"date":"2015-08-04T19:38:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T19:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oortcloudreviews.wordpress.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2020-03-19T09:53:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:53:49","slug":"pain-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/llimeworks.com\/oortcloudreviews.com\/pain-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain & Gain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weird! I would have never pictured Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson portraying two stone cold killers who chopped up their victims and torched the parts. The movie, based on a true story is highly disturbing and the only reason that I would want to say anything about it is one line spoken by a character in the movie. Sorina Lumini\u0163a played by Bar Paly, is actually patterned on the very real Sabina Petrescu. So, in the movie Sorina is talking about why she lost the Miss Romania contest, ending up with a runner-up position. She blames the judges and her statement was \u2018I don\u2019t know why that bitch won, my pizda is better than her pizda!\u2019\u00a0 That\u2019s it, I think (the pizda was absolutely there a Romanian word in an English sentence, but\u00a0I’m only paraphrasing the rest.)<\/p>\n

I had actually come up with one of my silly story ideas independently as well, long before I saw the movie. To start with, pizda in Romanian means cunt. Romanians like to curse a lot and the most popular one is \u2018Dute\u2019n pizda mati!\u2019 meaning \u2018Get into your mother\u2019s cunt!\u2019 I thought it would be funny if there was a square in Bucharest named \u2018Piazza Pizda Mati \u2018 and I used it in one of my short stories. Last month, one of my cousins was a bit down and somewhat out so trying to cheer her up I wrote a whole story that explains how all of that came to be. It is the first story that I ever wrote in Romanian which is one of my two original languages (I grew up speaking Hungarian in the house and Romanian in the street.) She liked it and I crack myself up every time I re-read it. An English version will appear in my forthcoming collection of short stories \u2018A Closer Look\u2019 but for anyone who speaks Romanian here\u2019s a link to the original: Pia\u0163a Pizda M\u0103ti<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weird! I would have never pictured Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson portraying two stone cold killers who chopped up their victims and torched the parts. The movie, based on a true story is highly disturbing and the only reason that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66,"url":"https:\/\/llimeworks.com\/oortcloudreviews.com\/matilda\/","url_meta":{"origin":103,"position":0},"title":"Matilda","date":"August 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"OK, so Matilda (the movie) has been around for almost 20 years. So what! I love that movie. Just like most of Roald Dahl\u2019s other stories, it is empowering young children and pointing out the folly of adults. 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