paradise

Grandma’s not frolicking around in some divine paradise.

Southern California boosters were discovering that the region’s “semi-tropical” climate could be marketed as a healthful paradise.

Perhaps one contender is what Jesus told the good thief on the cross: “Today you will be with me in paradise.”

The film’s title is a reference to the path to paradise in the Islamic faith, explained in a few hasty sentences of text right at the start.

It feels like the desired endgame is an overthrow of existing regimes for a more squishy communal paradise.