On my way home, saw buried today. After revcovering from the fit of laughter I suffered after hearing my friend ask if it was called barry, I enjoyed an absolutely wonderful film. Fantastic story that managed to address (if only in the mildest sense) america's foriegn affairs whilst managing to not only avoid presenting america as team justice lords of good and democracy, but also seemed to approach it from what I consider to be a more reality based perspective, namely by highlighting that there is an unbelievably vast distinction between what nearly everyone involved in the war thinks they are doing and what reasons they believe lie behind it, and what the tiny minority of elites are getting them to do, and what reasons lie behind that. This is in stark contrast to another film I saw recently called salt, in which you see an almost slapstick comedy presentation of american affairs (and the morality of anyome from the soviet union) that I only see parring woth command and conquer,
This is very far from anything resembling a theme, and was very mild in it's break from the generic rocky 4 remake, but it's certainly an approach that is so rare in western cinema that you wouldn't be too presumptuous to class it as it's own genre, and hopefully a growing one.
Many things about the film sparked for me, which I'd love to talk about if anyone wants to, but I just thought I'd make a post as this is a subject I feel ought to be talked about much more than it is. We live in a system of imposed morality, and I'd like to make it my goal to never compramise on my own ethics so as to fit more kindly within whatever system I end up in, or do whatever the writers of these bullshit justice leauge films do to get their crummy films into the cinema (which is I would guess either regurgitate modern consensus by either internalising the values when writing or to just be victims of the propeganda model we live in)
Anyway, best be off, need to fight the system in bobbersmill
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This is very far from anything resembling a theme, and was very mild in it's break from the generic rocky 4 remake, but it's certainly an approach that is so rare in western cinema that you wouldn't be too presumptuous to class it as it's own genre, and hopefully a growing one.
Many things about the film sparked for me, which I'd love to talk about if anyone wants to, but I just thought I'd make a post as this is a subject I feel ought to be talked about much more than it is. We live in a system of imposed morality, and I'd like to make it my goal to never compramise on my own ethics so as to fit more kindly within whatever system I end up in, or do whatever the writers of these bullshit justice leauge films do to get their crummy films into the cinema (which is I would guess either regurgitate modern consensus by either internalising the values when writing or to just be victims of the propeganda model we live in)
Anyway, best be off, need to fight the system in bobbersmill
Sent from my BlackBerry smartphone from Virgin Media
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