what was the last book
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- Mimio0
Whatever. I saw a movie about exploitation, legalism, classes, and the wrath of god(grace). I can't say that I see his attempt to extend his indictment to anyone else actually. It's no mystery the guys playing "Young Americans" over the credits for those who couldn't pick it up during the movie.
- ********0
i guess its too sophisticated for you.
- Mimio0
Apparently it's too sophisticated for the director as well. You don't bookend your film with b/w photos of American immigrants (while playing Bowie's young Americans) if you want to leave the viewer with a universalist critique of the evils of mankind. I guess more accurately it's the directors criticism of what he thinks is "Americanism", and protraying it as some shared attitude/belief.
- ********0
no, it is not "universalists" at all, in that sense.
But you apparently have no sense of the distorted cultural mirror through which Triers was projecting his movie. Obviously you don't, as it is glaringly deliberate. Not only is it not about the USA of today, it is neither about USA of yesteryear. It is more about certain blunt ideas of Americanism that are openly propagated, but which are clearly myths. It is nothing but a mythical "idea" of America that he is critiquing, and chosing to set his own myth in. It is no reason to take as a personal attack, especially since visiting your country would make no difference in affecting that "myth of the midwest town" that he is engaging with. I think therein lies your lack of understanding. How these "idealisms" of America come to us, in Europe, and the anxiety they evoke. Not because of some vague ideas of "cultural imperialism" but the very expansiveness and pace of American society. I'd hate to think you'd have to be European to appreciate it.
- SecretPenguin0
i just read the book of john.
always a classic :)
- spaniard0
just finished 3 biogs - anthony kiedis, steve mcqueen, the prophet muhammad.
The prophet was the craziest guy as far as women and general hellraising goes, but kiedis not far behind...
- Mimio0
I simply don't agree with your assessment of the film Kuz. Sure it's obviously intentionally artificial, like a corn gold American stage play (Out Town), but it goes along to outline hypocrisies in immigrant societies, indict the town, and wipe it out like Sodom and Gomorrah, like the lid on the envelope of soceity is some American aristocracy that blames the people for what they've taught them to become.
Look at the movie... it's cutsey and allegorical, you have this godlike omniscience and you're taking part in the fate of the town by the last scene of the movie, thining it over in the back seat of opulence.
- iDp0
last book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido…