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Interesting. I thought there were some redeeming things about this and wouldn't say it was the worst of Bond films from the last ten years or so, even though as a whole they've not been as good as perhaps they once were (inevitably).
But some silly…
Far and beyond the worst film I have seen this year. With a paper thin plot and an ethically cold Bond the film mouths the ideological principles of the new postmodern right. That is "To get things done you need to bang a few heads and that governme…
I think the key to this maybe in the penultimate scene. The nice liberal bourgeois tolerant family cannot abide the decisions explicit at the reading of the will. The car becomes the “offering”, the counter gift over and above Walt’s death. He offer…
Yes - I think in most respects I agree.
Who decides to be tolerant of whom? Why do we not get a more sympathetic view of Clint's children having to tolerate this old racist bastard? Why do we not get more than Sue's 'he's an old man who knows no be…
What is neglected about the film is that is can be seen as a dissertation on tolerance. Not that we should be tolerant, but in effect tolerance does not work because underneath the tolerant still lies an underbelly of racism. IN effect we say “ we w…
My Essay On V for Vedetta, Art and the death of politics
http://geometer.org.uk/mag/?p=78
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