Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
I know it has to be hard to make a movie, I mean convince the people that has to put the money and all, then I wonder how this films can make it to the big public. I wonder if that “trend” in UK cinematography has something to do with how people feel. _________________ When someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said about him (or about groups with whom he identifies) we conclude that he has inferiority feelings or low self-esteem.
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:35 pm Post subject: Re: What’s up with UK police-state / total doom movies?
Thanks Kev.
I look forward to seeing "Children of Men" is that Sigur Ross in the sound track?
Both 28DL and V ended on a low angle up, life certianly doesn't wrap up problems in neat little packages with red bows. If you've ever seen the Director's cut for the end of Bladerunner, it wasn't as dire as many of the Hollywood originally thought. Unlike the numbingly low end of another excellent movie Brazil, had to avoid sharp objects for the rest of the day after that one.
kevincarter wrote:
TI wonder if that “trend” in UK cinematography has something to do with how people feel.
The Onion, which surprisingly has many excellent well-written movie reviews as Pitchfork Review is to music, made an interesting commentary relating to Kev's.
The latest trend in American horror are the snuff/horror-flicks. No real plot, just violent torture. Is this a window on our collective fears of torture tinged with guilt for legalizing such practices?
The first SAW is a good saturday renter. A bunch of poor saps find themselves in a situation where they have to amputate, singe, kill n order to live. The "Puppet Master's" justification is that it is punishment for their ingratitude of life.
Perhaps we complacent westerners are mutilating our freedoms in order to exist, not live merely exist. We (the US) have already gutted and disfigured many of our rights. Some hard questions will have to be asked and politically incorrect minefields need to be navigated by moving left AND right, with a focus on moving forward and out.
I know it has to be hard to make a movie, I mean convince the people that has to put the money and all, then I wonder how this films can make it to the big public. I wonder if that “trend” in UK cinematography has something to do with how people feel.
You wonder if this has something to do with how people feel? Do you get out much?
Hey, thanks for the heads-up. I liked the first two movies very much, but I had never heard of Children of Men until this. It looks interesting.
threadbear wrote:
You wonder if this has something to do with how people feel?
Exactly. _________________ “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.” (Ted Perry)
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:08 pm Post subject: Re: What’s up with UK police-state / total doom movies?
kevincarter wrote:
The last 3 movies I can recall made in the UK were about total-doom
... Wallace and Grommit's studio was burnt to the ground. _________________ "Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers." - Henry Louis Mencken
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: Re: What’s up with UK police-state / total doom movies?
Well it cannot be said that there have never been any movies along these lines before, there appears to be more of a facination with these themes now then ther was 5 years ago. Art mimicks life. The reason that a particular piece of media appeals to you, is because you can relate to something in it that feels true. A book, a movie, a piece of music allows you to respond emotionally to something that you would not have otherwise considered in your day-to-day. It is not because what is presented is new to you but because what is presented intensifies and focuses a feeling or thought that is already there.
That being said, if you disagree with the viewpoint presented you probably will not enjoy it unless you are conscious of attempting to gain a different point of view.
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:59 pm Post subject: Re: What’s up with UK police-state / total doom movies?
V for Vendetta - Warner Brothers -> Time Warner
28 Days Later - Fox Searchlight Pictures -> 20th Century Fox -> News Corporation
Children of Men - Universal Pictures -> Universal Studios -> NBC Universal -> GE / Vivendi SA
So movies about some dark, dystopian future in Britain are released by THREE of the FIVE largest American media giants. Did someone over there piss off the Jews?
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