The sweet, lovely wife and I just came back from seeing Evita and this is the longest amount of time I have seen this thread dormant. Have the Dreyer brothers invoked some censorship or is everyone still recovering from penni's birthday party??
At any rate, I must express some feelings, not about Evita (which was fun, not great, but at moments I was on the verge of singing and marching through the streets, and I can't sing or march) but about the depressing attendant movie previews. Included were, what do they call it now, trailers? for a new movie, ConAir, which features the transfer of the worst, meanest, macho-ist prisoners ever, no doubt, to the new maximum, higher than high, security prison, and I suppose their violence filled adventures there (which seemed to be a continuation of the current, moronic, hyper-violent genre). To invoke high meaning the trailer cites Dostoevsky's statement to the nature that one can judge a civilization by looking at its prisons. It serves to make the point that Dostoevsky never got the chance to consider the merits of judging a civilization by looking at its movies.
Larry |
