In Manchester, elsewhere in Europe: life lingers on….
Who needs the mellow, non-trouble-making ME at Cannes when you have The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw to ruffle just a few feathers;) ! We haven't seen anything yet- his dynamite! If looks could kill....
Life goes on; film is immortal...how come?
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Sunday 28 May 2017
Wednesday 24 May 2017
MANCHESTER: May 22, 2017
The Manchester ISIS suicide bombing is horrific. Does the event really need Albinoni's Adagio to illustrate grief? Is the bomber a 'loser' in President Trump's word? Yes- very clearly. What would he hope to win? The problem for Western civilization lies in that we do not promulgate enough the lack of investigation into the loner/losers? Not all loners are losers and vice versa. And neither, necessarily, equates to acts of terrorism. I would equate ISIS 'losers' with those 'shooters' who one day randomly in an American town fire an automatic weapon shooting innocent people indiscriminately. The media condemns the 'shooter' to be outside of our 'winning' society. Clearly not is he nor she. But 'they' are very much a product of Western civilization, particularly American. Few want to hear let alone investigate their story. If one did something may well be learnt. These individuals are voicing something from within. Some coerced by prevailing media others by others.
Every religion over the centuries has used extreme violence to vindicate its being. It has not ceased to this day. The solution to this problem lies not in Alan Turing cryptography. And yet strangely it does in a parallel world. Is one looking for similarities or differences? The problem nowadays is that everyone is a suspect if they even err with a spelling irregularity! We are placing ourselves back in the hands of an Enigma machine. Yes: everyone is flawed. Most do something wrong. Somewhere. Sometime. Most (disenchanted) will at the first opportunity use that as cause to use the prevailing winds to 'dis' their 'hated' fuelled mostly through pure jealousy and dis-enfranchisement. Hello: Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Hello- post 9/11. If continue ignoring and failing to understand our human coding then we are sunk.
Could the ISIS debate use a Lawrence of Arabia? Possibly not. But possibly a parallel world akin? Kelly Reichardt made a film Night Moves. Julia Loktev Day Night Day Night. Movies that totally challenge the status quo. Of what lies beneath. Filmmakers wanting you to consider a world where dedicated people of belief do something you will never approve of. The film maker does not condone those actions nor empathize. Roman Polanski's film of the stage play Carnage challenged. So too the TV series Big Little Lies. How could such be relevant? All too so, alas, although it may not immediately seem so.
Maybe there should be more Muslims in American banking! There is another way. That would and could make money too. Sovereign Wealth Funds ...hmmm..ok...but what about Sovereign Credit Unions. Unthinkable? Power to the....? Unthinkable!
A Whole New World
Every religion over the centuries has used extreme violence to vindicate its being. It has not ceased to this day. The solution to this problem lies not in Alan Turing cryptography. And yet strangely it does in a parallel world. Is one looking for similarities or differences? The problem nowadays is that everyone is a suspect if they even err with a spelling irregularity! We are placing ourselves back in the hands of an Enigma machine. Yes: everyone is flawed. Most do something wrong. Somewhere. Sometime. Most (disenchanted) will at the first opportunity use that as cause to use the prevailing winds to 'dis' their 'hated' fuelled mostly through pure jealousy and dis-enfranchisement. Hello: Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Hello- post 9/11. If continue ignoring and failing to understand our human coding then we are sunk.
Could the ISIS debate use a Lawrence of Arabia? Possibly not. But possibly a parallel world akin? Kelly Reichardt made a film Night Moves. Julia Loktev Day Night Day Night. Movies that totally challenge the status quo. Of what lies beneath. Filmmakers wanting you to consider a world where dedicated people of belief do something you will never approve of. The film maker does not condone those actions nor empathize. Roman Polanski's film of the stage play Carnage challenged. So too the TV series Big Little Lies. How could such be relevant? All too so, alas, although it may not immediately seem so.
Maybe there should be more Muslims in American banking! There is another way. That would and could make money too. Sovereign Wealth Funds ...hmmm..ok...but what about Sovereign Credit Unions. Unthinkable? Power to the....? Unthinkable!
A Whole New World
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