Just began Jean-Pierre Melville's 1950 film adaption of Jean Cocteau's Les enfants terribles (1929). It is immediately bizarre, starting with a snowball fight. A young man is struck in the chest with a snowball. He seems to take it like a gunshot wound and is soon bedridden and eerily cared for her by his sister.
Meanwhile, momentous live events from 2013 have impinged upon the scene. Big snowball fights all around, and many people taking them for gunshots. The Voting Rights Act, today undercut by a conservative majority of the US Supreme Court, opens a Pandora's Box to "States' Rats" blustering and voter suppression. And in Texas, Wendy Davis leads a Democratic filibuster in the Legislature to run out the clock on repressive Republican-designed anti-abortion legislation.
Tomorrow, another big time ruling of the Supreme Court.
Not a good time for the docile and apathetic! Quite an exciting time for the engaged and energetic!
Today's Rune: Flow.
2 comments:
I like your take on this. "Engaged and energetic" is a reaction much preferable to enervation and anxiety--common reactions to bad news--probably slow killers of a society.
Exciting times. I could do with a little less excitement and more reason.
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