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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 03/05/2007 : 22:35:29
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YO: I saw yesterday the picture that just won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language film. There is a chance that it may be one of the best movies I've ever seen. It's called "The Lives Of Others." Skeptics, intellectuals, writers and artists, none of which I am by a long shot, should be taken with this film as well. Right wingers might think it's a movie just for them, but...think again, please. Totalitarianism and Authoritarianism are but a millsecond apart on the "clock's face," with the Left representing the "time" from 6:30 to 6:35...and the Right from 6:25 to 6:30, if you will. Twelve o'clock high makes for moderation: where we need to be so much now.
The German Democratic Republic of East Berlin is interested in everyone's life in 1984 and they're listening...and watching. The film is so much more than that, however. The sub-titles are big and easy to read for clear-eyed monolingual English type speakers; and the acting is excellent. It's a film I would venture to say that won't be easily forgotten. I certainly hope not...and it's so contemporaneously germane, whatever stripe you wear on your sleeve.
OY
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
--Albert Camus
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde |
Edited by - Orwellingly Yurz on 03/05/2007 22:39:24
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"1984" type Movie Set in 1984
