Posted in Film and documentary, tagged black dog, bonfire of vanities, no country for old men on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
An evil omen — of that there’s no doubt. After Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), hero of Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men, shoots and wounds a deer while hunting in the West Texas desert, he comes across a trail of fresh blood crossing at right angles the trail of deer blood that [...]
Posted in Film and documentary, tagged ben affleck, casey affleck, Gone Baby Gone, south boston on December 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The neighbourhood is the kind of place where ten-year-old boys on bicycles tell you to “fuck yourself and fuck your mother” when you ask them to move out of the road. Where the local tavern is frequented by a skeleton crew of thugs and broken-down old men at two o’clock in the afternoon. Where the [...]
Posted in Film and documentary, Literature, tagged Chris McCandless, Into the Wild, starvation, The Odyssey on November 24, 2007 | 43 Comments »
“There is no such thing as society”, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher once famously declared. This was a cry of capitalist individualism - polemical, to be sure, but true to her outlook. Others have found the opposite: that society is all too real, an oppressive nest of deceits and compromises best kept at arms length. [...]
