tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360914.post116967193183299692..comments2024-03-25T16:57:51.919+00:00Comments on Bina007 Movie Reviews: THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS - three chavs and a babyBina007http://www.blogger.com/profile/01622085135305501711noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360914.post-1169763610394532162007-01-25T22:20:00.000+00:002007-01-25T22:20:00.000+00:00Hey Flint, good to see you back. Apparently I can'...Hey Flint, good to see you back. Apparently I can't comment on your post coz I don't have a wordpress account. To cut it short, and to sound pretentious: I think Park Chan Wook deals in the same currency as Shakespeare in Hamlet. It's the difficulty of reconciling a Spanish style revenge drama with a Christian desire for forgiveness, closure and some sort of empathy. In Lady Vengeance, say, the lead character wants to organise a bloody revenge on behalf of all the agrieved parents. But she also wants a sort of redemption - note the final scene where she plunges her head into the viginal white tofu. The greatness of Hamlet is the tension between a rational humanism and our bloodier, more primitive lusts. This is the central tragedy and drama of modern life: to live in a our world of legal codes, political correctness and therapy, when at some base level all we really want to do is put the scissors in the neck of our aggressor.Bina007https://www.blogger.com/profile/01622085135305501711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360914.post-1169751677129105252007-01-25T19:01:00.000+00:002007-01-25T19:01:00.000+00:00Got blood? http://flintsphilosophy.wordpress.com/2...Got blood? http://flintsphilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/01/25/the-movies-violence-and-complicity/<BR/><BR/>Would love your thoughts on that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com