[kj] OT: going to the movies

sade1 saulomar1 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 15 12:31:41 EDT 2005


Reminds me of an early Mel Gibson movie, "Gallipolli."

--- Jiri <unspeakable at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Interesting...yes, I suppose with so many involved in a film,
> there 
> always will be disappointing bits in even your favorite film.
> 
> The Thin Red Line is a perfect experience for me, though. Not
> a 
> hero-based war film, but rather a "killing joke" sort of war
> film. (in 
> the sense of Jaz's old quote: "Imagine a soldier in  the
> trenches in WW 
> 1. He's just been told to run over and gain, say another 15ft
> of land 
> and he knows he's going to die, and he  suddenly thinks that
> there's 
> some fat cunt back in Westminster  controlling his life, and
> he feels a 
> bit of a mug. That feeling is the killing joke. You can apply
> the 
> killing joke to everything." 
> http://www.radcyberzine.com/text/non-rad/kj.81.int.html). 

...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  
As the masters rot on walls
And the angels eat their grapes
I watched picasso 
visit the planet of the apes


		
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