yeah, at least Resnais seemed to take it 50% straight, 50 percent as a joke.... That movie sure felt like reading a comic book! He was into comics, I missed him a lot. Sur made some of the greatest narrative films ever.
2020-05-06 23:10 GMT-04:00, Robert Schaller <rob...@ontosmedia.com>: > Thank you, Francisco! That's probably what it was. Evolutionary Psychology > of Henri Laborit, not Sociobiology of E.O. Wilson. Not dissimilar projects > though, it would seem. > >> On May 5, 2020, at 11:56 AM, Francisco Torres <fjtorre...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Could be the American Uncle by Resnais. Which if I recall well takes a >> rather conflicting and comple view of its subject. But then he was >> French... ;) >> >> >> ''Who decides? Who decides who decides?'' Reminds me of the final >> scene of 3 days of the Condor. >> >> The only movie about epidemics I like is The Andromeda Strain. The >> third act reveal is quite a shock even after almost 50 years. In one >> brief scene it manages to say so much ! but that was the 70s, SF >> movies were very HEAVY. Take Rollerball, for example. Today it looks >> like a reality show or the evening news. Oh well. This are sure some >> messed up times I never thought I would live through some entropic >> thing like this. Nuclear war? Yes. Mad Max? Yes. But this slow motion >> Ballard catastrophe? No way. >> So back to the ancients for advice- >> ''The Way of the Samurai is found in death. Meditation on inevitable >> death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind >> are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, >> rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being >> thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, >> being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from >> thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the >> death of one's master. And every day without fail one should consider >> himself as dead. This is the substance of the way of the samurai''. >> Yamamoto Tsunetomo, >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks