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for Phil [emphasis added] comradely Gary So meet the boys from Kerry And meet the boys form Clare >From Dublin, Wicklow, Donegal And the boys of old Kildare Some came from a land beyond the sea >From Boston and New York *But the boys who beat the Black and TansWere the boys from the County Cork* On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Like Gary (and Louis) I was appalled by this film. > > In fact, given the politics were largely stripped away, I felt it was a > piece of unrelieved sadism I was watching on the screen. I kept hoping it > would pick up and we'd see something positive in it, but no it was just one > continuous piece of relentless pain and misery. A deeply anti-human film. > > How it won any awards is mind-boggling. > > I guess the film's miserabilism and all-round anti-humanity is what passes > for 'realism' in film these days, at least among sufficient numbers of > cognoscenti to provide it with a few awards. > > Have any half-decent films been made set in 'The Troubles' - I can only > think of Loach's 'Hidden Agenda'. > > His 'Wind that Shakes the Barley' was quite good, but that was about the > war for independence and civil war and I always thought it would have been > better to set that in a city - especially Dublin - than rural Cork. > > Phil > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
