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...traffic goes both ways. On the road to Kandahar, teenagers from as far away as Karachi are flocking to join the fight against America. "Why do you want to enter this hell?" warned a Taliban soldier at a roadblock. Who knows? Because of religious conviction? Because it's home? Or because, like young men before them for a thousand years, the youths felt, at the prospect of war, a summoning up of the blood. There'll be plenty of that before we're through...
...happen to like New York I happen to like this burg and when I have to give the world a last farewell and the undertaker starts to ring my funeral bell I don?t want to go to heaven Don?t want to go to hell I happen to like New York. - Cole Porter, "I Happen to Like New York...
...frame, even if the gory aftermath of the deceased remains in plain sight. In the Hughes’ Menace II Society, the gritty urban ghetto was reflected in brutal, excessive violence, whereas here, in restrained Victorian England, with the slums looking cleaner than ever; much remains sanitized until all hell breaks loose. That the brothers are gifted natural filmmakers is evidenced as when the first victim succumbs in a murky alleyway, and all we see is a gleaming silver knife flashing out of the gloom. The shot’s effectiveness lies in the stark contrast between light and dark...
After becoming disenchanted with the Hollywood filmmaking system, the Hughes brothers took a hiatus from the craft, delving into documentary film before coming back to fiction with From Hell. Did the brothers return with revitalized energy and a new zest for filmmaking? Unfortunately, no. Maybe they should just stick to the American slums...
...From Hell...