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...would suddenly turn their backs on him when his crimes are exposed. You mean to say they never knew? You mean to say they didn't take a certain satisfaction in the way he bent the system to his own advantage? This resort to conventional morality betrays the amoral logic of the movie. It is perhaps the price you pay for big-studio backing, but it takes some of the edge off an otherwise smart, nasty, potent movie...
...have a feeling the phrase got tossed around quite a bit by the studio before the film’s release. In regards to the film’s writer and director, my guess would be that two words were actually forbidden from their vocabulary: plausibility and logic...
...preparing to carpet Vietnam with napalm and bombs. Then he grew up and lost his innocence. “Nothing my generation has done in life could prevent the human tragedy of last week.” True, but get ready for the quantum leap in logic. Because we couldn’t stop the terror attacks, we have no option in the current crisis but to line up behind Bush. When today’s students are “middle-aged” like Shapiro is, they’ll probably understand this, too. But first they just...
Lance Morrow's polemic was flip, superficial and unhelpful in this time of crisis. What is nourishing about rage? What is inappropriate about healing? Is hatred wholesome and intelligent? Is "self-confident relentlessness" a discipline Americans need to learn? Following this logic, one would have to conclude that terrorists and those who incite them are spiritually nourished and intelligent and that their "self-confident relentlessness" is something to aspire to. People with less emotional and more thoughtful approaches to crises are not "unfit for decent company," as Morrow puts it; rather, they are the real patriots who truly love their...
...greatest leaders of the past century, Mahatma Gandhi, had foreseen all of this in the equally murderous relations between communities in India before partition. He knew the awful logic of violence. His view was that the Communists had it all quite wrong. The ends did not justify the means. On the contrary, it was the character of the means used that determined the nature of the ends achieved. Violence will result in further violence. The infernal spiral must be turned back by any means possible. And by holding on to truth, satyagraha...