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...powerful bureaucracy; did that disprove their contention that the war was the Emperor’s fault? Without additional sources to compare these to, without the ability to use them constructively in forming historical judgment, the charge of bias was no more than what Isaiah Berlin termed a memento mori, an expression of human fallibility and error with no historical content. Or, to quote Berlin once more: “One cannot cast doubt on everything at once, for then nothing is more dubious than anything else, and there are no standards of comparison and nothing is altered...
...MOVIE Memento "A thriller that makes you think...
...always targets similar subject matter, and often from memory. Although Ablow says most of his work is purely visual, with no aspirations to greater social or metaphysical meaning, his objects sometimes assume a more personal significance. In “Waiting,” which was conceived as a memento mori for a dead friend, a ponderous swath of fabric slumps above a somber procession of empty cobalt cups...
...Which CD should I slip in on Friday night after I bring back a pre-frosh from the Grill?) I thought of Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope, but that’s kind of kinky. Any thoughts?…So I saw Memento last week and can’t shake it. It’s about a guy with short-term amnesia who’s trying to track down his wife’s killer; in order to keep track of events (since he can’t make new memories), he takes lots...
...drugs galore, it's grubby stuff with girls furtively delivering hand shandies (though the filmmaker doesn't show the offending organs), and the cold, unfelt sex doesn't make for aesthetic delirium, but then neither should it. This is cinematic confrontation that resists escape. Kim Tae Yong's Memento Mori is a contemporary teenage-lesbo-horror-psycho casserole that keeps its clothes on and takes the time to show emotional need, longing and the denial of love. It's a chick flick for the new world of Asian sexual cinema...