Thanks, TC. Always learn something from your insights.
I like Miss Scarlet and the Duke but , like Pat, I am getting tired of the on-and off- boil of their personal relationship-- though, getting away from presentism, her ambivalence may be from walking the tight rope of trying to prove herself, by herself, in a man's world! (really, n…
Thanks, TC. Always learn something from your insights.
I like Miss Scarlet and the Duke but , like Pat, I am getting tired of the on-and off- boil of their personal relationship-- though, getting away from presentism, her ambivalence may be from walking the tight rope of trying to prove herself, by herself, in a man's world! (really, not much has changed!)
I am personally not drawn to horror and I cannot read Stephen King. I know he is excellent and succesful. My imagination is such that, if just reading him gives me nightmares, visual would do me in! I take your point about the "why" of horror but the daily news already scares me half to death. It is full of mayhem, nightly murder, psychopaths, sociopaths, ghoulish neighbors, secret trafficking, financial sleight of hand, dismembered spouses, snatched and disappeared children, the paranormal, the abnormal and lost people wandering the streets seeing their own visions. And, in between, like last night, I stand on my porch and see large containers of flammatory fuel hurled into the night sky heading for an orbital track where another 50 satellites will fan out to add to a communication ring around our earth-- a great idea? or a "shock collar"?
The horror, I am afraid, is reality.
What I need now is a good literary laugh which, I am told by my King-enthusiast sister, King tries to include in an ironic kind of way. But, for me, not nearly enough to outweigh the other stuff.
btw...Banshees film. Being Irish by background and having lived in Dublin for 10 years in the 90's, I saw the film with a native born Irish friend. We agreed....it is allegory. But reviewers took it literally.
For me, the key is that on the mainland the Civil War was going on; on the island all the complexity of the Irish culture underneath that war was being played out. It is not a comedy, though there are amusing bits like the old guys in the pub. It is not just a single friendship gone bad and mad ( the overly gory finger thing). It is all the Irish historical and cultural stuff swirling around on that little island, the micro of the larger one!
Most reviewers took it at face value and played up the friendship gone wrong idea-- but for the rhyme and reason one has to go deeper and you have to know some of the "code" that unlocks it.
It is too easy to get lost in the bloody insanity and miss the rest--that, in itself, is a commentary!
I completely agree. the tipoff to me is the period in which it's set, so the characters are removed from historical events physically but can't avoid the insanity of that Civil War.
a friend I watched it with made another more down-to-earth point by talking about a mutual friend who spends half the year on the spectacularly beautiful Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine (so remote there are no cars allowed). the crazy interpersonal stuff that goes on there is incredibly intense and by now, most of the summer people (there are very few people who live there all year round) have completely stopped talking to each other.
Thanks, TC. Always learn something from your insights.
I like Miss Scarlet and the Duke but , like Pat, I am getting tired of the on-and off- boil of their personal relationship-- though, getting away from presentism, her ambivalence may be from walking the tight rope of trying to prove herself, by herself, in a man's world! (really, not much has changed!)
I am personally not drawn to horror and I cannot read Stephen King. I know he is excellent and succesful. My imagination is such that, if just reading him gives me nightmares, visual would do me in! I take your point about the "why" of horror but the daily news already scares me half to death. It is full of mayhem, nightly murder, psychopaths, sociopaths, ghoulish neighbors, secret trafficking, financial sleight of hand, dismembered spouses, snatched and disappeared children, the paranormal, the abnormal and lost people wandering the streets seeing their own visions. And, in between, like last night, I stand on my porch and see large containers of flammatory fuel hurled into the night sky heading for an orbital track where another 50 satellites will fan out to add to a communication ring around our earth-- a great idea? or a "shock collar"?
The horror, I am afraid, is reality.
What I need now is a good literary laugh which, I am told by my King-enthusiast sister, King tries to include in an ironic kind of way. But, for me, not nearly enough to outweigh the other stuff.
btw...Banshees film. Being Irish by background and having lived in Dublin for 10 years in the 90's, I saw the film with a native born Irish friend. We agreed....it is allegory. But reviewers took it literally.
For me, the key is that on the mainland the Civil War was going on; on the island all the complexity of the Irish culture underneath that war was being played out. It is not a comedy, though there are amusing bits like the old guys in the pub. It is not just a single friendship gone bad and mad ( the overly gory finger thing). It is all the Irish historical and cultural stuff swirling around on that little island, the micro of the larger one!
Most reviewers took it at face value and played up the friendship gone wrong idea-- but for the rhyme and reason one has to go deeper and you have to know some of the "code" that unlocks it.
It is too easy to get lost in the bloody insanity and miss the rest--that, in itself, is a commentary!
Thank you! The movie makes more sense to me now.
I completely agree. the tipoff to me is the period in which it's set, so the characters are removed from historical events physically but can't avoid the insanity of that Civil War.
a friend I watched it with made another more down-to-earth point by talking about a mutual friend who spends half the year on the spectacularly beautiful Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine (so remote there are no cars allowed). the crazy interpersonal stuff that goes on there is incredibly intense and by now, most of the summer people (there are very few people who live there all year round) have completely stopped talking to each other.
Hilarious!Yes, islands can be so insular and insulating!! Thanks!
yeah...that's what I was talking about.