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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 256644" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>Friday,8th September.</p><p></p><p>The Sixth Sense, 9pm, ITV2.</p><p></p><p>Almost everyone thinks this Ghost story - from curiously named M NIght Shyamalan - is brilliant. Not me, I think it's complete and utter rubbish.</p><p></p><p>Psychologist Bruce Willis is called in to help a "disturbed" boy. As trust is slowly built up, the boy reveals that he can "see" dead people .....</p><p>At the very end, there's a sudden "plot twist", to which the rest of the film is entirely subordinated, thus explaining why it's so badly made! In my view, a very big mistake.</p><p></p><p>A Clockwork Orange, film4, 11.10pm.</p><p></p><p>This film is about the human (mostly male!) enjoyment and glorification of violence. School bullies, thugs, football yobs, street gangs, sadistic bosses, prisons, the military ...... in fact, all the different types of institutionalised violence.</p><p>Is this universal problem, in fact, something pathological, ie, an actual medical condition? (Arthur Koestler thought we should all be drugged, via the public water supply!). If so, then it might be "treatable", but - paradoxically - that would then become a new type of violence!</p><p></p><p>Notoriously, after some tabloid "newspapers" reported copycat attacks, Kubrick banned this film in the UK for almost 30 years (there was just one illegal showing, at London's Scala Cinema, which got it closed down!).</p><p></p><p>Of the great film makers, Kubrick was "the master technician", usually achieving his desired effects by very clever use of the camera. However, this was already by far the wierdest of his films (!), so a "straightforward" style was used. Which - paraoxically - instead of playing down the wierdness, actually emphasised it!</p><p></p><p>The central characters wear diapers, emphasising their regressed infantile state. Also bowler hats, apparently from the Ulster "marches" (themselves, a form of institutional violence). Main character Alex is subject to a pederast school teacher (also a type of violence), and lives in what's obviously a run down council estate (further violence), some time in the mythical - obviously increasingly violent - future .......</p><p></p><p>Institutionalised violence degrades, taking us below animal level, to something sub-human. So, sexual activity is here rightly shown as something farcical, basically just as choreographed rape .... </p><p></p><p>The synthesised classical music soundtrack was by Walter Carlos - then already famous for "Switched-on Bach" - who later had a s_x change, and is now Wendy Carlos.</p><p></p><p>-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos</p><p></p><p>The original book, by Anthony Burgess, is largely written in an invented language (apparently based on Russian), which makes it almost unreadable! A pity, because Burgess was one of the last century's great English writers, a man who liked life, so none of his work is dry or academic!</p><p>Excellent are his early Malay Trilogy, and his superb comic creation the continually farting poet Enderby (who writes his award winning poetry while sitting for hours on the toilet). The later novels are just as good, but tend to be huge!</p><p>If anyone wants to "try out" Burgess, then I can highly recommend "Honey for the Bears", and "The Doctor is Sick". Both are standard length paperback novels, an easy read and hugely enjoyable, with sci fi like features (a bit like Philip Dick, only much better written). Also - perhaps - "The Wanting Seed", but that's very macabre, so be warned!</p><p></p><p>-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat</p><p></p><p>USE YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY ...... OR LOSE IT !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 256644, member: 192438"] Friday,8th September. The Sixth Sense, 9pm, ITV2. Almost everyone thinks this Ghost story - from curiously named M NIght Shyamalan - is brilliant. Not me, I think it's complete and utter rubbish. Psychologist Bruce Willis is called in to help a "disturbed" boy. As trust is slowly built up, the boy reveals that he can "see" dead people ..... At the very end, there's a sudden "plot twist", to which the rest of the film is entirely subordinated, thus explaining why it's so badly made! In my view, a very big mistake. A Clockwork Orange, film4, 11.10pm. This film is about the human (mostly male!) enjoyment and glorification of violence. School bullies, thugs, football yobs, street gangs, sadistic bosses, prisons, the military ...... in fact, all the different types of institutionalised violence. Is this universal problem, in fact, something pathological, ie, an actual medical condition? (Arthur Koestler thought we should all be drugged, via the public water supply!). If so, then it might be "treatable", but - paradoxically - that would then become a new type of violence! Notoriously, after some tabloid "newspapers" reported copycat attacks, Kubrick banned this film in the UK for almost 30 years (there was just one illegal showing, at London's Scala Cinema, which got it closed down!). Of the great film makers, Kubrick was "the master technician", usually achieving his desired effects by very clever use of the camera. However, this was already by far the wierdest of his films (!), so a "straightforward" style was used. Which - paraoxically - instead of playing down the wierdness, actually emphasised it! The central characters wear diapers, emphasising their regressed infantile state. Also bowler hats, apparently from the Ulster "marches" (themselves, a form of institutional violence). Main character Alex is subject to a pederast school teacher (also a type of violence), and lives in what's obviously a run down council estate (further violence), some time in the mythical - obviously increasingly violent - future ....... Institutionalised violence degrades, taking us below animal level, to something sub-human. So, sexual activity is here rightly shown as something farcical, basically just as choreographed rape .... The synthesised classical music soundtrack was by Walter Carlos - then already famous for "Switched-on Bach" - who later had a s_x change, and is now Wendy Carlos. -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos The original book, by Anthony Burgess, is largely written in an invented language (apparently based on Russian), which makes it almost unreadable! A pity, because Burgess was one of the last century's great English writers, a man who liked life, so none of his work is dry or academic! Excellent are his early Malay Trilogy, and his superb comic creation the continually farting poet Enderby (who writes his award winning poetry while sitting for hours on the toilet). The later novels are just as good, but tend to be huge! If anyone wants to "try out" Burgess, then I can highly recommend "Honey for the Bears", and "The Doctor is Sick". Both are standard length paperback novels, an easy read and hugely enjoyable, with sci fi like features (a bit like Philip Dick, only much better written). Also - perhaps - "The Wanting Seed", but that's very macabre, so be warned! -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat USE YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY ...... OR LOSE IT ! [/QUOTE]
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