Posted on January 25th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Song of Innocence
There are no bad children (Chorus)
Born into the world
We show them how to hate
Teach them how to kill
This madness has to stop
Before it is too late
And the best of us
Are lying cold and still
He swaggers, rifle at his hip
Terrified, the watchers catch their breath
Lost innocence leers upon his curling lip
This [...]
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Posted on January 25th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Trust The Wind
I offered you the chance
to fly the high places
where the cool clean air
bathes the unstepped unspoilt heights
in the purity of life
Where love in
the ecstasy of weightlessness
can breathe the eternity
of a timeless present
shared
You flew trusting me
wing to wing a little way
but when the rising sunwarmed air
caught and carried us
beyond familiar valley walls
you first looked [...]
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Posted on January 20th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Shadow
dark
too much loneliness
too much pain
everywhere
no remedy
life
light
to much passion
too much joy
in me
exhilaration
life
shadow
nothing
in between
depression
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Posted on January 17th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Slumdog Millionaire – Danny Boyle
Slumdog Millionaire is like a shot of bad tequila – feels great as it goes down then begins to burn at your gut and eventually makes you feel queasy. ‘Slumdog’, for it already has an abbreviated nickname; is a nice, naïve, pacy little romantic fairytale knocked up inexpensively by Danny Boyle [...]
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Posted on January 12th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The Reader – Stephen Daldry
This is a morally complex film: which probably explains why it has polarised critical opinion. The Reader demonstrates better than any recent film I can remember, the vital importance of what the viewer brings to the artistic experience - both to the quality of that experience and the value of the [...]
Filed under: 4 stars, Europe/World cinema, Extended essay, Philosophical, Political, Romance, Stephen Daldry, Thriller, War | No Comments »
Posted on January 8th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
I have never written any kind of speech; certainly not a political speech. The election of Barack Obama to the Presidency has captured the imagination of people around the world. Events in Iraq and Afghanistan, the profound challenges of Global warming and the current chaos in the world financial system demonstrate not only how increasingly [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Che – Steven Soderbergh
The essence of art is selection: and the logic of selection defines what is left out. The collaborative nature of the art of film-making increases the need for such eliminating decisions exponentially – casting, screenplay, lighting, angle, editing, music, sound and thousands of other decisions. The result is not the truth of [...]
Filed under: 3 star, Drama, Extended essay, Historical, Hollywood, Philosophical, Political, Stephen Soderberg, War | No Comments »
Posted on January 1st, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The Blind Man’s Stick
The blind man’s stick sees his world
tapping truth into a sightless mind.
He may misread the stick, but it cannot lie
its urgent finger tip escapes dependency
This reaching out to feel the world
life to lifeless wood his mind bestows
and through this probing touch he knows
what we can only see.
Eyes can lie but hands will [...]
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