Monday 26 August 2013

Assassination of Richard Nixon

(2004)

RATING:80%
FORMAT:Cinema



If the sole criterion for considering movies great were the acting’s psychological acuteness, this would be the best film ever made!

A White man without integrity spends his life stealing value from others – hence his estrangement from his wife & kids - even to claiming political kinship with Blacks. Yet, this is the usual White supremacist condescension from someone who’s never been racially-abused himself.

This man’s world collapses around him because it is built on sand; reminding us of the need for productive goals in life: His solution: Blow-up the White House!

This is a haunting description of schizophrenic alienation compounded by the belief that the world “owes me a living”; aptly complementing Richard Nixon’s well known paranoia. Ultimately, a film about personal responsibility and what can happen when you do not take it.


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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.



Albert Camus… (1913-60), French-Algerian writer & philosopher. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt: New York: Vintage Books, (1984; page 182.)