Saturday 19 April 2014

Boston Legal

(2010)

RATING:80%
FORMAT:DVD

Season 4

Alan SHORE: Isn’t it grand… We do these things that seem completely absurd and then, incredibly, we manage to make them not only watchable, but fun and informative. Aren’t you just dying to see how we do it, this time? Yes, we certainly are!

This quote perfectly sums-up the series better than I can.

The best of contemporary television viewing at whose core lies a profound deliberation on the nature of male friendship and the essential humanity inherent in the concepts of Tolerance and Acceptance.

The characterizations and style moves with disarming ease from the distinctly surreal to the tear jerkingly poignant; with plots deriving straight from the newspaper headlines.

The phrase that also best describes this series is: Many a true word spoken in jest. Approaching difficult subjects with humor offers insight into jocularity’s true purpose.


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Science:



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.