Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Animal

Also known as:
Unknown
Rating:
60%
Format:
DVD
Year:
2005
Predominant Genre:
Crime
Plot:
Spying on the enemies of Socialism brings out paranoia and the bitter realization that such politically-correct vindictiveness creates a lack of personal fulfillment.
Themes:
Compassion | Ethical Politics | Personal change | Self-expression | White supremacy
Similar To:
Unknown
Best Performances:
Entire cast

Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Despite the elliptical and underdeveloped nature of the script, this is a fairly-powerful attempt at filming the 300-year after-effects of US slave owning. Here, Blacks are killing each other in ghettoes of the mind and only a single Black revolutionary is wise enough to see that Blacks are fools if they go along with the widespread White belief in Black inferiority.

Inevitably, Black viewers will obtain more from this movie than Whites, because it mentions historical figures like Malcolm X that they would be only too familiar with; hence, the lack of dramatic elucidation of issues already known to its likely audience.

The characterization is excellent - with acting to match. The semi-documentary style also chimes with the street-smart performances and story of a leopard trying to change his spots from the “Animal” White supremacists want to see him as; into being a fully fledged human being.

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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.