Sunday, 10 April 2016

Szabadság, Szerelem
(2006)

DVD


Rating: 100%


Szabadság, Szerelem [Children of Glory] (2006)…
(www.sbs.com.au)

[Children of Glory]

Love story set against the backdrop of violent political conflict: Just for once, this movie is everything it's claimed to be. It actually defines and illustrates love rather than the usual Hollywood mush of hopeless ideals and narcissistic longing.

Two completely different people find each other, themselves and that shared values are worth killing for. Analogous with the Hungarian nationalism of 1956 (under Soviet occupation) where freedom's fight is also the struggle for personal identity.

Clearly, sport and politics should mix as, at the Melbourne Olympics, Russians and Hungarians play each other - the crowd very much against the Russians. Not very sporting, but it's always nice to see totalitarians getting the kicking they so richly deserve.

The acting is particularly fine especially Kata Dobó who fully embodies her role.

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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.)