Saturday 5 April 2014

Scent of a Woman

(1992)

RATING:80%
FORMAT:Cinema

Emotionally engrossing cross between The Winslow Boy and Rain Man: A story of moral integrity in the face of materialist politicking. Should your friends – be they right or wrong – be sold out to others pursuing the truth?

Unusually, this Hollywood movie takes sides concerning loyalty and so is not ethically & dramatically compromised schmaltz – as befits the movie’s basic theme. By helping a young man with his moral dilemma, the older man comes to understand his own troubles and they both benefit from the experience.

Al PACINO deserved his Oscar for the difficult role of a blind man who elicits little sympathy – he is a misogynist with a chip on his shoulder. Yet, against your better judgement, you find yourself empathising with him. Ultimately, a critique of the lack of integrity and character in US political life.

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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.



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