A slow starter that that takes a dark turn as it progresses into something more than just the average murder mystery. It then proceeds to blow it with trite observations about how the lives of others can so easily remind us of ourselves and the mistakes we have made.
The murders are grim and bloody and the acting fine, but somehow this does not really add up to the dark thriller promised on the Keepcase. This is because there is something awfully contrived about the whole affair that doesn't really allow us to give ourselves to it fully as a drama because we've seen it all done before – and better. The morbid and black humor doesn't improve matters much and we never find out why anyone here behaves in the way that they do; fatally undermining the rationale behind the murders - and our interest.
This somewhat lazy drama expects us to invest our emotions because of the initial death of a child. However, that is too cheap a trick to actually fool anyone.
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Mýrin
[Jar City]
(2007)
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Science:
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.
(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.
(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.
(1913-60), French-Algerian writer & philosopher. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt: New York: Vintage Books, (1984; page 182.)
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