Thursday 27 January 2011

Salt
(2010)

RATING: 60%

No Pepper

Cheerless rip-off of the Bourne franchise with a female in the lead role that also betrays the influence of the Manchurian Candidate and No Way Out.

It is fun and the action is frenetic, frantic and fast to conceal the lack of any real content. It is insistently-paced and the desperate Cold War-era plotting; revealing the dearth of imagination among far too many contemporary screenwriters - as if there were not enough newspaper stories that can be profitably exploited for dramatic purposes. There are far too many, in fact, just not enough good dramatists who know how to create convincing stories, plots and characters.

Something could surely have been made more of a classic 007-style plot that strangely re-imagines the assassination of JFK as a Soviet plot. The themes that could have made this more compelling are simply lacking.

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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.)