Sunday 29 January 2012

Mala Educación
[Bad Education]
(2004)

RATING:80%
FORMAT:DVD



Excellent overview of the parlous affects a Christian education can have on the emotionally sensitive. The endemic sexual, political and emotional intolerance of Christians is well-displayed by a child-molesting priest who is being blackmailed by a former choirboy, transvestite and drug addict for money to pay for a sex-change operation.

Director Pedro Almodovar is humanistic enough to go below the surface of each character - no matter how loathsome - to tell us something about the human condition. In particular, that the past has effects in the present - be they good or bad - and that these simply have to be come-to-terms with, either way.

The themes are not as fully explored in terms of causative issues as they are concerning affects, but this is still worth a long, lingering look.


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Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


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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.



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Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



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