Monday, 3 November 2014

Day After
(1983)

RATING:80%
FORMAT:DVD

Whites Destroy the World

Whites initiate an Earth-destroying World War 3 and await the inevitable end of Western civilization.

No explanations are offered for the White propensity for violence and we are left to surmise that a superficial culture cannot provide itself with enough reason for its continued existence and so must fulfill its unavoidable death wish - as all purposeless people must.

The performances are a little below standard for such an impressive cast although the script’s attempts at deft characterization are deft enough to make us care for the characters’ plight. But it lacks the sublime brilliance of The War Game as a vivid depiction of thermonuclear holocaust.

A little miracle on a small budget makes this grim and engaging, but hardly illuminating.


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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.