Wednesday, 31 December 2014

Against the Current


Also Known As:
Unknown
Year:
2008
Country:
United States…
Predominant Genre:
Drama
Director:
Peter Callahan…
Outstanding Performance:
Michelle TRACHTENBERG…
Premiss:
Struggling with a tragic past, a man with an urgent calling enlists two friends to help him swim the length of a river.
Themes:
Alienation | Destiny | Friendship | Grieving | Identity | Loneliness | Loyalty | Narcissism | Self-expression | Solipsism | White culture | White supremacy
Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
Unknown
Review Format:
DVD

Going with the Flow

Well-acted and well-directed but, ultimately, a self-indulgent and superficial piece of White whining.

The characterization is thin & weakly-differentiated. There is little clear sense that these people live in an emotional and social bubble from which they choose not to escape; this being the central reason for their malaise.

If only Whites got out more, saw life in its true, objective perspective & stopped pretending to face their issues when they are merely evading them - as here.

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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.