Sunday 7 June 2015

Ghost Dog


Rating: 80%


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Subtitle:
The Way of the Samurai
Version:
Language:
English…
Length:
111 minutes
Review Format:
DVD
Year:
1999
Country:
United States…
Predominant Genre:
Crime
Director:
Jim JARMUSCH…
Outstanding Performances:
Isaach DE BANKOLÉ… Cliff GORMAN… Henry SILVA… Camille WINBUSH…
Premiss:
A hitman adheres to the code of the samurai; interpreting and applying their wisdom.
Themes:
Advertising | Alienation | Art | Coming-of-age | Courage | Destiny | Ethnicity | Humanity | Identity | Individualism | Justice | Loneliness | Loyalty | Materialism | Narcissism | Nostalgia | Personal | Political | Role modeling | Schizophrenia | Self-Esteem | Solipsism | Stereotyping | White supremacy
Similar to:
Branded to Kill (1967)… Hagakure (1716)… Samouraï (1967)…

Way of All Flesh

Summary: Hitman with a strong and inflexible code of honor.

Nostalgic film about the fact that nostalgia is a dead end. And that this fact is part-and-parcel of the truths that must be taught to the young to save them from actually trying to live fully in the past.

Whimsical and poetical film with a superb cast and great music that only needs a more profound storyline.

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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.)